Dreams and Desires: Family Ties

When a housewife's girlfriends take her to a male strip club for her birthday, she brings back more than memories.

Girls Night Out

1988

4.9

Body Beautiful

7.7

1991

A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest.

Body Beautiful

1991

7.7

Affairs of the Art

6.1

2021

Look out: Beryl's back. With Affairs of the Art, British animator Joanna Quinn recounts another gloriously unhinged chapter in the adventures of Beryl, the comic everywoman she unleashed upon the world with her debut film, Girls' Night Out, which took home three major awards from Annecy in 1987.

Affairs of the Art

2021

6.1

More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.

Lucky Them

2013

6.0

Iron Jawed Angels

6.8

2004

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Iron Jawed Angels

2004

6.8

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

7.0

2013

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

2013

7.0

The Safety of Objects

6.5

2002

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

The Safety of Objects

2002

6.5

To Be Takei

7.2

Over seven decades, actor and activist George Takei journeyed from a World War II internment camp to the helm of the Starship Enterprise, and then to the daily news feeds of five million Facebook fans. Join George and his husband, Brad, on a wacky and profound trek for life, liberty, and love.

To Be Takei

2014

7.2

Sky

6.2

2016

A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.

Sky

2016

6.2

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013

6.4

My Brilliant Career

6.2

1979

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.

My Brilliant Career

1979

6.2

Love & Sex

6.1

2000

When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.

Love & Sex

2000

6.1

Hounddog

2008

A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

Hounddog

2008

6.4

Petals on the Wind

6.5

This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.

Petals on the Wind

2014

6.5

Heart of a Dog

6.5

2015

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.

Heart of a Dog

2015

6.5

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Bambi Meets Godzilla

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6.4

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7.6

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