Two friends meet and the news is given that the grandmother of one of them has died. What was supposed to be a moment of consolation ends up becoming a change of perspective on death.
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Júlia Sousa
Júlia
Inês Godinho
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Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
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A teenager overhears a phone call and inserts himself into the father-son story behind it. As this strange 'conversation' develops, two separately wounded lives slowly wind into a double helix of pain, regret, and filial love.
Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
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The scattered families gather and visit their mother.
David faces a life-changing decision that will shape his future. Realizing it has affected him drastically, he comes to terms with the fact that life moves on and that all things happen for a reason.
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A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
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After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
A council case worker looks for the relatives of those found dead and alone.
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Seven children bury their mother and hide her death - until their long-lost father returns.
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
While Jane Holman is driving with her two sons, she accidentally runs into a drifter, Jack McCloud, who breaks his leg. Being responsible, Jane invites Jack, and his dog, to stay at her home until his leg has healed. Jack struggles to adapt their lifestyle, and finds himself loved by the family.
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On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her eldest son out into the world.
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