‘Three lemons are just lemons. Three lemons together are a jackpot.’ Atlantic City, 1959 – cue ragtime music, the seaside, boardwalks, childhood friendship. Sound familiar? This is a cheery version of the ultimate girly weepie, Beaches. Lifelong pals Grody, Keaton and Kane have ambitions to own a nightclub where they can perform their quirky singing act. But money isn’t the only obstacle: friendship has its pressures too.
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In crisis-stricken 1999 Argentina, Ariel—a young man from Buenos Aires’ Jewish community—grapples with his mother’s illness, a lonely night-shift job, and his own coming of age. He crosses paths with Santamaría, a middle-aged man adrift after losing his job and marriage, who spends his days returning stolen wallets he finds in the trash. When Ariel recounts Santamaría’s story to Laura, a TV reporter he desires, their lives begin to intertwine. As Christmas and Hanukkah near, each searches for connection amid uncertainty.
Based on the traditional Portuguese tales A Donzela que vai à guerra and A Mão do finado. In Portugal during the Middle Ages, the elderly Dom Raimundo decides to marry off his daughter Silvia to a rich neighbor. He goes to the royal court to invite the king to the wedding. But in his absence, Silvia disguises herself by becoming a soldier named Silvestre.
A ten-year-old boy, son of a soldier who stayed in England after the war, cannot count on a peaceful childhood in Stalinist Poland. So his mother sends him to be raised by a friend as a war orphan. The company of his aunt, a horse-riding enthusiast and woman of unflagging spirit, becomes a unique school of life for the boy.
A PERFECT COUPLE is a satisfying film for the romantic at heart. When Sheila Shea, a young member of a raucous rock-‘n’-roll group, meets an older man, Alex Theodopoulos, through a computer dating service, their unusual courtship takes them on a life journey neither could ever have imagined. Finding that they share a common bond, the two unlikely lovers find a way to accept each other’s differences.
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck market. But Hamlet is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding his father’s death…
A gang of smalltime criminals is sent to an experimental prison where inmates are to be reformed, not punished. The leader of the gang plans to use this to his advantage and take control of the place through manipulation.