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In this film that walks the line between fiction and reality, a beautiful transsexual prostitute named Raquela (Raquela Rios) dreams of a better life than the one she currently lives in the Philippines. In her ideal existence, she would be married to a straight man in a western country, but her search for love on the internet has led her nowhere. Finally, she has the chance to meet Valery (Valery Grand), a rare Icelandic transsexual who is open about her biology, and Valery gives her the chance to find romance.

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An American-Israeli man moves back to Israel, where a decline in his fortunes finds him incarcerated in a mental institution strongly rumored to be haunted by the ghosts of Holocaust survivors. The man befriends one of the ghosts, while flashbacks provide the story of how he came to be mentally impaired.

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For those left unsatisfied by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino’s near-lack of shared screen time in the masterful HEAT, RIGHTEOUS KILL promises a prominent pairing of the two legendary actors. De Niro and Pacino star as two cops who team up to catch a serial killer in this crime thriller from director Jon Avnet.

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Review in a Hurry: The Spaghetti Western, Japanese-style, Sukiyaki is a remarkably inventive yet referential Eastern Western, full of action, cinematic references, pop-cowboy lingo, bloody haute costuming,…

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Review in a Hurry: Based on George Cukor’s 1939 film (and Clare Booth Luce’s 1936 play), The Women gets a makeover for the Sex and the City generation. But like a bad Botox job, the end result…

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