Comedy, Animation, Drama
The personal story of a woman struggling with an inherited illness, as told by Signe Baumane, the Latvian director-animator living in New York City. With humour and courage, the director sets out on a challenging journey to discover her family’s best-kept secret. Featuring five stories about the courageous women in Signe’s family and their battles with madness, visual metaphors, surreal images and director’s narration.
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Gothix
Tsatsiki
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
Peach
Lost in Yonkers
Sanda
Die Blattlaus
Febrer
The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend
H.
Gemini
Evergreen
Wives - Ten Years After
Wives III
Seitensprung
Around the Pink House
Me and My Moulton
Listen
Oh Lucy!
Hayflower, Quiltshoe and the Rubens Brothers
SIMILAR MOVIES
Gothix
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2023
An innovative and charismatic influencer is suddenly exiled from her community of creative partners and colleagues when she states an opinion that she did not know was “unacceptable” in their eyes.Tsatsiki
IMDB 5.7 | Oct , 1999
Little Tsatsiki, son of a single mother in Sweden, has never met his father, a Greek fisherman. Tsatsiki befriends a nice but straight-laced motorcycle policeman renting one of their rooms and decices he is the right guy for his mother, an amateur rock singer in love with her band's bass player.The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2005
A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies, while dealing with abuse from her alcoholic husband. Based on a true story.Peach
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 1996
Lucy Lawless stars in this short which predated her rise to fame as Xena Princess Warrior. Sal is in a relationship going nowhere with Mog, a layabout who shows her no respect. A chance encounter with an easy-going female truck driver (Lawless) encourages Sal to take more chances in her life, symbolized by the purchase of a tasty but out-of-season peach.Lost in Yonkers
IMDB 6.3 | May , 1993
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.Sanda
IMDB 6.3 | Jan , 1990
Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering to an indifferent husband, leaving little room for herself. A chance encounter with another man may offer her an escape from her daily chores.Die Blattlaus
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1991
Febrer
IMDB 4.2 | Dec , 2004
A metaphorical tale about pain and loss. Sela, a famous writer, committed suicide. Lars, her ex-lover, tries to find out why she did it. In the process, he discovers an unknown world of feelings and sense of guiltiness.The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend
IMDB 6 | Jun , 1974
An owl marries a goose. They have off-spring, but somehow their habits of life are not compatible.H.
IMDB 5.3 | Aug , 2014
Two women, each named Helen, live out their mirrored lives in the town of Troy, NY. The first Helen is in her 60s, is married, and takes care of a small, extremely lifelike baby doll, which she treats as a living baby. The second Helen is in her 30s, has a successful art career and is four months pregnant. One night, something falls from the sky and explodes over the town. In the aftermath of this event, bizarre and unexplainable things begin to happen.Gemini
IMDB 5.6 | Jun , 2005
An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her from seeing what is going on under her roof. When the siblings’ older brother and his fiancee arrive home for their wedding, it seems inevitable that the concealment will be impossible to sustain. But equally it becomes apparent that if Lucia were to find out about the affair, there would be catastrophic consequences.Evergreen
IMDB 3.7 | Jan , 2004
Seduced by a boy's affluent, seemingly idyllic family, a young girl goes to extremes to gain acceptance.Wives - Ten Years After
IMDB 4.4 | Oct , 1985
Ten years have passed since our three heroines' first outing in 1975. Now the women meet at yet another class reunion. Not surprisingly, they are still unwilling to call it a night after the party is over. Husbands and children must celebrate Christmas as best they can, while the women spend quality time drinking and taking stock of their lives.Wives III
IMDB 4.5 | Mar , 1996
This mellow comedy is the third entry in filmmaker Anja Breien's "Wives" series and stars the same three actresses who appeared in the first two. This episodic film begins with flashbacks to the 1975 film Wives and scenes from 1985's Wives: Ten Years Later. Now ten more years have passed and they are comfortably ensconced in middle age. They have gathered to hold a surprise birthday for Kaja aboard an Oslo streetcar. The three haven't seen each other in ages and much of the story focuses on their discussions of their disparate lives. Every word, smile and tear they share affirms the depth of their lasting friendship.Seitensprung
IMDB 5.2 | Sep , 2014
An understanding husband, two cute daughters and a mother who takes care of the household in her very own way: things couldn't be better for marketing specialist Fiona - actually. By chance, the successful manager finds out who her neighbor, the attractive young singer Julia, is eight months pregnant with - her husband Ben! Shocked, Fiona wonders whether she should get a divorce. But then she pulls an amazing plan B out of her hat.Around the Pink House
IMDB 6.5 | Dec , 1999
One of the most popular Lebanese films of the late 1990s, Around the Pink House is a story that explores the changing urban landscape of Beirut after the Civil War. La maison rose (the pink house) is an old mansion in Beirut where the Nawfal family found shelter during the Civil War. Unfortunately for them, their immediate environment is rapidly changing, as many of the old shell-ridden buildings are being torn down and replaced by new construction projects. When Mattar, the owner of the pink house, decides to sell it to make room for a large commercial centre, the residents of the neighbourhood become divided between the shopkeepers and businessmen in favour of a different kind of modernity.Me and My Moulton
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2014
A seven-year-old girl longs for a bicycle so that she can be more like the other kids in her Norwegian town, but her embarrassingly unconventional, modernist architect parents see things differently. Academy Award-winning animator Torill Kove weaves memory and fantasy together in this droll and charming look at the pain of childhood alienation.Listen
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2014
A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.Oh Lucy!
IMDB 8.1 | Sep , 2014
Setsuko, a 55-year-old single 'office lady' in Tokyo, is given a blonde wig and a new identity, 'Lucy,' by her young unconventional English instructor. 'Lucy' awakens desires Setsuko never knew she had. When the instructor suddenly disappears, Setsuko must come to terms with what remains--herself.Hayflower, Quiltshoe and the Rubens Brothers
IMDB 6 | Nov , 2017
When Kattilakoski family goes on a week-long Summer vacation to a rented cottage, the local police constables Bigbelly and Stronglass are joyful. Finally one week of peace! Their joy doubles when they win a rent-free summer cottage for one week. What they don't know is, that these two cottages are next to each other! When the truth comes out, the constables are forced to masquerade themselves to remain incognito. Unfortunately their alter egos, artistic Rubens brothers, become an instant hit for Mother Kattilakoski. Hayflower and Quiltshoe have instant doubts about Rubens; they must be escaped bandits instead. The girls set to prove their theory.