Mamma Roma 1962

Mamma Roma 1962

Mamma Roma 1962

Mamma Roma 1962
1h 46m | Drama | Release date: September 22, 1962 (Italy)

Storyline:

With a fervent yearning for respectability and enough money to buy herself a brand-new life in Rome, the uninhibited, fearless, determined former streetwalker Mamma Roma renounces her ignominious past to reunite with her loafing 16-year-old son Ettore. Free at last from her disgusting pimp and ex-lover Carmine, Roma is bent on making an honest living running a humble vegetable stall, but a malicious extortion scheme and the equally insidious menace of exposure threaten to put an end to her zealous aspirations for a decent bourgeois existence. For his own sake, Ettore must be spared the violence of the adult world; nevertheless, can a lone single mother protect her only son from the same snares that wounded her youth?

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Among the Cinders 1984

Among the Cinders 1984

Among the Cinders 1984

Among the Cinders 1984
1h 44m | Drama | Release date: July 1985 (United States)

Storyline:

Author Maurice Shadbolt went before the cameras to play father to the main character, in this adaptation of his acclaimed coming of age novel. Teen Nick is estranged from his family, and blaming himself for his Maori mate’s climbing death. He runs away to his straight talking grandfather – who takes him bush – and loses his virginity to Sally (a first film role for Rebecca Gibney).

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Pashi 2017

Pashi 2017

Pashi 2017

Pashi 2017
32m | Short, Drama | Release date: 2017 (India)

Storyline:

A tender coming-of-age tale, Pashi follows a young boy from a Himalayan village as he fumbles through the maze of adolescence, infatuation, and queer identity. Siddharth Chauhan imaginatively uses dream sequences and folk traditions to tell an emotionally intricate story of desire.

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Rolltreppe Abwärts 2005

Rolltreppe Abwärts 2005

Rolltreppe Abwärts 1990

Rolltreppe Abwärts 2005
1h 11m | Drama | Release date: August 3, 1990 (West Germany)

Storyline:

13-year-old Joham lives with his single mother and her boyfriend somewhere in a poor area of ​​modern Germany. Having no pocket money, he sometimes resorts to petty theft. His older buddy incites him to bigger thefts, and in the end the boy gets caught…

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A Dog of Flanders 1999

A Dog of Flanders 1999

A Dog of Flanders 1999

A Dog of Flanders 1999
1h 40m | Family, Drama | Release date: August 27, 1999 (United States)

Storyline:

Poor, but happy, young Nello and his grandfather live alone, delivering milk as a livelihood, in the outskirts of Antwerp, a city in Flanders (the Flemish or Dutch-speaking part of modern-day Belgium). They discover a beaten dog (a Bouvier, a large sturdy dog native to Flanders) and adopt it and nurse it back to health, naming it Patrasche, the middle name of Nello’s mother Mary, who died when Nello was very young. Nello’s mother was a talented artist, and like his mother, he delights in drawing, and his friend Aloise is his model and greatest fan and supporter.

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Nachtwald 2021

Nachtwald 2021

Nachtwald 2021

Nachtwald 2021
1h 40m | Adventure, Family | Release date: November 24, 2022 (Germany)

Storyline:

There seems to be little room in society for imaginative people. Paul’s father was personally affected by this. When he told the people of his village how old records indicated there was a legendary cave inside the Ursulenberg mountain, they thought he was a crank. But more than a year ago, he left on an expedition and never returned. Did he find the cave and have an accident there? Paul has a hard time coping with his father’s disappearance. He keeps thinking about what his father had told him: “We have to dream as much as we can. How can all the wonderful things that could change the world become real if no one dares to imagine them?” On the last day of school, Paul picks up his father’s notes and decides to go in search of the cave with his best friend. Thus begins the summer of their lives.

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Remote 1993

Remote 1993

Remote 1993

Remote 1993
1h 20m | Adventure, Comedy, Family | Release date: September 22, 1993 (United States)

Storyline:

Home Alone clone about a 13-year-old boy, obsessed with making remote controlled toys, decides to put them to use when he’s trapped in a vacant model suburban house with three moronic prison escapees whom he proceeds to make mincemeat out of them.

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Menarca 2022

Menarca 2022

Menarca 2022

Menarca 2022
14m | Short | 2022

Storyline:

During her school’s summer camp, Juana, a 12-year-old girl, runs away to meet Nico, another boy from school with whom she is in love. During one of the afternoons they spend together, Juana suddenly has her first menstruation. Her body suddenly changes, her reality suddenly changes. Juana must overcome the shame of seeing Nico again and accept what is happening to her.

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