Jack and Jill's Manifesto of Rules to Live By Rule 1 Be honest Rule 2 Believe in fairy tales Rule 3 Accept time as our friend Rule 4 Make sure the nooky is good Rule 5 Promote beauty. Wage a sustained campaign against ugliness Rule 6 Abandon the pursuit of happiness and its false promise Rule 7 Show compassion, except to pirates Rule 8 Less TV Rule 9 Always be willing to admit when you're wrong
Ellie and Abbie (and Ellie's Dead Aunt) (2020)
School captain Ellie is seriously crushing on her rebellious classmate Abbie. Determined to ask her first love to the year 12 formal, Ellie devises a plan to go public with the invitation but before she can go through with it, her dead aunt Tara reappears from beyond the grave. Believing she's been brought back from the dead to be Ellie's fairy godmother, Tara dishes out unwanted dating advice based on her life as an out lesbian in the '80s.
The Man with the Suitcase (1983)
A sensitivity to sounds coming from the activities of an unwelcome guest in the close quarters of an apartment is only one important component in this atmospheric, avant-garde drollery by Chantal Akerman. When the apartment owner comes home, her guest is settled in and at first, the slightly reclusive host decides simply to eat her breakfast in her room instead of having to face morning conversation with her guest. Sounds of the toilet flushing, the bath water running and splashing, footsteps pacing, and furniture moving invade the hostess' refuge in her bedroom like the frontrunners of an all-out offensive. She locks herself up for 28 days, life's detritus accumulating around her, just so she does not have to go out to face the nemesis that lurks beyond her door.
Greetings from Africa (1996)
Cheryl, playing herself, humorously experiences the mysteries of lesbian dating in the '90s.
Murder Behind The Curtain (2011)
The 90-year-old mystery writer Lydia Walliser is suffering from writer’s block. Although she presents herself to the public as witty and cosmopolitan, her family bears the brunt of her more abhorrent traits. For Nick, her grandson whom she grudgingly accommodates for the weekend, it means: no mobile phone, no TV, no noise. Nick fears that these might be the worst days of his life. But then he notices strange things happening at the house next door and may have even witnessed a murder. When he and his grandmother begin to investigate, they embark on the adventure of the lives.
Zero Charisma (2013)
An obsessive fantasy nerd gradually becomes unhinged when a charismatic hipster joins his role-playing game.
Careful How You Go (2018)
A darkly comic psychological horror, which visits three women as they indulge their taste for recreational cruelty.
Sind denn alle netten Männer schwul (2001)
After Mala caught her boyfriend cheating and kicked him out, she's fed up with men.
Nobody Loves Me (1994)
Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.
Love After Love (1992)
Lola is an independent woman, a professional writer with 2 men on a string. Both men are married with children. When the men, and Lola, face having to make choices, Lola's comfortable life becomes less appealing.
Tooth and Nail (2018)
A dysfunctional family reunites after the son, Matt, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Matt and his sister Kate make a pact. He agrees to give her his sperm for future use with a partner if she agrees to come out to the family that night.
Pink Trailer (2017)
Best friends, Lucy and Julie, agree to house sit Lucy’s grandma’s mobile home while she’s vacationing on a psychic-themed cruise. Their peaceful summer is interrupted by a mysterious albeit persistent neighbor. Lucy and Julie agree to avoid this stranger by never leaving the house, until Lucy runs out of her antidepressant, and the girls are finally forced to face him.
Alive and Kicking (1996)
A passionately committed young dancer is forced to re-examine his career and life when faced with death, finding hope through an older man who becomes his lover, mentor and companion.
Just a Little Heart Attack (2011)
A short film about a supermom who takes care of everyone except herself.
Grow Up, Tony Phillips (2013)
A comedy about a Halloween-obsessed high school senior who doesn’t think childhood passions should have an expiration date.
Girl Gets Girl (2015)
Inès is living the American dream in Miami. She's in a relationship with Becky and is a successful illustrator for a major publishing house. However, her happiness is shattered when she is caught cheating on her girlfriend. She decides to return to her loved ones in Spain.
Maudie (2016)
Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
Love in a Fallen City (1984)
Taking place in 1941, Love in a Fallen City centers on Pai, a young woman who has been ostracized by her family for divorcing her rich husband. A local match-maker, Mrs. Hsu, takes pity on Pai and decides to bring her to Hong Kong, under the guise of employing her as the Hsu's nanny, but in reality to introduce her to Fan. Pai and Fan seem to hit it off, but Fan's refusal to marry Pai soon sours things. However, as the Japanese begin to invade Hong Kong, the two begin to realize their true feelings for each other.