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A Serious Man(2009)

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

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Keeping Up with the Steins(2006)

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Avalon(1990)

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Live and Become(2005)

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In the Family(2017)

The neurotic Fikret and tavern singer Solmaz, whose 21 year long relationships end on the same day, meet through a funny coincidence. When Solmaz's daughter Zeynep decides to marry her lover from Adana, the ever-fearful Fikret ends up having to play the role of his life. Intended at first to be kept in the family, the wedding becomes a much bigger event upon the insistence of the groom's relatives. Can our heroes come to terms with the traditional Adana family who carry guns and own a kebab restaurant chain, and see the wedding through without mishaps?

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Sixty Six(2006)

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Nevada

Maria, an emotionally-stunted transgender punk on an aimless road trip across the country has a chance encounter with James H., a repressed minimum-wage worker trapped in the purgatory that is rural Nevada. Over the next 24 hours, the two form an unlikely bond as Maria helps James unpack a question he’s been frightened to ask himself his entire life: is he trans?

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Transfixed(2001)

Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of transexual murders. In order to clear herself she must turn detective.

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Mischa(2015)

In the late 1960s, with the arrival of his bar-mitzvah, Michel was tasked with learning about his family's history.

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Johanne Sacreblu: ahora es más personal(2025)

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Nome Provisório(2017)

Renata, while waiting for her friend's arrival at a restaurant, is faced with a family celebrating the pregnancy of Márcia and her husband. The discovery of the baby's gender brings to light an important reflection.

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Transamerica(2005)

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