Ups & Downs 1981

Ups & Downs 1981

Ups & Downs 1981
1h 37min | Comedy

User review:

I only took the time to track down this film, because one of the writers is my headmaster at my private school. He attended that same school as a child and has also taught there. This movie is representitive of our school. A North American Co-Ed School with British roots; strict but with heart.

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Another Country 1984

Another Country 1984

Another Country 1984
1h 30min | Biography, Drama, Romance | June 1984 (UK)

Storyline:

Based on the award winning play by Julian Mitchell, the film explores the effect of Public School life in the 1930’s on Guy Bennett as his homosexuality and unwillingness to “play the game” turns him eastwards towards communist Russia.

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Escape from Sobibor 1987

Escape from Sobibor 1987

Escape from Sobibor 1987

Escape from Sobibor 1987
2h 23min | Drama, History, War | TV Movie 12 April 1987

Storyline:

The historical recreation of the escape from the Nazi Death Camp Sobibor, where approximately one-quarter million Jews were executed. Of approximately 600 prisoners who attempted escaped in October 1943, around 300 succeeded. However, nearly all were ultimately recaptured; only about 60 people survived Sobibor.

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How to Be a Man 2013

How to Be a Man 2013

How to Be a Man 2013

How to Be a Man 2013
1h 25min | Comedy | 15 March 2014 (USA)

Storyline:

When former comedian Mark McCarthy is faced with a rare form of cancer, he hires a young, impressionable cameraman to document his crude and comical lessons on what it means to be a man for his unborn son.

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Devil’s Knot 2013

Devil's Knot 2013

Devil’s Knot 2013
1h 54min | Biography, Crime, Drama | 12 March 2014 (Philippines)

Storyline:

Based on the actual events of the West Memphis Three, where three young boys were savagely murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Spurred on by the demand from a grieving town, the local police act quickly to bring three “devil-worshipping” teenagers to trial. With their lives hanging in the balance, investigator Ron Lax is trying to find the truth between the town’s need for justice and the guilt of the accused.

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M15F1T5 (2013) Directors Cut

M15F1T5 (2013) Directors Cut

M15F1T5 (2013) Directors Cut
1h 36min | Crime, Music, Mystery | 3 June 2013 (USA)

Storyline:

This is an experimental Narrative movie. Although not a religious story, we (the writers) referred to a haunting question from our Christian upbringing; “what if Jesus came today”. So we started writing the story with consideration of how exactly this miracle worker might be documented and possibly even followed one day. For starters, this particular messiah is gay.

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Growing Up Smith 2015

Growing Up Smith 2015

Growing Up Smith 2015
PG-13 | 1h 42min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 3 February 2017 (USA)

Storyline:

GOOD OL’ BOY is the story of Smith, a ten-year-old boy from India growing up in Small Town, America in 1979. While the boy’s family straddles the fine line between embracing the American Dream and preserving their Indian heritage, there are barbecues, Halloween and hunting. And as Smith falls for Amy, the girl-next-door, he finds in Amy’s father Butch the cowboy he wishes his own father could be. But alas, when Smith’s father Bhaaskar sees Smith is quickly losing any hope of remaining a respectable Indian boy, he banishes him back to India. Nineteen years later Smith will return to America, back to a place he once called home.

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Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song 1971

Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song 1971

Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song 1971

Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song 1971
1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 22 March 1973 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from “the man” with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

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