A successful Australian writer discovers he has cancer and returns home to Melbourne to be with his estranged wife and daughter.
Casts John Waters, Penelope Stewart, Nicki Paull, Kim Gyngell, Ross Thompson, Jacinta Stapleton, Kevin Miles, William Ten Eyck, Helen McDonald, Andrew McFarlane
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Synthesize Me
A Monster Calls
Argentina 1985
Kikka!
Requiem for a Maiden
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
Rock of Ages
Texasville
Johnny
The Miracle of the Cards
God, You’re Such a Prick
A Little Red Flower
Finding Home
Your Name Engraved Herein
No Man of God
shit fit
Barbara
Intergirl
City of Blood
Madrid, 1987
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Synthesize Me
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2025
In April 1989, in a liminal town near Mexico City, young teenager Violeta finds a way to bring her mother's synthesizers back to life with disastrous consequences for her and her father.A Monster Calls
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2018
The Old Vic in association with Bristol Old Vic, Jonathan Church Productions & Global Creatures’ present their Olivier Award-winning production, A Monster Calls. Thirteen-year-old Conor and his mum have managed just fine since his dad moved to America. But now his mum’s very sick and she’s not getting any better. His grandmother won’t stop interfering and the kids at school won’t look him in the eye. Then, one night, at seven minutes past midnight, Conor is woken by something at his window. A monster has come walking. It’s come to tell Conor tales from when it walked before. And when it’s finished, Conor must tell his own story and face his deepest fears. On publication, A Monster Calls became a bestseller with children and adults alike with its dazzling insight into love, loss and healing. It garnered huge critical acclaim, including an unprecedented double win of the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for outstanding children’s literature and illustration.Argentina 1985
IMDB 7.8 | Sep , 2022
In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.Kikka!
IMDB 6.2 | Oct , 2022
Cosmetics saleswoman Kirsi Viilonen dreams of a career as a star artist. When Kirsi meets DJ and radio journalist Paula, she decides to give in completely to her dream of becoming a singer. Despite the scorn of the male-dominated music world, Paula recognizes the star in Kirsi and together they get her a recording contract. Kikka's career takes off when her nipple is accidentally flashed on a TV show. Kikka immediately becomes a national celebrity and one of Finland's best-selling female artists.Requiem for a Maiden
IMDB 5.3 | Feb , 1992
A fourteen-year-old girl isplaced in an institution for mentally ill instead of a foster-home due to an official mistake. Here she gets a most cruel treatment which is governed by high-handedness of the spineless and perverse nurses. The girl attempts a desperate escape.Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2000
Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the operating stage. Facing imminent death, he questions the beliefs he has held all his life and starts experimenting with both his own life and those of others.Rock of Ages
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 2012
A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams.Texasville
IMDB 6 | Sep , 1990
Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares for its centennial. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in trouble, and he tom-cats around with the wives of friends. Jacy's back in town, after a mildly successful acting career, life in Italy, and the death of her son. Folks assume Duane and Jacy will resume their high school romance. And Sonny is "tired in his mind," causing worries for his safety. Can these friends find equilibrium in middle age?Johnny
IMDB 7 | Aug , 2010
When Dr. Drew Carter tragically loses his ten-year old son in a car accident, he didn’t expect to lose his whole family as well. Since the accident, his wife (Julia) has become emotionally absent towards him and their daughter. When Johnny, a terminally ill foster child with leukemia, is referred to Drew he sees a chance to heal his family. With Julia against the idea, Drew takes matters into his own hands and adopts Johnny. Johnny doesn’t know what he is in for, but believes he is here for a special mission.The Miracle of the Cards
IMDB 6.8 | Jun , 2001
"The Miracle of the Cards" is based on the true story of Marion Shergold and her son, Craig, an eight-year-old English boy who had a brain tumor. Several events convinced Marion that God was leading her to a cure for Craig and that the get-well cards he was receiving had the power to keep him alive, so she launched a worldwide campaign to break the Guinness record for receiving the most get-well cards. At the time, the world record seemed an impossible 1,000,265, but Craig received over 350 million cards from all over the world. Against the advice of her doctors, Marion followed one of those cards to America for Craig's miraculous cure.God, You’re Such a Prick
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 2020
16-year old Steffi just graduated from high school and is very much looking forward to her class trip to Paris where she has promised her boyfriend Fabian the romantic night that she has kept him waiting for so long. Her lifelong plan to join the police forces is already set up, her adult life is right around the corner. At a routine health check-up, just before the trip to Paris, Steffi and her parents are faced with a shattering diagnosis ...A Little Red Flower
IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 2020
The film tells a warm and realistic story, thinking and facing the ultimate problem that every ordinary person will face-imagining that death may come at any time, the only thing we have to do is love and cherish.Finding Home
IMDB 10 | Mar , 2013
Noah had the perfect life – nice car, great job, and a beautiful fiancé. Then, he learns she is cheating at the same time he learns his father is clinging to life in hospice care with cancer. Now hopelessly lost, he befriends a homeless man named Walter and decides to help him restart his life in northern Michigan and loose himself in the trip. Noah hopes that along the way, he will also find himself again. In a world where society is moving incredibly fast, two new friends go on the journey of their lives.Your Name Engraved Herein
IMDB 7.8 | Sep , 2020
In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.No Man of God
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 2021
The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.shit fit
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2025
Izzy, a fourteen-year-old outcast, loses touch with the world around her and discovers the DC Hardcore Punk scene in the early 1980s.Barbara
IMDB 7.2 | Mar , 2012
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.Intergirl
IMDB 6.5 | Jan , 1989
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl" — a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.City of Blood
IMDB 3.6 | Jan , 1987
A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life.Madrid, 1987
IMDB 6.4 | Apr , 2012
In 1987 Madrid, the unexpected encounter between a seasoned journalist and a young student leads to a profound exploration of love, desire, politics, power, and discovery of each other.