Comedy Drama Movies of 2002
The creative team behind Being John Malkovich -- director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman -- return with this equally offbeat comedy, in which Kaufman himself becomes the leading character. Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas ...
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Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of ...
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Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The ...
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Jack Nicholson plays retiring insurance actuary Warren Schmidt in Alexander Payne's About Schmidt. Schmidt has settled into a dormant life. He has an unfulfilling marriage to Helen (June Squibb), and conspires to ...
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Sadomasochism provides the backdrop for a very unusual employer/employee relationship in this very offbeat romantic drama from filmmaker Steven Shainberg. Lee Holloway ...
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Adam Sandler and Emily Watson star in Punch-Drunk Love, an odd romantic comedy from gifted young director ...
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For some folks, the 1960s never really ended, and one woman still cheerfully stuck in the Summer of Love discovers her one-time best friend has left that decade as far behind as humanly possible in this comedy. In the ...
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In this broadly satirical TV biopic, Shirley MacLaine pulls out all the stops as legendary cosmetics ...
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A shared affliction -- namely, breast cancer -- forges an unlikely friendship between two Southern women, ebullient young Amber Collins (Lauren Holly) and ...
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The cynical son of an upper-class New York family bedeviled by booze, pills and mental illness strikes out on his own in this caustic, darkly comic drama. Igby Slocomb (Kieran Culkin) and his older brother, Oliver (Ryan Phillippe), are are ...
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Revenge, obsession, and the morally ambiguous ...
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London's most frequently eligible bachelor gets some ...
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Described as a modern-day Hollywood version of Day for Night, director Steven Soderbergh's first digital video production was also shot ...
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Actress Salma Hayek makes her directorial debut with this heartwarming ...
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Writer/director Dylan Kidd got a chance to make his script for Roger Dodger into a feature film when he boldly approached Campbell Scott in a café in ...
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This two-hour TV movie served as a reunion for the cast of L.A. Law, a popular ...
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An egotistical TV reporter learns to appreciate the good things in life thanks to an eccentric, homeless clairvoyant in this old-fashioned romantic comedy from director Stephen Herek (Mr. ...
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Director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White, who had ...
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There are people who like to watch a ball game every once in a while, and then there are baseball fans, individuals of rare dedication whose passion for their favorite team defies ...
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New England native Vanessa Parise makes her directorial debut with the Italian-American wedding movie Kiss the Bride. Danni Sposato (Amanda Detmer) embarks on her wedding plans aided by her mother, Irena (Talia Shire), and grandmother Julia ...
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Pete (Adi Stein) is an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-'70s. Pete attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, ...
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They say the heart goes where it will, and six people find theirs following a very complicated road map with a seventh creating ...
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A gentle man suddenly finds himself at a loss for what to do when he suspects his wife has been unfaithful in this comedy drama from director Alan Rudolph. David and Dana Hurst (Campbell Scott and Hope Davis) are a married couple with three ...
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After chronicling various chapters of Irish history in such films as In the Name of the Father and The Field, writer/director Jim Sheridan turns his lens upon his own ...
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Various lives intersect to curious results in this sometimes surreal tale of life in Silverlake, from the duo who scripted crazy/beautiful and The Tuxedo. As Chinese-food restaurant and donut shop ...
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The second season of HBO's critically acclaimed series Six Feet Under finds the Fisher family struggling to keep Fisher & Sons, their funeral home, from being bought up by ...
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The sophomore outing for Mark Illsley, the writer and director of 1999's Happy Texas, Bookies is a return to the crime comedy genre of the filmmaker's first project. Starring Nick Stahl, Lukas Haas, and Johnny Galecki as ...
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Despite living in what she considers to be a less than perfect environment to raise the perfect family, pregnant ...
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Shane Meadows directed this film, which is the third and final chapter in his ...
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Heather Morgan (who also scripted the film) portrays a dog-walker who has decided to stop talking and begins to act like the animals she tends to. The film is concerned mostly with her husband Peter (Lee Tergesen) ...
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Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel about the sexual, emotional, and chemical interactions of a group of wealthy and amoral college students is brought to ...
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David Anspaugh's mix of female bonding and mob drama, Wisegirls concerns a trio of waitresses. Meg (Oscar winner Mira Sorvino), wise-talking Raychel (Mariah Carey), and wannabe dancer Kate (Paul Thomas Anderson regular Melora ...
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An independent-minded young woman discovers the joys of football, much to her family's chagrin, in this upbeat British comedy drama. Jess ...
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The director of such off-beat independent films as In the Soup, director Alexandre ...
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A girl puts her ability to keep a confidence to work, though she soon learns it's a tougher job than she imagined in this comedy drama for young people. Emily (Evan Rachel Wood) is a 14-year-old girl who loves music and is studying the ...
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Two men from two different walks of life develop an ...
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A man eager to learn Spanish gets an education he wasn't expecting in this comedy drama. Xavier (Romain Duris) ...
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Award-winning actor Tony Shalhoub adds the "director" hyphenate to his calling card with this labor of love, starring his wife, Brooke Adams, and written by his sister-in-law, Lynne Adams. Made-Up lightly ...
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Multimillion-selling recording artist Britney Spears makes the transition to the big screen with this teen road trip romantic comedy, co-produced by the film branch of the entity that first brought her pop stardom, MTV. Crossroads casts Spears ...
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Catherine Breillat's Sex is Comedy concerns a female film director, Jeanne ...
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Frank Van Passel's adaptation of William Elsschot's novella Villa des Roses stars Julie Delpy. Delpy is a French maid who works at a home for the poor and unfortunate. She becomes pregnant, and is forced to risk a dangerous abortion. The ...
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Two men look for a wife -- just one will do, thank you -- in this offbeat comedy. Jake (Tim Blake Nelson) and Josh (David Arquette) are two brothers who live and work in a vegetable farm somewhere in the Midwest, ...
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Drumline brings the world of "show-style" marching bands (popular at traditionally black, Southern colleges) to the big screen ...
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Based on a real-life 1994 scandal involving college basketball point-shaving, Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie stars David Krumholtz as the title character. Though a mere freshman on the ...
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Damien O'Donnell's Heartlands stars Michael Sheen as a man on a mission. Colin (Sheen) is a ...
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Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig, the writer and director of the 12th
Dogme ...
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As season three of Gilmore Girls gets under way, it seems apparent that single mom Lorelai Gilmore ...
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This digital-video biopic uses the life of journalist, record mogul and club owner Tony Wilson to frame the story of the Manchester, England, music scene from the heyday of punk ...
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In this independent drama, Ana (America Ferrera) is a bright and ambitious 18-year-old Latina who has just ...
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Three men discover that meddling in their sister-in-law's love life only makes their own lives more complicated in this romantic comedy. Eva Dandridge ...
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Eric Christian Olsen and Jeremy Sumpter star as brothers Randy and Skeet Dobson in this coming-of-age surfer movie from ...
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Venerable Argentinian filmmaker Alejandro Agresti turns his lens to his own childhood in this nostalgic coming-of-age tale. Set in the director's hometown of Buenos Aires circa 1964, Valentin centers ...
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He Loves Me ... He Loves Me Not is a black comedy with a dramatic twist. Talented art student Angélique (Audrey Tautou) is wildly in love with Loïc (Samuel Le Bihan of Brotherhood of the Wolf), a married ...
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Directed by Metin Huseyin, Anita & Me follows the development of a cross-cultural friendship between 12-year-old Indian ...
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A boy in the deep South learns the joys and sorrows of first love in this comedy-drama based on the short story by Truman Capote. Billy Bob Murphy (Joe Pichler) is a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in a small ...
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A dedicated young German boy pulls off an elaborate scheme to keep his mother in good health in this comedy drama from director ...
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Fanda (Vlastimil Brodský of Larks on a String), an elderly former actor, can't resist playing practical jokes on everyone around him. As Autumn Spring ...
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One of France's most respected filmmakers, Claude Berri here brings viewers the story of Jacques (Jean-Pierre Bacri) a middle-aged sound engineer whose wife has just ...
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Stretching from the 1970s to the 1990s, The Trip chronicles the often turbulent romance between two gay men. One night ...
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Five strangers from various parts of the Iberian Peninsula experience an outbreak of seemingly unrelated ...
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Based on Lorenzo F. Aristarian's novel Rebirth and directed by Adolfo Aristarian, Common Places is a family ...
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Greg Pak directs Robot Stories, a feature film made up of four separate vignettes set in the near future. In "My Robot Baby," Maria (Tamlyn Tomita) and Roy (James Saito) must take care of a robot baby before they ...
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A rare original movie offering from the UPN network, What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away focuses on three high school girls: aspiring singer Temple (Keshia Knight ...
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Five Filipino-American friends living in New York City deal with love, sex, friendship, ...
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Kevin Smith co-produced this bizarre (and sometimes very dark) comedy from his high school friend and ...
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Vincent (Jacques Bidou, producer of Raoul Peck's Lumumba and several other films, making his acting debut) lives in a little French town, filled with eccentrics, and he follows the same routine, day in and day out. ...
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An attractive widow just edging into middle age begins to explore a new side of her personality once she's on her own in this drama from Tunisia. After the death of her husband, Lilia ...
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A group of longtime friends gathers on the football field to work out some of life's frustrations in this male-bonding comedy-drama, one of the ...
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Ebrahim Hatamikia's Ertefa-e Past (Low Altitude) is about a man who takes a desperate action. Ghassem (Hamid Farrokhnezhad) is flying ...
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Hamid Jebeli wrote, directed, and starred in the drama White Dream. Jebeli plays a ...
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Ernesto (Sergio Castellitto of Va Savoir) is a successful artist and devout atheist who finds out that his mother, whom he despised, is being considered for sainthood. Ernesto's young son, Leonardo ...
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French filmmaker Michel Ferry directs the digital video feature Aller-Simple Pour Manhattan (Petty Crimes). Mike (Jérémie Covillault) is a reformed criminal from France making a new life for himself as ...
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Aki Kaurismaki's The Man Without a Past opens with the ...
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Director Elia Suleiman uses a mixture of romantic comedy and quirky humor to shed light on the problems of Palestinians in Yadon Ilaheyya (Divine ...
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In a sleepy small town there are two vibrant comic books stores that are rival universes unto themselves. Events spiral absurdly, violently out of control when the owners of the two shops -- ...
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Waiting for Happiness depicts life in the seaside ...
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Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi directed this wartime drama leavened with comedy, which at once examines ...
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Juan Carlos Cremata's comic look at how the Cuban government affects its ...
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Dai Sijie directs Balzac et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise (The ...
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Taiwanese filmmaker Yee Chih-yen follows up his debut Lonely Hearts Club with the romantic drama Lanse Da Men (Blue ...
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As Finland's withdrawal from World War II draws ever closer, a tentative relationship between an abandoned Finnish soldier, a Lapp woman, and a Russian captain accused of anti-Soviet correspondence offers momentary solace to a trio of lost ...
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Written and directed by independent filmmaker Everett Lewis, Luster is a low-budget romantic comedy. Would-be poet Jackson (Justin Herwick) is tired of orgies and ...
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Agust Gudmundsson's Mavahlatur (The Seagull's Laughter) is a comedy/drama about a woman who comes to an Icelandic town. Freja (Margret Vilhjalmsdottir) arrives in the town claiming that her husband has passed away. She moves in with some ...
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Director Jorge Ali Triana attacks political corruption and historical accuracy in entertainment in his satirical 2002 film Bolivar Is Me. Actor Santiago Miranda (Robinson ...
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A young, naive clerk at a lingerie store learns about love and her own identity in Diego Lerman's 2002 film ...
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The writing and directing debut of brothers Kelly and Tyler Requa, The Flats is a coming-of-age comedy drama set in the rural Northwest by Puget Sound. In the last days of summer, ...
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Middle-aged Durval (Ary Franca) runs an unhip record shop that specializes in ...
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A man's potential rap career is at odds with his wife's ticking biological clock in this 2002 film from director Paul Wynne. Aaron Spears stars as Michael, a young married man struggling with the idea of becoming a father when fame comes ...
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Three people travel from their small home town into the outside world in ...
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Renato Falcão's feature debut, Margarette's Feast, is a silent film that recalls the early days of cinema. Pedro (Hique Gomez) is a lower-class factory worker who is ...
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Victor (Victor Rasuk), a horny teenager living on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has an afternoon rendezvous with a girl known as "Fat Donna" (Donna Maldonado). When his sister, Vicki (Krystal Rodriguez), finds out about it, ...
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Australian filmmaker Tony Ayres makes his feature-film debut with ...
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Harlem Shake stars Lorraine Fields and Frances Morgan as a pair of competitive ...
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Hamro (Maruf Pulodzoda) is a thug--an irresponsible lowlife ex-con who seems ...
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Emmy-winner Tony Shalhoub stars in this premiere episode of the critically-acclaimed comedy-mystery series Monk. Afflicted with obsessive compulsive disorder, ...
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A well-to-do Spanish attorney finds himself in hot water after falling for a shady Bulgarian man in the 2002 comedy-drama, Los novios bulgaros (Bulgarian Lovers). Middle-aged Madrid native Daniel (Fernando ...
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Adam Miauczynski (Marek Kondrat) is a middle-aged literature professor, divorced, with a teenage son. Writer/director Marek Koterski's dark comedy Day of ...
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Directed by Sean Meredith, In Smog and Thunder is a mockumenary chronicling the events surrounding a recent fictional civil war between two groups of ...
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Failing out of her major and recently fired from her part time job, Yo-Won has literally nothing to do. Meanwhile, Min-sun is berated by ...
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Jerome Bonnell's Le Chignon d'Olga looks at the lives of a French family after the death of their beloved mother. Her son Julien (Hubert Benhamdine) deals with the grief in part by ...
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When the uncle of a precocious five-year-old hatches a ...
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Director Douglas Underdahl makes his feature film debut with his 2003 comedy drama Film School ...
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In the contemporary Tunisian thriller Bedwin Hacker, a female media pirate - holed up in a remote outpost in the mountains of Tunisia - figures out a way to take over the television and radio airwaves in France ...
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Two ten-year-old boys from the inner city decide that nobody needs a vacation quite as much as they ...
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A boy trying to do the right thing for his family loses his closest companion and decides to do something about it in this comedy-drama for the ...
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A woman is caught in the middle of an emotional crossfire between two siblings in this independent drama. ...
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A handful of young people deal with their personal and emotional tribulations in this teen-centric romantic comedy from Argentina. Laura (Karina Dali) is a woman who has unwittingly stolen the heart of ...
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Season One of the delightfully debauched British series Footballers' Wives begans as Ian ...
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A closeted Swiss professor's closely guarded sexuality threatens to become front page news when he is appointed guardian to a recalcitrant ...
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The highest-grossing Korean comedy of all time comes home in writer/director Je-Gyun Yun's raunchy and hysterical tribute to the '80s American teen comedies of yesteryear. A rowdy combination of Farrelly ...
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Carlos Jaurequialzo's Spanish language drama Tres Pajaros follows a business executive who sets off for a tiny mining village in order to fix a complication ...
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