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Film · 10 connectionsDefiant 18-year-old Adela León pushes her father and an unbending headmistress to the limit in this delicious comedy.
Directed byFernando Sariñana
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2002 · 104 min · Drama · Romance
Family and friends try to sabotage the budding romance between a young upper class girl and a humble student.
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2014 · 122 min · Comedy · Drama · Thriller
Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.
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2019 · 120 min · Comedy
A pair of seducers try to prove who has the best techniques while trying not to fall in love with each other.
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2009 · 96 min · Comedy · Drama
Raquel has been the live-in housekeeper for a kind, reasonably wealthy family for half her life, and the joyless repetition of the job has begun to take its toll. Increasingly dependent on painkillers, Raquel resorts to pranks and childish avoidance to antagonize the family’s college-age daughter and a procession of new servants, all in the hopes of protecting her precarious power within the home. Her antics successfully push everyone away, until new maid Lucy actually pushes back.
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2002 · 90 min · Comedy
Bumbling high school geek Virgil Heitmeyer has yet to lose his virginity. A golden opportunity for finally getting deflowered arises after Virgil manages to get closer to the beautiful and popular Kellie Guthrie. Will Virgil's date with Kellie go smoothly? Or is Virgil going to blow his big chance to score with the girl of his dreams?
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2018 · 90 min · Comedy
A 36-year-old meek woman realizes that there’s younger people trying to outpace her doing much less, so she makes a risky change by removing her filter.
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2005 · 109 min · Comedy
A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
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2002 · 86 min · Comedy · Drama
In East Los Angeles, an 18-year-old struggles between her ambitions of going to college and the desires of her domineering mother for her to get married, have children, and oversee the small, rundown family-owned textile factory.
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2012 · 92 min · Comedy · Drama
Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.
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2008 · 107 min · Drama · Romance
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