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My Skinny Sister (2015)
An adolescent girl discovers her older sister is hiding an eating disorder.
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The Book of Stars (1999)
On his book tour, Michael Moore exposes more wrongdoing by greedy big businesses and callous politicians around America.
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Winter's Bone (2010)
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
An illegitimate child (Jena Malone) endures increasingly sadistic beatings from her mother's (Jennifer Jason Leigh) second husband (Ron Eldard) in the '50s South.
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An American Rhapsody (2001)
After fleeing Communist Hungary in the 1950s, a couple (Nastassja Kinski, Tony Goldwyn) reunites with their daughter after years of separation.
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So This Is Christmas (2012)
Ashley lives in the fast lane until a handyman invades her life and she's directing a Christmas play for underprivileged kids. She finds her soulmate and they might live happily-ever-after--unless her stepbrother gets her killed.
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One True Thing (1998)
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
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Lovely & Amazing (2001)
Self-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters.
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Ju Dou (1990)
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy.
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Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
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Rosetta (1999)
Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
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Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)
This Ken Loach docu-drama relates the story of a British woman's fight with Social Services over the care of her children. Maggie has a history of bouncing from one abusive relationship to another. She has four children, of four different fathers, who came to the attention of Social Services when they were injured in a fire. Subsequently, Maggie was found to be an "un...Read all
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Lymelife (2008)
A family unit begins to bow under the pressure of a failing marriage.
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That'll Be the Day (1973)
Musical drama starring David Essex and Ringo Starr, loosely based on John Lennon's early years. Set in the 1950s, a gifted but wayward young man finally discovers a sense of purpose when he decides to turn his love of music into a career.
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Staying Together (1989)
The complacent life of three small town brothers is shattered when their father sells the family business from under them.
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Mouchette (1967)
Young teen Mouchette (Nadine Nortier) faces hardships everywhere in her difficult life. Her father (Paul Hébert) is a cruel drunk who neglects her. Meanwhile, her mother (Marie Cardinal) lies ill, slowly dying. One day, fleeing a rainstorm, Mouchette comes across Arsène (Jean-Claude Guilbert), a poacher with a violent streak. He lets her take shelter in his cabin but then assaults her. Arsène even blackmails Mouchette to involve her in a cover-up for a crime he's committed.
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Children of Heaven (1997)
Two fearful children (Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi) look for a pair of missing shoes, then try to get another pair before their parents discover the loss.
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Christiane F (1981)
A teen girl in 1970's Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
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