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Florence Foster Jenkins

2016 · ★ 6.7

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Chop Cheese

In New York City, a 16-year-old boy reckons with manhood while vying for 'boss' status from the grill master at the local bodega, only to learn that respect has a price and must be earned.

West Side Story

2021 · ★ 6.9

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

Guests Always Return

2017

Laura and Miguel have a perfect life. Who would not want to live in their house?

Some Boys Don't Leave

2009 · ★ 6.5

Some Boys Don't Leave is the story of what happens when the break-up happens but the break does not. 'Boy' is forced to come to terms with the fact that 'Girl' no longer wants him around. The only problem is he just can't seem to leave their once shared apartment. 'Girl' decides to keep living her life around him; while he remains, watching at a distance. In time, each decides to go in his or her own distinctly different directions. 'Boy' soon finds that sometimes the greatest distance we are asked to travel is one within ourselves.

Conversation Piece

1974 · ★ 7.3

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

Film...

2000 · ★ 7.8

Miklós Mészöly's short novel Film aims to show the last few hours of an elderly couple's life. The last moments of two people who, in the midst of historical storms, inhumanity and loss of values, remained together in the strange grip of love and dependence. The most moving is the formulation of the fundamental question: can we and can we say goodbye with dignity, how much we are lost and vulnerable when we set off into the unknown.

You Hurt My Feelings

2023 · ★ 6.3

A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.

Born Guilty

2017 · ★ 4.5

What happens when you secretly pay someone to romance your Mom?

Cry Tough

1959 · ★ 6.1

After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.

The Girl with the Moon Skin

1972 · ★ 4.3

Also known as The Sinner on UK VHS, this one could almost be mistaken for a D'Amato Black Emanuelle film (as well as Jess Franco who also had a film with the same video title). The Italian title translates as The Moon-Skinned Girl, a reference to the amazingly attractive Zeudi Araya, who made two other films with the same director. As a film it really typifies the 'eurotika' of the 1970s - the story concerns a couple with marital problems who escape to the Seychelles and the husband meets - and has an affair with - the title character. The wife meanwhile meets an ex-pat living there (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart!) with whom she has a fling. The couple realise their love for each other and return home stronger for it.

Spy på Shell

2021

A 20-year-old begins to doubt his choice of taking a gap year when giving his visiting childhood friend a ride home from a party.