15-year old Fanny has just finished school, but instead of celebrating with her friends, she has to spend the summer trying to say goodbye to her dying mother, whose final wish is to be together in their summer home. Not knowing how much time she has left, they have to find a way to live in the meantime.

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37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young ma...

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Mathilde is nine years old. Her parents have separated. She lives with her mother, a fragile person ...

A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful re...

The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life t...

José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and...

Winter 1975 - author Jeanette Aspen arrives at Lapinlahti Mental Hospital to meet her only child, ps...

Aïcha is a troubled teenage girl who cannot forgive her mother for kicking out the stepfather she ad...

A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the sa...

A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of h...

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...

A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.

In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by he...

Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment mil...

Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop d...

In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her ...