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A lonely teen's friendship with a free-spirited British neighbor pushes her to break free of the bonds of childhood.

Middle-aged Maggie must find a way to get enough money for her grandson's lifesaving medical treatment and lift the dwindling hopes of her only son Tom and his wife Sarah. Desperation leads the respectable widow to work in a sex club.

A mother attempts to keep her family safe as war rages and a sniper lies in wait outside her home.

The tale of an Occidental merchant whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.

Filmmaker Chantal Akerman documents the life of her mother Natalia Akerman, a Polish immigrant and survivor of Auschwitz.

Drawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, like Alice, a disaffected call girl and Xavier, a shrink with a crumbling domestic situation. With sex more talked about than shown, the film is filled with pointed dialogue and double entendres.

Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?

In Tetouan, at the northern edge of Morocco, three young men decide to rob a jewelry store. The heist goes awry, and their destinies part drastically.

Follows a handful of characters living in Algiers in the wake of a civil war that lasted throughout the 1990s.

Love stories, a beauty parlor,a Moroccan nanny, children to educate and family feasts are what Isa,Alice,Léa and Nina share together because they are united by their Sephardi families and their friendship.

A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.

A prison guard is attracted to a woman at his weekly tango class. They meet again when she visits her husband in the prison where he works and he is drawn into her complicated romantic life. Meanwhile the prisoners are learning the tango.

In Brussels, three friends lead a life of pleasant apathy. They spend their days loafing around in unhurried torpor, bantering between each other and adhering to the theory that the fewer steps one takes, the richer one's interior life.

A homeless hairdresser agrees to to act as a surrogate womb in exchange for enough money to achieve her dream of a salon in a town called Melody.

Alexandre is fifteen and lives alone with his violent father. Beatings and blows are a staple of his daily life and push him to rebel against everything. To escape this relentless pattern, Alex takes refuge in rowing, his favorite sport.

After spending fifteen days in a coma, Eva, an Olympic diving champion, must face the excessive determination of her father, who wants her to resume her training immediately. But something has changed since her accident.

Film offers a new take on the Rwandan genocide, through the first person experience of one woman as the horror descends.

A funeral-speech writer gets a new lease on life when he meets a widow who commissions him to write a piece for her 8-year-old son.

Costa and Camille have an ungainly relationship, awkwardly built on complicit affection.

A cab driver is torn between disgust and contempt towards a small clique of rich, decadent, misanthropic friends and his secret wish to be one of them, when he drives their dying friend to their doorstep one night.

This may be the last journey of Domagali, Amina and Hanne and their Toubou women's caravan in the Sahara. Each fall, armed with daggers, they leave the men behind and cross the desert to sell dates in Agadez to bring back the means to survive in the village for another year. This economic responsibility gives them a special position in their society. Yet, the increasing market pressure endangers their 'business'. How will their social status change?

André Jourdel is a cattle dealer. He has three son with whom he is dealing. When he buys cattle on the market with Hubert, Thierry is the one who will fatten them before Dominique cut them for sale to the slaughter. As long as he can, André will help running the family business but his children do not see the development of the business in the same way.