Rufus 2016

Rufus 2016

Rufus 2016
42min | Short, Comedy, Family | TV Short 18 January 2016

Storyline:

Manny has moved to a new school, and it’s not easy to fit in. After wishing he had more friends, Manny finds a mysterious collar and puts it on Rufus, the family dog. Suddenly, Rufus turns into a boy! Manny’s not sure what to do, so he enrolls Rufus in school. When the other students notice Rufus’s silly dog antics — chasing squirrels, eating without utensils, asking for belly rubs, and catching a frisbee with his mouth — he immediately becomes the most popular kid around. Manny is jealous of his new best friend but eventually learns that a dog’s loyalty to his owner always comes first.

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En tu ausencia 2008 UNCUT

En tu ausencia 2008 UNCUT

En tu ausencia 2008 UNCUT

En tu ausencia 2008 UNCUT
1h 35min | Drama | 7 October 2008 (Canada)

Storyline:

13-year-old Pablo is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to help Pablo with his transition from childhood to adolescence, and give him some advice on sex, love and life in general. On a quiet country road just outside of the village, Pablo meets Paco, an oddly calm, well dressed stranger whose car just broke down. Nevertheless, he seems more interested in the boy than fixing his problem. At first Pablo maintains a cautious distance from the stranger, vaguely heeding his fellow villagers’ advice to keep his distance. However, the boy’s subconscious quest to find understanding of his dark past and guilt makes him lose all of his protective layers. He sees a new friend in Paco; someone he can open up to and feel valued by almost like a replacement father. As Pablo’s affection grows for the man, he is unknowingly and blindly being lead toward a tragedy that will scar him for life

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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things 2004

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things 2004

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things 2004

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things 2004
R | 1h 38min | Drama | 19 January 2005 (France)

Storyline

Seven-year-old Jeremiah is pulled from his foster home and thrown into a troubled life on the road with his teenage mother, Sarah.

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Death in Venice 1971

Death in Venice 1971

Death in Venice 1971

Death in Venice 1971
Morte a Venezia (original title)
2h 10min | Drama | 1 March 1971 (UK)

Storyline:

In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio, on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty that Aschenbach has long sought and he becomes infatuated. However, the onset of a deadly pestilence threatens them both physically and represents the corruption that compromises and threatens all ideals.

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Buitenspel 2005

Buitenspel 2005

Buitenspel 2005
1h 30min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 21 December 2005 (Belgium)

Storyline:

Flemish greater Brussels grocer Bert transferred his true passion, aiming for the national football (soccer) team, missed due to a knee injury, to his eager son Gilles (12), whom he coaches tirelessly. Excessive anger at the referee during the match when a scout may select Gilles for the provincial team, a crucial step, proves fatal for Bert’s heart. Gilles is frustrated that both the grocery shop and his mother gradually are taken over by football-ignorant accountant Joris and imagines still being coached by father. His own foot injury will either delay his ambition at a crucial or may end it altogether if not treated properly.

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Brooklyn Bizarre 2015

Brooklyn Bizarre 2015

Brooklyn Bizarre 2015

Brooklyn Bizarre 2015 WEBdl
1h 38min | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7 February 2015 (Germany)

Storyline:

Maurice is a French teenager who escaped France and begins working at a hype club in Brooklyn called BIZARRE. He quickly becomes a sort of ‘mascot’ of this incredible club.The owner and the artists that perform there love him, but Maurice can’t love…because of the past…and his secrets.

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Zappa 1983

Zappa 1983

Zappa 1983

Zappa 1983
1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 4 March 1983 (Denmark)

Storyline

In the early ’60s, 3 Danish classmates join a “den”/tree house. Steen likes his pet fish Zappa because it eats the weaker fish. Bjørn attracts girls and Mulle is a talkative, strong boy. Steen gets them into burglary and later escalates.

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Au nom du fils 2012

Au nom du fils 2012

Au nom du fils 2012

Au nom du fils 2012
1h 20min | Drama | 3 April 2013 (Belgium)

User review:

This movie is basically a Belgian version of the “Death Wish”-films, where good old Charlie Bronson went up against a bunch of various hoodlums and punks, but this time with a twist: The main protagonist is the radio-host Elisabeth (played wonderfully by Astrid Whettnall), a loving mother, who has recently had to go through a lot of anguish and suffering, as a direct consequence of something relating to priests (without going into further details, as not to spoil anything).

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