The Empty Hours is a drama/romance film that explores the friendship between a young man and an older woman. Set in a secluded seaside motel, the story revolves around their relationship and the various moments they spend together. As the rain pours heavily and the laundry hangs from the coconut trees, their bond deepens, providing them with solace and comfort.
In The Road, a father travels through a post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of his missing daughter. Along the way, he faces various dangers and challenges as he navigates a world filled with violence and desperation.
Director André Téchiné brings his usual obsessions -- including a preoccupation with the fortunes of the bourgeoisie -- to this episodic drama, which serves as a thinly-veiled portrait of France's economic peaks and valleys from the 1930s through the 1970s. Jeanne Moreau stars as Berthe Pedret, a simple laundry woman who marries Hector (Michael Auclair), son of a wealthy, upper class, Spanish immigrant family that owns a successful farm machinery factory. Through a series of vignettes, Techine depicts the passage of years, during which the ambitious working class woman blooms through several bold moves, such as negotiating a workers' strike settlement and using her alliance with the war-time French Resistance movement to increase the enterprise's prestige.
During World War I, an American pilot vows to bring down the German ace responsible for his friend's death.
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.
A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a laborer at a day-care center. He finds himself attracted to the owner, a pretty young girl determined to make life better for her charges, and he soon begins to question his own priorities.
Two playboy con-artists preying for rich women, together with their respective stooges, would be engaged in a rivalry and would do anything to eliminate each other.
Bronka, Franka, Amelka and Kwiryna are four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw and going to the same school. They all fight for a better future but what the future brings is usually disappointment, sometimes even tragedy.
Directed by Neal 'Buboy' Tan. With Glydel Mercado, Rita Magdalena, Tonton Gutierrez, Emilio Garcia.
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