Happy 2015

Happy 2015

Happy 2015
1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 2015 (France)

Storyline

Florent, a 23 year-old Parisian, meets Alessia, a lost American girl from Texas in the streets of Paris, by random chance. At an important crossroad of their lives – both characters have just graduated from college – Alessia and Florent are torn between the possibilities that lie before them in today’s globalised world and the limitations and responsibilities which come with adulthood in the face of global economic turmoil. Florent dreams of America; Alessia dreams of France, her mother’s unfulfilled wish. Through their interaction with Marion and Louis, Florent’s best friends, Coralie, his ex-girlfriend, and Thomas, a waiter they meet in Normandy, our characters learn about the world they live in. A world that brings them much questioning. A world of their generation.

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Destricted 2006

Destricted 2006

Destricted 2006
1h 56min | Drama | 15 September 2006 (UK)

Storyline

Shorts by eight directors examine the boundary between Eros and porn. A feral man masturbates with the aid of a whirling crankshaft; a sunbathing woman phones a doctor for a playful house call; a man with a quartz penis goes through lovemaking, castration, cannibalism, and restoration; a mouth and tongue, close up, lick viscous liquids of different colors and consistency; we watch a grainy film of a lesbian threesome, their eyes and genitalia crudely scratched out; a director interviews ten men, choosing one who picks among six actresses for a porn shoot; ink wash drawings become animated scenes of copulation; last, while an infant cries, a strobe illuminates adults at play.

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Iskolakerulok 1989

Iskolakerulok 1989

Iskolakerulok 1989
Iskolakerülők (original title)
1h 33min | Drama | 14 September 1989 (Hungary)

Storyline:

In the country reformatory school both the teacher and the children are trapped by the circumstances. From among the pupils excels Sanyi, who cannot accept the fact that his mother does not love him and he keeps on escaping after her. From among the teachers it is Mr. Csőrös who distinguishes himself by listening to the children, looking for those who escaped, Sanyi feels affection to him. On summer holidays he camps out at the riverside with his family, prospecting. The mother of Sanyi slanders Csőrös in front of the boy, therefore Sanyi takes a revenge: he throws the gold collected by the man into the river. As it turns out that the slander had no ground, Sanyi begins to search for gold as well in order to make his error good.

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Sieben Sommersprossen 1978

Sieben Sommersprossen 1978

Sieben Sommersprossen 1978
1h 19min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6 October (East Germany)
Also Know As: Seven Freckles 1978

Storyline

Teens in a holiday-camp. First love, first sex, first self-made theatre performance of “Romeo and Julliet” – quite interesting to have a look at the east-German youth in the seventies.

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La buena vida 1996

La buena vida 1996

La buena vida 1996

La buena vida 1996
1h 47min | Comedy, Drama | 13 December 1996 (Spain)

Storyline

This humorous movie charts the life of a 14 year old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away on holiday). Things don’t quite go to plan when at the crucial moment the phone rings to tell him his parents have been killed in a car crash. From then he is on his own and in control of his destiny, or at least he things so.

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Wanna See My Beautiful Navel 1978

Wanna See My Beautiful Navel 1978

Wanna See My Beautiful Navel 1978
Vil du se min smukke navle? (original title)
1h 43min | Drama | 9 October 1978 (Denmark)

Storyline:

Amidst a bunch of kids from a 9th grade class from Denmark which goes on a school trip to Sweden having a lot of experiences , the story surrounds Claus and Lene, which meet the first real feelings of love.

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Goreshto pladne 1965

Goreshto pladne 1965

Goreshto pladne 1965

Goreshto pladne 1965
1h 29min | Drama | 3 January 1966 (Bulgaria)

Storyline:

On a hot summer day three boys are splashing around the river. One of them gets his hand caught in the stone masonry of a railway bridge. Many peasants, the passengers from the train, which stops nearby, and the crews of tanks taking part in a military exercise flock to the scene of accident. People drop out whatever they are doing; even the maneuvers get stopped to come to the help of a child. Action must be taken quickly because the water level is rising fast. The concerted efforts of all involved people help save the child. Thus a particular case, an extreme situation has served as a test of significant and insignificant in our life, which often happens to become transposed.

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