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When her father dies, Kay Wilkinson can't cry. Over ten years, Alzheimer's had steadily eroded this erudite man into a paranoid lunatic. Surely one's own father passing should never come as such a relief. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes...
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Everyone's looking for the perfect match, a life-long partner, and Lewis and Lindsay Thorpe have found theirs, thanks to hi-tech matchmaker Eden Inc. But when the happy couple's life together ends in what looks like a double suicide, Eden Inc. has some explaining to do. So they hire forensic psychologist Christopher Lash to figure out what went wrong. And then another perfect match ends in death ...
3) Amour fou
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Film Movement volume 13, film 9
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Forever under-appreciated and melancholy, Heinrich is a young poet in Romantic Era Berlin who determines his best way out of despair is to end it all, and he sets about finding a woman to join him in his predetermined departure. Recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, the well-off but unremarkable Henrietta, fascinated by Heinrich's controversial "The Marquise of O," finds his offer intriguing, if a bit strange.
4) Sid & Nancy
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"A riveting biopic of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his unforgettable junkie girlfriend -- two social misfits who literally love each other to death. Their love affair is one of pure devotion. Sid has fallen hard for groupie Nancy Spungen, who seduces him with her affection, and addiction, to heroin. Their inseparable bond, to each other and their drugs, eventually corrodes the band, sending Sid and Nancy down a dark road of despair. Out of...
5) Hara kiri
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When August suggests a suicide pact to his lover Beto, the skater soul mates emerge to defiantly ride through one final Los Angeles day punctuated by moments of lyricism, chaos, and contention. On their final night, August and Beto will discover an unpredictable environment and a unique cast of characters as they skate toward a certain end. As dawn rises on their final morning, the only question remaining will be, who ends it first?
7) Arde amor
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Una pareja se quita la vida producto de un pacto de muerte. Su amigo Ranxel los acompaña en sus últimos días sin poder evitar el trágico final. Tiempo después Luis y Modia, antiguos amantes de la pareja muerta, se encuentran y buscan una explicación a la misteriosa muerte de sus ex parejas, lo que los conducirá por un camino inquietante e inesperado, donde Ranxel será una pieza clave.
Lucio and Rosa kill themselves in a double suicide pact....
8) The cliff
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A budding friendship between two misfits unravels in the wake of school violence. Schoolyard outcasts Charlie and Astrid meet up after school near a cliff at the edge of the woods surrounding their sleepy town. They make a blood pact to jump together in five days time, before their thirteenth birthdays. Not that navigating the unspoken pecking order of the school quad makes it easy. Can the intensity of their bond survive the scrutiny of their peers,...
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"A sus dieciséis años, Aysel tiene una sola obsesión: suicidarse. No sabe cuál es la mejor manera, pero es lo que desea. Su vida no ha sido fácil y lo único en lo que parece ser buena es estudiando física, y por lo mismo quiere convertir su energía potencial en nada. El problema es que no está segura de poder reunir el valor necesario para acabar con su vida. Navegando en Internet, Aysel da con un foro de suicidas en potencia y conoce a un...
10) Dream deceivers
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Two young men shoot themselves in a churchyard. Ray Belknap dies; James Vance, severely disfigured, survives. Their parents take heavy-metal icons Judas Priest to court, claiming the band 'mesmerized' their sons. The unprecedented trial is the framework for this one-of-a-kind, Emmy-nominated documentary.
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"To many, Europe has been the pinnacle of world sophistication and culture. Yet beneath the power, the glamor, and the splendor there has also been scandal, mystery and skullduggery. Kings & Queens of Europe: A Dark History peels away the glory and the glitz to take a wry look at what has really gone on in the corridors, bedrooms and dungeons of European power from the fourteenth century up to the present day." -- publisher.