Almost Angels 1962

Almost Angels 1962

Almost Angels 1962

Almost Angels 1962
Not Rated | 1h 33min | Comedy, Family, Music | 20 July 1963 (Japan)

Storyline:

Supported avidly by his mother and more reluctantly at first by his father, a working-class Austrian boy joins the Vienna Choirboys, where he proves to be unusually talented. The standard initiation ordeals which new boys must endure at the hands of their seniors are intensified in his case because he has aroused the jealousy of Peter, the head chorister, by singing a solo which Peter had long sung himself. The fact is that Peter’s voice is breaking, and with a broken voice often comes a broken heart. But, encouraged by the director and all the boys, Peter begins to develop in a new role as composer and conductor.

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Dream a Little Dream 1989

Dream a Little Dream 1989

Dream a Little Dream 1989

Dream a Little Dream 1989
PG-13 | 1h 54min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 3 March 1989 (USA)

Storyline:

The lives of a crusty old scientist and a bratty, teen Michael-Jackson-wannabe are about to intersect in a paranormal way. Coleman Ettinger seeks to break down the door of reality through studied dreaming; Bobby Keller wants Lainie Diamond, the girlfriend of his high school friend Joel, a handsome school jock. As Coleman persuades his wife Gena to join his experiments, an accident knocks their bodies out of existence, along with Bobby’s consciousness. Coleman’s consciousness winds up in Bobby’s body while Gena’s ends up buried and asleep inside Lainie’s. Only when sleeping can Coleman contact Bobby and elicit his help in putting things back, except that Bobby smugly prefers limbo over his aggravated life as a modern teenager.

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Don’t Torture a Duckling 1972

Don't Torture a Duckling 1972

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)

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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.

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HK: Hentai Kamen 2013

HK: Hentai Kamen 2013

HK: Hentai Kamen 2013

HK: Hentai Kamen 2013
1h 46min | Comedy | 13 April 2013 (Japan)

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High school student Kyosuke Shikijo (Ryohei Suzuki) is the most talented member of the school’s martial arts of the fist club. His late father was detective and Kyosuke share his father’s strong sense of justice. Kyosuke also has a secret. Kyosuke likes to wear female underwear and transforms himself into the alter ego “Pervert Mask,” wearing female underwear and gaining superhuman powers. This unusual interest also comes from his parents, with his father a masochist and his mother a sadist. By chance, Kyosuke gets the underwear of female high school student Aiko Himeno’s (Fumika Shimizu). With her underwear, he gains various pervert techniques and attempts to protect Aiko from a dirty and heinous teacher (Ken Yasuda).

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Byens bad 1952

Byens bad 1952

Byens bad 1952

Byens bad 1952
13min | Documentary, Short | 1952 (Norway)

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There was a time when only half of Oslo’s apartments had their own bathrooms. Because of this, the municipal baths played an important role, both for public health and sport. The municipality had the responsibility for the swimming pools, both indoor and outdoor.

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Friends Forever 1986

Friends Forever 1986

Friends Forever 1986

Friends Forever 1986
Venner for altid (original title)
Unrated | 1h 30min | Drama | 6 February 1987 (Denmark)

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Teenager Kristian moves to a new neighborhood. He makes friends with two very different boys in the new school: Henrik, an independent boy, and Patrick, the leader of a gang. Later on, Kristian is startled when he finds Patrick is gay and having an affair with the captain of a soccer team.

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A Time in Quchi 2013

A Time in Quchi 2013

A Time in Quchi 2013

A Time in Quchi 2013
Shu jia zuo ye (original title)
1h 49min | Drama | 6 December 2013 (Taiwan)

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Bao is sent to Quchi to accompany his widowed grandpa during the summer because his parents are getting divorced. Taking his homework with him, Bao is transferred to a small school. He finds out that he and a girl in the class share the same nickname, “Bear”. Moreover, he befriends a boy called Mingchuan. Their friendships brighten Bao’s life during his parents’

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Trabajador 2011

Trabajador 2011

Trabajador 2011

Trabajador 2011
1h 24min | Drama | 10 May 2011 (Philippines)

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Guiller and Dexter (Kenjie Salvino and Luigi Romero, respectively) are new graduates subsisting in the squalor of the slums. Ambitious Guiller, a business administration grad, is desperate for a promotion at the company where he works. He craves for the luxury that insouciant Dexter is flaunting. But don’t they earn the same? Turns out Dexter enjoys the patronage of a rich lover Hector (Albert Rosales) who provides him with frills.

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Romance 1999

Romance 1999

Romance 1999

Romance 1999
R | 1h 24min | Drama | 14 April 1999 (France)

Storyline:

Although deeply in love with her boyfriend – and indeed sleeping in the same bed with him – a schoolteacher cannot handle the almost complete lack of intimacy he will allow. Increasingly frustrated, she gradually finds her sexual appetites leading her into ever more risky situations, including a developing one with the headmaster.

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