Accomplices 2009

Accomplices 2009

Accomplices 2009

Accomplices 2009
Complices (original title)
1h 33min | Crime, Romance | 20 January 2010 (France)

Storyline:

Both detectives on a sickening murder case struggle with being alone and childless in their 40s. As they investigate the young man found beaten and strangled to death, platonic friends Karine and Herve unravel a love story between Vincent, and Rebecca a high school girl. The teenage lovers quickly plunged into the kind of amour fou the flics fear to chance for themselves. Rebecca is missing, and unknown to her, the boy was a homosexual Internet hustler. The ordinarily blasé male investigator is appalled to find that on-line dating is a world the sexy Karine knows well. Is Rebecca the killer, another victim or ?

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Stielke, Heinz, Fünfzehn 1987

Stielke, Heinz, Fünfzehn 1987

Stielke, Heinz, Fünfzehn 1987

Stielke, Heinz, Fünfzehn 1987
1h 35min | War | 12 February 1987 (East Germany)

Storyline:

Follows the 15-year-old, Heinz Stilke, a member of the Hitler Youth. Heinz is proud of his father, who died bravely for his fatherland, but suddenly learns that he himself is half Jewish. Heinz leaves his gymnasium and is forced to flee his classmates lest his secret be revealed.

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Beyond the Horizon 2019

Beyond the Horizon 2019

Beyond the Horizon 2019

Beyond the Horizon 2019
Le milieu de l’horizon (original title)
1h 30min | Drama | 7 February 2020 (Canada)

Storyline:

Summer 1976. Europe is undergoing a relentless heatwave and one of the worst droughts in its history. On his parents’ farm, Gus (13) spends his vacation reading comic books, helping his father who has invested his entire savings in a modern battery henhouse, and running free with Mado, the wild child from the village. But slowly around him, his reassuring and familiar universe starts to crack under the heat… His mother, always a tender and gentle presence, begins drifting away, spending more and more time with the mesmerizing Cécile, while his father finds himself alone to fight the ravage of the drought. Witnessing the destruction of his nuclear family, traditional farming and patriarchy, Gus has to grow up fast and quickly leave behind the innocence of his childhood…

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Follow You Follow Me 1979

Follow You Follow Me 1979

Follow You Follow Me 1979

Follow You Follow Me 1979
35min | Drama, Short | October 1979 (USA)

Storyline:

The film explores the development in the friendship of two teenage boys. Joseph who is introspective and shy and Peter, more confident and whose father is an employee at the factory owned by Joseph’s father. A dispute at the factory affects the relationship and reveals their feelings.

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