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Misafir (1990) aka Guest
1990A story of a woman who cheats on her husband who owns a bar with a young man who comes to the resort town.
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Clair Obscur ( aka Tereddüt)
2016Turkish writer-director Yesim Ustaoglu offers a parallel study of two women — a psychiatrist with a long-time live-in partner and a wife in a conservative, nearly tyrannical household — in this study of the possibilities and limitations that exist for women in Turkey today.
When the Night (aka Quando la notte)
2011Marina, a woman who has trouble with getting used to be a mother, takes a holiday in a mountain lodge with his baby boy. She lives a tragic incident and his landlord Manfred gets involved in it. From then on, a strange relation between Marina and Manfred begins.
The Enigma of the Yacht (aka El enigma del yate)
1983Natalia and Carlos. Jorge and Blanca. Here are two couples about to go on a trip in a private yacht. It will serve as a treatment for Natalia, who has been suffering from various mental disorders in recent times. But soon after they are at sea, Jorge – who was Natalia’s psychologist and the boat’s skipper – turns up dead. The three remaining occupants are left at the mercy of fate.
Kadosh
1999The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem’s Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have offsprings so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud. Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain childless. The yeshiva’s rabbi, who is Meir’s father, wants Meir to divorce Rivka: “a barren woman is no woman.” Rivka’s sister, Malka, is in love with Yakov, a Jew shunned by the yeshiva as too […]
360
2012Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s classic La Ronde, screenwriter Peter Morgan and director Fernando Meirelles’ 360 combines a modern and dynamic roundelay of stories into one, linking characters from different cities and countries in a vivid, suspenseful and deeply moving tale of love in the 21st century. Starting in Vienna, the film beautifully weaves through Paris, London, Bratislava, Rio, Denver and Phoenix into a single, mesmerizing narrative.
Cuckold
2015When an assistant professor’s wife leaves him his life spirals into a world of debauchery, with only the hope of an old friend to save him from ruin.
Red Desert
1964Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). Ugo’s old pal, Corrado (Richard Harris), shows up in town on a business trip and is more sensitive to Giuliana’s anxieties. They begin an affair, but it does little to quell Giuliana’s existential fears, and her mental state […]
Hatred (2016) aka Wolyn
2016Zosia has a boyfriend named Petro but is married off by her father to an old man in exchange for land. Petro is drafted into the war and later returns from the front line. One day, he sneaks into the couple’s barn and has sex with Zosia.
Listen… (2000) aka Ela na sou po…
2000A wife has a tryst with a plumber.