Run with the Hunted 2019

Run with the Hunted 2019

Run with the Hunted 2019

Run with the Hunted 2019
Not Rated | 1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 26 June 2020 (USA)

Storyline:

Oscar, a young boy, defends his best friend, Loux, and kills her abusive father in the process, forcing him to run away from his rural hometown. His innocence slips away as he is introduced to love, crime and corruption. 15 years later, he has all but forgotten his past and become the leader of a band of lost children. When Loux moves to the same city in search of a better life, she finds a job with a curmudgeonly private investigator. Stumbling upon Oscar’s antiquated missing child report, Loux takes it upon herself to find the boy who saved her life.

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Joe the King 1999

Joe the King 1999

Joe the King 1999

Joe the King 1999
R | 1h 33min | Crime, Drama | 22 January 1999 (USA)

Storyline:

A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother’s hands, harsher abuse at his father’s, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works. Although Joe uses the money to pay off some of his father’s debts and to replace his mother’s records that his father smashed in a fit of temper, Joe gets no thanks.

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Julio Begins in July 1979

Julio Begins in July 1979

Julio Begins in July 1979

Julio Begins in July 1979
Julio Comienza en Julio (original title)
2h | Drama | 30 April 1979 (Chile)

Storyline:

This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.

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Mackintosh and T.J. (1975)

Mackintosh and T.J. (1975)

Mackintosh and T.J. (1975)

Mackintosh and T.J. (1975)
PG | 1h 36min | Drama, Western | 5 February 1976 (USA)

Storyline:

The wandering old ranch hand Mackintosh takes care on a fatherly way for the young and homeless T.J. and he helps him to remain straight. Both find a job on the ranch of Jim Webster. Mackintosh proves his skills as a horse tamer and he wins the sympathy of Webster. Webster asks Mackintosh to hunt coyotes, as the area is unsafe because of them. When a murder takes place, Mackintosh is framed. This leads to dramatic events.

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Thrill of the Hills 2011

Thrill of the Hills 2011

Thrill of the Hills 2011

Thrill of the Hills 2011
Frisson des collines (original title)
1h 43min | Drama, Romance | 15 April 2011 (Canada)

Storyline:

Even in rural Quebec in 1969 things were changing. A twelve year old boy, in love with his attractive teacher decides to fulfill his dream of seeing Jimi Hendrix in Woodstock with his father. But life decides otherwise. His father dies, causing his mother to lose grip with reality. His sister reciprocally falls in love with the village’s priest, his best friend is repeatedly beaten by his father and the new teacher appeals more to his tastes than a young girl about his age. Will he succeed?

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A Summer’s Tale 1996

A Summer's Tale 1996

A Summer’s Tale 1996

A Summer’s Tale 1996
Conte d’été (original title)
G | 1h 53min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 20 June 2014 (USA)

Storyline:

A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.

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Lacombe, Lucien 1974

Lacombe, Lucien 1974

Lacombe, Lucien 1974

Lacombe, Lucien 1974
Lacombe Lucien (original title)
R | 2h 18min | Drama, Romance, War | 29 September 1974 (USA)

Storyline:

A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, works for the German police. He then meets France Horn, the daughter of a rich jewish tailor.

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Temptation of the Mask 1987

Temptation of the Mask 1987

Temptation of the Mask 1987

Temptation of the Mask 1987
Kamen no yûwaku (original title)
1h 8min | Drama | December 1987 (Japan)

Storyline:

Sano plays an adopted orphan who is in love with his stepmother and repeatedly raped by his new father. When he grows up, the traumatized boy becomes an arsonist, only to find some fleeting taste of love with the male detective investigating him.

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Die Russen kommen 1987

Die Russen kommen 1987

Die Russen kommen 1987

Die Russen kommen 1987
1h 32min | Drama, War | 4 December 1987 (East Germany)

Storyline:

Spring 1945. Günter, a 15-year-old boy in a small Baltic Sea resort, still believes in the final victory. He is the fastest in the hunt for an escaped foreign worker. He confronts him, who is then shot by the village policeman. Günter proudly accepts the Iron Cross II and volunteers for the front, even though his father has already died. Neither the mother nor the teacher can stop him. During his first deployment, he was attacked by Soviet soldiers, but was able to flee home. Shortly after the Soviet Army occupied the place, Günter was arrested for the murder of the foreign worker. He doesn’t reveal the real killer, but the case is solved. And when the policeman tries to force Günter’s silence, he refuses to cover up the murderer. All of these events bring him close to madness.

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