Notes on a Scandal
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new “friend” also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Archives: Movies
Burning Desires of a Housewife
When you sit home all day, the imagination seems to wander to some of the ideas you’ve have in the past peek. Her daily household chores lead her to think about outside opportunities when have been told to her through mutual friends. After a long and hard day of nothing but cleaning, she finally takes it down with some wine and a little self-pleasure. The burning desires of a housewife could have severe consequences.
The Last King of Scotland
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it’s time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
The Painted Veil
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
The Mermaid Chair
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
Monamour
Dario is a little publisher from Milano. He is joining the Mantova Festival Letteratura (Book fair) 2004. Marta, his unsatisfied wife, accompanies him. Leon is a French ..
Mrs. Junkie (2006) aka Consenting Adultery
A young apartment caretaker screws two of his tenant housewives. First, separately, then later both at the same time.
M (2006)
A wife becomes a prostitute due to some screwed-up mental issue that involves her past.
The Departed
To take down South Boston’s Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there’s a mole among them.
Summer ’04
Sommer ’04 is a character study of a family on vacation. German director Stefan Krohmer examines the emotional abyss and problems behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they experience guilt, love and jealousy.