Out of the Ashes 2003  R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Sargent
Cast: Christine Lahti, Beau Bridges, Richard Crenna, Bruce Davison, Jonathan Cake, Jolyon Baker, Jessica Beichman, Oliver Cotton, Michelle Fine, Zoie Palmer, Ingrid Veninger, Nina Young
This made-for-TV movie is based on Hungarian Dr. Gisella Perl's (Christine Lahti) memoirs and is told in flashback as she endures intense interrogation by U.S. officials when she attempts to gain U.S. citizenship in 1946. She lost her entire family at the Auschwitz death camp and had come to the U.S. to begin life anew. The interrogation centered around her work as a gynecologist who performed morally questionable abortions at Auschwitz in an effort to save pregnant women from the gas chambers.
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 Sliding Doors 1998  R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Peter Howitt
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Zara Turner, Douglas McFerran, Paul Brightwell, Nina Young, Virginia McKenna, Kevin McNally, Terry English, Paul Stacey, Peter Howitt, Joanna Roth, Neil Stuke
"Sliding doors" refers to those of a subway train through which Helen's (Gwyneth Paltrow) dreams offer two different futures–depending on which door she chooses. Helen has just been fired from her PR job, and one subway door opens while the other is closed. The alternatives to Sarah's future are shown as she travels down alternative paths of her life.
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| 1. Out of the Ashes (2003)
2. Sliding Doors (1998)
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