Little Cheung 1999

Little Cheung 1999

Little Cheung 1999

Little Cheung 1999
Xilu xiang (Original title)
1h 58min | Drama | 30 December 1999 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

In 1997, Little Cheung is a street-wise nine-year-old boy living in a bustling neighborhood of Hong Kong, just before the reunification with China. His parents are always working at their restaurant, so Little Cheung becomes much closer to his grandmother and her Filipino maid Armi. Little Cheung befriends Fan, a girl his age who is an illegal immigrant from China. He splits his tips with her when she helps him deliver take-outs for his father. The pair have some amusing adventures, and delight in peeing in the drinks of a troublesome thug. Against his father’s will, Little Cheung starts searching for his older brother, whom his father disowned because he became a gangster.

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El corral 2017

El corral 2017

El corral 2017

El corral 2017
1h 30min | Drama | 2017

Storyline:

Two antisocial adolescents, resentful against their classmates and teachers, intend to provoke commotion in the school through a series of anonymous acts of vandalism. Little by little, the game is losing its naive side and the two young people are submerged in a dangerous spiral of violence that seems to have no limits.

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Unpredictable Guy 1980

Unpredictable Guy 1980

Unpredictable Guy 1980

Unpredictable Guy 1980
Tiro al aire (original title)
1h 45min | Drama | 2 October 1980 (Argentina)

Storyline:

Following his mother`s death, wise son Sebastian(Adrian Ferrario) attempts to organise dad Nestor(Hector Alterio) to cope with basic household chores. Sebastian shows Nestor how to light the oven. Later Nestor can`t fix a broken lamp, but his son soon sorts it out. Nestor wants to act and invent money raising schemes whereas Sebastian yearns for a dad with a steady job. Nestor gets a role in an ad and pursues acting work. He seeks backing to market ping pong balls with world cup logos though the event has passed.The essence of the story revolves around how these conflicting aspirations can be reconciled. Nestor is attracted to Sebastian`s teacher and she gradually warms towards him. His acting ambitions falter in a disasterous performance witnessed by his son. However Nestor does seem to hit it off with the teacher(Graciela Alfano). At an event dad and boy bond strongly when dad scores a winner in a head ball game. When Sebastian is taken ill, dad cares tenderly for him and on his recuperation he announces that he is going to take a regular job-all the boy ever wanted him to do.

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Human Factors 2021

Human Factors 2021

Human Factors 2021

Human Factors 2021
1h 42min | Drama | 29 January 2021 (USA)

Storyline:

Jan, Nina and their two kids are a cosmopolitan, middle-class family. Nina and Jan have a successful career as account executives at their advertising company, but when Jan accepts to work on the campaign of a political party, Nina’s exclusion from the decision-making leads to doubting and mistrust. When they decide to spend a family weekend at their house in a coastal holiday resort, a mysterious home invasion sets everything off balance. While they try to put the incident into perspective, agitation triggers off a shake in the family core. Told through narrative loops and shifting lenses, HUMAN FACTORS unveils the fragility of truth in the hyper-mediatized world and the power of individual perspective.

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Country Teacher 2008

Country Teacher 2008

Country Teacher 2008

Country Teacher 2008
Venkovský ucitel (original title)
1h 43min | Drama, Romance | 20 March 2008 (Czechia)

Storyline:

Petr, youthful, quiet, and sensitive, comes from Prague to teach natural science in a country town. The gruff principal asks what he’s running from and predicts he’ll be gone in six months. Marie, a widow with a teen son, Lada, befriends Petr. She’s lonely. Petr does some chores at her farm and watches Lada with his weekend girlfriend, Bara. We meet Petr’s parents and understand some of why he left Prague, then Petr’s friend Mihi pays a visit and we understand more. Mihi throws a wrench in things, and Lada comes to Petr for help. Has Petr found his place in the world, but what about his nature?

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Superclásico 2011

Superclásico 2011

Superclásico 2011

Superclásico 2011
1h 39min | Comedy | 17 March 2011 (Denmark)

Storyline:

Christian is a Copenhagen wine seller on the brink of bankruptcy. Equally unsuccessful in just about every other aspect of life, it has been 17 months since his wife Anna left him. Anna works as a soccer agent in Buenos Aires and now lives a life of luxury with Argentina’s top player Juan Diaz. Then one day Christian and their 16-year-old son Oscar get on a plane to Buenos Aires. Christian arrives under the pretense of wanting to sign the divorce papers, but in truth, he wants to try to win Anna back.

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Pagine chiuse 1969

Pagine chiuse 1969

Pagine chiuse 1969

Pagine chiuse 1969
1h 28min | Drama | May 1969 (France)

Storyline:

Northern Italy, late sixties. In the midst of the family crisis, with the parents on the brink of separation, little Luciano is forced to move to a religious college. The stern father, long distracted by a lover, fears that the mother’s influence could harm her son in such a delicate period. But Luciano ill-suited to life in college. While the rigid priests stifle every momentum, the boy, who is homesick, closes more and more in himself and can not make friends with his companions.

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