
A Cross to Bear
Mother of a 15-month old daughter and would-be dancer, fighting alcoholism and the hardships of living on the streets gets help from a home for women and tries to find the will to live and get her life back on track
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Mother of a 15-month old daughter and would-be dancer, fighting alcoholism and the hardships of living on the streets gets help from a home for women and tries to find the will to live and get her life back on track

When Ben McCauley daringly introduces himself anonymously via email to his secret crush, he mistakenly sends a message to single mother Charley Anderson. Ben begins dating Chloe, but she never quite lives up to the e-mail relationship and anonymous friendship he develops with her co-worker Charley.

A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. After first encouraging her, he has a change of heart and frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her threat.

Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front of police, she sues the city and the police department for failing to protect her.
Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and three-time loser in marriage -- who, incredibly, turns out to be the ideal man!

A divorced mother suspects that she and her two children may be in danger because of her insanely jealous new husband

The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. However, the creek dries up, indicating an upstream blockage and an imminent flood. Several trips upstream by the son have failed to locate the blockage and now Dad wants to be released...
When a food critic with no culinary abilities of her own is tasked with preparing her family's first Christmas dinner since the passing of their beloved matriarch, she is forced to enlist the help of a local French food truck owner whom she nearly put out of business with a bad review.

Four female friends reunite after 15 years and old resentments resurface. Soon afterwards, one of them is found dead. The police tries to determine whether it was suicide or murder.

Moriondo, a bachelor in his mid-forties, has spent half his life on billiard tables around the world and returns to his home town after fifteen years. Tired, penniless, with a failing budget, he returns above all to rediscover part of what he suffers from having lost: the feelings, the enthusiasm, the memories of youth. Instead he finds many people willing to remain silent and some friends who escape him, like Mambretti. He finds, above all, a mysterious hint of death. In fact, he learns that five years earlier a friend of his, Count Luigi Ambrosi, was killed with a singular system. A cyanide egg. The investigations and the trial recognized a certain "Panozzo", administrator of Count Ambrosi, as the perpetrator of the crime, but the wife of the killed man continues to maintain that an innocent man was convicted.

In Czechoslovakia, between 1946 and 1971, the characters of two very different fairy tales interacted and enriched each other: on the one hand, the filmmakers of the Czechoslovak New Wave who, through poetic, committed and ambitious cinema, fought against the Soviet yoke with subtle irony; and, on the other, the writer Jan Procházka, who in 1968 added his voice to the popular outcry of the Prague Spring.

Melanie’s autistic daughter Jenny, a high school senior, plans her own party with friends while Melanie works with Jenny’s teacher to create an inclusive school dance, leading to romantic sparks and mounting secrets that strain their close bond during the holidays.

A year after escaping a fatal masquerade ball, Nora gets death threats. When the stalker targets her mother instead, she must confront a killer determined to end her life.
Part of the By Herself series of individual dramas created for Channel 4, A dancer explores the emotional moment when two former lovers, separated by their profession, meet again.

Sharon Blake is a successful career woman who has a passionate affair with a possessive man. When she tries to break off the relationship, she uncovers the dark side of her former lover, who starts stalking and harassing her.

Pilates instructor, Amelie Didot, begins a steamy love affair with one of her handsome clients, journalist Pierce Dalton, but the duo soon find themselves dangerously intertwined after Amelie comes face to face with a masked woman following a murder. When it’s revealed the killer has an erotic obsession with Pierce, Amelie becomes a target in the middle of a deadly love triangle.

In a secluded cove in Malta, a beautiful young woman tries to drown herself. Her name is Ellen, a night club employee who just days before trying to end her life was drifting through each day uneventfully, spending most of her time at work and with her hard-partying boyfriend and lovable, yet incompetent roommates. But when Ellen meets Amy and Carrie, everything changes…all of their lives spin out of control thanks to one drug-fuelled night of partying and Amy’s overdose. Unfortunately, for Ellen and her friends Amy’s father is as vengeful as he is doting and will stop at nothing to make them pay, including murder.

Julie introduces her single father, Peter, to the world of online dating. When Peter meets Alexis, it's love at first sight. But as Julie and Alexis get to know each other, she begins to learn that Alexis might not be what she seems.

Abby represents her estranged sister in a murder trial. Is her sister guilty or is there a killer on the loose?

In 1919, the great English military man T. E. Lawrence tries to help Emir Feisal, ruler of Arabia, retain his political power during the Conference of Peace in Paris.

Marie helps her family's Copenhagen inn at Christmas when Ryan arrives, and she mistakes him for a travel writer. She curates a tour in search of hygge and the two find a connection as well.

A chef bets her future on competing in a new reality show while butting heads with a local baker.

A young woman who dreams of opening her own restaurant lands a job at a prominent restaurant whose head chef becomes her unlikely ally when the restaurant's unscrupulous owner, a Master Chef herself, plots to return the place to its former glory by presenting her new assistant's recipes as her own.
The plot of the film is based on the story of two lovers. The film features works by the composers S. Prokofiev, R. Drigo, D. Shostakovich, E. Waldteifel, I. Strauss and G. Sviridov performed by the Exemplary Orchestra of the Moscow Kremlin Commandant's Office.