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Glen or Glenda

1953

Glen or Glenda

1953
4.6
A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a trans woman, the other of a pseudohermaphrodite.
Let's Make It Legal

1951

Let's Make It Legal

1951
6.3
A woman divorces her husband of 20 years because he gambles too much.
Firaaq

2009

Firaaq

2009
6.1
Firaaq is an Urdu word that means both separation and quest. The film is a work of fiction, based on a thousand stories. The story is set over a 24-hour period, one month after a campaign that took place in Gujarat, India, in 2002. It traces the emotional journey of ordinary people- some who were victims, some perpetrators and some who choose to watch silently.
Bart Got a Room

2008

Bart Got a Room

2008
5.7
Danny Stein, a high school senior at the bottom of the social food chain, needs a prom date. As a cause of anxiety for Danny, Bart Beeber, the nerdiest guy in school, has already found a date. At the same time, Danny's divorced parents are both looking for relationships again.
The Architect

2006

The Architect

2006
5.9
An architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect designed.
The Baby's Room

2006

The Baby's Room

2006
6.7
Juan and Sonia arrive at a large old house, an ideal place to raise their newborn son. When, one night before going to bed, they check the operation of the monitoring device installed in the baby's room, they discover that someone is sitting next to the crib.
Solstice

2008

Solstice

2008
5.3
While on a summer trip with her friends, Megan begins to feel the presence of Sophie, her twin sister who recently committed suicide.
Séraphine

2008

Séraphine

2008
6.8
The tragic story of French naïve painter Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (1864-1942), a humble servant who becomes a gifted self-taught painter. Discovered by prominent critic and collector William Uhde, she came to prominence between the wars grouped with other naïve painters like Henri Rouseau only to descend into madness and obscurity with the onset of the Great Depression and World War II.
Humboldt County

2008

Humboldt County

2008
5.6
Peter is a medical student about to graduate and begin his residency. When his professor fails him, he winds up in bed with an actress and singer named Bogart rolling through Los Angeles. He accompanies her to the redwoods of northern California, where he encounters her eccentric family of pot farmers. But when Bogart runs away without a word, Peter is thrust into the picturesque and bizarre world.
Broadway Danny Rose

1984

Broadway Danny Rose

1984
7.2
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova, whose career is on the rebound.
Genova

2009

Genova

2009
5.6
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her sexuality.
Tin Men

1987

Tin Men

1987
6.3
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Metamorphosis

2007

Metamorphosis

2007
4.3
In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in...
Antibodies

2005

Antibodies

2005
6.8
When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.
Marquise

1997

Marquise

1997
5.6
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

2007

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

2007
6.2
The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.
The Lost World

1925

The Lost World

1925
6.7
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Angel Baby

1995

Angel Baby

1995
6.6
Two schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall in love. Unfortunately they are on a road to nowhere...
Infinity

1996

Infinity

1996
6.2
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.
Beyond Rangoon

1995

Beyond Rangoon

1995
6.6
Dr. Laura Bowman is a young widow who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.