Come See the Paradise (1990)
The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.
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O Quatrilho (1995)
Two couples of Italian immigrants are part of a game that leads to treason and brings serious consequences to those who lose.
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New Jersey Drive (1995)
Jason and Midget are two young, black teenagers living in Newark,New Jersey, the unofficial car theft capital of the world. Their favourite pastime is that of everybody in their neighbourhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts when they steal a police car and the cops launch a violent offensive that involves beating and even shooting suspects.
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Down to the Bone (2004)
A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
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Dummy (2003)
An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
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Little Odessa (1994)
Early 1990s drama about a family of Soviet Jews living in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach ocean-side neighborhood nicknamed Little Odessa.
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Caterina Goes to Town (2003)
Caterina, forced to leave her small town at the age of thirteen, faces the complications of living in the big metropoly of Rome.
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Merantau (2009)
A young man from the countryside uses his skills in silat martial arts to survive the slave trade.
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Pope Joan (2009)
A woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim in the ninth century disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.
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Aurora Borealis (2005)
A troubled young man struggling to right himself after the premature death of his father.
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