Films and programs like Permanent Vacation

Funkytown

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Set in Montreal during the disco phenomenon some 35 years ago, Funkytown follows the life of a group of colorful characters. We follow their lives and tribulations as everyone converges on a regular b...

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Full Circle

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 6

The series from Neil LaBute aims to examine "the human condition and relationships through a series of conversations between 11 people", whose lives are intertwined, unbeknownst to them. Each episode...

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Amy

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 6.4

A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy.

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Murder on Lenox Avenue

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 5

Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader Marshall...who wants revenge; and Pa's ward Jim Bract...

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Pennsylvania Holy Ghosts

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Theo, Clair, and Renee forge their way through life in an attempt to find their place and purpose in a bleak Pennsylvania town. Theodore, alone for the first time in his life, broods over past persona...

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Faces

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1968 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town with her friends and meets a yo...

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Charlie's Country

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generall...

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Faith of Our Fathers

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 3.8

With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty. A man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul (David A.R. White and Kevin...

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The Low Down

Film Age rating: 18 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 5.8

Frank is a restless young man in his late twenties whose life revolves around his friends and his work. When he becomes involved with Ruby, her optimistic and fresh approach to life and its problems b...

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