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Plot Summary:
This film is about domestic violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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Grace is a homeless teenager. She befriends an unemployed carpenter and he invites her to share his flat. She moves in and to her surprise a delicate relationship develops. He helps her repair her shattered self-esteem and she begins to feel loved and secure. But then she discovers his secret - he tells her he is Jesus Christ.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cybill Shephard stars as Vicky, a woman married to a rich old man, who has one foot in the grave. Gregory Harrison plays Mike Riordon a district attorney, who is young, handsome and living at home with his Irish mom for the most. Vicky's husband Arthur gets Mike involved in a merger of two companies...or something like that even though he knows that Mike and Vicky were a couple and that she had dumped him. Whilst Mike and Vicky are attending a party, Arthur is alone at home when a burglar appears out of nowhere and shoots him point blank.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 124
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Film by Erwin Michelberger.
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Genere: Drama
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, mysterious
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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Drama
Country: Philippines
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 247
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Duration: 101 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 134
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 581
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Drama
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IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Drama
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 136
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
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Plot tags: independent film
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 328
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 26
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 97
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 78
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Country: Philippines
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IMDB Votes: 41
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Country: Philippines
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 66
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IMDB Votes: 51
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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