Monica and Friends: Lessons 2021
Monica and Friends: Lessons 2021
Turma da Mônica: Lições (original title)
1h 37m | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 30 December 2021 (Brazil)
Storyline:
Monica and friends try to play hooky and it backfires. Now, they must face the consequences throughout a journey where they must learn valuable lessons about the real value of friendship.
Toña machetes 1985
Toña machetes 1985
2h 2m | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 31 January 1985 (Mexico)
Storyline:
A powerful and wealthy woman one day finds her abandoned son, roughly seven years old, returned to her by her father (the boy’s grandfather). Of course, the boy is a stranger to her. At first, our rather bitchy heroine treats the boy harshly, but with time she develops a loving relationship with him, and the new man she’s engaged to. Trouble is, a former lover has a score to settle with her and the boy finds himself in the middle of a murderous squabble.
Buster’s World 2021
Buster’s World 2021
Buster: Oregon Mortensen (original title)
1h 32m | Family | 17 June 2021 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Buster, 11, loves everything about his life. He’s an optimist who knows that the going can get tough, but if you apply a little magic and a lot of love, things will work out.
Hans Staden 1999
Hans Staden 1999
1h 32m | Biography, Drama, History | 31 July 1999 (Portugal)
Storyline:
On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to survive he tries to convince the Indians that he is not Portuguese (their enemies) but a friend of the French (their allies), and that his God would be very angry if they were to eat him.
Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass 2015
Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass 2015
Toi Thay Hoa Vang Tren Co Xanh (original title)
1h 43m | Drama | 2 October 2015 (Vietnam)
Storyline:
Set in the countryside village of Vietnam, Yellow Flowers on the Green grass is a touching tale of innocent love, friendships and brotherhood.
Isaac 2020
Isaac 2020
1h 24m | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 26 September 2021 (USA)
Storyline:
Two friends meet after sixteen years, but neither one is who he once was in the past. Both have partners, but they are very different. Nacho and Marta are a perfect bourgeois married couple with good jobs, but they are unhappy because they are unable to get pregnant. The other couple, Denis and Carmen, are freer and more liberal; they live hand to mouth and are trying to get money to open a restaurant. When Denis offers to be their surrogate parent for the money they need to open the restaurant, the two couples will have to face their shortcomings and seek the happiness they have not yet found, even if it means breaking their own rules – even when the pregnancy is far along.
The Invisible Thread 2022
The Invisible Thread 2022
Il filo invisibile (original title)
1h 30m | Comedy, Drama, Family | 21 February 2022 (Italy)
Storyline:
Leone, 16 years old and two dads, Simone and Paolo, was born in California thanks to Tilly, an American woman who helped his parents to bring him into the world. Leone then grew up in Italy like all the other children but he also experienced the struggles for rights in which his family participated. All this is told in a short video that Leone is preparing as a school assignment together with Jacopo, his best friend. Just as, dodging prejudices and misunderstandings about his sexuality, Leone is about to experience his first love story, the solidity of his family seems to be in danger. Living a complex family situation will push Leo to reflect on the true nature of the “invisible thread” that binds him to his fathers and to all those who wanted his birth.
Fiorile 1983
Fiorile 1993
1h 58m | Drama | 26 March 1993 (Italy)
Storyline:
While travelling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted two hundred years. During Napoleon’s Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in love with French soldier Jean – but while Jean was distracted, Elisabetta’s brother Corrado stole some gold that Jean was guarding, and set the curse in train. The Benedettis become wealthy, corrupt and hated by their former friends, who rename them the Maledettis – the cursed. The childrens’ grandfather Massimo is the last man to be directly affected by the curse – but will he pass it onto them?
Playground 2021
Playground 2021
Un monde (original title)
1h 12m | Drama | 8 July 2021 (France)
Storyline:
When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora tries to find her place, torn between children’s and adult’s worlds.
