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61) Shmutz: A Novel
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English
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In this witty, provocative, and unputdownable debut novel a young Hasidic woman on a quest to get married fears she will never find a groom because of her secret addiction to porn.
Like the other women in her Brooklyn Hasidic community, Raizl expects to find a husband through an arranged marriage. Unlike the other women, Raizl has a secret.
With a hidden computer to help her complete her college degree, she falls down the slippery slope of online...
62) The Marsh Queen
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English
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For readers of Where the Crawdads Sing, this powerful debut novel, set amid the lush landscape of the Florida wetlands, delves into past crimes, old memories, and the eloquent, limitless expanse of parental love.
Loni Mae Murrow's life as a bird artist at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC is tidy, if a trifle constrained - until she's abruptly summoned back home to the wetlands of northern Florida, where she grew up. Her mother, critical and difficult,...
63) Bye Bye Brazil
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Portuguese
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The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike. Television is their enemy as they go from the coast deep into the Amazon. Salomé lets the accordion player sleep with her once, with Dasd's knowledge. He's moon-struck. Then, after Dasd's baby is born and financial disaster hits the troupe, and the accordionist must choose between seeing his wife and leaving the caravan.
65) Babel
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English
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From acclaimed Director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams) comes the third film in his trilogy, Babel, a critically celebrated and emotionally gripping film about the barriers that separate humankind.
66) Finding Faith
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Language
English
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Christian advice columnist Victoria struggles with her faith amid her trials. Her path back to God becomes a journey of rediscovering love.
67) Kadosh
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עברית
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Set in the Mea Sherim quarter of Jerusalem, an enclave of the ultra-Orthodox, Kadosh explores a hermetic world almost never seen on the screen. Here, for ten years, the pious Rivka (Yael Abecassis) has devoted herself to her husband Meir (Yoram Hattab), but their marriage remains childless. Presumed barren, she is rejected by her community, which prizes children above all else. The story that follows relates the harrowing fate of Rivka, and also here...
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English
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In 1967, the dancer Marta Becket and her husband were traveling through Death Valley Junction when they came across an abandoned theater. Marta decided it was hers. She painted her ideal audience on its walls and danced her own dances until her death five decades later.
In the present day, Gia has ended a relationship and taken a leave from her job in film studies at a university. She is sleeping fifteen hours a night and ignoring calls from her...
69) Millennium Mambo
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Mandarin
Description
The beautiful Vicky (Shu Qi) drifts through her empty life in the sprawling metropolis of Taipei, Taiwan, maintaining a pointless relationship with her loser DJ boyfriend, Hao-Hao (Tuan Chun-hao), and an unsatisfying career as a nightclub hostess. As her romance becomes increasingly strained, she decides to take up with Jack (Jack Kao), a caring but criminally connected businessman. But this new relationship can't change Vicky's aimless nature, and...
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Cantonese
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After his father abandons the family, Autumn Moon (Sam Lee) drops out of high school and becomes a money collector for organized criminals the Triads. On his rounds, he meets and falls in love with Ping (Neiky Yim Hui-Chi), a daughter of one of the Triads' debtors. She is suffering from a fatal kidney disease, and to pay for her medical expenses, Autumn Moon takes an assassination contract, but as he slips deeper into the criminal underworld, he's...
71) All Is Forgiven
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Français
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Victor adores his wife Annette and their young daughter Pamela, but his self-loathing and drug use take their toll and the family disintegrates. A decade later, Pamela lives in Paris where Victor still resides, and the two reunite.
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Hindi
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A film based on the mythological story of Lord Parshuram who beheads his mother to obey his father and then fights against injustice and tyranny in the world.
1970 India Hindi-language Drama Film produced by NH Studioz
The film begins with the birth of Parshuram the sixth avatar of Lord Vishnu in the home of a sage and his wife. The child grows up to be a brave and righteous warrior who is devoted to his parents. One day he is asked by his father...
73) Mangni
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Hindi
Description
A couple is engaged to be married but getting to the wedding is harder than expected as social and personal issues torment the peace between the two.
1992 India Hindi-language Family Drama Film
The film follows the lives of Raj and Pooja who are engaged to be married. Raj is a successful businessman who loves Pooja but he also has a secret affair with another woman named Shalini. Pooja is a simple and innocent girl who trusts Raj but she also...
74) Loha
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Hindi
Description
After a bid to arrest Sher Singh fails officer Dayal is crippled and his partner Amar's career is sabotaged. When Amar gets another chance to nab Sher Singh he hires two crooks for the job.
75) Bhrashtachar
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Hindi
Description
Bhrastachar tells the story of a disparate group of characters whose lives overlap- Bhavani a journalist fighting injustice and corruption; Janki a widow who becomes the mistress of local hoodlum Fatte to save her blind daughter; Inspector Ashutosh to whom Bhavani entrusts Janki's safety and who maintains that even the police can take no action against Fatte because politicians need hoodlums to remain in power; Purushottam Fatte's political godfather...
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Hindi
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Mahesh is a honest and diligent young man who has no knowledge of his background as he was raised in an orphanage. One day he meets Reshma who is also an orphan and both fall in love and get married. They live a harmonious life and soon are proud parents of a healthy young boy who they name Lucky who ends up causing them alot of trouble.
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Hindi
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A wealthy man's daughter falls in love with a tour guide in Nainital but when a potential suitor becomes violent the couple must run for their lives and evade their enemies.
1994 India Hindi-language Romance Film produced and directed by Mahrukh Mirzaa starring debutant actors Ravi Sagar and Divya Dutta.
Sapna the daughter of a wealthy father goes out with her friends for an outing to Nainital. There she meets a young tour guide named Suraj....
78) Kamana
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Language
Hindi
Description
Rekha is convinced that life is a continuous struggle. She is horrified to find her step brother a dope addict and her step sister in love with a hippie. She finds in her employer - Rajesh - the only man who does not make indecent proposals to her. Her convictions and his steadfastness help them to make their's and other's life happy
79) Sautela Bhai
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Language
Hindi
Description
Tulsiram is a village teacher who is married to Saraswati and has a step-brother, Rajaram, who lives in Bombay. When Rajaram returns, Tulsiram wants him to marry someone he has chosen but he has already chosen a wife.
80) Tapish
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Hindi
Description
Tapish is the the story of Lajwanti. It raises the question that in this era of modernization how much have we actually advanced and how much of it is fake imitation of the west. Lajwanti, fondly called Lajji is a 20 year old girl from a middle class family from Bikaner. She stays with a top model Namrata. Namrata leads a carefree life and has a live-in-relationship with another top model Vicky.
Lajji agrees to discontinue her studies in order...
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