Naked Eye 1998

Naked Eye 1998

Naked Eye 1998
La mirada del otro (original title)
1h 44min | Drama | 20 February 1998 (Spain)

Storyline:

Begoña is a thirty something consultant who has rebelled against her upper-middle-class background and has overdone it with sex ever since her youth. On recommendation of her psychoanalyst she keeps a video diary of her encounters. On Christmas Eve, reluctantly, Begoña goes to have dinner with her dysfunctional family: her stern mother, her married brother and her younger sister. Soon, Begoña, the family’s black sheep, clash with her relatives.

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New Wave 2008

New Wave 2008

New Wave 2008
1h 20min | Drama | TV Movie 19 September 2008

Storyline:

A little provincial town in the middle of the 80s. The life of Éric, a dreamy and lonely college pupil, was upset by the arrival of a new one in the class: Romain, a dissipated adolescent with a very strong new wave style, To open to him the doors of his universe. A friendship commits, until the day one remains for the other to leave … (google translated)

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Chudotvornaya 1960

Chudotvornaya 1960

Chudotvornaya 1960
1h 15min | Drama| 1960 (Soviet Union)

Plot:

Rodka Gulyaev is a pupil of the Gumniskii rural secondary school. He on the bank of the river digs out the darkened old icon, and his grandmother Avdotya, an overbearing and cunning old woman, dissolves a rumor that the icon is miraculous, and her granddaughter is a saint. But the boy did not want to be a saint. This event radically changed the life of the youngster, since the villagers called him “the chosen one of God.” Rodka was forced to pray and intimidate with “punishments of God,” leading the pioneer to attempt suicide … (google translated)

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Les enfants de la chance 2016

Les enfants de la chance 2016

Les enfants de la chance 2016
1h 35min | Comedy, Drama | 30 November 2016 (France)

Storyline:

In the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of France, taken to the hospital for a broken leg from an accident, twelve-year-old Maurice Gutman is narrowly spared from the mass roundup that will take his family from him and leave them imprisoned in a distant death camp. At the hospital, Dr. Daviel diagnoses him with tuberculosis and imposes a long treatment, perhaps a humane ruse to prevent him from being deported. Over the course of two years, while living with the hospital staff, Maurice and eight other young boarders unforgettably experience friendship, solidarity and extraordinary courage. These are the children of luck.

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Deep Breath 2001

Deep Breath 2001

Deep Breath 2001
Le souffle (original title)
1h 17min | Drama | 7 November 2001 (France)

Storyline:

David is a teenager like any other. His world is filled with loud music, imaginary encounters with centre-folds, and heroic fights on make-believe battlefields. With his mother away and his father nowhere to be found, David id forced to stay on his uncle’s farm, where life lacks the excitement he craves.

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