A Little Bit of Freedom 2003

A Little Bit of Freedom 2003

A Little Bit of Freedom 2003

A Little Bit of Freedom 2003
Kleine Freiheit (original title)
1h 42min | Drama | 15 April 2004 (Germany)

Storyline:

Baran (Cagdas Bozkurt) is a young Kurd who was sent to Hamburg after his parents, who had helped Kurdish rebels, were betrayed and subsequently killed by the Turkish militia. Now that Baran is 16, he is no longer allowed to stay in Germany and faces the bleak prospect of getting deported back.

Baran meets Chernor (Leroy Delmar), an African boy who has the same problem and trafficks drugs to make some money. Chernor is openly gay and their friendship has sexual overtones from the beginning. Baran also has very little interest in girls, even though a marriage might solve his immigration-related legal trouble.

Things get even more complicated when Baran spots the traitor of his family and wants to kill him. However, the man pleads for his life and Baran spares him. After this act of forgiveness, Cherno and Baran have sex together for the first time, making it clear to Baran that his interest in Cherno goes beyond friendship.

Finally, both Cherno and Baran, who had made a desperate attempt to free Cherno, are arrested by the police.

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A Choo 2020

A Choo 2020

A Choo 2020

A Choo 2020
Da pen ti (original title)
1h 42min | Fantasy, Romance | 15 July 2020 (Taiwan)

Storyline:

Even when they were orphans, Wang Yizhi has always been in love with Xinxin. Now older, Yizhi decides to train as a boxer before he allows himself to profess his love, but only for her to fall for a geeky computer engineer who is secretly a popular superhero. When Xinxin gets kidnapped, Yizhi must prove his love and his fighting skills to get the girl of his dreams.

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Aventuras com Tio Maneco 1971

Aventuras com Tio Maneco 1971

Aventuras com Tio Maneco 1971

Aventuras com Tio Maneco 1971
1h 35min | Comedy, Family

Storyline:

Three boys and their uncle venture into the Amazon jungle in search of their missing grandfather who’s been kidnapped by evil space robots! An unusual and hard-to-find kids film that mixes live-action, animation and some “mondo” footage to tell it’s story.

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A Skeleton in the Closet 2020

A Skeleton in the Closet 2020

A Skeleton in the Closet 2020

A Skeleton in the Closet 2020
Todos tenemos un muerto en el placard o un hijo en el closet (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama | 24 August 2020 (USA)

Storyline:

Coming out of he closet is never easy, but the gay son has already come out to his parents. They weren’t happy, but they still love him. The son arrives home, only to learn that his partner has dumped him.

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Quiet Is the Night 1978

Quiet Is the Night 1978

Quiet Is the Night 1978

Quiet Is the Night 1978
Wsród nocnej ciszy (original title)
2h 8min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 17 November 1978 (Poland)

Storyline:

A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys during the Christmas season. The police commissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son with whom he has difficult relationship.

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The River with No Bridge 1992

The River with No Bridge 1992

The River with No Bridge 1992

The River with No Bridge 1992
Hashi no nai kawa (original title)
2h 22min | Drama | October 1994 (USA)

Storyline:

Though ethnically and culturally identical to the average Japanese, the burakumin have been an underclass in Japanese society since the 17th century when the shogunate government codified social hierarchies. The burakumin were the class on the bottom rung. They were herded into separate villages, and forced to work in such lowly vocations as slaughtering animals and tanning hides. In 1922, Zenkoku Suiheisha (National Levelers Association) organized and started fighting for burakumin civil rights. Though these rigid categories may have blurred since the 1600s, and despite the Zenkoku’s modern successors – the Buraku Liberation League – the stigma of being a burakumin still remains today. In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the struggle, director Yoichi Higashi spins this tale about two boys who endure a daily torrent of prejudice for their lowly lineage, but grow up to fight for their rights.

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You Disappear 2017

You Disappear 2017

You Disappear 2017

You Disappear 2017
Du forsvinder (original title)
1h 57min | Drama | 20 April 2017 (Denmark)

Storyline:

Mia is married to the successful headmaster Frederik, who is caught embezzling from his own school. But did he do this of his own free will – or has his personality been altered by the tumour lurking in his brain? Mia is desperate to uncover what kind of man she is actually married to. If the happiest three years of Mia’s life with Frederik were while he had a tumour in his brain, who was she married to before? YOU DISAPPEAR is a movie about the challenges we face as neuroscience forces us to rethink what we are as human beings.

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As Luck Would Have It 2002

As Luck Would Have It 2002
Le hasard fait bien les choses (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 29min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | TV Movie 20 November 2002

Storyline:

Jean-Pierre Muller is an intellectual with a quiet life. One day he receives a letter of the Government saying he’s been appointed tutor of troubled kid Antoine. He files a request to refuse it but the more he tries to get away from the responsability more he gets involved and has to face important issues in his life.

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Diary of June 2005

Diary of June 2005

Diary of June 2005

Diary of June 2005
Yu-wol-ui il-gi (original title)
1h 45min | Crime, Thriller | 1 December 2005 (South Korea)

Storyline:

Two teenagers joining the same class in a high school die on the same day. The one to be top of the class is killed by a big knife on the street, the other – the second best of the class indeed – seems to be jumped from the top of the school building. Everybody believes that he first killed his classmate and than himself. But when the police finds small pill boxes into the stomachs of both kids confessing their murder two South Korean cops are torn into a new case of murder series. While they try to hunt down the serial killer, more pupils are getting killed…

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