Drama
In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret – she can't read.
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Dandelions
One for All
Flirtation
1983
The People
Sadistic Yoga
Rock Hudson
Kaum De Heere
Willow and Wind
The Blue Hour
Shanghai Panic
The Attorney
The Hélias Brothers
Via Appia
A Most Violent Year
Get On Up
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
Philips and the Monkey Pen
Autumn Blood
Roommates
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Dandelions
IMDB 3.6 | Oct , 1974
Rick (Rutger Hauer), a disaffected sailor turned hard drinking womanizer, returns home from six months at sea to find his wife (Corrigan), whom he was deeply in love, has unexpectedly left him and is now a junkie whore. Devastated, he tries to ease his pain with booze and cheap thrills. His wife's best friend (Dagmar Lassander) makes a move on him, and when he spurns her (after scewing her first, naturally) she plots her revenge. She does so in an ingenious way, by exploiting a fantasy woman of his, but her plan backfires with tragic consequences.One for All
IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 2020
A substitute teacher takes on a job as a year 6 class teacher in a village he does not know. He has to help a student adjust back into school, although none of his classmates want him there.Flirtation
IMDB 4.9 | Nov , 1934
A naive farmer encounters a beautiful burlesque dancer on the streets of New York and agrees to pose as her husband during her mother's visit.1983
IMDB 7.4 | Jan , 2014
Rameshan, who has great love for cricket, fails to become a cricketer in his life. However, he tries to fulfil his dreams through his son when he realises that the child too has a passion for it.The People
IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 1972
A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secretive and anti-pleasure. Following two children who disappear to play in the woods, she finds that this is actually a community of extraterrestrials with mild paranormal powers who are attempting to repress and deny their heritage for fear of arousing prejudice and hatred in their human neighbors. Based on a series of novels by the late Zenna Henderson.Sadistic Yoga
IMDB 3.4 | Apr , 2007
The female instructor Mariko gives yoga classes at a high-class club in Tokyo. She has a crush on Rika whom she gives private lessons to. When she notices bruises on Rika's body, Mariko learns that the young woman is involved in a highly abusive S&M relationship. On order to gain the affections of her student, Mariko decides to take revenge against the men in Rika's life.Rock Hudson
IMDB 4 | Jan , 1990
Biography of actor Rock Hudson focuses on his struggle with his homosexuality. Based on the book by his ex-wife, Phyllis Gates, and on the court records from the civil suit brought by his former lover, Marc Christian.Kaum De Heere
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2014
Militant bodyguards carry out the assassination of the Indian Prime Minister in 1984.Willow and Wind
IMDB 7.5 | Apr , 2003
A boy breaks a window at his school and sets out to fix it on his own during a storm.The Blue Hour
IMDB 3 | Jan , 1971
THE BLUE HOUR tells the story of Tanya, a young woman with a mysterious past who finds herself trapped in a sexual hell in Los Angeles. Punctuated by striking visuals and avant-garde editing, THE BLUE HOUR is a lost masterpiece of late period sexploitation.Shanghai Panic
IMDB 4.5 | Feb , 2002
A glimpse into the lives of 4 Shanghai teenagers.The Attorney
IMDB 7.8 | Dec , 2013
Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good.The Hélias Brothers
IMDB 4.8 | Feb , 2002
Nico and Raphael, out for some fishing, spot a young woman enjoying the sun and swimming nude, and decide to take from her, instead.Via Appia
IMDB 3.8 | Sep , 1990
Frank, a HIV infected former Lufthansa steward, goes back to Rio from Germany with a film crew to look for Mario, a young man with whom he had a one night stand. Before Mario departed the morning after, he left a message scrawled in soap on the bathroom mirror: 'Welcome to the AIDS club'. Frank and his director hire a fast talking hustler named José (Guilherme di Padua) to help them to find Mario who seems alway to have just left whenever they arrive. Via Appia is the nickname of a Rio district where male prostitutes hang out...A Most Violent Year
IMDB 6.6 | Dec , 2014
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.Get On Up
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 2014
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
IMDB 6.3 | Apr , 1989
The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.Philips and the Monkey Pen
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 2013
The film revolves around an eight-year old called Ryan Philip and his adventures with a magical pen called the Monkey Pen.Autumn Blood
IMDB 4.9 | Sep , 2013
Two young orphans in the Tirolian Mountains come under siege by a vicious band of hunters. Frightened of being separated by child services following the death of their mother, a self-sufficient 16-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother - who hasn't spoken a word since seeing his father killed by the mayor - strive to live off the land in peace. Their innocence is shattered, however, when a group of hunters led by the mayor's son brutalizes and rapes the free-spirited girl. Later, when a well-meaning social services worker arrives too late to protect the terrorized siblings, the girl and her brother prepare to take a stand against their ruthless attackers.Roommates
IMDB 4.1 | May , 1994
The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become friends.