In the middle of a trip, Rubí, an eight-year-old girl, discovers within herself a powerful desire to eat roses. The rigidity and severity of her mother forces her to act in secret, until her desire manages to transform into something else.
A newspaper clip of a 30-year-old movie makes our middle-aged protagonist in the middle of his peak years to look for his best childhood friend. The journey leads him back to his teenage years in the 1990s depression, over-generational substance abuse and past encounters. This partly essayistic, autobiographical documentary tells the story of friendship and generational experiences while also pondering on the causes and effects of destinies in the judgmental atmosphere of our society.
Oli wants to finish her book. Jo wants to get over her breakup. What they don't want is to share a house.
Somewhere between the 1930s and now, the cameras start turning and Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich gather on one film set. The floor gleams, the spotlights are burning, the narration starts. Born out of a fascination for the construction that is Hollywood, and by extension ‘the perfect Hollywood home’, the maker embodies three actresses from Hollywood’s golden era and their so-called private lives. Their smallest personality traits are performed so precise and characteristically that it becomes artificial. The home isn’t homely. It plays “house” and the inhabitants are speaking Hollywoodian. In this setting, the maker of the film recalls memories of growing up in her childhood home.
A young woman follows a strange impulse to return to her childhood home to find her parents missing, her past erased and the house threatened inside and out by a dark presence.
As part of his final psychotherapy treatment, a mental patient is allowed to return to the basement of his deserted childhood home, so he can finally face his fears involving the death of his younger brother.
An actress confronts her quarter-life crisis by breaking up with New York City and returning home to win back the love of her life.
While going through a difficult divorce from her domineering, businessman husband, Alexandra moves back into her old childhood brownstone home, where she sets out to uncover dark family secrets from when she was a young girl, involving her Aunt Judith's murder and her mother's descent into insanity. The only clue is a key to a mysterious secret room that lies within the house. As a series of bizarre and unsettling incidents prod Alexandra to investigate her past, she finds herself wandering deeper into danger as her past comes back to haunt her.
When an L.A. cop gets called to a crime scene on his anniversary, he is forced into a shootout that leaves both a criminal and his hostage dead. Soon after, with a troubled yet clear conscience, the officer and his family go on a camping weekend. After they stop at a gas station and end up in the middle of a robbery, fate and a twisted web of revenge have other, more violent plans for them. When the score is finally settled, will anyone be left standing?
After her father’s death, Alyson, her partner Richard and their baby return to her childhood home. Following a few shocking supernatural events, Alyson discovers that she and her family have been living with a terrible curse, unleashed in the past by a bride killed by Alyson’s grandfather. Soon after Alyson’s child disappears and she has no choice but to embark on a frightening journey into the underworld, to free herself from the bride’s curse and to look for her daughter.
A video camera turns into a looking glass to the past in this lo-fi yet highly ambitious head-turner, following a young man who gets to reconnect with his family’s history through old, strangely immersive home movies.
Alma returns to Mexico seeking the man who caused the loss of her childhood home. He is not easily found, but the road to him brings her closer to her late father, and the secrets he took with him to his grave.
Inheriting her grandmother's remote island Inn causes Amanda to re-evaluate her life and decisions.
After the death of her father, Anne — a brilliant but emotionally unstable painter/sculptor — returns from Switzerland to her home town in Quebec. Setting up a studio, she becomes obsessed with her work, to the extent that she grows farther and farther from her Swiss lover.
A woman learns her estranged father has passed away. She returns with her boyfriend to her childhood home of Belize, where she is reunited with her brother, and must face her past while fighting for intimacy in the present.
Louise, an unfulfilled divorced woman with regrets, gets the chance to relive her past when she meets a young man who bears an uncanny resemblance, in name and appearance, to her high school sweetheart who died many years before.
Efter deres mors død vender søstrene Nicole og Annie modvilligt tilbage til deres barndomshjem for at vise deres sidste respekt. Mens de overnatter i huset, fornemmer søstrene en mystisk tilstedeværelse omkring dem - lyde overrasker dem om natten, objekter bevæger sig af sig selv, et billede af en ukendt kvinde ved siden af deres mor falder på gulvet. Annie begynder at opleve en række intense og foruroligende drømme - visioner, der fører til en afsløring af noget forfærdeligt omkring hendes mors fortid.
Da deres forældre meddeler, at deres barndomshjem er sat til salg, går det pludselig op for den altid ansvarlige Maura og hendes brushoved af en søster Kate, at de kun har en weekend til at få ryddet op i deres gamle ting. Og hvad er deres fuldt forståelige reaktion? Barnlig, følelsesladet vrede. Tabet af den hjemmelige bastion kommer som et chok for begge søstre, som også kæmper med voksenlivets fortrædeligheder.
'Love the Coopers' er fyldt med stjerner og samler fire generationer af en familie til deres årlige juleaften. Når alt går galt, og alt er vendt på hovedet, bliver familien nød til at finde sammen igen og finde frem til de værdier som gør julen, til det den er.