Broken Embraces (2009)

7.3

Drama
1987
Movie

Pelle the Conqueror

7.3
1987

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.

7.5

Comedy
2006
Movie

Volver

7.5
2006

Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and boundless vitality.

5.5

Drama
2014
Movie

Proxy

5.5
2014

While walking home from her latest OB appointment, a very pregnant Esther Woodhouse is brutally attacked and disfigured by a hooded assailant. This horrible event seems to be a blessing in disguise when Esther finds consolation in a support group. Her life of sadness and solitude is opened up to friendship, understanding, and even acceptance. However, friendship and understanding can be very dangerous things when accepted by the wrong people.

5.7

Comedy
2012
Movie

Dark Horse

5.7
2012

Abe is a man who is in his thirties and who lives with his parents. He works regretfully for his father while pursuing his hobby of collecting toys. Aware that his family doesn't think highly of him, he tries to spark a relationship with Miranda, who recently moved back home after a failed literary/academic career. Miranda agrees to marry Abe out of desperation, but things go awry.

Drama
1990
Movie

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

6
1990

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children.

4.9

Drama
2011
Movie

She Monkeys

4.9
2011

When Emma meets Cassandra, they initiate a relationship filled with physical and psychological challenges. Emma does whatever it takes to master the rules of the game. Lines are crossed and the stakes get higher and higher. Despite this, Emma can't resist the intoxicating feeling of total control.

5.8

Action
2009
Movie

Perrier's Bounty

5.8
2009

A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.

Genre : Action

5.8

Romance
2002
Movie

L′Abri

5.8
2002

A thirty-two year old man falls in love with a seventeen year-old highschool student whom he sees at the bus stop everyday.

Genre : Romance

Documentary
2012
Movie

Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother

8
2012

Shot in 1999, "All About My Mother" is Pedro Almodóvar's thirteenth feature film. The director was a key figure in the turbulent Movida (the movement for cultural renewal and liberation in post-Franco Spain), explores Barcelona society at the turn of the millennium through the lives of five women.

Genre : Documentary

6.3

Drama
2004
Movie

Lost Embrace

6.3
2004

In Buenos Aires, the twenty-something Jewish-Argentinean Ariel Makaroff ditches the University of Architecture and spends his time wandering through the downtown gallery where his mother has a lingerie shop and his brother runs an importation business. Ariel has never understood why his father left him when he was a baby, but when his dad returns to Argentina, that will soon change.

4.8

Drama
2019
Movie

Reza

4.8
2019

Reza is a divorced author who is trying to adopt to his new life after divorce while he finds a new romance.

6.9

Comedy
1945
Movie

Blithe Spirit

6.9
1945

An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage.

7.3

Drama
1993
Movie

Madadayo

7.3
1993

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.

5.2

Drama
2013
Movie

Concussion

5.2
2013

After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor.

Drama
2017
Movie

Barbara

6
2017

An actress will play Barbara, the French singer. The shoot will soon start. The actress works on her character, her voice, the songs, scores, the gestures, knitting, scenes she has to learn, things are going okay, there's progress, development, she is even overwhelmed. The film director also works, through his encounters, through archives, music, he let's himself be submerged, overwhelmed like the actress, by the actress.

7.1

Drama
1997
Movie

Live Flesh

7.1
1997

When Victor attempts to seduce Elena, all he gets for his trouble is a one-way, six-year ticket to prison, where he concentrates on strengthening his mind, his body... and his desire for vengeance on the man who put him there. After his release and still madly in love with her, Victor will stop at nothing to win her over even if means revenge, for Elena has married David, the cop who sent him to prison!

6.8

Drama
1997
Movie

The Spanish Prisoner

6.8
1997

An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation he works for turn against him.