Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which resulted in an illegitimate son he's never seen. Pressed by his unhappy wife to get a higher-paying job, Rath goes to work as a public relations man for television network president Ralph Hopkins. Drawn into poisonous office politics, Tom finds he must choose his career or his family.
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a loud-mouthed yuppie associate, Graham unleashes his rage on an overly aggressive panhandler, who he accidently kills by pushing him into the path of an oncoming subway train. He re-thinks his problems with an entirely new solution. First, he arranges an "accident" for his annoying wife. Then he creates another "mishap" for his boss. It seems like the world is once more Graham's oyster…but a missing cigarette lighter and a prying police detective may change all that.
Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
An old family secret comes to light over a board game between grandmother and granddaughter in this exploration of intergenerational feminism.
A man silently confronts the expectations put upon him when he experiments with makeup for the first time.
Rashad manipulates his kid brother into leaving for school early on the one morning that changes the rest of their lives.
A rite-of-passage story through the eyes of Riza Gupta, a shy, nervous, young Indian woman, whose controlling mother has high hopes for her to be a doctor. However when her hero CXCX ChuChu hosts a rap-off, she plucks up the courage and runs to the battle in her sari.
Mu-kwang volunteers to be a kitchen police of Sa-taek, the divisional commander, dreaming of success. One day, Mu-kwang meets Su-ryeon by chance, who is a young and beautiful wife of the commander. Soon, he feels a strong attraction by her.
Vítor is a hermit who desperately searches for a cow that has disappeared from his small farm. He suspects a neighbor with whom he has had problems. When Ricardo, his 12-year-old grandson arrives at the place, the ghosts of Vítor's childhood begin to appear, which confuses the past with the present. Vitor finally must face this terrible ghost when he was a child.
Unaware of her brother Raghunandan's evil plans, Laxmi ill-treats her stepchildren, causing them to run away. What follows after is a young girl’s transition to a woman battling for survival, her brother’s education, and to reconcile with her long lost family.
Choi Eun-hee’s directorial debut The Girl Raised as a Future Daughter-In-Law is the story of ups and downs of a future daughter-in-law who, due to poverty, married an infant rich groom. A ruined widow’s daughter Jum-soon has no time to rest, as her mother-in-law treats her like a maid, leaving her with all the kitchen chores, house cleaning, grinding grain, and sewing, while the mother-in-law smokes a pipe and nitpicks on her. What allows Jum-soon to endure is her ‘duty as a woman’ taught to her since young and her child husband’s lovable yammering.
Sook-kyung, the youngest tomboy princess, loves playing hide and seek with her same-aged court ladies and is extremely curious about the life outside the palace. An opportunity comes for her on queen mother’s birthday celebration. Princess Sook-kyung gets to explore the outside world with the help of her older sister princesses and falls in love with a Seonggyungwan scholar she meets coincidentally. The variety of character twists in this film which is reminiscent of romantic comedies such as Roman Holiday and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The queen mother with a fancy royal costume but wears glasses because of her poor vision, and the court ladies who protect the princess day and night are usually slow and doze off but have the strength to push against male henchmen. The princes outside the palace walls seem like that of a naïve country girl who eats a rice cake at the marketplace because she thinks it’s free.
Sanya, a ten years old boy is living in a small town in Northern Russia. His father is a professional boxer who left to US so Sanya is desperately learning English hoping that his father will come back one day.
Michelle, a mother and former full-time worker, is tasked with taking care of her mother, Indira, who has begun to develop dementia. Faced with the prospect of having to put her in a home, Michelle struggles to evaluate her priorities.
Daniel Cheng is a young promising neurosurgeon. He is dating Lisa Crown, the heiress of a well-known family. After having a successful greeting dinner with the Crowns, Daniel is unexpectedly forbidden to see Lisa by her disabled grandfather who is a Korean War Veteran. Daniel has to fight for his love, literally and figuratively.
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An app designed to bring its users happiness helps a man build the perfect life, which he ends up destroying when he learns the app is faulty.
Sojin (Park Joo-Hee) lives with her shamen mother in a wooded area outside of a small town. She hates her life in the town and what her mother does. After Sojin's mother dies, there's nothing left for Sojin in the town and she decides to catch the train to Seoul. Due to circumstances out of her control, Sojin misses her train and she flees from a man wanting her to locate his missing son. Meanwhile, she runs into another man (Kwon Yool) making chocolate out of his garage.
The Kowloon Industrial District is home to many of Hong Kong’s artists, including rapper Heyo, YouTuber Alan, rising star Hana, and dancer. However, the government is preparing the area for gentrification. The group from ‘The Way We Dance’ were invited to participate in a publicity stunt to transform the district into a ‘Dance Street’. Alan points out that this is an opportunity to garner support from the public. Meanwhile, Heyo’s master Afuc is planning a revolution.