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The path to recovery can be as brave and daunting as war itself. Healing a Soldier's Heart transports us into the troubled hearts and minds of four Vietnam veterans as they begin the courageous healing process to alleviate their severe PTSD. Still traumatized 40 years later, the veterans bravely journey back to the sites where they witnessed and committed atrocities of war. In the process, they come face to face with victims and experience Vietnamese culture through a new lens that fosters the compassion and the mutual forgiveness necessary for healing.
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A desperate slide from businesswoman to bank robber. Ankica is the proud owner of a legitimate massage salon, which she runs with her best friend Ljilja. She dreams of keeping her out-of-work husband and adult daughter in comfort while helping Ljilja pay for her son's recurring rehab programs. But in reality, Ankica's debts are mounting, and she refuses to add "happy endings" (sexual favors) at the salon to increase revenues. When a loan shark threatens to take her apartment if she does not repay her debt, in desperation, she turns to crime.
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Problem one: the old tenant won't move out. Problem two: he can't. He's a ghost. Sef is having a rough patch. He's just been divorced, his wife kicked him out, he's lost his old job and his new account, and the lovely new house he's just moved into is haunted. Theo, the ghost of the previous owner, considers the house still his, with Sef the interloper. What follows is a battle of wills between Theo and Sef. But with the arrival of the lovely and innocent young Julie, things take an unexpected turn.
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"If I must pay for my sins, I will make the Lord happy." Welcome to Lima, Peru, land of the doomed and the damned. Meet Perro (Dog), ex-military executioner turned hit man, a killing machine who's forgotten he once was a man. Until, researching a hit, he meets a teenage girl who is innocence personified, and something inside him comes trembling, flickering to life. A caring, a conscience, a soul. If he can save just one person, maybe there's a chance of redemption, even for someone like him.
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Are you willing to succeed at all costs? Winner of the Golden Zenith Award at the Montreal World Film Festival, director Christian Diaz Pardo's debut film features the prolific Harold Torres (Sin Nombre) and the charismatic Carlos Bardem (Javier's older brother, Cell 211). Gonzalez (Torres), a young man living an anonymous, solitary life in the bustling Mexico City, is desperate to pay off his looming debts and make a name for himself.
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Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace) stars in director Anne Fontaines (Coco Before Chanel) charming reimagining of Gustave Flauberts classic Madame Bovary. Martin Joubert flees Paris for the idyllic Normandy countryside to take over the family bakery. Village life isn't quite the expected peaceful living when young British couple, Gemma (Arterton) and Charles Bovery, move in across the street. Martin, a devotee of Flaubert's work, notes the couple's curious, uncanny resemblance, both in name and behavior, to the characters of his much-beloved novel.
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The (you have to) do it yourself generation. Four recession-era hopefuls spend their days waiting for something to give while resisting giving out anymore of themselves. Promised a life after higher education with a job and a nice apartment, a writer/blogger finds herself rooming with an amateur porn actress and no future prospects.
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"She took her hair from the drain and left me." Now what? "She said I was immature. I don't know what mature is." Poor Aron. With no job, no prospects, and now no girlfriend, he's completely at loose ends.
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"For it to be a crime, there has to be a personal motive." Two Parisian high school students have murdered a woman they chose as a victim from a chance encounter. They had no motive, other than to prove they could do it. Pierre wrestles with his conscience and is haunted by the crime, while Damien, a golden boy with a psychopathic bent, constructs his justifications and gleefully flirts with discovery. Zoe, a young woman who saw them leave the scene of the crime, is strangely attracted to the erotic power of the event and drawn into their web of danger and deceit.