Linda Beckett

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Secrets & Lies 1996 (7.5)

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
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High Hopes 1989 (7.1)

Slice-of-life look at a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mother, who's aging quickly and becoming forgetful, mum's ghastly upper-middle-class neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sister and philandering husband. Shirley wants a baby, but Cyril, who reads Marx and wants the world to be perfect, is reluctant. Cyril's mum locks herself out and must ask her snooty neighbors for help. Then Cyril's sister Valerie stages a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday, a disaster from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap after all.
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Children 1976 (5.607)

Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.
Linda Becker

Linda Becker

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Herzlutschen 2004

A summer's day in a Berlin suburb. Frank, a loud-mouthed hallodrider, is constantly running into nothing. Karla, a depressive sleeping beauty, is constantly falling over. No wonder Frank keeps tripping over Karla. Ex-punk and hippie buckle? Why not, think Ratzo and Izzy, two drunks for whom life is one big quiz show. However, standing in the way of the health food store owner is Harry, the last person still running a "Nicaragua Group". Meanwhile, journalist Robbie is on the hunt for a Nobel Prize winner who has gone into hiding. And two tourists from the Caucasus are looking for "Dschumbrilla". So everyone is on the lookout and finds something different.
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VIP Lounge 2003

A small-town girl goes to the Berlinale.
Linda Beck

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Last Stand of the 300 2007 (7.115)

This is the true and astounding saga of the Spartans at Thermopylae. It is among the greatest tales of war ever recounted. All the glory and grit of these warriors' last stand is captured in this exceptional documentary. It is almost impossible to understand how 300 Spartans managed to hold off the million-man Persian army for even a moment, much less seven days. To a man they paid with their lives but their stunning Last Stand assured that their sacrifice would resonate throughout history. Transporting dramatizations and incisive graphics put you in the heat of the battle and show the lay of the land. The complications and strategies of the conflict are revealed through careful analysis, and critical moments are reconstructed to show exactly what happened. Discover what the Spartans were fighting for, what made them capable of such heroics and what drove them to such sacrifice.