The Lost Son 1999

The Lost Son 1999

The Lost Son 1999

The Lost Son 1999
R | 1h 42min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 21 April 1999 (France)

Storyline:

Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man’s parents hire Xavier over their daughter’s objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children’s sexual slavery. He guesses that the lost son is dead and shifts his focus to finding and breaking this lucrative business of child trafficking. He involves a reluctant Nathalie to hunt “the Austrian,” the shadowy head of the business. Violence erupts quickly, and Xavier soon has little more to lose

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The Man Without a Face 1993

The Man Without a Face 1993

The Man Without a Face 1993
PG-13 | 1h 55min | Drama | 3 November 1994 (Hungary)

Storyline:

The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was incinerated and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He is also suspected of being a pedophile. He is befriended by Chuck, igniting the town’s suspicion and hostility. McLeod instills in his protégé a love of justice and freedom from prejudice which sustains Chuck beyond the end of the film.

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Rufus 2016

Rufus 2016

Rufus 2016
42min | Short, Comedy, Family | TV Short 18 January 2016

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Manny has moved to a new school, and it’s not easy to fit in. After wishing he had more friends, Manny finds a mysterious collar and puts it on Rufus, the family dog. Suddenly, Rufus turns into a boy! Manny’s not sure what to do, so he enrolls Rufus in school. When the other students notice Rufus’s silly dog antics — chasing squirrels, eating without utensils, asking for belly rubs, and catching a frisbee with his mouth — he immediately becomes the most popular kid around. Manny is jealous of his new best friend but eventually learns that a dog’s loyalty to his owner always comes first.

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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things 2004

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things 2004

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things 2004

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things 2004
R | 1h 38min | Drama | 19 January 2005 (France)

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Seven-year-old Jeremiah is pulled from his foster home and thrown into a troubled life on the road with his teenage mother, Sarah.

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Death in Venice 1971

Death in Venice 1971

Death in Venice 1971

Death in Venice 1971
Morte a Venezia (original title)
2h 10min | Drama | 1 March 1971 (UK)

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In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio, on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty that Aschenbach has long sought and he becomes infatuated. However, the onset of a deadly pestilence threatens them both physically and represents the corruption that compromises and threatens all ideals.

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Brooklyn Bizarre 2015

Brooklyn Bizarre 2015

Brooklyn Bizarre 2015

Brooklyn Bizarre 2015 WEBdl
1h 38min | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7 February 2015 (Germany)

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Maurice is a French teenager who escaped France and begins working at a hype club in Brooklyn called BIZARRE. He quickly becomes a sort of ‘mascot’ of this incredible club.The owner and the artists that perform there love him, but Maurice can’t love…because of the past…and his secrets.

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Happiness 1998

Happiness 1998

Happiness 1998

Happiness 1998
2h 14min | Comedy, Drama | 13 May 1999 (Hungary)

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The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

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The Goob 2014

The Goob 2014

The Goob 2014
1h 24min | Drama, Romance | 29 May 2015 (UK)

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Young Goob, 16 years old, returns home to his mother where he grew up in the countryside, between a small restaurant and a field of pumpkins. His mother’s new companion and Goob don’t get along. This summer Goob will mature in many ways, dealing with a girl in the stock-car circuit, a gay cousin who dances, and problems with a seasonal woman fieldworker.

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