Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941
Mikaheri no tô (original title)
1h 52m | Drama | Release date: January 30, 1941 (Japan)

Storyline:

Problem kids come to a reformatory school where they live, study and work. Here there are no fences and no one is ever beaten. The kids steal, play pranks, run away and help fix a water problem. Reformed kids introspect and go back home.

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Manic 2001

Manic 2001

Manic 2001

Manic 2001
1h 40m | Drama | Release date: May 23, 2003 (United States)

Storyline:

Lyle Jensen is subject to sudden and violent outbursts, and he is committed to the juvenile wing of the Northwood Mental Institution. Several other youths are there with a variety of serious problems. Lyle interacts with other patients and staff on a human, and sometimes not so human level. The psychological problems of the patients also forms the fabric by which we see what’s right with them, and what’s wrong with the society that affects them.

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Feuerzeichen 1979

Feuerzeichen 1979

Feuerzeichen 1979

Feuerzeichen 1979
1h 42m | Drama | Release date: 1979 (West Germany)

Storyline:

Adrian Melik grows up as a scholarship holder in a private boarding school. On his thirteenth birthday he makes a suicide attempt: he wants to plunge from the roof of the boarding school. One of the firefighters, an American named Dave, takes care of the boy and a friendship develops over time. Adrian gets to know security, warmth, understanding and trust in Dave. At the boarding school, Adrian’s friendship with Dave is increasingly being viewed with suspicion and they eventually prohibit the boy from any further contact with the American. Adrian sees only one way to send a “sign” to his friend.

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The Grandmother 1970

The Grandmother 1970

The Grandmother 1970

The Grandmother 1970
34m | Animation, Short, Horror | Release date: July 1970 (United States)

Storyline:

An imaginative lad of about ten has a couple of problems: he wets his bed, and his parents are abusive and disgusting. In a spare room, he finds a bag of seeds, which he plants in soil that he’s placed in the middle of a single bed. The seed sprouts and grows into a grandmother, who’s loving and approving. Life with his parents and with his imagination continues. Is a smiling grandmother enough to get him through?

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Bad Boys 1983

Bad Boys 1983

Bad Boys 1983

Bad Boys 1983
2h 3m | Crime, Drama, Thriller | Release date: March 25, 1983 (United States)

Storyline:

Mick O’Brien, a sixteen-year-old juvenile delinquent preying on Chicago’s unsuspecting people, is arrested and taken to Rainford Juvenile Correctional Facility for negligent homicide. Unfortunately, his latest victim was an innocent eight-year-old boy. As a result, hell-bent on avenging his death, the ruthless teenage drug dealer, Paco Moreno, decides to get even. But, inevitably, Paco’s arrest, and his detention in Mike’s prison, will lead to a dangerously volatile co-existence, and all bets are off on their imminent confrontation. Now, the two rivals have no other choice but to lock horns and take the law into their own hands. Is there a future for bad boys, Mick and Paco?

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Sweet Journey 2011

Sweet Journey 2011

Sweet Journey 2011

Sweet Journey 2011
Yun xia de ri zi (original title)
1h 42m | Drama | Release date: March 8, 2011 (China)

Storyline:

Guizhou province, southern China, spring 1980. Schoolboys Zhao Qiangsheng (Ma Guoxing) and Fulai (Wang Shibin), who’ve spent their whole life in a remote village, hear from a PLA soldier about a thing called a “city”, full of people, buildings and cars, three mountains away. Full of curiosity, and with the orphaned Fulai fed up with being passed around the community, the two set off to reach it when their school is closed for five days…

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Those Half Hidden 2009

Those Half Hidden 2009

Those Half Hidden 2009

Those Half Hidden 2009
4h | Drama | TV Mini Series

Storyline:

The story of “The Half Hidden” is like a tapestry, in which the threads run obliquely between four different families in two different decades. Weaving recurrent patterns, the story unfolds upon the loom of our vulnerability in lives that are as brittle as the morning ice. This is the story of those who survived, and this is the story of those who did not survive.

The half-hidden, Jonas Gardell engaging depiction of a number of people in the two eras. The script, brilliant acting and strong efforts directed by Simon Kaijser da Silva quickly made the half-hidden to a cult series – one of the most unpredictable, most poignant and breathtakingly exciting ever shown on Swedish television.

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Blodsband 2007

Blodsband 2007

Blodsband 2007

Blodsband 2007
Blodsbånd (original title)
1h 40m | Crime, Drama | Release date: March 2, 2007 (Norway)

Storyline:

15-year old Mirush. He travels to Norway to find his father, as he left the family when Mirush was small. Now his dad is running a restaurant in Oslo’s backyards and struggling with debt burdens to the Albanian mafia in the capital city. His father has started a new life with a Norwegian girlfriend, and his Albanian family is just a vague memory–until Mirush shows up. He starts working for his father but doesn’t say much. Slowly but surely they get to know each other but Mirush isn’t fully prepared for what he finds out, and he’s forced to make choices that will have major consequences for both of them.

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Never Say Never 2023

Never Say Never 2023

Never Say Never 2023

Never Say Never 2023
Ba jiao long zhong (original title)
1h 57m | Action, Drama, Sport | Release date: July 6, 2023 (China)

Storyline:

The movie tells the story of Xiang Tenghui who devotes all his efforts to cultivating orphans children into fighter as they have no way out in life and give them a glimmer of hope. However, as his school becomes successful, an old video of the children’s performance is brought up to the light and threaten their entire way of life.

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