Films like Prayers for the Stolen
Ana and her two best friends, Maria and Paula, navigate life in their oppressive countryside village. Whilst their families struggle in the poppy fields harvesting opium, the girls try to grow alongside the creeping terror of their cartel oppressors.
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El Chicano
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Lorelei
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Bastard Out of Carolina
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Gracie
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Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
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Noise
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The Safety of Objects
Film · 2002 · also dramaIn a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son...
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True Colors
Film · 1991 · also dramaTwo law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.
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Home Run
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A Dry White Season
Film · 1989 · also dramaDuring the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police cu...
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