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Female Perversions
rating:2.8

Female Perversions

1996Runtime:0 minutes
This movie tests Louise J. Kaplan's novel, through the character of Eve, a young, successful attorney. Caught between her career aspirations and her desire to help her kleptomaniac sister, Eve walks a tightrope between toughness and vulnerability.

Directed by:

  • Susan Streitfeld
  • rating:2.8 2.8 Average Rating

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    Expired
    rating:2.7

    Expired

    2007Runtime:0 minutes
    Claire (Samantha Morton) lives a sheltered life, taking care of her invalid mother and working as a traffic enforcement officer. When she meets the equally shy Jay (Jason Patric), the pair falls in love. This is the first intimate relationship for both of them, opening the door for awkwardness and fear, tenderness and hilarity. Documentarian and award-winning filmmaker Cecilia Miniucchi makes her feature debut with this achingly honest romance.

    Directed by:

  • Cecilia Miniucchi
  • rating:2.7 2.7 Average Rating

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    La Lingerie
    rating:2.7

    La Lingerie

    2008Runtime:0 minutes
    When Miu hits a romantic dry spell, she turns to her girlfriends CC, Celine and Donut for support. But as her pals dispense advice from the lingerie shop where one of them works, they reveal that their own love lives aren't exactly sizzling hot.

    Directed by:

  • Hing-Ka Chan
  • Janet Chun
  • rating:2.7 2.7 Average Rating

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    Across the Moon
    rating:2.7

    Across the Moon

    1995Runtime:0 minutes
    Looking to start life anew, two disparate women -- Carmen (Elizabeth Peña) and Kathy (Christina Applegate) -- leave Los Angeles behind to be near their boyfriends (Peter Berg and Tony Fields), who are serving time in a Mojave Desert prison. Kathy and Carmen share a tumbledown trailer owned by a slimy defense attorney and struggle financially as they await their men's release. How will the ladies survive when authorities seize their home?

    Directed by:

  • Lisa Gottlieb
  • rating:2.7 2.7 Average Rating

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    The 24 Hour Woman
    rating:2.7

    The 24 Hour Woman

    1999Runtime:0 minutes
    After her pregnancy is unexpectedly revealed on her morning television program, frenetic TV producer Grace Santos agrees to let the show exploit her "condition" for ratings. But soon the strain of career, marriage and motherhood take their toll.

    Directed by:

  • Nancy Savoca
  • rating:2.7 2.7 Average Rating

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    How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
    rating:2.7

    How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

    2005Runtime:0 minutes
    Mexican-American family matriarch Dona Genoveva (Lucy Gallardo), her divorced daughter Lolita (Elizabeth Peña) and teenage granddaughter Blanca (America Ferrera) all tinker with love during one sleepy summer in their Arizona border town. Dona's driving lessons take an unexpected turn, while things heat up at the butcher shop where Lolita works, and Blanca cooks up some romance for herself. This charming drama received a Grand Jury Prize nod at Sundance.

    Directed by:

  • Georgina Riedel
  • rating:2.7 2.7 Average Rating

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    Water Lilies
    rating:2.7

    Water Lilies

    2007Runtime:0 minutes
    A Caméra d'Or contender at Cannes, this coming-of-age drama from first-time feature film director Céline Sciamma tracks the sexual awakenings of three female friends over the course of a single summer. Finding privacy in the solitude of the swimming pool locker room, blossoming teens Marie (Pauline Acquart), Anne (Louise Blachère) and Floriane (Adele Haenel) come to learn the true meaning of arousal and the power of sexual attraction.

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  • rating:2.7 2.7 Average Rating

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    Fires Within
    rating:2.7

    Fires Within

    1991Runtime:0 minutes
    When her journalist husband Nestor is imprisoned in Cuba for his political beliefs, Isabel flees the country with her daughter. Saved off the shores of Miami by a fisherman, she soon falls deeply in love with her rescuer. But just as she's on the verge of building a life with him, Nestor unexpectedly appears.

    Directed by:

  • Gillian Armstrong
  • rating:2.7 2.7 Average Rating

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    Bar Girls
    rating:2.6

    Bar Girls

    1994Runtime:0 minutes
    Stood up yet again at Los Angeles' Girl Bar by her gorgeous but flaky girlfriend, successful TV cartoon writer Loretta (Nancy Allison Wolfe) fears she may never find her soul mate. But then in walks Rachael (Liza D'Agostino), an aspiring actress who more than catches Loretta's eye. They hit it off brilliantly, but when another woman starts flirting with Rachel, Loretta's jealousy flares up and their life together is threatened.

    Directed by:

  • Marita Giovanni
  • rating:2.6 2.6 Average Rating

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    High Season
    rating:2.6

    High Season

    1987Runtime:0 minutes
    Katherine (Jacqueline Bisset), a celebrated British photographer, lives a quiet, idyllic life with her daughter on the Greek island of Rhodes. But a young local sets out to encourage tourism, and Katherine's past and future are about to catch up with her as she suddenly finds herself in a hilariously tangled plot involving lovesick tourists, irate locals, smugglers, her ex-husband and an old friend who reveals himself to be a Russian spy!

    Directed by:

  • Clare Peploe
  • rating:2.6 2.6 Average Rating

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    Chilly Scenes of Winter
    rating:2.5

    Chilly Scenes of Winter

    1979Runtime:0 minutes
    Set in Salt Lake City, this bittersweet romantic tale centers on civil servant Charles (John Heard) and his obsession with winning back the love of his life, Laura (Mary Beth Hurt), who left him to return to her unappreciative husband, Ox (Mark Metcalf). To find out whether Laura is really happy with Ox, Charles takes to following her around and befriends her co-worker (Nora Heflin). Peter Riegert, Gloria Grahame and Griffin Dunne co-star.

    Directed by:

  • Joan Micklin Silver
  • rating:2.5 2.5 Average Rating

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    A Man in Love
    rating:2.5

    A Man in Love

    1987Runtime:0 minutes
    While working abroad and filming a biopic of a famed Italian author, American actor Steve Elliott (Peter Coyote) falls for his sultry co-star (Greta Scacchi) and immerses himself in an erotic love affair ... which is all well and good, except that his wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) is waiting at home. Diane Kurys directs her English-language debut, which was France's official 1987 entry to the Cannes Film Festival.

    Directed by:

  • Diane Kurys
  • rating:2.5 2.5 Average Rating

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    Sweet Lies
    rating:2.5

    Sweet Lies

    1988Runtime:0 minutes
    When American insurance adjuster Peter Nicholl (Treat Williams) jets to France to investigate a claim, he meets cunning Parisian lovelies Joelle (Joanna Pacula) and Dixie (Julianne Phillips), who make a bet over which of them can seduce the hunky Yank first. But when Peter discovers their wager, he turns the tables on the would-be femmes fatales, who have since become genuinely smitten with him. Nathalie Delon directs this rollicking rom-com.

    Directed by:

  • Nathalie Delon
  • rating:2.5 2.5 Average Rating

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    The Night and the Moment
    rating:2.5

    The Night and the Moment

    1994Runtime:0 minutes
    A philandering writer (Willem Dafoe) in search of true love accepts an invitation from an aristocratic salonniere (Lena Olin), only to insinuate himself into her house and try to seduce her with stories of his various conquests. But what he doesn't realize is that their passions date back to his recent imprisonment, when she was incarcerated in the cell beside his.

    Directed by:

  • Anna Maria Tato
  • rating:2.5 2.5 Average Rating

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    Sweet Revenge
    rating:2.4

    Sweet Revenge

    1990Runtime:0 minutes
    When thriving lawyer Linda (Carrie Fisher) divorces her husband, John (John Sessions), he sues her for alimony. The judge rules that the agreement written on a balloon years ago stating she would always support him if he put her through law school is valid -- unless he remarries. Determined to get out of the payments, Linda hires an actress (Rosanna Arquette) to seduce John, instructing her on tactics to draw him into marriage.

    Directed by:

  • Charlotte Brandstrom
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Free Radicals
    rating:2.4

    Free Radicals

    2003Runtime:0 minutes
    Happenstance is the cornerstone of this intriguing film. A young woman miraculously survives a plane crash only to die in a head-on car collision six years later. The teenage driver of the car, who's barely injured, is the younger son in a family whose first son was abducted at a young age. And so the cycle begins -- an odd, chainlike link that encompasses reactions to the woman's family members and the people in their lives.

    Directed by:

  • Barbara Albert
  • rating:2.4 2.4 Average Rating

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    Now and Then
    rating:3.8

    Now and Then

    1995Runtime:0 minutes
    Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more. Lesli Linka Glatter directs; Gaby Hoffmann, Ashleigh Aston Moore, Cloris Leachman, Thora Birch and Christina Ricci co-star.

    Directed by:

  • Lesli Linka Glatter
  • rating:3.8 3.8 Average Rating

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    Now and Then (1995)
    A heartwarming movie about four childhood girlfriends who, in adulthood reunion, relive their experience of the life-changing summer of 1970, including a mystery death, divorce, standing up to the boys, first kiss, and the meaning of true friendship. Each explores her unique identity amidst family and friends. Beautifully directed by Lesli Linka Glatter.
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