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.
After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy F...
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energet...
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findi...
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus gi...
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry ...
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns ...
In this Oscar-nominated comedy, three wacky sisters try to save their inheritance from their suppose...
An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small ga...
In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an ex...
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation...
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exas...
Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better...
Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living...
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...
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events ...
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, ...
A perverse woman "works" on the corruption of a young girl who serves as her maid.
As she reaches her mid-thirties and quits her lucrative job, singleton Olivia finds herself unsure a...
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and...