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Gas Food Lodging
Allison Anders · 1992
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.
Cabaret
Bob Fosse · 1972
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Shangri-La Suite
Eddie O'Keefe · 2016
Karen and Jack met in a mental hospital and fell in love. They set out to follow what Jack thinks is his destiny: killing Elvis Presley.
Badlands
Terrence Malick · 1974
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
Aftersun
Charlotte Wells · 2022
Avec mélancolie, Sophie se remémore les vacances d’été passées avec son père vingt ans auparavant : les moments de joie partagée, leur complicité, parfois leurs désaccords. Elle repense aussi à ce qui planait au-dessus de ces instants si précieux : la sourde et invisible menace d’un bonheur finissant. Elle tente alors de chercher parmi ces souvenirs des réponses à la question qui l’obsède depuis tant d’années : qui était réellement cet homme qu’elle a le sentiment de ne pas connaître ?
Stoker
Park Chan-wook · 2013
After India Stoker's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Before Sunrise
Richard Linklater · 1995
Céline (Julie Delpy) es una estudiante francesa que va a visitar a su abuela en Budapest. Jesse (Ethan Hawke) es un joven estadounidense que realiza un viaje a través de Europa luego de ser abandonado por su novia a quien realmente fue a visitar a España. Ambos se encuentran en un tren, en el trayecto entre Budapest y Viena. Llegados a Viena, Jesse debe descender, sin embargo, logra convencer a Céline para que pase una noche con él en la capital austríaca. En el curso de esa noche, se conocen a fondo, discuten y revelan cuestiones diversas como la vida, la muerte, el sexo.
Heathers
Michael Lehmann · 1988
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
Atonement
Joe Wright · 2007
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Girl, Interrupted
James Mangold · 1999
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Frances Ha
Noah Baumbach · 2013
Frances (Greta Gerwig) una joven de 27 años que a pesar de su edad ha decidido perseguir su sueño de ser bailarina en una compañía de danza en Nueva York. Vive con su amiga Sophie, y disfruta de la vida con alegría y despreocupaciones. Una fábula moderna de Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg) sobre la juventud, la amistad, la ambición, el fracaso y la redención. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bonnie and Clyde
Arthur Penn · 1967
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
Maurice
James Ivory · 1987
Gran Bretaña, principios del siglo XX. Cuando el joven Maurice (James Willby) va a la universidad, se enamora de Clive (Hugh Grant), uno de sus compañeros de clase. Juntos vivirán un romance que mantendrán en secreto. Sin embargo, Clive, para evitar habladurías y normalizar su vida, decide casarse con una joven. Maurice, por su parte, seguirá manteniendo relaciones secretas con otros hombres, aunque no será lo mismo.
Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir · 1989
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Patti Smith: Electric Poet
Sophie Peyrard · 2022
At the age of 20, Patti Smith arrives in New York and upsets the codes of rock, poetry, and genre. She has become a living legend without ever leaving the sidelines. A poet, actress, and musician. Also militant. An artist with a thousand lives, now 74 years old. The documentary follows the course of Patti Smith's life. Childhood first, and the artist who says: "I wanted to be someone special. I felt distant. Not just from other children, I felt far from the whole world. I spent my childhood in think I was an alien. " Little Patti grew up in rural New Jersey and received a religious education from her Jehovah's Witness mother. But Patti Smith leaves the movement, which does not suit her artistic inclinations.
Pearl
Ti West · 2022
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.
Surviving Desire
Hal Hartley · 1992
Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the two become lovers.
Clueless
Amy Heckerling · 1995
La superficial, rica y socialmente exitosa Cher está en lo más alto de la escala de valores de su instituto de Beverly Hills. Viéndose a sí misma como una casamentera, Cher primero convence a dos profesores para que salgan juntos.
Mustang
Deniz Gamze Ergüven · 2015
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
Submarine
Richard Ayoade · 2011
15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar problems arise in his relationship with Jordana.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Marielle Heller · 2015
Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.
27 Dresses
Anne Fletcher · 2008
Jane a toujours été plus douée pour prendre soin du bonheur des autres que du sien. Toute sa vie, elle s'est évertuée à rendre ses proches heureux, et les 27 robes de demoiselle d'honneur qui remplissent son armoire sont autant de preuves de son dévouement. Lors d'une soirée mémorable, Jane parvient à faire la navette entre deux réceptions de mariage, l'une à Manhattan, l'autre à Brooklyn, sous les yeux ébahis de Kevin, un journaliste qui réalise que l'histoire de cette accro aux mariages pourrait lui apporter la gloire qu'il espère tant. Pour compliquer les choses, la vie parfaitement réglée de Jane est bouleversée par l'arrivée de sa petite soeur, Tess. George, le patron de Jane, tombe très vite sous le charme de Tess, et cette dernière demande tout naturellement à sa soeur d'organiser leur mariage. Mais cette fois, les choses se compliquent, car Jane est elle-même secrètement amoureuse de George...
Almost Famous
Cameron Crowe · 2000
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson · 2021
The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Midnight in Paris
2011
Comédia de Woody Allen que decorre em Paris e conta a história de uma família que viaja até lá em negócios, e de um casal, prestes a casar, que durante a sua estadia vai viver um conjunto de experiências que lhes muda a vida. É ainda a história do amor de um jovem pela cidade de Paris, e da ilusão, que quase todos partilhamos, de que a vida dos outros é sempre melhor do que a nossa. Meia-Noite em Paris é o postal de namorados de Allen à cidade da Luz, uma cidade que ele coloca, em estima, ao nível de Nova Iorque.
The Princess Diaries
Garry Marshall · 2001
La vida de Mia Thermopolis, una tímida adolescente que vive en San Francisco, da un vuelco cuando averigua que es la heredera del trono del diminuto principado europeo de Genovia. Su estricta y sabia abuela, la Reina Clarisse Renaldi, irrumpe entonces en su vida con la intención de prepararla para ser princesa, pero Mia no tiene la menor intención de dejar su vida para gobernar un país tan lejano. La reticente princesa se enfrenta al dilema más importante de su vida: seguir con su familia o aceptar sus responsabilidades como princesa.
Gilda
Charles Vidor · 1946
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
A Room with a View
James Ivory · 1986
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?
My First Summer
Katie Found · 2020
Isolated on a remote property, 16-year-old Claudia finds her world transformed when a spirited girl named Grace wanders into her garden.
Penelope
Mark Palansky · 2006
Forlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents to keep her company. This untraditional fairy tale about a girl who bucks convention to create her own happy ending.
Rosaline
Karen Maine · 2022
Left heartbroken after Romeo begins to pursue her cousin Juliet, Rosaline schemes to foil the famous romance and win back her guy in this comedic twist of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Poison Ivy
Katt Shea · 1992
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
Cracks
Jordan Scott · 2009
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Flirting
John Duigan · 1991
Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.
That Night
Craig Bolotin · 1992
A coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old girl who idolizes her troubled sixteen-year-old neighbor.
Raggedy Man
Jack Fisk · 1981
Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on leave causes tongues to wag in town.
The Sweet East
Sean Price Williams · 2023
Anna Karenina
Joe Wright · 2012
Adaptación de la famosa novela del ruso León Tolstoi, "Ana Karenina", en esta ocasión protagonizada por Keira Knightley, que encarna a Anna Karenina; Jude Law, que interpreta a Alexei Karenin; y Aaron Johnson, como el joven conde Vronsky. El director Joe Wright, experto en adaptaciones literarias tras el éxito de 'Orgullo y prejuicio' y 'Expiación', aborda esta cinta pasional y de adulterio en la que nuestra heroína, Anna, una refinada dama de la alta sociedad rusa de finales del siglo XIX que, a pesar de estar casada, se enamora de un joven por el que perderá la cabeza y la llevará a dejarse en evidencia dentro del puritano orden social de la época. Una historia de tumultuoso deseo que, además de ser considerada en su momento como una crítica despiadada a la aristocracia rusa, se convirtió también en todo un símbolo de los derechos de libertad de la mujer para elegir su destino en un momento en el que se encontraba a merced de los designios del hombre que fuera su esposo.
Thoroughbreds
Cory Finley · 2018
Lily and Amanda, two high school students living in suburban Connecticut, rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of drifting apart. Together, they devise a plan to kill Lily's abusive stepfather by hiring a lowlife drug dealer.
Babyteeth
Shannon Murphy · 2020
A terminally ill teen upsets her parents when she falls in love with a small-time drug dealer.
The Philadelphia Story
George Cukor · 1940
Uma herdeira entediada, destinada a se casar com um executivo chato, vê seus planos de casamento frustrados com a chegada de seu ex-marido playboy. E família então gradualmente começa a perceber a importância da integridade e dos verdadeiros valores.
