Giochi d’estate 2011

Giochi d'estate 2011

Giochi d’estate 2011
2h 21min | Drama, Romance | 8 February 2012 (France)

Storyline:

The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic’s parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms with his father’s traumatizing violent outbursts in games with other children. He tries to teach Marie, who is of his age and suffers from her own relationship with her father, to feel nothing. In fact, both of them are transformed by their experience of the joys and pains of first love. A film about the first steps towards a life of one’s own.

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Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 – 1976

Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 - 1976

Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 – 1976
1h 38min | Drama | 4 March 1976 (Norway)

Storyline:

Peter is telling his story about a special summer, when he was invited over to summer holiday from bickering parents, to his aunt and uncle in the country. He’s been there before, but this summer was quite one to remember.

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Brennende blomster 1987

Brennende blomster 1987

Brennende blomster 1987

Brennende blomster 1987
1h 24min | Drama, Romance | 5 March 1987 (Denmark)

Storyline:

The film is about the teenager Hermann (Hølmebakk) who develops a relationship with the middle-aged Rosa (Fjeldstad).

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A escondidas 2014

A escondidas 2014

A escondidas 2014
1h 36min | Drama, Romance | 31 August 2016 (France)

Storyline:

At the age of 14 the world around you changes at a dizzying speed. But what if actually it’s you that changing? What if these changes take you away from what up until now, has been your world? Ibrahim and Rafa are going to suffer these changes for themselves, experiencing first love in a way they never could have imagined. And having to keep it Hidden away.

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Novecento aka 1900 (1976)

Novecento aka 1900 (1976)

Novecento aka 1900 (1976)

Novecento aka 1900 (1976)
18 | 5h 17min | Crime, Drama, History | 21 May 1976 (France)

Storyline:

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

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Leave Us Alone 1975

Leave Us Alone 1975

Leave Us Alone 1975

Leave Us Alone 1975
La’ os være (original title)
1h 22min | Drama | 3 February 1975 (Denmark)

Storyline:

A group from a ten to sixteen-year-old Danish educational center breaks the rules there and goes to an uninhabited island in a stolen boat. When the boat disappears, they are left to themselves, and their holiday turns into a nightmare: peer pressure, serious violence, accidents. But for some of them also an experience of love.

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Glue 2006

Glue 2006

Glue 2006
1h 50min | Drama, Romance | 28 September 2006 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

“A teenage summer in a small town in the desert, a dysfunctional family, a rock band, a can full of glue, two boys, one girl, loads of tongue kisses, dry heat, wind in Patagonia, existential angst… A teenage story in the middle of nowhere.”

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Les Amants Criminels 1999

Les Amants Criminels 1999

Les Amants Criminels 1999

Les Amants Criminels 1999
1h 36min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 18 August 1999 (France)

Storyline:

The movie begins with an explicit murder scene. We later learn high school student Alice (Natacha Régnier) convinced her lover, Luc (Jérémie Renier), to murder their classmate Saïd (Salim Kechiouche), whom she claims raped her with a group of his friends. After the murder they take Luc’s parents’ car and go off to rob a jewelry store. When they dispose of the body in the woods, the couple get lost on their way back to their car and are captured by a mysterious forest dweller (Miki Manojlovic). Matters take an even more bizarre twist when the stranger locks the young lovers in his basement and reveals that he plans to eat them. The movie shows the events that led up to the murder of their classmate and the ordeals the two lovers undergo in the cabin. Alice is very sexually active, but Luc is still a virgin. Sometimes it feels like a bizarre twist of Grimm’s “Hansel and Gretel” in true François Ozon style.

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Hymypoika 2003

Hymypoika 2003

Hymypoika 2003
1h 44min | Drama | 24 October 2003 (Finland)

Storyline:

Taavi, who never goes anywhere without his video camera, and his young and wealthy friends find themselves on the cusp of adulthood. After throwing a wild party at the mansion left to him by his deceased parents, Taavi shoots video of the partygoers in their various states of undress and drunken sexual congress. What begins as a prank spurs Taavi and his friends Jere, Sami, and Markus to form a club, the only requirement for admission being that each young man must bring a tape of his latest sexual conquest to every club meeting. The risque game quickly degenerates into dangerous compulsion as relationships implode and the boys forsake their girlfriends in favor of prostitutes and “swingers”. As currents of coercion and abuse enter the picture, each young man must ultimately confront his own morality in the viewfinder

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