Miracle Run 2004

Miracle Run 2004

Miracle Run 2004

Miracle Run 2004
TV-PG | 2h | Drama | TV Movie 9 August 2004

Storyline:

The social stigma and discrimination of autistic children is present in the movie Miracle Run. The life of Corrine Morgan-Thomas, the mother of autistic twins Stephen and Philip, changes drastically when she finally finds out that her sons are autistic. The first few doctors she takes her sons to are unable to diagnose them with any problem, saying that they are just fine; fortunately, Corrine takes her sons to a specialist who diagnoses the boys with Autism. Corrine’s initial reaction is that of shock. She does not like the idea that her sons are autistic, and leaves the hospital angrily. She does, however, end up realizing that the specialist was correct. When she tells her husband about their autism, he says he doesn’t want to deal with the autism, so she decides to leave him. She is determined to fight the social stigma of autism and to have her sons be treated like any other child, so she does not tell Stephen and Philip’s new school about their problem. The school accuses her of abusing her children, but then tells her that she ought to find another school for the boys when Corrine tells them about her twins’ autism. In the end her boys set their hearts to succeed and do succeed, proving that autistic children can do anything that any other child could do!

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Out Stealing Horses 2019

Out Stealing Horses 2019

Out Stealing Horses 2019

Out Stealing Horses 2019
Ut og stjæle hester (original title)
12 | 2h 3min | Drama, Mystery | 2020 (USA)

Storyline:

November 1999: 67-year-old Trond (Stellan Skarsgård), lives in self-imposed isolation and looks forward to welcoming in the new millennium alone. As winter arrives he meets one of his few neighbors, Lars (Bjørn Floberg), and realizes he knew him back in the summer of 1948. 1948 – the year Trond turned 15. The summer Trond grew up. OUT STEALING HORSES is based on the bestselling novel by Norwegian author Per Petterson, which received several important international awards and was included in The New York Times ’10 Best Books of 2007 (Fiction)’. Petterson’s novels have been translated into more than 50 languages.

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Farewell My Concubine 1993

Farewell My Concubine 1993

Farewell My Concubine 1993

Farewell My Concubine 1993
Ba wang bie ji (original title)
R | 2h 51min | Drama, Music, Romance | 15 October 1993 (USA)

Storyline:

“Farewell, My Concubine” is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth century into a three-hour time-frame.

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Too Cool for School 2015

Too Cool for School 2015

Too Cool for School 2015

Too Cool for School 2015
11min | Short, Fantasy, Thriller | May 2015 (France)

Storyline:

An apathetic teenager with sex on his brain decides to ditch school. The decisions he makes culminate into something of a waking nightmare, tearing apart any facade he has put on and revealing his true personality.

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Autumn Has Already Started 1960

Autumn Has Already Started 1960

Autumn Has Already Started 1960

Autumn Has Already Started 1960
Aki tachinu (original title)
1h 19min | Drama | 1 October 1960 (Japan)

Storyline:

Single mum (father of child dead) from the country with 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle’s family – wife, male, female teens, run a struggling greengrocer – and lives/ works in local inn. He gets bullied/ fights with local boys, goes to the baths, plays basketball, is befriended by his male cousin and becomes friendly with grade 4 girl who’s the daughter of the innkeeper, who employs his mum and is the longterm mistress of a businessman from another town, who’s the girl’s father and who brings her half sister and brother to meet her but they’re mean to her. Meanwhile the boy’s mother gets friendly with one of the inn’s clients and chucks her job for a trip or something more permanent with him. The young girl takes him shopping, and wants the boy to live with her and her mother, but mother and father refuse so the two kids go to a seaside where he sprains his ankle and they’re late back even though the police get them and they’re in trouble. The boy loses his beetle and tries to get another for the girl for a school project but when he does, she’s moved house with her mother at the urging of her father. Clear? It’s better in the film.

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Picco 2010

Picco 2010

Picco 2010

Picco 2010
1h 45min | Crime, Drama, Horror | 3 February 2011 (Germany)

Storyline:

Kevin is new in youth prison. Due to over-occupancy he has to share a cell with Tommy, Andy and Marc. A partnership of convenience in a system where only the strong prevail and which is dominated by violence and latent aggression. Oppression and beatings are a daily occurence. It is hard for Kevin to establish himself. Especially Marc and Andy are after him. He’s afraid of not sticking it out. Only Tommy gives him an amicable advice: In this system, you’re either a victim or a culprit. If he doesn’t want to be a loser anymore, he has to start fighting. A piece of advice that will trigger most dire consequences…

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Five Dances 2013

Five Dances 2013

Five Dances 2013

Five Dances 2013
TV-14 | 1h 23min | Drama, Music, Romance | 4 October 2013 (USA)

Storyline:

FIVE DANCES is a creatively adventurous narrative feature film set in the New York ‘downtown’ modern dance world. The story follows the rocky emotional journey of an 18-year old dancer with talent to burn, who must choose between his responsibility to his broken family in the Midwest, and forging a life and career for himself.

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The Island on Bird Street 1997

The Island on Bird Street 1997

The Island on Bird Street 1997

The Island on Bird Street 1997
PG-13 | 1h 47min | Drama, War | 11 April 1997 (Denmark)

Storyline:

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all the relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.

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