Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New York schoolteacher experiences a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies, and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Sleepless Fashion
A Perfect Ending
Sublet
Milagros
Monkeys in Winter
One Hundredth of a Second
Jackie
Lolo
Freak Orlando
Our Homeland
Stolen Meeting
I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced
Reparation
Parama
Finding a Family
Crazy in Love
Bare Essentials
Tig Notaro: Happy to Be Here
Bizarre
Wedding Bell Blues
SIMILAR MOVIES
Sleepless Fashion
IMDB 3.6 | Oct , 2011
A Devil Wears Prada comedy and Meryl Streep’s role played by Chinese actor Alan Tam, best-selling 80s pop singer from Hong Kong. Zhou Xiaohui is a rising star in journalism that won professional recognition from Alex and joined Ming Shang Magazine three years ago. However, Alex gradually begins to feel exposed to threats from Zhou Xiaohui so Alex plans to set him up and get him fired. Zhou Xiaohui is so angry that he leaves Ming Shang with Assistant Editor Yinghong and Xiaopang and starts his own fashion magazine called Modern Magazine, which is financed by his best friend Wuyang.A Perfect Ending
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 2012
This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.Sublet
IMDB 7 | Sep , 1992
Laura is a young woman from Madrid who lives in the most degraded area of New York. There he lives a series of anecdotes that make up his day-to-day life in the United StatesMilagros
IMDB 3 | Apr , 1997
Milagros is a prostitute who becomes the maid of a family of four men. With them, she finds the family she never had. With her, each man finds the salvation he needs. Together, they begin to tear each other apart.Monkeys in Winter
IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 2006
Dona, Lukrecie and Tana - three women of different origins and destinies, whose stories unfold at different times. The tale of the Romany woman Dona begins in the 1960s. The only assets this beautiful and vital woman has are her three children fathered by different men. In order to secure a livelihood for them, she moves in with an older, but disabled man, who turns out to be a pervert. Ten years later, the ambitious Lukrecie is trying to avoid employment in the village. After she becomes pregnant by a prospective suitor, she meets an attractive young man who offers her a life abroad, something she had always dreamed of. Lukrecie resolves her situation in the most appalling way. Tana, the wife of a prosperous businessman, vainly longs to have a child. On the advice of a friend, she goes off to a spa, whose miraculous reputation is attributable to a skillful masseur. Her husband, however, is unmoved by the joyful news.One Hundredth of a Second
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 2006
Kate is a talented photojournalist. She risks her life to deliver powerful images to the waiting world until a photograph of a Girl changes her life forever.Jackie
IMDB 6.6 | May , 2012
Two Dutch twin sisters travel to the United States, looking for their long-lost mother.Lolo
IMDB 5.3 | Sep , 2015
On holiday in the south of France, chic Parisian sophisticate Violette meets life-loving IT geek Jean-René. Against all odds, there’s a real chemistry between them and at the end of the summer, Jean-René wastes no time in joining his beloved in Paris. But there’s trouble in paradise, and a third party swiftly appears to shatter the couple’s idyll: Lolo, Violette’s ultra-possessive 19-year-old son, who is determined to get rid of his mother’s lover, whatever it takes…Freak Orlando
IMDB 5.4 | Nov , 1981
Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout.Our Homeland
IMDB 6 | Jul , 2012
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to North Korea, a country that promised them affluence, justice, and an end to discrimination. KAZOKU NO KUNI tells the story of one of their number, who returns for just a short period. For the first time in 25 years, Sonho is reunited with his family in Tokyo after being allowed to undergo an operation there. Sonho’s younger sister Rie is at the centre of the film, and is not hard to recognise as the director’s alter-ego. In her documentaries DEAR PYONGYANG and SONA, THE OTHER MYSELF, Yang Yonghi told the story of her own life, and how, at age six, she experienced the departure of her three older brothers, who left their family for Pyongyang.Stolen Meeting
IMDB 4.1 | Jun , 1989
A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.I Am Nojoom, Age 10 and Divorced
IMDB 7 | Dec , 2014
Ten-year-old Nojoom was forced to marry a 30-year-old man. The dowry offered the family a small income and 'one less mouth to feed'. Nojoom discovers that her life will take a turn for the worse. Her husband is indifferent to her age. Every day after she is wedded, the child works under harsh conditions and every night, the child-bride is raped by a man 20 years older than her. A legitimate and acceptable arrangement for all, except for Nojoom.Reparation
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2022
Two semi-studious students living in 'Korea-Town' are interrupted & intrigued by the actions of a girl in a nearby building, witnessed via CCTV, whilst each trying to come to terms with important subjects in their university projects [one Korean related: the Sewol ferry tragedy, and one British: the Grenfell tower incident], as well as their own life challenges in this claustrophobic tragicomedy of alienation, helping hands & secretive students. Is all really what it seems?Parama
IMDB 8 | Oct , 1985
The journey of a woman from a mere homemaker to a woman seeking her self identity. This search for self identity is sparked off by a young bohemian photographer, with whom she falls in love while he photographs her for a magazine doing her daily chores.Finding a Family
IMDB 6.5 | Oct , 2011
Bright Alex grows up in Michigan proud of his mother, Romanian immigrant Ileana, who became a professor, vowing to make her dream come true by graduating from Harvard. But when mother becomes manic-depressive and repeatedly dumps her medication, Alex each time lands in foster care. At age 16, he gets legal emancipation and vows to take charge of their lives himselfCrazy in Love
IMDB 4.6 | Aug , 1992
Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men with whom they have no end of problems.Bare Essentials
IMDB 3.9 | Jan , 1991
A couple leaves for a vacation on a tropical island and finds happiness and love... just not with each-other.Tig Notaro: Happy to Be Here
IMDB 6.3 | May , 2018
Comedian Tig Notaro unleashes her inner prankster in a playful stand-up special packed with funny anecdotes, parenting confessions and more.Bizarre
IMDB 4.9 | Jan , 1987
A wife escapes her pressure-filled marriage only to have her husband haunt her literally and figuratively.Wedding Bell Blues
IMDB 4.4 | Oct , 1996
Micki, Tanya and Jasmine have 24 hours to get divorced. There's just one problem...They're still single. When Jasmine, Tanya and Micki decide they'd rather be divorced than unmarried, they take off to Las Vegas in search of the perfect ex.