Five maids in São Paulo are observed in this episodic, impressionistic film. The women interact with each other, ride busses, work, and have longings: Rai for a husband, Créo for her lost daughter, Roxane for a career in modeling. Quitéria is naive, a gull for thieves. Cida has a husband and also a lover. While each woman gets what she wishes for (more or less), it doesn't always make things better.
As she reaches her mid-thirties and quits her lucrative job, singleton Olivia finds herself unsure a...
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry ...
A college student fears for her life after a number of disturbing occurrences, leaving her desperate...
A bitter woman who thinks she'll never love again marries, only to fall for a brash young man.
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energet...
Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch ...
After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggli...
Jim is hardly thrilled when his new bride, Ellen, invites an old friend, Randy, over for dinner. Yet...
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation...
Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living...
Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better...
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events ...
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exas...
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy F...
A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world - his ma...
In Qing Dynasty, Chen Xiang and Liuli became maids and friends in the imperial palace. Liuli wanted ...
A famous operette star Kirsti Kalpa escapes her busy and selfish fiance and hides as maid to house o...
Both the maid and the youngest daughter are after the same man who wants nothing to do with either o...
Set in the 1950s, this prequel to Keeping Up Appearances looks at the life, relationships, and aspir...
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joi...