Gynaecology

Ethilikal (2013)

Actors: Praveena Ganagalatharan (actor), Shahela Rani (actor), Sarath Sellathurai (actor), Sarath Sellathurai (actor), Rmesh Thirugnanam (actor), Remesh Vethanayagam (actor), Katharine Premathash (producer), Kathiran Premathash (writer), Girishh Gopalakrishnan (composer), Kathiran Premathash (director), Surendran Balasubramaniam (editor),

Plot: Based on true events, Ethilikal which loosely translates into The Lost Souls, deals with post-traumatic stress disorders amongst refugees in the UK. The film follows a young couple, Nanthini and Kumaran, who have lost their only child to the brutal ethnic war in Sri Lanka and escaped to the UK as refugees. While trying to build a new life in UK, Nanthini is diagnosed with severe depression. As their struggle continues, the story takes a turn as the couple find out that Nanthini is pregnant and there begins the journey for hope...

Genres: Drama, Family, Short, War,

Cocoon (2007)

Actors: Seppe Baeyens (actor), Yhonny Correa (actor), Johan De Paepe (actor), Joran Van Assche (actor), Gert Winckelmans (actor), Lies Caslo (actress), Elles Grzybek (actress), Agni Papadeli Rossetou (actress), Stefanie Van Impe (actress), Jeroen Bogaert (producer), Jeroen Bogaert (writer), Benjamin Van Esser (composer), Jeroen Bogaert (director), Dieter Diependaele (editor),

Plot: Martha is a passionate dancer. She and her company are at the verge of international success. A coming tour will make her ambitions come true. However, she is 7 weeks pregnant and keeps this delicate matter secret from her colleagues and boyfriend. This places Martha for a big dilemma. Will she keep her unborn child? Give up her career? The pressure mounts when her boyfriend starts to suspect a pregnancy and when Viktor - her choreographer - draws his own conclusions. It is time for Martha to make a decision.

Keywords: abortion, career, dance, secret
Genres: Drama, Short,

Penetration Angst (2003)

Actors: Matthew Brint (actor), Oliver Burton (actor), Wolfgang Büld (actor), Jon Campling (actor), Nick P. Coe (actor), Stephen 'Roadent' Conolly (actor), Paul Conway (actor), Matthew Cordy (actor), Ian Courtney (actor), James Crichton (actor), Drew Edwards (actor), Nicolas Hall (actor), Philip Hayden (actor), Jonnie Hurn (actor), Ben Biles (actor),

Plot: In the vein of Audition and Hostel. Helen finds herself having intimacy problems with men. Her private parts are devouring all lovers and leaving her with an insatiable thirst for blood. In order to satisfy her cravings she becomes a prostitute which leads to a death filled tale of murder, madness, and sex.

Keywords: abduction, bank-robber, basement, bondage, bound-and-gagged, female-full-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, female-protagonist, flashback, gas-leak
Genres: Comedy, Horror,
Taglines: Some Girls are to DIE for

Quotes:

Pinky: There's something inside of her that's talking, and it's coming from her fucking twat!

In America (2002)

Actors: Guy Carleton (actor), Randall Carlton (actor), Paddy Considine (actor), Ciaran Cronin (actor), Nick Dunning (actor), Bob Gallico (actor), Juan Carlos Hernández (actor), Nye Heron (actor), Djimon Hounsou (actor), Neal Jones (actor), Jason Killalee (actor), Adrian Martinez (actor), Rene Millan (actor), Tom Murphy (actor), Des Bishop (actor),

Plot: Following the tragic death of their two-year-old son Frankie, Irish couple Johnny and Sarah Sullivan and their remaining two offspring, 10 year old Christy Sullivan and 5 year old Ariel Sullivan, emigrate illegally to the United States via Canada with little in their pockets. Their final destination is Manhattan where Johnny hopes to work as a stage actor. They move into a unit in a run town tenement housed primarily with drug addicts, transvestites and one tenant coined "the man who screams". They do whatever they can to eke out a supportive family environment in this difficult situation, the support which ultimately extends to those around them, most specifically "the screamer" who turns out to be an African-American artist named Mateo with AIDS. But the memory of Frankie hangs over the family in good and bad ways, especially as Sarah learns she's pregnant. Christy, who records their life's goings-on with her beloved camcorder, believes that the angel of Frankie has granted her three wishes, which she guards until absolutely needed.

Keywords: 2000s, actor, african, aids, air-conditioner, angel-costume, apartment, apartment-building, artist, audition
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Christy: It's not "José, can you see", it's "Oh say, can you see".

Johnny: Are you in love with her?::Mateo: No... I'm in love with you. And I'm in love with your beautiful woman. And I'm in love with your kids. And I'm even in love with your unborn child. I'm even in love with your anger! I'm in love with anything that lives!

Ariel: Cool!::Christy: Cool? Where'd you hear that?::Ariel: I don't know, I just heard it.::Christy: Ugh, you're already American, it's disgusting!

[first lines]::Christy: [voiceover] There's some things you should wish for and some things you shouldn't. That's what my little brother Frankie told me. He told me I only had three wishes, and I looked into his eyes, and I don't know why I believed him.

Christy: Listening to my mom and dad I was scared we weren't going to get across the border. And if I didn't talk to Frankie, how we're going to get into America? Please Frankie, please. Please help us I said.

Immigration Officer #1: How many children do you have?::Johnny: Three.::Sarah: Two.::Johnny: Two.::Immigration Officer #1: Says three here.::Johnny: We lost one.

Immigration Officer #1: What's your name little girl?::Ariel: Ariel.::Immigration Officer #1: [to Christy] And who are you?::Sarah: She's Christy.::Immigration Officer #1: What age are you Christy?::Ariel: She's ten.::Immigration Officer #1: Welcome to America.

Christy: We heard Manhattan before we ever saw it, a thousand strange voices coming from everywhere. And you're not going to believe this, but we had to go under the water to get to the city. And we lost contact with everything; it was like we were on another planet.

Ariel: What are transvestites?::Christy: A man who dresses up as a woman.::Ariel: For Halloween?::Christy: No, all the time. All the time.::Ariel: Why?::Christy: It's just what they do here, OK?

Mateo: When luck comes knocking on your door, you can't turn it away.

Ogyâ (2002)

Actors: Hayato Fujiki (actor), Masato Hagiwara (actor), Ken Mitsuishi (actor), Ryosuke Miura (actor), Hiroko Akune (actress), Aya Okamoto (actress), Sumie Sasaki (actress), Kimiko Yo (actress), Keiko Yamaguchi (producer), Fujirô Mitsuishi (director), Kunihiko Ukai (editor),

Plot: Hana is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother's ashes to her grandmother's house. Hana's mother, who gave birth to Hana when she herself was a teenager, now resides in the home. They are on the outs with each other, but are forced to stay with each other when Hana's boyfriend fails to show.

Keywords: grandmother's-house
Genres: Drama,

Ma femme est une actrice (2001)

Actors: Lionel Abelanski (actor), Patrick Albenque (actor), Keith Allen (actor), Ben Attal (actor), Yvan Attal (actor), Stephane Auvray-Nauroy (actor), Laurent Bateau (actor), Florent Bigot de Nesles (actor), Alexis Bonnet (actor), Harry Boujenah (actor), Jean-Yves Bouvier (actor), Martial Courcier (actor), Gary Cowan (actor), Craig Cremin (actor), Jean Abelanski (actor),

Plot: Paris can boast a population of 2,125,246. Of these 1,153,000 are women and 10,000 are actresses. Yvan, a young sports writer, is married to one who is very well known - Charlotte. They try to live a normal life, but her fame makes it difficult - autograph hunters interrupt their dinners, cops about to serve traffic summonses let them off with a warning and a smile when they recognize her, and impossible-to-get restaurant reservations magically appear when Charlotte makes the calls instead of Yvan. All this threatens and challenges his male ego, but Yvan is able to take her stardom in stride. Until, that is, a man at a bar asks him if he gets jealous watching his wife make love in the nude to another man on screen. It has never seriously bothered him before, but the stranger sows the first seed of doubt in his head...

Keywords: acting, acting-class, acting-lesson, acting-teacher, actor, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actress, adultery, als, art-museum
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,

Otesánek (2000)

Actors: Arnost Goldflam (actor), Tomás Hanák (actor), Jan Hartl (actor), Radek Holub (actor), Vaclav Jezek (actor), Jan Jirán (actor), Zdenek Kozák (actor), Jirí Lábus (actor), Vincent Navrátil (actor), Pavel Nový (actor), Zdenek Palusga (actor), Frantisek Polata (actor), Gustav Vondracek (actor), Kristina Adamcová (actress), Joseph Cahill (actor),

Plot: When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a stump in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but its appetite is much greater than that of a normal child.

Keywords: absurdism, avant-garde, baby, black-comedy, bottle, cult-film, dark-humor, diaper, folk-tale, infertility
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller,

Quotes:

Bulankova, the social worker: Show me your Otik. That's his name, isn't it? Don't worry, i won't eat him.

Alzbetka: Before I was born did you sometimes take me out of your tummy and put me back in again?

Alzbetka: I can't stand how the pedophile undresses me with his eyes.

Alzbetka: Speak of the devil and te devil arrives.

Bozena: He's our child and we have to stick by him through thick and thin.

Nénette et Boni (1996)

Actors: Jean-Paul Bonnaire (actor), Marc Bozzai (actor), Malek Brahimi (actor), Vincent Béridot (actor), Serge Caracolse (actor), Matthew Carlson (actor), Christophe Carmona (actor), Patrick Chauvin (actor), Jean-Noël Chaye (actor), Grégoire Colin (actor), Richard Courcet (actor), Antonin Dedet (actor), Alex Descas (actor), Alex Descas (actor), Mounir Aïssa (actor),

Plot: Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents' divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and is surprised and enraged when his younger sister, having run away from boarding school, suddenly turns up. There's a problem that they must confront.

Keywords: abortion, adoption, baby, baby-nudity, baker, bakery, bar, bare-breasts, bb-gun, beach
Genres: Drama,

Eine Frau namens Harry (1990)

Actors: Reiner Bellersheim (actor), Enrico Boetcher (actor), Jochen Busse (actor), Robert Dietl (actor), Sabi Dorr (actor), Alexander Ertelt (actor), Daniel Friedrich (actor), Thomas Gottschalk (actor), Charles Gray (actor), Heinz Hoenig (actor), Frank Lenart (actor), Theo Maalek (actor), Heinz Marecek (actor), Eckhard Preuß (actor), Eddi Arent (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance,

Chimera (1968)

Actors: Ugo Adinolfi (actor), Tino Bianchi (actor), Emilio Bonucci (actor), Gino Bramieri (actor), Enzo Cannavale (actor), Roberto Carlos (actor), Consalvo Dell'Arti (actor), Pippo Franco (actor), Franco Giacobini (actor), Gianni Morandi (actor), Ugo Maria Morosi (actor), Bruno Squeglia (actor), Romano Squeglia (actor), Carlo Taranto (actor), Nino Taranto (actor),

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