An omnibus film pairing six up-and-coming actresses with six first-time directors. It captures six women fighting to get by on the streets of Tokyo, each seen through a different lens: a girl weighed down by family troubles, a professional hitwoman who falls in love, a female college student awaiting her HIV test results, and a sex worker who once dreamed of becoming an actress.
Rated 6.5 on TMDB
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.
Rated 7.0 on TMDB
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Rated 6.8 on TMDB
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.
Rated 7.1 on TMDB
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Rated 7.2 on TMDB
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
Rated 6.4 on TMDB
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.
