Films like Consent
In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary, and psychic, there's more beyond her individual story. She questions the excesses of an era,...
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May December
Film · 2023 · also dramaTwenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about...
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Curiosa
Film · 2019 · also drama and historyA passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier.
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Auto Focus
Film · 2002 · also dramaA successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who...
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Speak
Film · 2004 · also dramaFreshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and...
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Oranges and Sunshine
Film · 2010 · also drama and historyThe story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of child...
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Blonde
Film · 2022 · also dramaFrom her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe...
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Fat Girl
Film · 2001 · also dramaAnaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly be...
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Film · 2004 · also dramaYoung Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his m...
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Sister My Sister
Film · 1994 · also dramaA true story of shocking violence catapults a picturesque little town into history. The close sibling relationship between the two maids takes on a new dimension as their...
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The Crush
Film · 1993 · also dramaA precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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