Etiqueta: Dysfunctional family
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The nearly girl
A fun and romantic thriller that explores the singularities of the human spirit. Henry is poet who is addicted to LSD and lives according to his unusual impulses. Megan is a young woman that yearns to be independent from her parents. Megan meets Henry at a poetry reading and they fall in love.…
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Roses from Stalin (Las rosas de Stalin)
My name is Svetlana Alliluyeva. I was born on February 28, 1926. My father died in 1953. His name was Joseph Stalin. Stalin’s favorite, his only daughter had a rough awakening at 16 years old. She discovered her mother had died of suicide, not natural causes, and her father was a ruthless dictator. Her first…
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Rey
Based on the true story of a boy who runs away from home and is adopted by a pack of stray dogs. Based on a true story, Rey is about a boy who was raised by stray dogs. Rey has many problems at home. He must face the hostile environment in which he…
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I Stopped Uttering Your Name: The Forbidden Life of Carmen Díez de Rivera (Dejé de pronunciar tu nombre: La vida prohibida de Carmen Díez de Rivera)
The muse of the Spanish transition to democracy. The beautiful Carmen Díez de Rivera was a cultured and intelligent woman like few others. Nicknamed "the muse of the Spanish Transition to democracy" by Francisco Umbral, she was the illegitimate daughter of the politician Serrano Suñer and the aristocrat Sonsoles de Icaza, a…
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The Little Orphans (Los huerfanitos)
Three brothers who hate each other and an inheritance at stake. Ausias Susmozas is the owner and patriarch of the Pigalle, a theater that – after going through a golden age – is now in the dumps. Ausias dies around the same time that debts are suffocating the theatre and leaves it…
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The Black Sheep (La oveja negra)
“A high price to pay to be yourself” Hermógenes, born into a family of renowned doctors, decides not to study medicine as the family tradition dictates and enrolls in archeology. He will have to embark on this path alone, as his family decides to withdraw all financial support. Lonely in Valencia, where…
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The Desert and it’s Seed (El desierto y su semilla) (Film)
What does the skin hide? A cab ride to the hospital: Eligia's face is disintegrating from the acid thrown at her by her ex-husband while they were signing the divorce papers. Mario, her 22-year-old son, tries to wipe the acid off Eligia's face, but his own fingers burn. What follows is a failed attempt…
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Sludge (Lodo)
The enigma surrounding a mysterious death. Following rowdy college years in Barcelona, Endika, a 22-year-old young man, travels back to his small hometown in Navarre (Northern Spain). He returns to the home of his aunt and grandmother, both of whom raised him as a child. His grandmother is a tyrannical landowner who pulls the…
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In Her Blood (En la sangre)
Champagne and crime. Eva Valverde lives in Barcelona, has two degrees and wears Prada. Years ago, she stole her first laptop from a table in the library where she studied, and that moment marked a turning point in her life. Now she is a professional pick pocketer, but she doesn’t only settle for stealing…
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The Glass Eye
A Latino family’s mishaps in the Bronx. The story is set around Don Pepitón and Antonia’s warehouse. Don Pepitón belongs to an inmigrant family of three brothers (whose wives all hate each other) – all very loud, dysfunctional, and hilarious. “Gloria finally showed her face, but before anyone could issue a complaint, she…
