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The people behind it
Fanny Cottençon
la mère
Amélie Etasse
la fille
Didier Bardoux
le jardinier
Morgan Rebin
Le fils du jardinier
Assaf wasn’t brought up by his father, and when he dies, he meets his family for the first time, and as the only son, he’s revealed as the sole successor. When Assaf falls in love with Miriam, a homeless woman who stays in his backyard, a Pandora’s box is unleashed.
A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.
An intense look at the lives of the strong-willed daughters of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them.
When his brother mysteriously disappears, Derek Lacey returns to his hometown to demand answers and face the family and people he left behind.
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.
A young man who struggles with the fact of losing his father, comes to terms with what is real and who is really there to support him.
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
19-year-old Lola James is trying to work to save enough money to get her beloved little brother, Arlo, out of their toxic home. Until one tragic night, when her whole world gets uprooted. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same.
human darkness and how far people can go to similar perfectionism.
With just a day before his prison sentence, a father does all he can to win back his son's love.
When suspicious bruising is found on Lisa's son, Bobby, she is forced to confront her own childhood trauma to prevent him from being taken by a well-meaning social worker.
In the winter of 1960, small-town piano teacher Lucy Lay enters the Rich family, believing she has come for a simple tutoring job. She soon discovers the position is only a façade, and with no way out, she is pressed into the family’s arrangement to disguise herself as a princess from a mysterious nation and marry the family heir. Inside the hush of that vast winter manor, desire gathers like heat beneath ice. The secret she uncovers binds them in ways neither can escape. What begins as confinement becomes a dangerous pull that reshapes the course of her life.
When Ellen and her two brothers gather in their childhood home to sort through the inheritance left by their father, a renowned composer, old memories and unresolved conflicts resurface. The house, filled with musical traces and childhood artifacts, becomes a stage for emotional reckoning.
After an accident leaves him color-blind, Óscar moves in with his reclusive brother Víctor, beginning a shared life that will test the fragile bonds between them.
A short personal story touching on the impact parents have on their children and how it can reflect them in the future. Filmed, Written and Directed by Chris Villafuerte
Pansy is a woman so full of rage that every interaction she has devolves into lashing out, whether at her utterly cowed husband and son, or random strangers who have the temerity to address her. In contrast, her younger sister Chantelle lives with her two vivacious daughters and plies a successful trade as a hairdresser, putting clients at their ease all day long. Yet beneath Pansy’s abrasive exterior are hints of a more fragile psyche, one motivated by fear and damaged by repressed pain.
A young woman, in the midst of caring for her dying father, must shoulder the weight of her world over the course of a day.
A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive bank clerk.
The loving and nurturing Mariel marries Edward after his first wife abandons him and their three children. Mariel strives to win the acceptance and affection of her new stepchildren, even as she tries to define her role in the family.
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
Housed in a shelter for young mothers, Jessica, Perla, Julia, Ariane, and Naïma, all of whom have grown up in difficult circumstances, struggle to obtain a better life for themselves and their children.
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire state, and her selfish, nonconformist mother who has no intention of raising a family, along with her younger brother and sister, and her other older sister. Together, they fend for each other as they mature in an unorthodox journey that is their family life.
The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.
Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
Two sisters embark on an epic quest for revenge, confronting a charged family history that pushes them to extraordinary lengths.
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is one of the drivers in the derby whose wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.
Three sisters who share a connection to a violent childhood incident reunite for the chance to come to terms with their past.
A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Hazel King is a single mother determined to shield her daughter from the life she once had as a hit woman while defending and protecting those who can't protect themselves. Her dark past comes back to haunt her, despite her desire for a quiet life in Barstow.
Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory sees his life transformed through a newly found bond with his baby grandson.
Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.
