Lucía is a young waitress in a restaurant in the centre of Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island.
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One-Trick Pony (1980) Robert M. Young, Paul Simon, Blair Brown, Rip Torn, Drama
Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face Read More »
Some Days Are Better Than Others (2010) Matt McCormick, Carrie Brownstein, James Mercer, David Wodehouse, Drama
Some Days are Better Than Others is a poetic, character-driven film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky.
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) John Korty, Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart, Drama
Beginning during the racial turmoil of 1960s Louisiana, 110-year-old ex-slave Jane Pittman grants an interview to a persistent journalist and relates the remarkable story of her life. Orphaned early, she toils on a plantation until a chance meeting with a white Union soldier named Brown changes her outlook.
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Flat Top (1952) Lesley Selander, Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, War, Drama
Group Commander Dan Collier, on an aircraft carrier in Korean waters during the Korean War, starts to think back to the rough days of the air-war against Japan during World War II, when he was in the same squadron.
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Confessions of a Psycho Cat (1968) Herb Stanley, Eileen Lord, Ed Garrabrandt, Frank Geraci, Horror, Thriller
A deranged, wealthy woman offers $100,000 to three men if they can stay alive for 24 hours in Manhattan, and then hunts them down.
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Two Alone (1934) Elliott Nugent, Jean Parker, Tom Brown, Zasu Pitts
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Read More »
Life Is Sweet (1990) Mike Leigh, Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner, Comedy, Drama
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend’s new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon.
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The Weak and the Wicked / Young and Willing (1954) J. Lee Thompson, Glynis Johns, Diana Dors, John Gregson, Drama
Had the women-behind-bars drama The Weak and the Wicked been made in Hollywood, the cast would probably have included the likes of Ida Lupino, Marie Windsor, Peggie Castle and Hope Emerson. Instead, the film was lensed in Britain, with Glynis Johns and Diana Dors heading the cast.
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When Women Played Ding Dong (1971) Bruno Corbucci, Antonio Sabato, Aldo Giuffrè, Vittorio Caprioli, Comedy
Prehistoric cave-stud Ari wins lovely virgin Listra in a pig-catching contest, but their attempts at “Ding-Dong” keep getting interrupted by idiot battles between his tribe, The Cave Dwellers, and their neighbors, The Lake Dwellers.
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