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The connection between sex and automobiles is as common to films as guns and love. Mostly inside the privacy of the metal coaches, sex scenes punctuate the history of films – with some unforgettable examples.

107 Mothers is a prison drama about women inmates in a Ukrainian jail. A Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Ukraine co-production, the film was directed by Peter Kerekes and is based on real-life stories of women jailed at Odessa Correctional Facility Number 74, one of two Ukrainian prisons where pregnant women can serve their sentences with their children.

In 1995 Sandra Bullock was interviewed by the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press about While You Were Sleeping, a romantic comedy directed by Jon Turtletaub, in which she plays a Chicago Transit token collector who saved a man’s life. That performance earned her the first of five Golden Globe nominations as Best Actress.

“We are all trying to understand each other all the time,” says Santiago (Leonardo Sbaraglia) midway through Wandering Heart, the second film by Argentinean director Leonardo Brzezicki. Santiago is a gay single parent going through an overwhelming situation.

There is no doubt about it: this is Fahrije’s story. The face of a middle-aged woman, beautiful but grim and framed by long dark hair, is what we first see on screen.

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story debuted to mild box office numbers despite its critical acclaim: $10. 5 million.

Launched in February of 1944 with an informal luncheon at 20th Century Fox Studios ( the winners received a scroll), the Golden Globes began finding their true style in the 1950s, hopping from Hollywood to Beverly Hills, then on to the Cocoanut Grove of the famous Ambassador Hotel, Casa del Mar in Santa Monica and Ciro's on the Sunset Strip. War was over, Hollywood was spreading its wings around the world and the Globes quickly began the best party of the year in a city that absolutely loves parties - Los Angeles.

The world of professional soccer has always thrived on the talents of superstars like Pele, Beckham, Messi, and Renaldo. But the search is always on for the next big talent.

On the brink of middle age, 40-year-old Daniel (Antonio Saboia) has been suspended from the police force after a deadly episode that occurred while he was in training. The son of a military man, Daniel feels lost and useless, running loops in the streets of Curitiba, one of Brazil’s most prosperous southern cities.

An erotic drama that plumbs the psyche of someone infatuated with an unavailable partner, director Danielle Arbid’s Simple Passion was slated to make its world premiere at Cannes in 2020 before the global pandemic scuttled plans for that festival. Instead, the movie bowed at the Toronto International Film Festival later in the year, before enjoying a slate of complementary festival presentations in San Sebastian, Moscow, Busan, and elsewhere, followed by its theatrical release this year.