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The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)
1968A married woman leaves her husband and zooms off on her motorcycle to see her lover.
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Naomi (2010) aka Hitpartzut X
2010Ilan Ben-Natan is a man on his sixties and a well-known professor of astrophysics at the University of Haifa. He is married with Naomi, a 28 years old, attractive book illustrator. Inclined to suspect, he finds out her wife’s betrayal and then face his wife’s lover, Oded Safra, a painter and a filmmaker, younger than him. During the argument, the scientist kills his rival and takes away the corpse in the boot of his car. […]
Malena (2000)
2000On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who’s moved to this Sicilian town to be with her husband, Nico. He promptly goes off to war, leaving her to the lustful eyes of the men and the sharp tongues of the women. During the next few years, […]
Penance (TV Series) (2020)
2020Penance is a psychological thriller that follows the lives of Rosalie and Luke Douglas and their teenage daughter, Maddie. Following the loss of their son, Rosalie and Luke find their marriage under immense strain. Maddie and Rosalie find themselves in the caring hands of Jed, a charming and charismatic young man that they encounter at bereavement counselling who is also suffering under the weight of his own grief. Jed rekindles a hope for the future […]
2 Nights Till Morning (2015)
2015Caroline, a French architect in Vilnius, Lithuania, on business, has to spend an extra night in the city due to a delayed work meeting. At the bar of her hotel she meets Jaakko, a Finnish DJ who is in Vilnius for a gig. Caroline lets him understand that she doesn’t speak English, and Jaakko doesn’t speak French. Although they lack a common language, they find themselves enjoying each other’s company…
…And God Created Woman (1956)
1956In sunny St. Tropez, a young sexpot loves one brother but marries the other. Juliette Hardy is a sexual dynamite and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn’t dream of settling down with a woman his friends consider the town tramp.
Disobedience (2017)
2017A woman learns about the death of her Orthodox Jewish father, a rabbi. She returns home and has romantic feelings rekindled for her best childhood female friend, who is now married to her cousin.
Restoration (2011) aka Boker tov adon Fidelman
2011In one of Tel-Aviv’s oldest neighborhoods, a senior antique furniture restorer is struggling to keep his workshop alive, confronting his own son who is trying to close down shop and aided by his young and bizarre apprentice who wishes to succeed him.
Women of the Night (TV Series) (2019) aka Keizersvrouwen
2019Haunted by a shadowy past, the wife of a rising star in Amsterdam’s mayoral office finds herself drawn into the city’s underworld of sex and drugs. Xandra lives a hip but safe life with her husband Michiel and her daughter Lulu in Amsterdam. Apparently happy, Xandra aches for more excitement in her life. She is tempted to once again become involved with her old life when she’s secretly offered the challenge of managing a group […]
Black Ice (2007) aka Musta jää
2007Upon discovering that her husband is having an affair, a Helsinki gynecologist attempts to gather more knowledge about her rival and, in the process, becomes hopelessly entangled in the other woman’s life – partially on purpose but primarily out of happenstance. Saara is pretty, elegant, liberal, and friendly to a fault. Yet while surface appearances would suggest that Saara is something of an open book, the truth is that lately no one has looked deeper […]