Black Bread 2010

Black Bread 2010

Black Bread 2010
Pa negre (original title)
1h 48min | Crime, Drama | 15 October 2010 (Spain)

Storyline:

In the harsh post-war years’ Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.

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Jutro bedzie lepiej 2008

Jutro bedzie lepiej 2008

Jutro bedzie lepiej 2008
1h 58min | Drama | 11 November 2011 (Poland)

Storyline

Six-year-old named Petya (Oleg Ryba). Petya, his brother Vasya (Jewgieni Ryba), and their friend Liapa (Akhmed Saralov) travel overland with dreams of a better life in Poland and the hope that tomorrow will be better. They learn they must rely on each other to find their new home.

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Mirakel 2000

Mirakel 2000

Mirakel 2000
1h 20min | Family, Musical, Drama | 13 October 2000 (Denmark)

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Ttwelve-year-old boy Dennis P lives in Copenhagen with his mother. Since the death of his father, his mother has been both depressed and overprotective. At school he struggles to cope with a mean and obsessive teacher, and the girl he likes seems to be more interested in his best friend than him. One day he walks into a church and, expecting little effect, exclaims his wishes of better luck at home and at school. Miraculously, an angel who looks a lot like Dennis’ father appears and presents him the gift of a pair of angel wings. From then on, Dennis can literally get anything he points at, changing the behaviour of other people as he sees fit. It’s the experience of a lifetime, but can it last?

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Les amities particulieres 1964

Les amities particulieres 1964

Les amities particulieres 1964

Les amities particulieres 1964
1h 40min | Drama | 4 September 1964 (France)

Storyline:

THIS SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP tells of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit run school.

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Short Skin 2014

Short Skin 2014

Short Skin 2014

Short Skin – I dolori del giovane Edo 2014
1h 26min | Comedy, Drama | 30 August 2014 (Italy)

Storyline

Since childhood Edoardo has been suffering from phimosis, a penis malformation which prevents him from experiencing sexual satisfaction. Now seventeen, he starts to feel some pressure from the outside world. Apparently everyone around him talks and thinks about sex: his friend Arturo, so obsessed with losing his virginity that is wanting to pay for it, his parents, encouraging him to declare his love to Bianca, even his little sister Olivia, looking for a good partner for the family dog Teagan. Edoardo’s lack of confidence starts changing with the casual meeting of a new girl, Elisabetta, and the unexpected approach of Bianca. Forced to come out of the shadow he was hiding in, Edoardo tries first to solve his problem with clumsy strategies, finding finally the courage to face his fears.

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From Afar 2015

From Afar 2015

From Afar 2015
Desde allá (original title)
1h 33min | Drama, Romance | 21 January 2016 (Italy)

Storyline:

Armando, a middle-aged owner of a Caracas dental prosthesis business, is estranged from his father, who he observes occasionally from a distance. He finds a young man of the streets who negotiates a fee high enough for the boy to be used to provide Armando’s masturbatory object. Although a following encounter ends in a beating for Armando, he continues to make the boy dependent. What is the final result that Armando desires? Is it something more than a conflicted relationship with a hustler?

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The Flight of the Innocent 1992

The Flight of the Innocent 1992

The Flight of the Innocent 1992
La corsa dell’innocente (original title)
R | 1h 40min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 9 October 1992 (Italy)

Storyline

The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family’s sins.

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Parle tout bas Si c’est d’amour 2012

Parle tout bas Si c'est d'amour 2012

Parle tout bas Si c’est d’amour 2012
1h 30min | Comedy | TV Movie 17 June 2015

Storyline:

A biology teacher who is asked to show his students how to use a condom. A grandmother who loves talking about relationships and sexuality. Parents who are upset and a principal who’s fed up but concerned about his students’ health. A mother who worships a long-gone man… Caroline and Olivier are sixteen, and they’d like it if their parents and teachers would stop wanting to talk to them about love, since most of them obviously don’t understand a thing about teenage feelings. Caroline and Olivier love each other. And they’re scared. Scared not to be up to the task of their love story. They want their first time to be beautiful and wonderful…

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