slice-of-life
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    Martha, Ruth & Edie (1988)

    A trilogy involving three women who meet by accident and form a new outlook on life.

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    Trouble in the Glen (1953)

    A man returns to Scotland from Brazil to claim an inheritance of a huge parcel of land, but his...

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    La Gentilezza del Tocco

    A young man investigates the motives behind the writing of a music review in his newspaper.

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    A Married Couple

    A couple allow cameras into their home to document the domestic crisis they are experiencing.

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    Libido

    Four Australian directors explore different angles of the title topic in this generally downbeat...

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    Autobiography of a Princess

    An Indian princess is exiled in London.

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    The Last of the Knucklemen

    Two-fisted Gerard Kennedy plays "Tarzan," the foreman of a central Australian mine who maintains his...

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    Courtship

    A young woman, determined to make her own personal choices, rebels against tradition.

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    Egg (1989)

    A middle-aged baker considers marriage when his foreign pen pal arrives and falls in love with him.

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    Dansen med Regitze (1991)

    A middle-aged man reflects on his long and happy marriage during preparations for a garden party.

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    The Story of Boys and Girls (1991)

    Two families join together for an elaborate luncheon to celebrate the engagement of a wealthy boy...

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    How U Like Me Now (1992)

    Observational comedy about black middle-class life in Chicago, as seen through the eyes of five...

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    Todos a la carcel

    An enterprising promoter organizes a day of tribute to former political prisoners.

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    Lobster Pot

    The attempt at maintaining the illusion of a good home fails as social circumstances have destroyed...

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    Encore (1996)

    A character study of an intellectual's post-midlife crisis which is hitting him from all sides.

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    Italians

    An ensemble piece taking a microscopic view of human nature via the passengers on a train bound from...

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    Junk Food (1998)

    An urban fairy tale which traces twenty-four hours in the lives of various troubled Toykoites: a...

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    Is That All There Is? (1995)

    Filmed in and around his London flat, the celebrated British filmmaker Lindsay Anderson documents...

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    Spicy Love Soup

    A series of five stories about contemporary urban life in modern-day Beiijing China focusing on the...

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    The Big Game

    Gamblers try to fix a football game by kidnapping a college quarterback.

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    The Hole

    Old timer Pachuco returns to his Mexican pueblo after 30 years in the States to find that everything...

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    Sinners

    Two friends become embroiled in the Miami underworld.

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    The Butterfly Effect (1995)

    A young man (Ashton Kutcher) travels back in time to change the past and alter the current lives of...

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    Bagdad Cafe (1988)

    A large Bavarian woman (Marianne Sagebrecht) enlivens a black woman's (CCH Pounder) gas...

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    Clandestine Stories in Havana

    A collection of four love stories in Havana. Laura, an Argentine, heads to Cuba after a messy...

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    Twist & Shout (1986)

    This Danish film is set in 1963, at the height of Beatlemania. Played out against the standard...

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    El Super

    Filmed in the US but acted in Spanish, El Super is a warmhearted spin on the plight of Cuban exiles...

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    It's Me

    An actress, alone in her apartment, struggles with the decision to accept or decline a new film...

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    Con Mucho Carino

    Pharmacist Don Luis, his family, and his lab employees discuss everything they can think of in this...

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    Charles et Lucie

    Charles is a middle-aged junk dealer, beset by several imagined illnesses. Lucie is his lady friend,...