

A Haitian asylum seeker flees an immigration camp, unknowingly approaching a house owned by a paranoid blue-collar worker.

Jessy
Neli
Young Guard

A Haitian asylum seeker flees an immigration camp, unknowingly approaching a house owned by a paranoid blue-collar worker.
2024-02-13
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5.9An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.
6.8Sophie Deraspe’s adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy of the same name reimagines the story of a woman’s quest for justice as a commentary on the immigrant experience in contemporary Montreal.
7.2A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
6.5A successful photographer gives up everything to devote himself to writing and discovers poverty.
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7.0A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
6.7A series of events unfold like a chain reaction, all stemming from a minor event that brings the film's five characters together. Set in Paris, France, Anne is an actress whose boyfriend Georges photographs the war in Kosovo. Georges' brother, Jean, is looking for the entry code to Georges' apartment. These characters' lives interconnect with a Romanian immigrant and a deaf teacher.
6.8Pari, a 14-year-old girl, dreams of becoming a pilot while growing up in a society that doesn’t allow her to dream.
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6.1Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.
7.0The story of a middle-aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street.
6.1The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
6.3Two brothers develop a sexual attraction to one another amid the unkind world around them.
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10.0A seemingly innocent voicemail message left on a man’s answer machine by his ex, soon turns on its head when we learn of his dark past in their relationship. We quickly learn that our protagonist may not be as innocent as he seems, through the heart-wrenching monologue delivered to him via the tiny machine in his home.
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0.0After constant neglect, an anxious wife fears her husband has something to hide.
0.0A young man is forced to eat constantly because of a strange condition that causes deformations on his body.
0.0Quentin Shaw, a quirky 11 year old boy still suffering after the death of his mother 3 years earlier and struggling with his racial identity, finds himself not knowing where he fits.
0.0Edwin was in a dilemma after his daughter ran away from home because she didn't get his blessing for her love affair. This condition makes him trapped in the collections of bizarre dreams and experiences about his daughter.
5.0A man and a woman have an awkward encounter at an indoor playground.
While taking his routine beachside jog, Haitian immigrant Marcel Lambert gets a call from his mother about the death of her lifelong friend, Simone. Marcel is taken aback by the news. Unbeknownst to his mother, Marcel has kept a secret from her about Simone, which he confides in his therapist.