Nordsee ist Mordsee 1976
1h 27min | Drama | 2 April 1976 (West Germany)
Storyline
14 years old Uwe grows up in a dull multi-storey apartment building in a suburb of Hamburg. His father is an alcoholic and beats his son while he’s drunk. Only together with his clique Uwe feels strong and accepted. Their aggressions focus on the Asiatic boy Dschingis. When the younger boy dares to fight back, Uwe declares war on him.
Presque rien 2000
R | 1h 38min | Drama, Romance | 7 June 2000 (France)
Storyline
Eighteen-year-old Mathieu vacations at the beach with his family when he meets local teen Cédric. After an extremely erotic kiss, the boys begin a passionate romance, complete with skinny-dipping at night, nude dancing on the beach and intense lovemaking in the dunes; yet, as Mathieu grapples with his sexuality and copes with his sick mother, absent father and annoying kid sister, his bond with Cédric grows stronger until it bursts.
Abeltje 1998
1h 50min | Adventure, Family | 26 November 1998 (Netherlands)
Storyline
Pupil Abel is the victim of Laura’s nasty prank, yet gets accidentally blamed and overreacts. His ma withdraws him from school and gets him a job as lift-boy. But its’ a special lift: when he pushes the forbidden green button, it takes him, Laura, Jozias Tump and Maria Klaterhoen to Manhattan. There he’s mistaken by a rich bitch who looks like his mother for her long missing son Johnny. When a police helicopter comes to tow the lift cabin, the Dutchmen get back in. It takes them to a Latin American country, Perugona. The new revolutionary leader realizes presidents live about one year, so he gives the job to Mr. Tump, who saved his life. The news coverage attracts Abel’s and Johnny’s family, in time for an even weirder finale.
Shivers 1981
Dreszcze (original title)
1h 46min | Drama, History | 23 November 1981 (Poland)
Storyline:
Set in the early 1950’s, during the Stalin’s Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek’s father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The neighbor upstairs commits suicide when her husband is also arrested and transported to the prison camp. It’s winter so the kids keep their hands warm at school by hand-beating themselves. The teachers at school are mean, narrow minded idealists, When they ask the kids who goes to church on Sundays, the whole class stands up to defeat the purpose of the propaganda lesson. Tomek is sent to the training school in the summer. There he absorbs most of the ideology pumped into his head, and when his father is released from prison he finds another boy he has left.
The King of Havanna 2015
El rey de La Habana (original title)
2h 5min | Drama | 16 October 2015 (Spain)
Storyline:
Recently escaped from reformatory, young Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other’s arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.
Moritz lieber Moritz 1978
1h 36min | Drama | 15 September 1978 (Finland)
Storyline:
Moritz is fifteen years old and in the middle of puberty. His parents are in an economic crisis. Although the family still lives in a huge villa in Hamburg, it is only a matter of time to leave there. His grandmother was once a central person in his life, but she was deported to a retirement home by her parents. He remains alone and seeks contact.
Il est genial papy 1987
Il est génial papy! (original title)
1h 32min | Comedy | 2 December 1987 (France)
Storyline
A 10-year old boy causes havoc in his grandfather’s already chaotic life, when he appears on his doorstep during a break from boarding school.
L’enfant du pays 2003
1h 50min | Comedy | 20 August 2003 (France)
Storyline:
This is the story of a childhood and an adolescence which are expressed through a hundred small sequences passing in the forties, fifties and sixties in a modest family of the Pas-de-Calais.
Paul, the main character to be found in five, thirteen and eighteen years, is the thread of this story broke that works in the disorder of memory.
Irreversible 2002
Irréversible (original title)
18 | 1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 22 May 2002 (France)
Storyline
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything.
