The Ice Storm 1997
R | 1h 52min | Drama | 26 November 1997 (USA)
Storyline:
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband’s lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends’ parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century. Things get bad…
While No One Is Watching 2013
När ingen ser (original title)
Not Rated | 58min | Documentary | 2 October 2013 (Sweden)
Storyline:
In Sweden two investigators are working on identifying images of a child being raped by two men. In northern Romania a girl is being offered a job in Italy, but ends up as a sex slave. A Russian man is investing money in Cambodia. Parallel to his business venture he rapes one child after the other. Three girls move to the capital of South Sudan to look for a job. But the demand for sex has created an extensive market involving perpetrators such as ex-soldiers, aid workers and businessmen. While No One Is Watching takes us through the stories of the children, the police officers and the organizations fighting to stop commercial sexual exploitation of children.
En Route 2004
Unterwegs (original title)
1h 20min | Drama | 17 June 2004 (Germany)
Storyline:
A slightly sinister but charming young man falls in with a young mother and daughter and her boyfriend on a camping holiday and leads them astray.
The Unsaid 2001
R | 1h 51min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 14 September 2001 (Italy)
Storyline:
Michael Hunter’s lovely, beloved 17 year-old son Kyle committed suicide, although he was in therapy for depression. This ruins Michael’s marriage, his daughter Shelly moves in with her mother. He stops treating patients in order to write and teach Psychotherapy, until many years later when a student gets him fascinated by the case of Thomas ‘Tommy’ Caffey. He was about to be released at his 18th birthday from the closed ‘boys school’ he was placed into after his father, Joseph, was put into jail for beating his adulterous mother to death. Michael feels that Tommy carries a big chip on his shoulder, ignores that Shelly fell for him at first sight, but is mesmerized by Tommy’s resemblance (purposefully enhanced) to Kyle. There is also a revealing meeting with Tommy’s dad in jail.
Heaven Help Us 1985
Heaven Help Us 1985
R | 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8 February 1985 (USA)
Storyline:
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil’s Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
Underground 1998
1h 33min | Crime | 3 December 1998 (UK)
Storyline:
Big Ben. Buckingham Palace. Trafalgar Square. St Paul’s Cathedral. Piccadilly Circus. The London that the world knows. But there is another side to London that remains unknown to the tourists, that emerges only at night, that comes alive in aging terraced houses and sprawling estates. It is a world of pills of dubious origin swallowed hurriedly and hopefully, of music with a thumping beat that you’ll still hear when you wake up the morning after, of Rizla papers bought from an all-night garage, of bottles of mineral water shared as love tokens, of greasy kebabs eaten when the taste-buds have long since numbed, of sunrises viewed through stinging eyes. It is close to heaven, but it is very close to hell. For Rat, a fifteen year-old drug dealer, it is the only world he knows. Over one night Rat’s world turns upside down as he finds himself on the run from older, far more serious criminals. We follow Rat as he looks for shelter with those he thinks he can trust. As each door closes on him, the likelihood of ever seeing the light of day again grows smaller.
Finn 2013
1h 30min | Drama, Family | 11 December 2013 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
Finn lives with his father, a carpenter. Both are grieving the loss of Finn’s mother, who died giving birth to Finn on Christmas Eve. Religious symbolism and music as a source of healing accompany Finn and his father as they try to live.
