La belle vie 2013

La belle vie 2013

La belle vie 2013
1h 33min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 9 April 2014 (France)

Storyline:

Two brothers, aged 16 and 18, are in rural France with their father. They are in hiding and forever changing dwellings so their whereabouts remain unknown to the authorities. At one of their stops the older brother abandons them and so, 16 year old Sylvain is left alone with his father, by the Loire river. Thatʼs where he will meet his first girlfriend and will begin to consider leaving his father for the first time, in order to live his own life.

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Wild Reeds 1994

Wild Reeds 1994

Wild Reeds 1994
Les roseaux sauvages (original title)
1h 50min | Drama | 1 June 1994 (France)

8 wins & 6 nominations.

Storyline:

In a village in the Southwest of France, 1962. Maite and Francois are 18 years old. They are friends, not lovers. In Francois’s classroom, there are Serge, whose brother has just married to try to escape from the war in Algeria, and Henri, a pied-noir (Algerian-born Frenchman). Francois and Serge will have a homosexual relationship, but Serge wants to marry his brother’s wife…

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El diputado 1978

El diputado 1978

El diputado 1978

El diputado 1978
1h 50min | Drama | Release date: October 20, 1978 (Spain)

Storyline

Sex and politics collide in this tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself passionately in love with the man he must betray.

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Mon fils a moi 2006

Mon fils a moi 2006

Mon fils a moi 2006
1h 19min | Drama | 30 August 2007 (Hungary)

2 wins & 1 nomination.

Storyline:

Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a girlfriend of his age. “Mummy” is not going to tolerate such an ignominy. Julien is HER baby and will remain HERS for ever, encouraged in her “crusade” by her bovine husband and barely thwarted by the more courageous interventions of Suzanne, Julien’s sympathetic big sister.

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Till Eulenspiegel 1974

Till Eulenspiegel 1974

Till Eulenspiegel 1974
1h 40min | Comedy | 23 May 1975 (East Germany)

Storyline:

In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also dangerous position as royal fool at the court of the emperor.

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Le bel été 1914 (1996)

Le bel été 1914 (1996)

Le bel été 1914 (1996)

Le bel été 1914 (1996)
1h 57min | Drama | 21 August 1996 (France)

Storyline:

A couple take their son for the holidays to an uncle, so short of money that he rents part of his big isolated house to a businessman whose wife and daughters are there on holiday too. An affair develops among the adults, while the children start their own explorations. Deaths, disappearances and financial ruin follow as the world drifts into war.

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100 days Before The Command 1991

100 days Before The Command 1991

100 days Before The Command 1991

100 days Before The Command 1991
Sto dney do prikaza (1991)
1h 11min | Drama | February 1991 (Soviet Union)

Storyline

Five young Soviet Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other. Visually astonishing, erotically charged and emotionally jarring, this film is Hussein Erkenov’s courageous and stinging indictment of Communisum. Banned by the Soviet censors upon its initial release the film had to be smuggled out of the country to make its world wide premier at the 1995 Berlin Film Festival.

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Napola Before The Fall 2004

Napola Before The Wall 2004

Napola Before The Wall 2004
Napola – Elite für den Führer (original title)
14 | 1h 57min | Drama, Sport, War | 4 July 2004 (Czech Republic)

Storyline

In 1942, Friedrich Weimer’s boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father’s objections, Friedrich enrolls, seeing this as his ticket out of factory life to university and a good salary. During his year in seventh column (fifth form), this innocence is altered as Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area’s governor, is central to this education; a night in the forest hunting for escaped Russian POWs brings things to a head.

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Initiation 2009

Initiation 2009

Initiation 2009
Blutsfreundschaft (original title)
1h 35min | Drama | 5 November 2009 (Austria)

Storyline:

16-year old Axel and his clique are rioting in a residential home. There he meets the 80-year old Gustav who gains interest in the young boy, as he reminds him of his lost love.

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