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September 24, 2019

November 22, 2018

Shoplifters (2018) Trailer

Manbiki kazoku

Shoplifters (万引き家族 Manbiki Kazoku, literally Shoplifting Family) is a 2018 Japanese drama film directed, written and edited by Hirokazu Kore-eda.

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A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find on the street.

February 28, 2015

Sunlight Jr. (2013) Trailer

Sunlight Jr.

Sunlight Jr. is a 2013 American drama film directed by Laurie Collyer and starring Matt Dillon and Naomi Watts.

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A Florida couple deals with an unexpected pregnancy while holding minimum wage jobs.

January 25, 2015

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) Trailer

Coal Miner's Daughter

She was married at 13. She had four kids by the time she was 20. She's been hungry and poor. She's been loved and cheated on. She became a singer because it was the only thing she could do. She became a star because it was the only way she could do it.

Coal Miner's Daughter is a 1980 biographical film which tells the story of country music legendary singer Loretta Lynn.

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At only thirteen years of age, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognises his wife's musical talent, and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. This gift sets Loretta Lynn on the gruelling, tumultuous path to country music greatness. Written by Shannon Patrick Sullivan <shannon@mun.ca>

January 15, 2015

Barren Lives (1963)

Vidas Secas

Vidas Secas (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈvi.tas ˈse.kas], meaning "Barren lives") is a 1963 Brazilian drama film directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos, and based on the 1938 novel of the same name by Graciliano Ramos. It tells the story of a poverty-stricken family in the dry Brazilian northeast.

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A poor family in the Northeast of Brazil (Fabiano, the father; Sinhá Vitória, the mother; their 2 children and a dog called Baleia) wander about the barren land searching for a better place to live, with food and work. But the drought and misery destroy their hopes.Written by lukejoplin@infolink.com.br