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Directed by Pedro AlmodóvarOrigin EspagneGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Transgender in film,
Films about disabilities,
LGBT-related films,
Sign-language films,
Films about language and translation,
LGBT-related film,
Cross-dressing in filmActors Victoria Abril,
Féodor Atkine,
Marisa Paredes,
Miguel Bosé,
Anna Lizaran,
Cristina MarcosRating70%
Rebeca, a TV news broadcaster, is at Madrid's airport anxiously awaiting the return of her mother whom she has not seen since she was a child. Her mother, Becky del Páramo, a famous torch song singer, is coming back to Spain after a fifteen-year stay in Mexico. While waiting, Rebeca recalls incidents from her childhood in which her mother let her in the background of her life preoccupied with her career and her romantic life. For fifteen years Rebeca has longed for her mother to come back and for the love and affection of which she had been deprived. Nevertheless, her love is accompanied by a deep resentment., 1h33
Directed by Michael CuestaOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Thriller,
HorrorThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Films about autismActors Josh Lucas,
Lena Headey,
Brian Cox,
Bea Miller,
Dallas Roberts,
Ulrich ThomsenRating54%
In Providence, a husband and his wife die in a botched robbery; we see flickers of his last memories. His heart goes to Terry Bernard, a single father raising a girl with a rare degenerative disease. After the operation, Terry has flashes of memory from the last moments of the dead donor's life. Then, he recognizes one of the donor's killers and follows him into an alley. Within days, Terry becomes an unwilling avenger, with a police detective on his trail. Meanwhile, he begins a romance with his daughter's doctor, his moods complicated by memory flashes, the donor's deepening presence in both Terry's mind and body, and the unexplained bond among the donor's killers. Can this end well?, 1h41
Directed by Mary HarronOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about sexuality,
BDSM in films,
Serial killer films,
Films about psychiatryActors Christian Bale,
Willem Dafoe,
Jared Leto,
Josh Lucas,
Bill Sage,
Samantha MathisRating75%
Patrick Bateman is a wealthy investment banker living in Manhattan in the late 1980s. His life revolves around dining at trendy restaurants while keeping up appearances for his fiancée, Evelyn, and for his circle of wealthy and shallow associates, most of whom he dislikes. Bateman describes the material accoutrements of his lifestyle: his daily morning exercise and beautification routine, his music collection including performers such as Huey Lewis and the News, Phil Collins, and Whitney Houston, his taste for expensive designer clothes, and the lavish couture of his apartment., 2h4
Directed by Sydney Pollack,
Alvin SargentOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Auto racing films,
Films about cancer,
Road moviesActors Al Pacino,
Marthe Keller,
Anny Duperey,
Klaus Maria Brandauer,
Romolo Valli,
Gérard HernandezRating58%
Formula One auto racer Bobby Deerfield is a calculating, control-obsessed loner who has become used to winning the checkered flag on the track. But after he witnesses a fiery crash that kills a teammate and seriously wounds a competitor, Deerfield becomes unsettled by the spectre of death., 1h44
Directed by James CoxOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Films about sexuality,
Films about pornographyActors Val Kilmer,
Kate Bosworth,
Dylan McDermott,
Lisa Kudrow,
Josh Lucas,
Tim Blake NelsonRating64%
The underage girlfriend of John Holmes, Dawn Schiller, is on the streets and picked up by a holy roller after Holmes leaves Schiller in a hotel room. Schiller eventually calls Holmes to come and get her. Holmes arrives at the apartment, and they have sex and snort cocaine in the bathroom. The next morning, while in a motel room, Dawn sees a newscast that states four people were murdered at a rowhouse on Wonderland Avenue, the same one she had earlier been at with Holmes. The story eventually moves on to two city detectives investigating the crime, Sam Nico and Louis Cruz, and their contact with Holmes. Another officer, Billy Ward, intervenes in the investigation., 2h15
Directed by Ron HowardOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
RomanceThemes Films about education,
Medical-themed films,
Films about mathematics,
Psychologie,
Films about psychiatryActors Russell Crowe,
Ed Harris,
Jennifer Connelly,
Paul Bettany,
Christopher Plummer,
Josh LucasRating78%
In 1947, John Nash (Crowe) arrives at Princeton University. He is co-recipient, with Martin Hansen (Lucas), of the prestigious Carnegie Scholarship for mathematics. At a reception, he meets a group of other promising math and science graduate students, Richard Sol (Goldberg), Ainsley (Jason Gray-Stanford), and Bender (Rapp). He also meets his roommate Charles Herman (Bettany), a literature student., 2h9
Directed by Garry MarshallOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about disabilitiesActors Juliette Lewis,
Giovanni Ribisi,
Diane Keaton,
Tom Skerritt,
Poppy Montgomery,
Joe FlaniganRating63%
After receiving a well-earned certification from a sheltered boarding school, Carla Tate (Juliette Lewis), an ambitious and mildly mentally challenged young woman, returns home to her over-protective and slightly snobby mother Elizabeth (Diane Keaton). Elizabeth seems to act as if she is embarrassed about her daughter's disability. During family discussions, Elizabeth adopts an uneasy attitude. Her father Radley (Tom Skerritt) is a dentist and recovering alcoholic. Carla's ambition is to seek more independence from her family by earning a diploma from a trade school. When Carla meets another mentally challenged student, Daniel McMann (Giovanni Ribisi), they become friends and soon fall in love. Envying Danny's freedom, Carla convinces her parents she is capable of living on her own and moves into her own apartment. After a time, Carla and Danny become sexually active together., 1h29
Directed by Jake SchreierOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Crime,
Comic science fictionThemes Medical-themed films,
Comedy science fiction films,
Films set in the future,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Buddy films,
Heist films,
Robot filmsActors Frank Langella,
Susan Sarandon,
Peter Sarsgaard,
James Marsden,
Jeremy Strong,
Liv TylerRating69%
Set in the near future, an aging ex-convict and thief named Frank Weld (Frank Langella) lives alone and is experiencing increasingly serious mental deterioration and dementia. Frank's son Hunter (James Marsden), an attorney with a family of his own, grows tired of making weekly visits to his father's home, but is reluctant to put his father into full-time care, so he purchases a robot companion (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard), which is programmed to provide Frank with therapeutic care, including a fixed daily routine and cognitive enhancing activities like gardening., 1h38
Directed by Max MayerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Films about autismActors Hugh Dancy,
Rose Byrne,
Frankie Faison,
Mark Linn-Baker,
Amy Irving,
Peter GallagherRating70%
Adam Raki (Dancy) is a young man, who has Asperger syndrome, living alone in Manhattan after his father's recent death. He has a friend, Harlan Keyes (Frankie Faison), an old army friend of his father's, who is always there for him. Because of his condition, Adam has difficulty communicating with others and likes to escape into his love of space exploration. His fixation on detail, repetitive behaviors, and mind-blindness cost him his job at a toy manufacturing company and nearly get him arrested after he is mistaken for a pedophile. He does not want to leave the apartment he and his father had been living in, but the loss of his job leaves him with an uncertain future, including the problem of continuing to pay the mortgage. Although he has Asperger syndrome and likes to stick to his own routine, avoiding socializing with others, Adam is lonely and wishes things could be different., 1h37
Directed by Aki KaurismäkiOrigin FinlandeGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
La précarité,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilitiesActors Markku Peltola,
Kati Outinen,
Sakari Kuosmanen,
Anneli Sauli,
Elina Salo,
Outi MäenpääRating75%
The film begins with an unnamed man arriving by train to Helsinki. After falling asleep in Kaisaniemi Park, he is mugged and beaten by hoodlums and is severely injured in the head, losing consciousness. He awakes and wanders back to the train station and collapses in its bathroom. He awakes the second time in a hospital and finds that he has lost his memory. He starts his life from scratch, living in container dwellings, finding clothes with help from the Salvation Army and making friends with the poor.