
The Guide to the Perfect Family
A couple in Québec deals with the pitfalls, pressure and high expectations of raising kids in a society obsessed with success and social media image.
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2013★ 6.3
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Landline
2017★ 6.1
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

Bad Seeds
2018★ 7.6
Wael, a former street child, makes a living from small scams with his adoptive mother and partner-in-crime Monique. When this unconventional duo swindles the wrong guy, Victor, an old acquaintance of Monique now in charge of a support organization for troubled teens, they have no choice but to become his interim secretary and educator in order to redeem themselves.

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2021★ 6.1
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1938★ 7.4
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CQ
2001★ 5.9
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2014★ 6.1
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Uncorked
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2017★ 6.3
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Wildflower
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The House of Tomorrow
2019★ 6.8
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The Joneses
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2011★ 5.8
Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her temporary happiness is thrown when her neurotic 60-year-old Jewish father (Michel Blanc) suffers a delayed midlife crisis and announces that his young second wife is expecting a baby. Justine and her half-sister Dom, who is trying to adopt, are rather annoyed at the news. Coupled with resentment about her father’s absence when she was growing up, causes her to spiral into self-doubt. Overflowing with French charm, Justine gets by with the help of her family, friends, and newly discovered muse.

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