The Male Gaze: Strikers & Defenders 2020
The Male Gaze: Strikers & Defenders 2020
1h 35min | Drama, Sport | 27 July 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
Four drama-fueled shorts from Germany, France and the UK that explore how rivalry between teams can spill over into teacher-pupil relationships, high school crushes and brotherly compassion.
Life Is a Long Quiet River 1988
Life Is a Long Quiet River 1988
La vie est un long fleuve tranquille (original title)
1h 30min | Comedy | 3 February 1988 (France)
Storyline:
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.
Emil and the Detectives 1931
Emil and the Detectives 1931
Emil und die Detektive (original title)
1h 15min | Adventure, Family, Drama | 2 December 1931 (Germany)
Storyline:
Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
Ava 2017
Ava 2017
Not Rated | 1h 45min | Drama, Romance | 22 December 2017 (USA)
Storyline:
Ava, 13, is spending the summer on the Atlantic coast when she learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected. Her mother, Maud decides to act as if everything were normal so as to spend their best summer ever. Ava confronts the problem in her own way. She steals a big black dog that belongs to a young man on the run and later they have a big adventure.
El extraño hijo del Sheriff 1982
El extraño hijo del Sheriff 1982
1h 33min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Storyline:
Set in the old west, the sheriff’s wife gives birth to conjoined twins, she dies during labor and the ashamed sheriff decides to hide his children, years later he force the town doctor to surgically separate the kids but during the intervention one of them dies and his evil spirit possess his brother to take revenge.
Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010
Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010
1h 31min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7 July 2010 (France)
Storyline:
When the mother they have never known dies, three half brothers aged 8, 15 and 17 respectively, who were all brought up in different ways, meet for the very first time. They spend the long summer holidays with Nonna, their grandmother, and start sharing secrets and rabbits, polenta and mean tricks, adventures and first time experiences, together. At last their once solitary lives take a new direction.
The Rocking Horsemen 1992
The Rocking Horsemen 1992
Seishun dendekedekedeke (original title)
2h 15min | Comedy | 31 October 1992 (Japan)
Storyline:
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara Yasufumi Hayashi) hears “Pipeline” by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called “The Rocking Horsemen.” A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60’s.
Don’t Torture a Duckling 1972
Don’t Torture a Duckling 1972
Non si sevizia un paperino (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 45min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 29 September 1972 (Italy)
Storyline:
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
