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1) The wife
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"After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe's literary star has...
2) On the rocks
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"Laura thinks she's happily hitched, but when her husband Dean starts logging late hours at the office with a new co-worker, Laura begins to fear the worst. She turns to the one man she suspects may have insight: her charming, impulsive father Felix, who insists they investigate the situation. As the two begin prowling New York at night, careening from uptown parties to downtown hotspots, they discover at the heart of their journey lies their relationship"--Container....
3) Smashed
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English
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Kate and Charlie are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and drinking--especially the drinking. When Kate's drinking leads her to dangerous places and her job as a school teacher is put into jeopardy, she decides to join AA and get sober. Her new lifestyle calls into question whether or not her relationship with Charlie is built on love, or just a boozy diversion from adulthood.
4) Tulip fever
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An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.
5) Huda's salon
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Reem, a young mother married to a jealous man, goes to Huda's salon in Bethlehem. But this ordinary visit turns sour when Huda, after having put Reem in a shameful situation, blackmails her to have her work for the secret service of the occupiers, and thus betray her people.
6) Petulia
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English
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An unhappily married socialite woman is trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor, who in his own words just wants to feel something.
7) Body heat
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A lawyer has a love affair with a woman and gets involved in a plot to kill her husband.
10) On the rocks
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Laura thinks she's happily hitched, but when her husband Dean starts logging late hours at the office with a new co-worker, Laura begins to fear the worst. She turns to the one man she suspects may have insight: her charming, impulsive father Felix, who insists they investigate the situation. As the two begin prowling New York at night, careening from uptown parties to downtown hotspots, they discover at the heart of their journey lies their relationship....
11) Félix and Meira
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English
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Hadas Yaron returns in Maxime Giroux's, story, an unconventional love story between two people living vastly different lives Meira, a young Hasidic wife and mother unhappy in her life, and Felix, an man lost in mourning the recent death of his father, unexpectedly meet in Montreal's Mile End district. What starts as an innocent friendship becomes more serious as the two find comfort and freedom in one another.
13) Heat and dust
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English
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Based on the novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala about Anne, who is drawn to India to unravel the scandal surrounding her great-aunt's seduction in the 1920s by an Indian prince.
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日本語
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Tetsuo: A mild-mannered salaryman, out for a drive with his girlfriend, accidentally hits a deranged metal fetishist, and in the process becomes infected by a mysterious disease that slowly transforms his body into scrap metal.
Tetsuo II: Young couple Tomoo and Kana's lives are turned upside down when skinheads kidnap their young son, in the process of which the enraged Tomoo spontaneously grows a gun from his arm--and ends up accidentally killing...
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