Films like The Assistant
A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.
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Bastard Out of Carolina
Film · 1996 · also dramaA poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow bot...
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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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Strange Weather
Film · 2016 · also dramaYears after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
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Disclosure
Film · 1994 · also dramaA computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
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Lucky Them
Film · 2013 · also dramaMore interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s edito...
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The Trials of Cate McCall
Film · 2013 · also dramaIn order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfull...
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Heatwave
Film · 2022 · also dramaA woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.
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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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The Poker House
Film · 2008 · also dramaAgnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Film · 2001 · also dramaIn New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of...
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