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overview : Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to …

overview : Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the …

overview : Three generations of women survive the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition and even death by means of goodness, lies and …

overview : The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out …

overview : An array of outrageous people, including a desperate nymphomaniac and a terrorist with an acute sense of smell, seek love …

overview : After her drug pusher boyfriend overdoses on heroin, a cabaret singer finds refuge from the authorities in a convent for …

overview : A henpecked housewife ekes out a meager existence, surrounded by a host of colorful characters: her ungrateful husband, her delinquent …

overview : After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to …

overview : When American author Nicholas brings in a cosmetologist named Kika to prepare the corpse of his recently deceased son, she …

overview : It all begins at a party in Santiago, Chile, when a seemingly innocent gesture -- the offer of a ride …

overview : When you read the title ‘Summer on the Balcony’ you probably think it will be a light Berlin summer comedy …

overview : With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper …

overview : Master painter Hans Moll and his wife, the television announcer Ms. Wellinek and her husband, and the German-Russian Jew Yevgenia …

overview : The League of Gentlemen bring their dark but brilliant humour to the stage in this "alternative" pantomime... they're behind you!

overview : One day, Carmen Müller realizes that her husband Werner has been unemployed for months and has accumulated debts of 80,000 …

overview : Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted …

overview : After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing …

overview : Matias meets Violeta, his cousin one morning in Madrid at the Plaza de Opera. He is twenty-five. She is 18. …