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1464) Afinidades
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Ante el vac̕o y la falta de explicación racional de muchos de los problemas del mundo contempor̀neo, a veces parece que la énica salida de refugiarse en los instintos-- y los instintos nos conducen al sexo. Al menos esta es la salida que encuentran los protagonistas de esta historia como v̕a para conjurar la impotencia y reafirmar sus personalidades laceradas por la soledad. Pero el resultado es ef̕mero y el intento tiene consecuencias imprevisibles.
Two...
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"Benito González es frío, cruel y muy macho. Quiere ser rico, tener mujeres y erigir un rascacielos en su propio honor. para lograr esto, se casa con Marta, la inocente hija de un poderoso banquero, pero al mismo tiempo se queda con su amante Claudia. Cuando Marta y Claudia se dan cuenta de que ambas son víctimas de la desenfrenada ambición de Benito, la situación de éste empieza a desmoronarse. La erección de su rascacielos es un reflejo de...
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The story of Nick Burnham, a young industrialist, and Lianne DeVilliers, the wife of an esteemed French ambassador, who meet by chance at the White House and again on a transatlantic voyage to Europe, where they begin an illicit affair; as war breaks out across Europe and Lianne's husband falls under suspicion as a Nazi collaborator, the pressure on their forbidden romance soon takes its toll, sending them to opposite sides of the globe.
1468) The other side of 30
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Sebrina Cooper has made a life and career out of doing the right thing, but on her 30th birthday, she's unfulfilled and painfully single. She starts an affair with her ex-boyfriend Curtis, now a U.S. Marine Corps Recruiter who is engaged to be married, but accidentally meets his wife Andra-Lyn and forms an unexpected friendship.
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"En Japón, una industria encubierta ha crecido en torno a la wakaresaseya, esto es: los terminadores de relaciones. Se trata de personas contratadas por un cónyuge para seducir al otro y luego obtener una ventaja en los procedimientos de divorcio al poder acusarles de adulterio. Cuando Satō contrata a Kaitarō, un agente de wakaresaseya, para que tenga una aventura con su esposa Rina, no cree que la situación pueda írsele de las manos. Pero lo...
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"In 1963 Sylvia Plath took her own life in her London flat. Her death was the culmination of a brief, brilliant life lived in the shadow of clinical depression--a condition exacerbated by her tempestuous relationship with mercurial poet Ted Hughes. The ensuing years saw Plath rise to martyr status while Hughes was cast as the cause of her suicide, his infidelity at the heart of her demise. For decades, Hughes never bore witness to the truth of their...
1473) Pierrot le fou
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Criterion collection volume 421
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Français
Description
Dissatisfied in marriage and life, Ferdinand takes to the road with the babysitter, his ex-lover Marianne Renoir, and leaves the bourgeois world behind. Yet this is no normal road trip: the tenth feature in six years by Jean-Luc Godard is a stylish mash-up of anti-consumerist satire, au courant politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent tale of a romantic couple. This is a high point of the French New Wave, and was Godard's last frolic...
1474) Boris sans Béatrice
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Français
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It is a morality tale with fairy-tale inflections that focuses on Boris Malinovsky, an affluent, successful businessman who comports himself with an extreme degree of pride and arrogance. When his wife, a Minister of the Canadian Government, is rendered nearly catatonic by a mysterious depression, it triggers a series of events that brings Boris to the point of professional, personal, and even existential crisis.
1475) South mountain
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English
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Lila is an artist who teaches at a community college and has built a modest rural paradise in New York's Catskill Mountains with her husband, Edgar. Soon after their teen daughters head off on summer adventures and her best friend Gigi begins Chemotherapy, Edgar reveals he's started a new family with another woman.
1476) Love letters
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English
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A tale of forbidden love and obsession, a young woman discovers her recently deceased mother's love letters, revealing a secret double life of love and infidelity. Now she finds herself retracing her mother's emotional footsteps as she becomes involved with a married man.
1479) Las amantes de mi marido
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Cuando Lucy se entera de que Artie, su encantador e infiel marido, se está muriendo, regreso a su casa, coge la agenda de teléfonos él ... y decide no pasar por ese trance sola. ... Pero cuando telefonea a las mujeres de la agenda de Artie y las invita a que vayan a verlo para despedirse, lo último que espera es que se presenten."-- Back cover.