The American Beauty
"Miss Steadman, the most beautiful woman in the world—will charm you"
The infant daughter of a wealthy couple is thought to be lost at sea, but she survives and is raised by a poor family.
"Miss Steadman, the most beautiful woman in the world—will charm you"
The infant daughter of a wealthy couple is thought to be lost at sea, but she survives and is raised by a poor family.
Rated 6.4 on TMDB
Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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 6.7 on TMDB
A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
Rated 6.7 on TMDB
A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
Rated 7.3 on TMDB
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
Rated 7.2 on TMDB
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
