Holes 2003

Holes 2003

Holes 2003
PG | 1h 57min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 18 April 2003 (USA)

Storyline:

“But if you forget to come back for Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.” Those were the exact words spoken to young Elya Yelnats the day he forgot to repay Madame Zeroni. From then on his family was cursed with bad luck. One hundred years later Stanley Yelnats IV is accused of stealing a pair of cleats from a major league baseball player and sent to Camp Green Lake (a dry lake bed in the middle of the desert). It never rains at Camp Green Lake, it hasn’t for one hundred years. The secretive and mysterious Warden has each inmate spend every day digging one hole to “build character.” But when an artifact from the famous “Kissin’ Kate” Barlow is found in a hole, the Warden forces the boys to work double time leading Stanley to deduce they’re digging because the Warden is looking for something. But what? And how is the mystery of Camp Green Lake connected to Stanley’s family curse?

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Go North 2017

Go North 2017

Go North 2017
1h 45min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 13 January 2017 (USA)

Storyline:

A few years from now, something will happen that will change our world. A global event that causes pandemonium, chaos, and death. Life as we know it will never be the same. Left behind are abandoned buildings, empty streets, and other painful reminders of a better yesterday. Not a single adult remains, all victims of this global catastrophe. The only survivors are teenagers and children, living on the streets in the hollowed out shell of a once great city. This is their world now. They make their own rules and enforce their own laws. Some are merely trying to survive, while others rule by force.

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Osada havranu 1978

Osada havranu 1978

Osada havranu 1978
1h 4min | Adventure | September 1978 (Czechoslovakia)

Storyline:

A river in flood carries a small boy to the Raven settlement. The hunters want to kill him, but when a ravenfeather floats down onto him the boy is saved, for ravens are sacred in the stronghold. The boy is adopted into the clan and gets the name Ravenfeather. The years go by and Ravenfeather has become a strapping youth but has still not been accepted among the men. When the men go out hunting he has to stay at home and guard the women. He makes friends with young Falco from the neighboring village and Falco teaches him to shoot with a bow and catch small game. One day, when the men have gone off to hunt boar, brigands attack the village, steal a cow, abduct the girl Squirrel and knock Ravenfeather senseless. But Falco is at hand.

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Shtorm na sushe 1976

Shtorm na sushe 1976

Shtorm na sushe 1976
1h 17min | Family | November 1976 (Soviet Union)

Plot:

Based on Boris Zhitkova stories. The seaside town of Russia, 1913. Mitka Hryapov with suburban kids dreaming of distant countries and travel. With envy, thinking of the harbor, where they still are not allowed to visit, they spent whole days on the beach and Mitka patiently teaches friends uncomplicated cases, without which there is a large swimming. Painting “The Storm on the overland” Sergei Gerasimov named the best film for children.

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