Mein Name ist Eugen 2005

Mein Name ist Eugen 2005

Mein Name ist Eugen 2005

Mein Name ist Eugen 2005
1h 40min | Adventure, Comedy, Family | 28 December 2006 (Germany)

Storyline

Four kids – Eugen, Wrigley, Bäschteli and Eduard – leave for an adventure around Switzerland, searching for the fabulous treasure of Titicaca Lake, discovered by Fritzli Bühler.

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Nordsee ist Mordsee 1976

Nordsee ist Mordsee 1976

Nordsee ist Mordsee 1976
1h 27min | Drama | 2 April 1976 (West Germany)

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14 years old Uwe grows up in a dull multi-storey apartment building in a suburb of Hamburg. His father is an alcoholic and beats his son while he’s drunk. Only together with his clique Uwe feels strong and accepted. Their aggressions focus on the Asiatic boy Dschingis. When the younger boy dares to fight back, Uwe declares war on him.

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Abeltje 1998

Abeltje 1998

Abeltje 1998
1h 50min | Adventure, Family | 26 November 1998 (Netherlands)

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Pupil Abel is the victim of Laura’s nasty prank, yet gets accidentally blamed and overreacts. His ma withdraws him from school and gets him a job as lift-boy. But its’ a special lift: when he pushes the forbidden green button, it takes him, Laura, Jozias Tump and Maria Klaterhoen to Manhattan. There he’s mistaken by a rich bitch who looks like his mother for her long missing son Johnny. When a police helicopter comes to tow the lift cabin, the Dutchmen get back in. It takes them to a Latin American country, Perugona. The new revolutionary leader realizes presidents live about one year, so he gives the job to Mr. Tump, who saved his life. The news coverage attracts Abel’s and Johnny’s family, in time for an even weirder finale.

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Menino Maluquinho O Filme 1995

Menino Maluquinho O Filme 1995

Menino Maluquinho O Filme 1995
1h 23min | Adventure | 7 July 1995 (Brazil)

Storyline

The principal character in Helvécio Ratton’s delightful film has been adapted from a book and comic created by the Brazilian cartoonist Ziraldo, and tells the tale of a happy-go-lucky 10-year-old child growing up in a city in the 60s.

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Neverland 2011

Neverland 2011

Neverland 2011

Neverland 2011
3h | Adventure, Fantasy | TV Mini-Series (2011– )

Storyline

Raised on the streets of turn-of-the century London, orphaned Peter and his pals survive by their fearless wits as cunning young pickpockets. Now, they’ve been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook to snatch a priceless, some believe, magical treasure which transports them to another world. Neverland is a realm of white jungles and legendary mysteries of eternal youth, where unknown friends and enemies snatched from time welcome the new travelers with both excitement and trepidation. These groups include a band of 18th century pirates led by the power-mad Elizabeth Bonny, and the Native American Kaw tribe led by a Holy Man, which has protected the secret of the tree spirits from Bonny and her gang for ages, and that has meant war. But as the fight to save this strange and beautiful world becomes vital, Hook, Peter, and the ragamuffin lost boys consider that growing old somewhere in time could be less important than growing up, right here in their new home called Neverland.

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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)

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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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