My Big Fat Fabulous Life is a reality TV show that chronicles the life of Whitney Thore, a plus-size dancer who embraces body positivity while navigating the challenges of relationships, career, and self-acceptance.
Emma, aspiring writer, delves into the world of sex workers by becoming one herself at La Maison. She confronts the dangers, loneliness, and challenges of forming intimate connections.
This Baltimore-set movie follows the lives of Gigi, Janine, and Beth as they navigate the complexities of relationships and misreadings. Gigi overanalyzes men's signs of interest and seeks advice from her colleagues. Janine is paranoid about her husband's behavior and discovers a potential affair. Beth wants to get married but faces resistance from her long-term boyfriend. As their stories unfold, they learn valuable lessons about love, communication, and finding oneself.
An elderly couple, Shukishi and Tomi Hirayama, travel from their small seaside town of Onomichi to Tokyo to visit their adult children. However, their children are too busy with their own lives and responsibilities to spend time with them. Feeling neglected and invisible, the couple quietly return home, realizing the growing generation gap and the changing dynamics of family relationships.
To escape the police, a father and his son are forced to find refuge in a summer camp for young adults with mental disabilities, taking on the role of an educator and a boarder. The beginning of troubles and a wonderful human experience that will change them forever.
In this coming-of-age comedy drama, a 13-year-old girl experiences the challenges and triumphs of adolescence while dealing with friendship, first love, and complicated family dynamics. Set in 1980s France, she goes through puberty, deals with parental conflicts, and explores her own identity in a changing world.
After losing his wife in a car accident, a widower in Belgium finds himself struggling with loneliness and grief. He embarks on a journey of self-discovery and encounters various challenges, including navigating the world of modern dating, dealing with his job as an airline employee, and coming to terms with the death of his mother. Through it all, he learns to find hope and happiness amidst the complexities of life.
When Lalo is thrown off course by the sudden death of his father, he suppresses his loss with impulsive actions that disrupt his life. While he and his best friend Karla, both in their mid-twenties, queer and Black in Germany, try to shape who they want to become, they are forced to grapple with the limits of their flexibility.
A young man is sentenced to community service and is assigned to work in a retirement home. He must navigate the challenges and joys of interacting with the elderly residents, learning valuable life lessons along the way.
In this documentary by Coline Serreau, known for her feature film Why Not?, a selection of Frenchwomen in characteristically no-win situations discuss what they are experiencing and answer, if only by implication, the question: "What do women want?"
Lauren Thomas is turning 40 and no one is more excited than her. She is married to Andrew, an amazing husband, a true provider and father. Andrew's brother, Franklin, is in a wheelchair due to a military attack. His wife, Mahogany, is currently pregnant with their first child. The two couples, along with three other couples and a few friends, are celebrating Lauren's birthday during the holidays since she is a Christmas baby. However, once the other women grow tired of Lauren bragging about her success, even though she is a stay-at-home wife, attitudes and snide comments take control. Over the course of the evening, things escalate and the entire cast gradually gets involved in the free-for-all until everything hits the proverbial fan.
Sixteen-year-old Diane exists exclusively through her mother's gaze. But this intensely close bond between Diane and her mother, Sophie, is becoming increasingly problematic for the teenager. At high school, she would like to be loved like she is at home and expresses it in an awkward way like when she exchanges a favor for a look, in the toilets. A loudmouth, provocative, and seeking attention, Diane tries to stand apart from her mother and wishes, during a weekend, to live like an adult.
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana is a dark comedy road movie that follows the story of Tatjana, a stoic woman who goes on a journey with her rock band, encountering absurd situations and exploring themes of love, rebellion, and minimalism. With deadpan humor and a focus on quietness and slowness, the film showcases the struggles of the proletariat and the hardships of poverty. Through Tatjana's journey, the movie delves into themes of jealousy, alcoholism, and indifference, all presented with a touch of black humor.
Dr. T is a successful gynecologist in Dallas, Texas, who is admired by his patients and leading a seemingly perfect life. However, his life takes a chaotic turn as his wife, daughter, and numerous other women in his life begin to exhibit bizarre behavior.
Ana and Helen, two divorced women, were close friends as teenagers. Today, amidst the corona virus pandemic and in quarantine, they get in touch after 20 years via internet. Through video conference calls, memories, sensations and emotions reflourishes.
A 15-year-old girl in France navigates the ups and downs of first love, family relationships, and growing up, all while attending a wild party.
Goddess of the Fireflies is a compelling coming-of-age drama that follows a teenage girl as she deals with the aftermath of her parents' divorce and the challenges of navigating relationship problems. As she tries to make sense of her changing world, she finds herself grappling with issues of teenage sexuality, passionate kisses, and the complexities of interpersonal relationships. The movie explores themes of mother-daughter relationships, boy-girl relationships, and the effects of divorce on parent-child relationships. It delves into intense moments of emotional vulnerability and showcases realistic portrayals of conflicts between separated parents. The film boldly includes explicit sexual content, such as unsimulated male masturbation and scenes depicting an erect penis. It also touches on the darker side of relationships, featuring a woman snorting cocaine and showing a husband and wife engaged in a heated fight. Goddess of the Fireflies offers an honest and raw depiction of the complexities of teenage life and the challenges faced by young women in a rapidly changing world.
One of four film sketches on the problems of adolescents facing the adult world in the 1960s. The three other sketches were directed by Michel Brault, Hiroshi Teshigahara, and Gian Vittorio Baldi.
From Rickrolling to viral conspiracy theories, explore how an anonymous website evolved into a hub for real-world chaos in this documentary.