Grease Monkey (1983)
A story set in the 1940's about a young female mechanic, bent on becoming a skilled automotive engineer, who is forced to give up her job in the family garage when her soldier brother returns home from World War II.
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Wild in the Country (1961)
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Farlig kurva (1952)
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Garage (2007)
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Daddy's Little Girls (2007)
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Brilliantlove (2010)
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This Woman Is Not a Car (1982)
A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at a service station to fill up with petrol. Four mechanics eye her off and, as one of them walks towards her car, a full-blown erotic fantasy develops.
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Il Grido (1957)
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.