Children 1976

Children 1976

Children 1976

Children 1976
43min | Short, Drama | November 1976 (USA)

Storyline

Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He’s ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father’s death, there’s a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.

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Short Skin 2014

Short Skin 2014

Short Skin 2014

Short Skin – I dolori del giovane Edo 2014
1h 26min | Comedy, Drama | 30 August 2014 (Italy)

Storyline

Since childhood Edoardo has been suffering from phimosis, a penis malformation which prevents him from experiencing sexual satisfaction. Now seventeen, he starts to feel some pressure from the outside world. Apparently everyone around him talks and thinks about sex: his friend Arturo, so obsessed with losing his virginity that is wanting to pay for it, his parents, encouraging him to declare his love to Bianca, even his little sister Olivia, looking for a good partner for the family dog Teagan. Edoardo’s lack of confidence starts changing with the casual meeting of a new girl, Elisabetta, and the unexpected approach of Bianca. Forced to come out of the shadow he was hiding in, Edoardo tries first to solve his problem with clumsy strategies, finding finally the courage to face his fears.

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From Afar 2015

From Afar 2015

From Afar 2015
Desde allá (original title)
1h 33min | Drama, Romance | 21 January 2016 (Italy)

Storyline:

Armando, a middle-aged owner of a Caracas dental prosthesis business, is estranged from his father, who he observes occasionally from a distance. He finds a young man of the streets who negotiates a fee high enough for the boy to be used to provide Armando’s masturbatory object. Although a following encounter ends in a beating for Armando, he continues to make the boy dependent. What is the final result that Armando desires? Is it something more than a conflicted relationship with a hustler?

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The Flight of the Innocent 1992

The Flight of the Innocent 1992

The Flight of the Innocent 1992
La corsa dell’innocente (original title)
R | 1h 40min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 9 October 1992 (Italy)

Storyline

The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family’s sins.

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Parle tout bas Si c’est d’amour 2012

Parle tout bas Si c'est d'amour 2012

Parle tout bas Si c’est d’amour 2012
1h 30min | Comedy | TV Movie 17 June 2015

Storyline:

A biology teacher who is asked to show his students how to use a condom. A grandmother who loves talking about relationships and sexuality. Parents who are upset and a principal who’s fed up but concerned about his students’ health. A mother who worships a long-gone man… Caroline and Olivier are sixteen, and they’d like it if their parents and teachers would stop wanting to talk to them about love, since most of them obviously don’t understand a thing about teenage feelings. Caroline and Olivier love each other. And they’re scared. Scared not to be up to the task of their love story. They want their first time to be beautiful and wonderful…

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Amphetamine 2010

Amphetamine 2010

Amphetamine 2010

Amphetamine 2010
An fei ta ming (original title)
1h 37min | Drama, Romance | 8 April 2010 (Hong Kong)

Storyline

Openly gay banker Daniel debates whether to return to Australia or stay in Hong Kong when he meets Kafka, a straight swimming instructor. The young men fall in love, believing that their love can bridge anything, despite their difference in sexuality and Kafka’s increasing drug use. Daniel does not regret his love for Kafka, who tries to love him back against his nature. But a flashback memory from Kafka’s past makes it difficult for their relationship to work.

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Herz Im Kopf 2001

Herz Im Kopf 2001

Herz Im Kopf 2001
1h 30min | Drama, Romance | 6 June 2002 (Germany)

Storyline:

akob, an 18-year-old boy, comes back to Frankfurt after he left after his mothers death one year ago. While trying to sort his life he meets a Polish Au-Pair, Wanda, and falls in love with her. But there are several disappointments on both sides…

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Vybuch bude v pet 1984

Vybuch bude v pet 1984

Vybuch bude v pet 1984

Vybuch bude v pet 1984
Family

Plot:

HIavním hero Gottwaldov children’s film director Josef Pinkava blast will be five a fifth-grade pupil Louis XIV. It features an extraordinary talent for physics, which drives him to new and new attempts, while childishly naive, but essentially based on sound scientific principles. Most of them, however, ~ especially for adults misunderstanding – ends ominously until the moment when Louis takes a physics professor Lumír Kostečka, who will continue his extraordinary talent to manage and develop. Besides the positive dětskjch types are successfully captured and negative types, such as the notorious slacker, a smoker and a thief Vosecký of eight. Vvkreslenií figures in adolescents and adults, the authors unfortunately failed to avoid many of the stereotypes zřetelnúmi traces of literary cliche. The film is a wreck filmed in a fresh and spontaneous tempo game dětskúch representatives of the young audience will be astonished. ~ On XXIV. Film Festival for Children in 1984 she received Gottwald Josef Pinkava Award Cs. film silver whistle.
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