Foster Child
★ 7 · 2007 · 98m · Drama
Thelma, together with her husband Dado and teenage sons Gerald and Yuri, are a poor urban family hired by a local foster care facility to provide temporary home and care to abandoned babies pending the latter's formal adoption.
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Adoption
2010 · ★ 6.2
Richard, a homosexual man, decides to adopt a child named Juan. As the child becomes accustomed to his new home, he continues to suffer from the fears of his past. Ricardo feels that his son should know his roots and begins the quest to discover Juan’s true identity. This search unravels Juan’s real story; a story very different than what was presented before. Slowly, Juan’s life begins to appear, much like the tip of the iceberg submersed within the immense ocean.
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The Bricklayers
1976 · ★ 6.6
When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
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Fetus
1994 · ★ 9
This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adoption by a businesswoman. Anna doesn't need another mouth to feed. She can barely afford to care for the two she already has so when she discovers that she is six weeks pregnant she readily accepts the cash offer from Terez, her tough boss at the store where she works. If she will isolate herself throughout the pregnancy, secretly bear the child and immediately allow Terez to sign for it, Anna will receive $50,000. Most of the story then focuses upon Anna's emotional processes as she evaluates her choice. Included are dream segments and shots an unborn baby in the womb.
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Perfectionist
1951 · ★ 6.8
Professor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his peers nickname him the "great man". But one day, one of his patients die during surgery and Delage starts doubting. Is he actually such a great man? To fight desperation he decides to take in the deceased child while devoting more time to Florence, his hitherto neglected wife.
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The Malatily Bathhouse
1973 · ★ 5.5
The film is an adaptation of a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.
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December Boys
2007 · ★ 6
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they meet Teresa and Fearless, a couple who would make perfect parents. The youths compete with one another to be the one Teresa and Fearless decide to adopt.
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Snipers Valley
2007 · ★ 4.6
Young Bundeswehr soldiers Tom and Charly are stationed in Kosovo with the KFOR peacekeeping force. Their mission is to secure peace. Although the brutal war between the enemy Serbs and Albanians is officially over, the hatred between people continues to smoulder. When Tom and Charly rescue the young Serbian Mirjana from the fatal shot of the young sniper Durcan, they get caught between all fronts. They lose their professional distance due to the resulting closeness to Mirjana - who has to learn that her father was a war criminal - but also to Durcan - whose entire family was wiped out. Soon they are entangled in a conflict about guilt, manipulation, love and revenge...
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Happy, Happy
2010 · ★ 5.8
A perfect housewife, who just happens to be sex-starved, struggles to keep her emotions in check when an attractive family moves in next door.
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These Wilder Years
1956 · ★ 6.5
A man tries to find a son he gave up for adoption years ago.
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I Love You
2001 · ★ 7
Video journalist Hyun-Soo goes to the ER of a hospital hoping to gather material for a documentary film about death. During her visit she comes across Yoo-Jin a woman who is just about to pass away. As fate would have it she also encounters the woman's boyfriend Ji-hoo soon realizing that he used to be an old friend of hers during her elementary school days. A while later, Hyun-soo observes the seemingly ignorant stare of Ji -Hoo while Yoo-jin passes away, which leaves behind an unforgettable impression inside of Hyun-Soo's mind. One day while Hyun-Soo is in the middle of making preparations for her marriage, she receives a phone call from Ji-Hoo. During the following conversation she discovers that Yoo-jin actually committed suicide because she could not stand the fact of loving someone other than Ji-Hoo ...
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Kartini and Mr. Postman
2016
At the turn of the 20th century in Indonesia, a widowed postman falls in love with women's education pioneer RA Kartini. Inspired by her true story.
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Death and Transfiguration
1983 · ★ 6
A British man on his deathbed recalls moments from his life.
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