Thirsty

O perfeccionista Gil Buckman luta com os problemas de sua família e as deficiências de suas crianças, achando que elas refletem uma educação pobre. Uma de suas irmãs tem dificuldades com sua filha adolescente que fica grávida. A outra briga com o marido quando ela o diz que quer ter mais filhos. Já o irmão imaturo de Gil tem um filho jovem que ele mal consegue controlar.

Numa cidadezinha de interior idílica, vive Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp), um adolescente aparentemente comum que sustenta a família desde a morte do pai. O peso não é para qualquer um: além das irmãs excêntricas e do irmão deficiente mental (Leonardo DiCaprio), inclui a mãe obesa, que não pára de comer desde a morte do marido. Mas a chegada de uma jovem forasteira (Juliette Lewis) dará a Gilbert a possibilidade de, pela primeira vez, fazer suas escolhas.

Chechu is a 13 year old boy who lives surrounded by peculiar people: his grandfather, his uncle, and two maids. He falls in love with one of them.

A disturbing movie about the portuguese underworld of prostitution.

A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone back, the girl finds that she's pregnant--and discovers that her parents don't blame the soldier, but blame her.

In this high definition video essay, Kevin McCauley explores the arguments for and against this vital debate, reviewing the latest newuroscientific research about addiction along the way.Using the spectacular landscape of Utah's State and National Parks to describe the brain areas involved in addiction, Dr. McCauley turns complex neuroscientific concepts into easy-to-understand visual images that will help people in covery feel better understood, and their families and friends feel hope that recovery is possible.

A blind woman and her husband live in a rural home. Regina, their daughter dissapeared, but in reality, Regina is been used as her father's pet. Her father Antonio keeps her in the yard while her mother hopes Regina will call home and wonders why the dog her husband cares so much never barks.

Members of a dysfunctional family settle their differences after a series of misadventures during their summer reunion

Advogado de muito sucesso, Hank Palmer volta à cidade em que cresceu para o velório de sua mãe, que há muito não via. É recebido de forma hostil pela família e resolve ficar um pouco mais quando seu pai, veterano juiz, é apontado pela polícia como responsável pela morte de um homem que condenou há vinte anos. Mesmo não se entendendo com o pai, Hank debruça-se sobre o caso, mas os dois não conseguem conviver amigavelmente e a possibilidade de condenação aumenta a cada revelação.

A tragetória lendária e recordista de Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel), treinador de futebol americano que assumiu o desconhecido time De La Salle High School Spartans e conduziu os rapazes da obscuridade à incrível marca de 151 jogos de invencibilidade.

Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant seaman job to the rocky coasts of his home? Perhaps he couldn't cut manage to march in his father's footsteps in that job. His mother doesn't seem to mind, and lets him stay at her bed and breakfast hotel. His sister still seems to have the hots for him, just as she does for his (and her) old boyfriend Jean-Louis, who has just shown up. Even his mother seems to find him sexy. All these people appear eager to get their hands on his body, but he's too wrapped up in what's going on inside his head to notice.

Former child prodigy James Harries and his family may at first sight seem to be a houseful of geniuses, but although every single member has a Ph.D. in Metaphysics, we soon discover that some were purchased from a fake university in the USA, while the others were awarded to them by themselves. They regard themselves as morally, intellectually, and financially superior to the rest of society, even though the clan (housed in a mock mock-Tudor cottage in the middle of a Cardiff council estate) includes a convicted arsonist, an astral projectionist, a former Bunny Girl, a part-time private detective and a transgender daughter (James is now Lauren), all of whom seem to live their lives in a parallel universe.

Paula Tobias, a Holocaust survivor who has suffered the ultimate personal tragedy of losing her spouse and children during the Nazi occupation of World War II. Now re-married and living in America during the late 1960's with husband David, they build a new life together with sons Ben and Jake. One evening, Paula receives a phone call which assures her that her son, Alec, is actually alive and in New York. This brings up painful memories from the past for everyone involved, including Ben and Jake, who force their father to talk about the Holocaust. Paula rushes to New York only to find that it was a mistake - Alec was never found. She falls into a dramatic depression, as the family confronts their fears and tries to stay together.

Billy is a teenager and enthusiastic photo hobbyist who takes pictures of his mother carrying on with another man, but is too naive to realize his mother is engaging in more than innocent horseplay. When he innocently shows his pictures to Daddy, he unwittingly starts a melee that ends in Daddy's accidental death and Mommy's mental collapse and confinement in a hospital. Enter Aunt Janet, Daddy's sister, to take care of Billy. Supposedly a frigid woman who "can't stand men", Aunt Janet is nevertheless loving and affectionate with young Billy, and when she sees the fatal snapshots, she even takes their relationship to the next level. But can their happy life together survive the return from hospital of a still-disturbed Mommy?

Grace, Daniel and Eamon, their hyperactive son, spoiled by his mother, envied by his father, go on vacation to an Irish coastal town for a few days, without money but plenty of hidden feelings inside them that they are unable to express.

Maria suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Luis, Maria's fifteen-year-old grandson, doesn't say very much either; he shuts himself off in his own silent world to escape his parent's marital crisis, spending time instead picking up stray cats and dogs off the street. His father, Miguel, wants to put a stop to this eccentric behavior, but his protective mother Alice indulges him. Nevertheless, the animals begin to appear at home in increasing numbers, making life complicated for the family in their flat.

A história de Billy Beane, Director-Geral da equipa norte-americana de basebol Oakland Athletics, e da sua bem sucedida tentativa de reunir uma equipa de basebol com um orçamento diminuto, através da utilização da análise computorizada para contratar os jogadores.

Lynn é uma mulher frágil que decide comparecer ao casamento do filho, com quem mantém uma relação muito distante. Esta decisão só serve para expor verdades dolorosas e segredos de família.

A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.

"Whity" é o mordomo mulato da família Nicholson disfuncional no sudoeste americano em 1878. O pai, Ben Nicholson, tem uma atraente jovem esposa Katherine e dois filhos de um casamento anterior; o homossexual Frank e o retardado Davy. Whity tenta cumprir todas as suas ordens, ainda que humilhantes, até que vários membros da família lhe pedem para matar alguns dos outros.