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Life Is Sweet
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
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Out of Life
Patrick Perrault, a photo-journalist covering the war in Beirut in the late 1980s, is himself caught up in the hostilities when one day he is picked up and bundled into a car at gun-point. Blind-folded, he is taken to an unknown location where he discovers that he is being taken hostage by Lebanese guerrillas.
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Lessons on Life
A day in the life of a Quebec magazine writer - his fortieth birthday - from his dream before waking to his last act before sleeping. He looks back over his life, his thoughts, and his loves.
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Life Under Occupation
"Life Under Occupation" looks at the hardships of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the early years of the Intifada in Gaza and disillusioned Israeli soldiers lamenting their military training gone to waste as they spend their days chasing down stone throwing youths. It also features Dr Swee Chai Ang working with injured children in the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza. Dr Swee was an eye witness to the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut, about which she has testified at the Kahan Commission and written in her book From Beirut to Jerusalem, and she went on to found Medical Aid for Palestinians, with which she remains active today. "Life Under Occupation" was aired on BBC1 as an episode of Everyman, a documentary series that ran from 1977 until 2005 and which focused on religious and moral issues. Of related interest is "A Very Stubborn Person," another UK TV documentary that profiles Dr Swee.
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A Sinful Life
A former 'Sonny and Cher' dancer tries to pull her life together when social services threaten to take her daughter away from her.
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Oh, Bloody Life
The Hungarian Oh, Bloody Life reflects on the heavy emotional toll taken by the repressive Stalin regime. Dorotya Udvaros plays a young actress from a high-born family. The government bias against persons of wealth threatens to destroy her career before it begins. As a final blow, she is threatened with deportation. The exasperation inherent in the film's title is only the tip of the iceberg.
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Long Live Life
The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.
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Life and Death
When a married doctor brings home a gay medical student that he's smitten with, his wife goes along and the three try to build a non-traditional relationship. Then society's homophobia intervenes.
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Life of Sin
The film dramatizes the life of Isabel "la Negra" Luberza Oppenheimer. Pablo, a Caribbean peasant, and Isabel, a politician's mistress, open a brothel that becomes internationally famous. Though they gain wealth and power, the one thing that Isabel seeks continues to elude her.
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Elisa, My Life
Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis of her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill and she decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday. Elisa decides to stay with his father when her sister returns to Madrid with her family and she gets closer to Luis, understanding why he left her mother years ago. Later she tells him that Antonio cheated her with her best friend Sophie and their relationship has ended. When Antonio unexpectedly arrives in the house, Elisa takes a decision about her life.
