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    Je Vous Trouve Tres Beau

    Ayme Pigrenet is a hard-working farmer who hires a marriage agency to help him find a wife. The...

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    This Is My Life (1992)

    A New Jersey divorcee (Julie Kavner) moves to Manhattan with her daughters (Samantha Mathis, Gaby...

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    Caddie

    The "Caddie" in this Australian thriller is not of the golfing variety, but is instead the nicknamed...

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    Margarita Happy Hour (2002)

    A woman (Holly Ramos) out of drug rehab reunites with a friend (Eleanor Hutchins) who lives with a...

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    Female Trouble (1975)

    An obese woman (Divine) gives birth to an obnoxious child and embarks upon a bizarre and violent...

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    Nobody Knows (2005)

    A woman abandons her four children (Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura) in a tiny apartment,...

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    And Baby Makes Two (1999)

    The story of two women and the support group that anchors them. Debbie is a forty-three year old...

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    A Cool Dry Place (1999)

    Abandoned by his wife (Monica Potter), a big-city lawyer (Vince Vaughn) loses his job and moves with...

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    Fairytale - A True Story (1997)

    A British girl (Florence Hoath) and her cousin (Elizabeth Earl) attract media attention with their...

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    Gas Food Lodging (1992)

    Slice of life about a single mother and her two teenage daughters living in a trailer park on the...

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    Skeletons in the Closet (2001)

    A father whose wife died in a fire, suspects his son of murder.

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    The Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)

    The niece (Marisa Tomei) of a divorced man (Alan Arkin) helps raise his adolescent daughter (Natasha...

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    Jack and Sarah (1996)

    A high-strung British yuppie (Richard E. Grant) whose wife died in childbirth hires a bubbly...

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    The Entity (1983)

    Supposedly based partially on a true story, a woman is tormented and sexually molested by an...

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    Confidences pour confidences

    The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three...

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    Secrets

    Secrets was produced in 1982 for the British TV anthology series First Love. Anna Campbell-Jones...

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    La Chaise Vide

    The life of an unwed mother, who must work and raise her child alone, is closely examined in this...

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    Flugel und Felleln (1986)

    Isabelle is a movie star in German cinema, and after she wraps a successful film in Berlin, she...

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    Women

    A long-suffering wife plots--with the help of her lady friends--a scheme of vengeance on her...

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    Kamilla (1983)

    Kamilla was originally released in Sweden in 1981, then made the specialty-house rounds in the US...

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    Made (1975)

    In this drama, a young woman must cope with the stresses of single-parenthood and of dealing with a...

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    The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

    A bitter widow (Joanne Woodward) raises two odd daughters: loud Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and shy...

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    Embriok

    Pregnancy behind the Iron Curtain is the subject of this serious drama. The story centers around an...

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    Kobieta samotna

    A woman lives in abject poverty in contemporary Poland.

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    Lola

    A single, marginally employed mother struggles to get by on the inhospitable streets of Mexico City.

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    Shadows in a Battle

    A former terrorist, now a veterinarian, leads a quiet life in the countryside with her young...

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    The Snapper (1993)

    The daughter (Tina Kellegher) of an Irish clansman (Colm Meaney) announces her pregnancy but refuses...

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    Because Why (1994)

    Alex and his share of twentysomething romantic entanglements.

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    Halfmoon (1996)

    The damp sultriness of the Amazon and the dry heat of the Sahara, a honeymoon full of empty passion,...

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    Streetlife (1996)

    Jo, a single mother, is a real life force. Despite living with her abusive father and supporting her...