Vi er både rigtig og kloge 1975

Vi er både rigtig og kloge 1975

Vi er både rigtig og kloge 1975

Vi er både rigtig og kloge 1975
55min | Drama | 3 October 1975 (Denmark)

Storyline:

During a holiday in Sweden, a group of Danish children are at sea with a sailboat and land on a small uninhabited island, where they must spend a few days before being found. The youth movie describes the sociological mechanisms that come into play when a group of people is suddenly left to themselves.

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Die Wilden Kerle 2003

Die Wilden Kerle 2003

Die Wilden Kerle 2003

Die Wilden Kerle 2003
Die Wilden Kerle: Alles ist gut, solange du wild bist! (original title)
PG | 1h 34min | Family | 2 October 2003 (Germany)

Storyline:

A home-made soccer team of kids have to get ready for a match against the team that has taken the kids’ field to play and won’t give it back unless they lose a match against the kids.

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Boy 2012

Boy 2012

Boy 2012

Boy 2012
TV-14 | 48min | Drama | 29 September 2012 (Netherlands)

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“Boy” tells the story of an invisible member of our society, an undocumented Filipino cleaner. He has no name. Moving continuously from one location to the other, he is living between being seen and being invisible, between his life with his boyfriend, an erotic dancer, and his role as financial provider of his family back home. All this changes when his boyfriend auditions for a dance company and one of his employers commits suicide. A charming photographer shows interest in him. He wants him as a model for a photo series.

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Haze 2016

Haze 2016

Haze 2016

Haze 2016
TV-MA | 1h 46min | Drama, Thriller | 17 October 2017 (USA)

Storyline:

In the aftermath of a brutal fraternity hazing death, a college freshman’s desire to join the best fraternity on campus is compromised when his older brother launches an anti-hazing crusade. A modern retelling of ancient Greek mythology, HAZE is a sobering, realistic portrait of what truly goes on behind fraternity and sorority house walls.

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Safe Harbor 2009

Safe Harbor 2009

Safe Harbor 2009

Safe Harbor 2009
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Drama | TV Movie 30 May 2009

Storyline:

Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home for boys permanently.

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Ithaca 2015

Ithaca 2015

Ithaca 2015

Ithaca 2015
PG | 1h 36min | Drama, War | 9 September 2016 (USA)

Storyline:

Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain… and death… to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan’s 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the abruptness of change, the sweetness of life, the sting of death, and the sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.

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Hard Goodbyes: My Father 2002

Hard Goodbyes: My Father 2002

Hard Goodbyes: My Father 2002

Hard Goodbyes: My Father 2002
Dyskoloi apohairetismoi: O babas mou (original title)
1h 53min | Drama, Family | 27 December 2002 (Greece)

Storyline:

Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne’s stories and in astronomy. His father, with whom Elias has a strong relationship, is a travelling salesman and his absence affects the whole family. On the eve of his departure for a long business trip he promises his son that he’ll be back in time to watch the moon landing on TV together, but he is killed in a car accident. While Elias’ mother and his elder brother deal with the loss in their own way, Elias refuses to accept his father’s death. He creates an imaginary world, in which his father is alive. He shares fictitious stories with his friends, he sends letters to his grandmother on behalf of his father and he dreams of places like he did with him. Elias’ mother and his godfather, who do everything to bring him back to reality, take him to a summer house. On the night of the moon landing Elias meets his father in his own way and comes to terms with his loss.

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