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Diary of a Chambermaid 1964

7.4 /10

Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

Run Time: 97 Min . MMPA: 18 . Release: Mar 04, 1964

Director: Director: Luis Buuel,

Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Georges Gret, Michel Piccoli, Franoise Lugagne, Jean Ozenne,

Call Me by Your Name 2017

7.8 /10

In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.

Run Time: 132 Min . MMPA: 16 . Release: Sep 01, 2017

Director: Director: Luca Guadagnino,

Stars: Timothe Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel,

A Promise 2013

5.7 /10

A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's teacher. Separated by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.

Run Time: 94 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Sep 04, 2013

Director: Director: Patrice Leconte,

Stars: Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, Richard Madden, Toby Murray, Maggie Steed,

Non-Fiction 2018

6.4 /10

Alain, a successful Parisian publisher struggling to adapt to the digital revolution, has major doubts about the new manuscript of Léonard, one of his long-time authors — another work of auto-fiction recycling his love affair with a minor celebrity. Selena, Alain’s wife, a famous stage actress, is of the opposite opinion.

Run Time: 107 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: Oct 11, 2018

Director: Director: Olivier Assayas,

Stars: Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne, Christa Thret, Nora Hamzawi,

The Hours 2002

7.5 /10

"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

Run Time: 114 Min . MMPA: 15 . Release: Dec 27, 2002

Director: Director: Stephen Daldry,

Stars: Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson,

Liberal Arts 2012

6.7 /10

Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days are behind him. But no matter how much he buries his head in a book, life keeps pulling Jesse back. When his favorite college professor invites him to campus to speak at his retirement dinner, Jesse jumps at the chance. He is prepared for the nostalgia of the dining halls and dorm rooms, the parties and poetry seminars; what he doesn’t see coming is Zibby – a beautiful, precocious, classical-music-loving sophomore. Zibby awakens scary, exciting, long-dormant feelings of possibility and connection that Jesse thought he had buried forever.

Run Time: 97 Min . MMPA: 14 . Release: Sep 14, 2012

Director: Director: Josh Radnor,

Stars: Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, Allison Janney, Elizabeth Reaser,

Heavenly Creatures 1994

7.3 /10

Wealthy and precocious teenager Juliet transfers from England to New Zealand with her family, and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. When their parents begin to suspect that their increasingly intense and obsessive bond is becoming unhealthy, the girls hatch a dark plan for those who threaten to keep them apart.

Run Time: 109 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Sep 12, 1994

Director: Director: Peter Jackson,

Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent, Clive Merrison,

The Bookshop 2017

6.5 /10

Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Run Time: 110 Min . MMPA: 10 . Release: Nov 10, 2017

Director: Director: Isabel Coixet,

Stars: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson, Hunter Tremayne, Honor Kneafsey,

Colette 2018

6.7 /10

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.

Run Time: 112 Min . MMPA: 16 . Release: Sep 21, 2018

Director: Director: Wash Westmoreland,

Stars: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona Shaw, Robert Pugh,

Testament of Youth 2014

7.2 /10

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Run Time: 129 Min . MMPA: 14 . Release: Oct 14, 2014

Director: Director: James Kent,

Stars: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West,

Gemma Bovery 2014

6.4 /10

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple moving into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behavior also seems to be inspired by Flaubert's heroes.

Run Time: 99 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Sep 10, 2014

Director: Director: Anne Fontaine,

Stars: Gemma Arterton, Jason Flemyng, Fabrice Luchini, Elsa Zylberstein, Isabelle Candelier,

Gothic 1986

5.7 /10

Living in an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.

Run Time: 84 Min . MMPA: 17 . Release: Nov 30, 1986

Director: Director: Ken Russell,

Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson, Myriam Cyr, Timothy Spall,