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Sisid Marino 2024

6.3 /10

A married couple falls into depression after the death of their child. They turn to sex as a coping mechanism, but poverty takes its toll on them.

Run Time: . MMPA: 18 . Release: Jun 14, 2024

Director: Director: Joel Lamangan,

Stars: Julia Victoria, Marlon Marcia, Cariz Manzano,

The Boy and the Heron 2023

7.5 /10

In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living and the dead.

Run Time: . MMPA: 10 . Release: Jul 14, 2023

Director: Director: Hayao Miyazaki,

Stars: Soma Santoki, Masaki Suda, Kô Shibasaki,

The Great Beauty 2013

7.7 /10

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

Run Time: . MMPA: 17 . Release: May 21, 2013

Director: Director: Paolo Sorrentino,

Stars: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte,

The Influencer 2022

5.5 /10

Yexel, an influencer, experiences the best sex of his life when he meets Mina. But their no-label relationship turns to obsession when she learns that he's having sex with other women.

Run Time: 97 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Aug 12, 2022

Director: Director: Louie Ignacio,

Stars: Cloe Barreto, Sean de Guzman, Elizabeth Oropesa, Ruby Ruiz, Soliman Cruz,

Grimm 2003

6.3 /10

One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out of work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob's astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn't succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no one will go unpunished for this.

Run Time: 103 Min . MMPA: . Release: Jan 01, 2003

Director: Director: Alex van Warmerdam,

Stars: Halina Reijn, Jacob Derwig, Teresa Berganza, Johan Leysen, Jaap Spijkers,

The Circus 1928

8.1 /10

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

Run Time: 72 Min . MMPA: 7 . Release: Jan 06, 1928

Director: Director: Charlie Chaplin,

Stars: Charlie Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis,

Ixcanul 2015

7.1 /10

María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she cannot even imagine. And so she seduces a coffee-harvester who wants to escape to the USA. When this man leaves her behind, María discovers her own world and culture anew.

Run Time: 93 Min . MMPA: 7 . Release: Jan 20, 2015

Director: Director: Jayro Bustamante,

Stars: Mara Mercedes Coroy, Mara Teln, Manuel Antn, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin Coroy,

The Object of Beauty 1991

5.6 /10

American couple Jake and Tina are living in an expensive London hotel above their means, incurring a sizeable debt. When they are asked to pay a lavish dinner bill and Jake's card is declined, he suggests they sell Tina's tiny, expensive Henry Moore sculpture to cover the debt. After they hatch a scheme to claim the sculpture was stolen in order to collect insurance on it, the sculpture mysteriously goes missing.

Run Time: 103 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: Apr 12, 1991

Director: Director: Michael LindsayHogg,

Stars: John Malkovich, Andie MacDowell, Lolita Davidovich, Rudi Davies, Joss Ackland,

The Forest 2018

5.8 /10

Danila is sixteen. Katya is twice his age. He spends hours watching her from an old shed on the forest. He does not even think about trying to be with her until Danila's father shows up on Katya's doorstep in an attempt to run away from his avalanching problems. Father and son are drawn into turmoil of events where neighbor turns against neighbor, dividing the community, and pushing everyone`s life towards a disaster.

Run Time: 97 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Apr 05, 2018

Director: Director: Roman Zhigalov,

Stars: Sasha Lebedeva, Oleg Shibayev, Natalya Rychkova, Ildar Allabirdin, Mariya Avramkova,

Solomon and Gaenor 1999

6.8 /10

A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he meets and falls in love with a demure young woman with a strong-willed father and a Jew-hating brother. The two fall in love and she becomes pregnant, but only then does she learn of his ethnic background. When anti-Jewish riots break out, the two are forced to flee and become separated.

Run Time: 105 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: Apr 30, 1999

Director: Director: Paul Morrison,

Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Nia Roberts, Sue JonesDavies, William Thomas, Mark Lewis Jones,

My Man 1996

6.3 /10

In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.

Run Time: 99 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Jan 31, 1996

Director: Director: Bertrand Blier,

Stars: Anouk Grinberg, Grard Lanvin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Dominique Lollia,

Days of Being Wild 1990

7.4 /10

Yuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and the truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.

Run Time: 94 Min . MMPA: 12 . Release: Dec 15, 1990

Director: Director: Wong Karwai,

Stars: Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau, Rebecca Pan,