A woman barely holding her family together, has to try even harder when her 14 year old daughter tells her she's pregnant and doesn't want her violent father to know.
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Nelsia Laquine
Dina
Tomas Bie
Remane
Francilia Boa
Fatima
Esperanca Naiene
Fauzia
Osvaldo Jalane
Zito
Chantal is employed one summer to look after Paul, 16. He is suffering from an incurable illness that contributes to his violent, aggressive temperament. With Nelly, the family cook, to help, Chantal tries to befriend the young patient. To escape the oppressive reality of her job, Chantal dreams. She dreams of her favorite singers and other popular idols who reassure her the time it takes to sing a few songs.
14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her rescue when she really needs it.
An earnest G.I. returning home from European trenches awaits a woman to whom he has written but never seen.
In a world that judges people by their number, Zero faces constant prejudice and persecution. He walks a lonely path until a chance encounter changes his life forever: he meets a female zero. Together they prove that through determination, courage, and love, nothing can be truly something.
A group of fishermen decide to initiate their youngest one through a different kind of storytelling - telling of an obese woman who will guide him through his sexuality.
Two boys, age ten, spend their summer in idyllic rural surroundings. They play in the fields, they swim au natural, and more often than not - - - they find themselves in the company of those very beings that a ten-year-old boy pretends to hate..... girls!
Edward Town is a rough and tumble police detective who's shaken up by a haunting case that he couldn't solve in time. Years later, he finds himself battling drug addiction and a tortured conscience. When he takes on the job of "guardian angel" for a wealthy brother and sister, Edward's blurred sense of duty threatens to erupt with brutal consequences.
The Job is a close look at racism based on the actual conflicts in Texas in the early 1970s. An Elvis impersonator and a "good ole boy" set out on a job for the boss, the nature of which becomes chillingly clear.
An unhappy woodcutter is temped by the devil with riches and honors. They visit seven castles, as the man acquires the Seven Capital Sins these castles represent. Pioneering trick effects include multiple exposures and dissolves in this early féerie.
Young lovers separate, she to a career on the stage and he to remain in the small village in which they grew up. Years pass and he is hired to be a porter for a theater company and finds her, a far different woman who does not recognize him.
On a particularly nondescript weekend afternoon, Edison must deal with his exasperated mother, who is bearing down on him like a force of nature; the looming deadline of a paper on the philosophical writings of Immanuel Kant; and a persistent, insidious force that aims to destroy the tranquility of his existence.
After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Jane's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political tensions rise, they learn that the crime could be part of an elaborate cover-up. Framed as traitors, the pair, plus Regis' partner, break into the White House in order to expose the true culprit.
Villagers advise an abusive husband to channel his rage in the army. There, he must come to terms with violent urges that have deep and painful roots.
A hobo takes revenge to a miller who didn't give him something to eat.
A young woman must make the choice whether to allow her abusive father back into her life.
This 1990s South Korean movie focuses on a woman who is put on death row after killing her abusive husband.
Mairy, a thirty-year-old woman from Philippines, works in a village in Cyprus. She takes care of Mr. Michalis, an eigthy-five-year-old man with arteriosclerosis. Mr. Michalis spends his days in front of the television, watching time and again a soap opera with a heroine named Anna. He soon becomes obsessed with this heroine, to the point of calling Mairy 'Anna', despite the remarks of his daughter Melpo. When Mairy finds some old photographs she makes an important discovery...
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
The eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
A nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and becomes overbearing and possessive.
In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom.
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.
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.
When an unexpected road rage incident puts his son in critical condition, an enraged father spirals down a dark path of emotional turmoil and vengeance.
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
The story of golf icon and legend, Bobby Jones, who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physically and emotionally compatible, they are slowly torn apart.
