The Cement Garden 1993

The Cement Garden 1993

The Cement Garden 1993

The Cement Garden 1993
1h 45min | Drama | February 1993 (Germany)

Storyline:

After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from an unidentified illness. Rather than going to hospital, and letting the authorities foster her children, she opens a bank account for them so they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. After she dies, the 2 older siblings decide to hide her body in the basement. Soon they begin to suffer, both the emotional strains and pressures of their situation, as well as the changes which happen during adolescence.

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The Tit and the Moon 1994

The Tit and the Moon 1994

The Tit and the Moon 1994

The Tit and the Moon 1994
La teta y la luna (original title)
1h 30min | Comedy, Romance | September 1994 (Italy)

Storyline:

A child cannot stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a teet only for him.

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Todos Estan muertos 2014

Todos Estan muertos 2014

Todos Estan muertos 2014
Todos están muertos (original title)
1h 33min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 16 October 2015 (Mexico)

Storyline:

If you saw Lupe (35) in her bathrobe and slippers, stuck at home making pies, you would never imagine that back in the 80’s she was a pop-rock star. She and her brother Diego made up the band Groenlandia, whose first album was a huge hit. But Lupe has turned her back on that distant past of touring and concerts. She lives wholly dependent on her mother Paquita (65) and has a teenage son, Pancho(14), who hates her. Her agoraphobia won’t even let her leave the house to buy the ingredients she needs for cooking. Luckily her mother, Paquita, a superstitious Mexican woman with a heart of gold,is there to do the shopping, deal with her frequent crises and do what matters most: be a mother to Pancho. But Paquita is running out of time. She just found out that she’s going to die and she has only one final goal: to prepare her family for life without her.

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Tendres cousines 1980

Tendres cousines 1980

Tendres cousines 1980

Tendres cousines 1980
1h 32min | Drama, Romance | 19 November 1980 (France)

Storyline:

Summer 1939 in the Provence, France: the 14 years old Julien has a crush on his cousin Julia, who lives together with his family in their small hotel. Unfortunately she ignores him, because she’s several years older. Then the hotel guest Charles enters the competition, a slimy twenty-something who lusts for the girl, despite the fact that he’s engaged.

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Un Deux Trois Soleil 1993

Un Deux Trois Soleil 1993

Un Deux Trois Soleil 1993

Un Deux Trois Soleil 1993
1h 44min | Comedy, Drama | 18 August 1993 (France)

Storyline:

In a warm town of Marseille, a teenager, clamped among a crazy mother and an alcoholic father, looks desperately for tenderness. On bottom of gloomy suburb, Bertrand Blier delivers, once more, an unclassifiable film and gladly provocative, who can leave you perplexed but not indifferent.

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Leolo 1992

Leolo 1992

Leolo 1992

Leolo 1992
Léolo (original title)
1h 47min | Comedy, Drama | 16 September 1992 (France)

Storyline:

Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds – the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings, where he’s Leolo Lozone, son of a Sicilian peasant (conceived in a bizarre act involving a tomato). And his experiences of growing up (especially his sexual development) affect his response to both these worlds…

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