Hemsöborna

The Libertine

1968 · ★ 5.3

A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.

The Woman in the Fifth

2011 · ★ 5.2

An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

Savages

2012 · ★ 6.4

Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel that kidnapped their shared girlfriend.

Amama

2015 · ★ 6.2

The story of a family; the story of a conflict. The rural and the urban, the past and the present, parents and their offspring: opposing ways of life struggle against one another whilst, in eloquent silence, the grandmother ('amama') watches her family’s destiny unfold.

Eu Me Preocupo

2017

After the death of her husband, Jande tries to rebuild her life. Paulo, her son, tries to understand the direction that things are taking.

Certain Women

2016 · ★ 6

Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.

The Gun on Second Street

The film is described as “an allegory of the gun crisis in the United States.” Its plot follows two Pittsburgh police partners and best friends who are called to an uneventful domestic violence dispute on Second Street. This quickly escalates to a violent confrontation as Officer TJ Meadows III accidentally shoots and kills his partner, Officer Kevin Cooper, with his backup gun. Years later, no longer a cop and still traumatised, he moves back to Pittsburgh and finds his way to his partner’s widow, Kacie. They slowly fall in love as Kacie confronts the history she’s been avoiding, including telling her 15-year-old son, Ralph, TJ’s backstory.

Parched

2015 · ★ 7.3

In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.

Cider with Rosie

2015 · ★ 5.4

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

So Big!

1932 · ★ 5.8

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

God's Wife

2024

A young widow struggles to reconcile her catholic beliefs with the demands of tradition after her late husband’s brother propositions her.

The Tree of Love

1938 · ★ 7

A young doctor, Kozo Tsumura, falls for young nurse Katsue Takaishi. But she's got a secret: she's a widow with a son. Kozo and Katsue decide to run away to Kyoto, but her child suddenly became sick and she just missed the train and Kozo. She makes it to Kyoto finally, but is unable to meet him. Plus she isn't accepted into Kyoto society. She goes back to her hometown and tries to forget him. She quits the hospital to concentrate on her singing. She makes her professional debut with the hit "Aizen Katsura". Kozo is in the audience.