Empire of the Sun 1987
2h 33min | Drama, History, War | 25 December 1987 (USA)
Storyline:
Based on J. G. Ballard’s autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.
Histoires extraordinaires 1968
2h 1min | Horror, Mystery | 12 September 1968 (Italy)
Storyline:
Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: “Toby Dammit” features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. “Metzengerstein” features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion – who, it turns out is really her dead lover. “William Wilson” tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills.
Park 2016
Park 2016
1h 40min | Drama | 9 March 2017 (Greece)
Storyline:
Athens Olympic Village, ten years after the Games: wilding youths, injured retired athletes and stray dogs among ruins and decaying sports venues.
The Fluffer 2001
R | 1h 35min | Drama, Comedy, Romance | 1 February 2002 (UK)
Storyline:
The story, set in the world of adult entertainment, centers around three characters: Johnny Rebel, a straight man who has become a star in the world of gay porn; Johnny’s stripper girlfriend Babylon; and Sean, a naive young man in love with Johnny, who ends up becoming Johnny’s “fluffer”.
Taps 1981
2h 6min | Drama | 25 December 1981 (USA)
Storyline:
Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
The Squid and the Whale 2005
R | 1h 21min | Comedy, Drama | 16 December 2005 (USA)
Storyline:
In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept “philistines” – people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with “philistines”. Their sons, the teenager Walt and the boy Frank, feel the separation and take side: Walt stays with Bernard, and Frank with Joan, and both are affected with abnormal behaviors. Frank drinks booze and smears with sperm the books in the library and a locker in the dress room of his school. The messed-up and insecure Walt uses Roger Water’s song “Hey You” in a festival as if it was of his own, and breaks up with his girlfriend Sophie. Meanwhile Joan has an affair with Frank’s tennis teacher Ivan and Bernard with his student Lili.
