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.
The Kindergarten Teacher 2014
Haganenet (original title)
1h 59min | Drama | 10 September 2014 (France)
Storyline
A kindergarten teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
Cinema Paradiso 1988
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (original title)
R | 2h 35min | Drama | 29 September 1988 (Italy)
Storyline
A famous film director remembers his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films. He returns home to his Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years and is reminded of his first love, Elena, who disappeared from his life before he left for Rome.
Ballo a tre passi 2003
1h 47min | Drama | 19 February 2004 (Netherlands)
Storyline
Four separate-but-interconnected stories – one for each season – about life in Sardinia.
Pelle der Eroberer 1986
1h 29min | Drama | TV Movie 1 January 1986
Storyline:
Set in the late 1800’s, the original “Pelle der Eroberer” (aka Pelle the conqueror) comes from Martin Anderson Nexo’s novel about a Swedish boy Pelle and his elderly father Lasse who come to Denmark in search of work and a better life. A bleak and desolate future becomes apparent when the two find employment on a farm full of abuse, slavery, and scandal. Not everyone is happy to see Pelle and his father and soon it becomes obvious to everyone that the immigrants are not welcome.
Esteros 2016
Esteros 2016
1h 23min | Drama | 27 May 2016 (Canada)
Storyline
Matias and Jeronimo know each other since childhood. Their friendship takes a new turn during the holiday before starting high school when they both experience their sexual awakening. Matias’s father breaks up their relationship by accepting a job very far away. Family’s contempt against homosexuality brings Matias to deny his friend and himself. More than ten years later, Matias returns to his old town for carnival with his girlfriend. He unexpectedly runs into Jeronimo. Feelings will slowly reappear and will reach a climax, but at what price?
