Het verdriet van België 1995
TV Mini Series | Drama | 1995
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Belgium, during the Second World War. The story of young Louis, who survives despite war, hypocrisy, lies, oppression, his collaborating father and his bitter mother, who has an affair with a German officer. Louis has a talent for writing and partly because of that he knows how to distance himself and still enjoy life.
Lilies Not for Me 2024
1h 39m | Drama, History, Romance | Release date: April 30, 2025 (France)
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A gay novelist and his psychiatric nurse bond over a series of doctor-ordered ‘dates’ as he tells the story of a friendship which spiraled out of control when they turned to a risky procedure to cure themselves of feelings for each other.
No Dogs Allowed 2024
1h 46m | Drama | Release date: November 17, 2024 (Estonia)
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Fifteen-year-old Gabo seems like a regular teenager who goes to school, plays video games with his best friend, and does other things a normal teenager would do – except he’s not. He has tendencies he knows to be wrong, but cannot control. He befriends Dave, a much older man with his fantasies. Lines soon start to blur between a trusting friendship and being groomed. Once Dave is arrested on suspicion of statutory rape, Gabo must suddenly decide whether to testify against his mentor with the risk of exposing his secret.
Vier Frauen sind einfach zuviel 1992
1h 28m | Comedy | 1992
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Tommi lives with his sister, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother-all under one roof. Tired of these women, Tommi flees to his father Hubert. The film portrays Tommi’s struggles with school, love, and the challenges of women.
While Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother’s house catches on fire and burns to the ground. Her grandmother holds Erendira responsible and, in order to extract restitution from the girl, forces her into prostitution. Erendira’s surreal mystical experiences continue while her grandmother grows rich from exploiting her.
The Boy with Pink Trousers 2024
Il ragazzo dai pantaloni rosa (original title)
1h 54m | Drama | Release date: October 10, 2024 (Italy)
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On November 20, 2012, Andrea Spezzacatena, a boy who had just turned 15, took his own life. It was the first case in Italy of bullying and cyberbullying that led to the suicide of a minor. The triggering incident was his choice to wear a pair of red trousers, a gift from his mother, which turned pink due to a washing mishap. This movie is based on his story.
Európa messze van 1995
1h 45m | Drama, Family | 1995
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The story starts in Romania in the last years of the Ceaucescu regime. The main character of the film is Petru, a ten-year-old Romanian boy. His world is one of action and dreams but, at the same time, presents an authentic vista of contemporary Eastern Europe. All the events are shown through his eyes. His odyssey is an amusing and grotesque tale of survival as well as a parable on the survival of the human spirit. He comes to grips with a hostile world with both humor and rage, imagination and innocence. Petru lives with his vegetarian father Mihai and his pianist mother Daniela, in a small idyllic village in the Carpathian Mountains. His best friends are his dog Ursu, with whom he shares all his joys and sorrows, and the buffalo Florica. One day the family has to leave the country for political reasons. A long journey to freedom full of thrills and adventures begins, which first leads them from Hungary to Austria. Here they are sent to a refugee camp where Petru’s parents are classified as economic refugees because they have no documents; they are be deported back to Romania. Petru flees on his own and has to encounter a number of dangerous situations. But there are also glimmers of hope when an old stationmaster and his wife from a tiny Bavarian village adopt him, nurse him back to health and enable him to integrate into a new community. But here too, the police are already on his tail.
David and Randal are detained in the principal’s office at their school. The principal wants to know what they did to end up there. As the children recount what happened, their enmity will be tested, and an unexpected twist will change everything.