Themes
Women, Identity and Reinvention
5 films
Character-driven films about women's inner lives, relationships, independence, desire, family, and personal transformation.
Stories about women, friendship, love, independence, identity, family, and reinvention across very different generations and cultures.
The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
Three generations of women deal with family secrets while surviving the east wind, fire, insanity, superstition, lies and even death.
Popular monarch Queen Christina of Sweden must choose between love and loyalty to her nation when she unexpectedly falls for a Spanish envoy.
A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer.
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