List of the best Rodrigo Garcia movies: Mother and Child(2009), Albert Nobbs(2011), Nine Lives(2005), Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her(2000), Passengers(2008), Last Days in the Desert(2015) ... ...
Drama
USA|Spain
2009
126 Minutes
Director
Naomi Watts Annette Bening Kerry Washington Jimmy Smits Samuel L. Jackson S. Epatha Merkerson Cherry Jones Elpidia Carrillo Shareeka Epps David Morse Eileen Ryan
mother daughter physical therapist lawyer husband emotional powerful profound law office hospital restaurant household orphanage adoption parenthood marriage pregnancy family regret discovery
A drama centered around three women: A fifty-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-five years ago, and a woman looking to adopt a child of her own.
Romance, Drama
UK|Ireland|France|USA
2011
113 Minutes
Director
Glenn Close Mia Wasikowska Aaron Taylor-Johnson Brendan Gleeson Janet McTeer Brenda Fricker Pauline Collins Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
butler transvestite painter maid partner love interest emotional moving brooding hotel dublin bedroom town womanhood secret life sexual repression friendship cross-dressing gender identity transformation
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living.
Drama
USA|Mexico
2005
112 Minutes
Director
Kathy Baker Amy Brenneman Elpidia Carrillo Glenn Close Stephen Dillane Dakota Fanning William Fichtner LisaGay Hamilton Holly Hunter Jason Isaacs Joe Mantegna
divorcée sick person prisoner old flame teen girl woman tender moving intricate melodramatic jail hospital family home supermarket graveyard mother/daughter relationship family dysfunction estrangement reunion illness
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
2000
106 Minutes
Director
Glenn Close Cameron Diaz Calista Flockhart Kathy Baker Amy Brenneman Valeria Golino Holly Hunter Matt Craven Gregory Hines Miguel Sandoval Noah Fleiss
doctor mother bank manager boyfriend single mother tarot card reader emotional touching house california doctor's office family home bank relationships life lessons romance illness depression hard times love
Five California women struggle with personal problems as their own paths unwind in ways unexpected.
Mystery & Thriller, Romance, Drama
USA|Canada
2008
92 Minutes
Director
Anne Hathaway Patrick Wilson David Morse Andre Braugher Clea DuVall Dianne Wiest William B. Davis Ryan Robbins Chelah Horsdal Don Thompson
therapist mentor survivor passenger sister patient chilling tense suspenseful airplane house train marina museum office plane crash disappearance conspiracy secrets therapy
A grief counselor working with a group of plane-crash survivors finds herself at the root of a mystery when her clients begin to disappear.
Drama
USA
2015
99 Minutes
Director
Ewan McGregor Ciarán Hinds Ayelet Zurer Tye Sheridan Susan Gray
jesus satan gripping intricate solemn desert temptation faith temptation quest 1st century
An imagined chapter from Jesus' forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis.