Comedy, Drama
Shirley is a woman who wants to be in control of everything. Working as a librarian in a public school, a firm "Sshhh!" from her makes the students tremble in fear. But in her family, her unwarranted intervention in the lives of her children and their families keeps her emotionally detached from them. Realizing that she has lost the command she once had, she goes to New York to reunite with Mark , her estranged gay son who is now suffering from colon cancer. But Shirley doesn't know this and living with Mark in New York comes with a cost. She has to live with her son's lover Noel who is an illegal immigrant. Everything is going right until circumstances forces Shirley to go back to the Philippines. Now that she's back with her family, she realizes that something is wrong she is not happy.
MOVIE COMMENTS
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Dark Horse
Mumbai Love
The 70s
The Bremen Town Musicians
The Agent
Twisted Roots
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
Apron Strings
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
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Gritt
Lacrimosa
Color Your Hurt
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The Elephant and the Butterfly
IMDB 7 | Nov , 2017
When her babysitter doesn’t show, a single mother is forced to leave her precocious five-year-old daughter with the girl’s estranged father for a long weekend.Liquid Truth
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 2017
Rubens is a carefree, charismatic swimming instructor who finds himself accused of displaying inappropriate affection toward one of his students by the boy's mother. Other parents and colleagues are only too eager to condemn him.You Will Be Fine
IMDB 5.7 | Aug , 2017
Give it time. You'll get over it. Jean celebrates his birthday, gets drunk and recalls the dreadful weekend that led to his break-up with Mathilde.Humanap Ka Ng Panget
IMDB 7 | Mar , 1991
Three boys from the slums of Manila find their luck has changed when one of them learns he's the heir of a rich man.Dark Horse
IMDB 5.4 | Apr , 2015
The larger than life true story of how a barmaid in a poor Welsh mining village convinces some of her fellow residents to pool their resources to compete in the "sport of kings" with a racehorse they would breed and raise.Mumbai Love
IMDB 6 | Jan , 2014
An Indian raised in the Philippines falls in love with a Filipina on business in Mumbai. She leaves unexpectedly, and he travels back to the Philippines to find her.The 70s
IMDB 5.5 | Dec , 2002
Amanda and Julian are doing their best to rear their five sons during the repressive dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Though the parents view themselves as apolitical, most of their sons bristle at life under martial law and turn to various forms of activism -- or to simple teenage rebellion -- for release. After the family becomes the victim of extremist violence, Amanda begins to find her own dissident voice.The Bremen Town Musicians
IMDB 7 | Oct , 1969
The adventures of the wandering musicians from Bremen such as Troubadour, Donkey, Dog, Cat and Rooster. In one of the towns Troubadour falls in love with a Princess and makes up a plan how to get the King's confidence.The Agent
IMDB 5.5 | Sep , 2009
It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch, but first there is an author to deal with whose latest book the agent thinks is, frankly, not up to scratch. However he hadn't counted on the author's resourcefulness.Twisted Roots
IMDB 6 | Oct , 2009
In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
IMDB 4.5 | Jul , 2009
Two mortal enemies must band together to defend the ranch they've both staked their claim on.Apron Strings
IMDB 6 | Jul , 2008
Celebrity Chef Anita hasn't seen her family for twenty years. That is until her son Michael decides to do some soul searching and track down his aunt.Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 1998
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.The Way Home
IMDB 8 | Apr , 2002
This is the story of a 7-year-old boy, Sang-woo, born and raised in the big city, and his mute grandmother, who has spent her whole life in a small rural village.Gritt
IMDB 5.9 | Mar , 2021
The troubled artist Gritt is struggling for relevance and belonging in an unwelcoming society, but then she undergoes a radicalization process in the name of art.Lacrimosa
IMDB 8 | Feb , 2017
A young woman finds her lost lover in a world of ever-changing surreal landscapes. But love, she discovers, is more complicated than she imagines.Color Your Hurt
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2025
A young gay man grows up in the Bible Belt.The Ladies
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2023
In the middle of two disappointing nights out, Kate and Lucy find themselves in the ladies. They begin as strangers but the mystical powers of this nightclub bathroom brings them closer together.New Generation Heroes
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2017
A story of four individuals that tackles the world of teaching in all its forms.La Belle apparence
IMDB 5 | Mar , 1979