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Red Meat
rating:2.3

Red Meat

1997Runtime:0 minutes
The Red Meat Club is a gathering of male friends who discuss macho topics over a steak after a trip to the spa. Stefan and Chris meet to partake in the masculine ritual and run into Victor, an old friend. Sitting in a restaurant, the three men regale each other with tales of their most lurid sexual experiences -- but Victor tops them all with a shocking story concerning a woman (Lara Flynn Boyle) with whom he had a relationship as she was dying.

Directed by:

  • Allison Burnett
  • rating:2.3 2.3 Average Rating

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    The Shoe
    rating:2.3

    The Shoe

    1998Runtime:0 minutes
    Set in the 1950s and shot in black-and-white, Laila Pakalnina's clever take on the Cinderella fairy tale begins on the coast of Latvia, where Soviet patrolmen comb the shore for any evidence that spies have infiltrated the Russian border. When three guards discover a woman's shoe on the shore and footsteps leading toward a small village, they're ordered to find the owner of the slipper. Igor Buraks, Vadims Grossmans and Jaan Tatte star.

    Directed by:

  • Laila Pakalnina
  • rating:2.3 2.3 Average Rating

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    In Passing
    rating:2.3

    In Passing

    2006Runtime:0 minutes
    With New York City as a backdrop, actress Vanessa Kelly (Veronica Mittenzwei) and playwright Julia Garrison (Lisa Rothe) fall in love in this tender lesbian romance that faces a singular set of challenges. Being a couple proves complicated as Vanessa and Julia open their hearts, becoming more involved and more vulnerable -- and when one of the women violates the other's hard-earned trust, their relationship lands on the rocks.

    Directed by:

  • Kate Fitzgerald
  • rating:2.3 2.3 Average Rating

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    Half-Life
    rating:2.3

    Half-Life

    2008Runtime:0 minutes
    Growing up is tough for Timothy (Alexander Agate) and Pamela (Sanoe Lake). Global catastrophes abound and their self-destructive mother (Julia Nickson-Soul) stays with a manipulative boyfriend who doesn't love her. Fortunately, their active imaginations help them cope. Combining live action and animated flights of fancy, Jennifer Phang wrote and directed this dreamlike official selection of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

    Directed by:

  • Jennifer Phang
  • rating:2.3 2.3 Average Rating

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    Temps
    rating:2.2

    Temps

    1999Runtime:0 minutes
    Maria Burton directs this independent comic drama about five postcollege pals who struggle to reconcile their dreams and ambitions for the future with the need to bring home a regular paycheck right now. As some use temp jobs to buy time while they pursue their art, others see their positions as the first rung on the corporate ladder. The ensemble cast includes Gabrielle Burton, Robert Pemberton, Katrina Stevens, Tim Bohn and Ursula Burton.

    Directed by:

  • Maria Burton
  • rating:2.2 2.2 Average Rating

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    The Departure
    rating:2.2

    The Departure

    1991Runtime:0 minutes
    A young girl of German ancestry (Halina Winiarska) who's spent most of her life living in Poland's Mazurian Lake District does her best to talk her homesick mother (Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska) out of returning to their native land. All the while, their connections to the birthplace of Hitler create tension in their small community. Henryk Bista, Maria Ciunelis, Krzysztof Janczar and Grazyna Jedras co-star.

    Directed by:

  • Magdalena Lazarkiewicz
  • rating:2.2 2.2 Average Rating

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    Solitude
    rating:2.2

    Solitude

    2005Runtime:0 minutes
    A woman finds herself caught in the middle of a twisted sibling rivalry in this indie drama from directors Pi Ware and Susan Kraker. Artist Soledad (Ronne Orenna) gets more than she bargained for when she and her partner, Hilary (Mary Thornton), make a pit stop at the home of Hilary's brother, Louis (Patrick Belton), during a road trip. Hilary and Louis soon start bickering and end up in an all-out war as they stir memories of their sordid past.

    Directed by:

  • Susan Kraker
  • rating:2.2 2.2 Average Rating

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    The Future of Emily
    rating:2.2

    The Future of Emily

    1985Runtime:0 minutes
    When popular movie star Isabelle (Brigitte Fossey) returns home to visit her parents and daughter, family secrets and accusations emerge. The night is made even more complex when Friedrich (Hermann Treusch), Isabelle's love-struck co-star, arrives. Writer-director Helma Sanders-Brahms crafts a poignant, often painful look at the relationship between three generations of strong women in this German production.

    Directed by:

  • Helma Sanders-Brahms
  • rating:2.2 2.2 Average Rating

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    Secret Shorts
    rating:2.2

    Secret Shorts

    2005Runtime:0 minutes
    This collection of eight well-crafted shorts from indie filmmakers in America, Britain and Australia features Oscar nominee Melissa Leo as a troubled woman who has a fateful meeting with a mysterious hitchhiker in "No Shoulder." Leo also appears in "Dear Lemon Lima," a tale about love and broken hearts. Other titles in the anthology include "Birth," in which a lab worker is confronted with a clone, and "La même nuit," about an observant concierge.

    Directed by:

  • Suzi Yoonessi
  • Kiran Shah
  • Chaitan Kit Shah
  • Helen Watkins
  • Jonathan Newman
  • Brian Lien
  • Gracie Otto
  • rating:2.2 2.2 Average Rating

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    Tokyo Cowboy
    rating:2.2

    Tokyo Cowboy

    1994Runtime:0 minutes
    Obsessed with living in the kind of Wild West depicted in his favorite movies, wannabe cowboy No Ogawa (Hiromoto Ida) quits his dead-end job in Tokyo and heads to Canada to meet his childhood pen pal, Kate (Christianne Hirt). Unfortunately for No, Kate has no intention of being his cowgirl, and soon, the endearing "Tokyo Cowboy" is forced to find his way alone on the dusty prairies of the Great White North.

    Directed by:

  • Kathy Garneau
  • rating:2.2 2.2 Average Rating

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    Lime Salted Love
    rating:2.2

    Lime Salted Love

    2006Runtime:0 minutes
    After engaging in an affair with his brother's lonely wife, Isabella (Kate del Castillo), affection-hungry hipster Chase (Joe Hall) becomes entangled in a confusing love triangle with emotionally damaged Ellie (Danielle Agnello) and sexually aggressive Zephyr (Kristanna Loken). Set in Los Angeles, this surreal drama employs an intriguing nonlinear structure and explores such themes as abandonment, guilt and pain.

    Directed by:

  • Danielle Agnello
  • rating:2.2 2.2 Average Rating

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    Tarantella
    rating:2.2

    Tarantella

    1995Runtime:0 minutes
    Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino plays photographer Diane Di Sorella in this poignant homecoming story. When her mother dies suddenly, Diane must return to her New Jersey home after years of being estranged from her family. Among her Italian-American neighbors, Diane connects with her heritage. When she reads the journal her mother (Maryann Urbano) kept as a young woman, Diane finally begins to understand her own relationship with her mother.heritage.

    Directed by:

  • Helen De Michiel
  • rating:2.2 2.2 Average Rating

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    Whatever It Takes
    rating:2.2

    Whatever It Takes

    2008Runtime:0 minutes
    Desperate to trade their painful lives for a fresh start in America, two Russian women (Lika Levskaya and Elena Carnicki) leave everything behind but find that there are still problems waiting for them in their adopted country. Each starts out by trying to navigate her strange and unfamiliar world alone, but ultimately, they find strength in each other. Levskaya and Carnicki also write and direct this drama, which contains graphic sexual content.

    Directed by:

  • Lika Levskaya
  • Elena Carnicki
  • rating:2.2 2.2 Average Rating

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    The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye
    rating:2.2

    The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye

    1990Runtime:0 minutes
    The endearing, provocative wit of filmmaker Cheryl Dunye is on full display in this collection of early works that preceded her breakout first feature, Watermelon Woman. The short films featured here -- the lesbian dating odyssey "Greetings from America," "The Potluck and the Passion," "An Untitled Portrait," "Vanilla Sex," "She Don't Fade" and "Janine" -- uniquely blend narrative and documentary techniques with entertaining results.

    Directed by:

  • Cheryl Dunye
  • rating:2.2 2.2 Average Rating

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    Scrubbers
    rating:2.2

    Scrubbers

    1983Runtime:0 minutes
    Two girls escape a detention center: Annetta wants to visit her baby daughter, and Carol wants to be recaptured and sent to the prison where her girlfriend is an inmate. But things don't quite work out as planned.

    Directed by:

  • Mai Zetterling
  • rating:2.2 2.2 Average Rating

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    Come Along with Me
    rating:2.2

    Come Along with Me

    1982Runtime:0 minutes
    When her husband dies, Mabel Lederer (Estelle Parsons) sells all her possessions, changes her name and begins a brand-new life in a distant town, where she begins strange experiments with the occult. Oscar winner Paul Newman provides the voice of Mabel's late husband, Hughie, in this made-for-television drama based on Shirley Jackson's unfinished novel and marking the directorial debut of Newman's wife, Oscar winner Joanne Woodward.

    Directed by:

  • Joanne Woodward
  • rating:2.2 2.2 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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