White Mane 1953

White Mane 1953

White Mane 1953

White Mane 1953
Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage (original title)
Approved | 47min | Drama, Family | 11 December 1953 (Finland)

Storyline:

A boy comes across a white-haired wild horse in the Camargue. Ranchers seek to capture the horse, but it escapes. What will happen as the boy sets out to find the horse again? The film is set in the gorgeous landscape of the Camargue, a marsh area in the south of France where the river Rhone meets the Mediterranean Sea.

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The Conformist 1970

The Conformist 1970

The Conformist 1970

The Conformist 1970
Il conformista (original title)
R | 1h 53min | Drama | 22 October 1970 (USA)

Storyline:

This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello’s mind.

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Burning Secret 1988

Burning Secret 1988

Burning Secret 1988

Burning Secret 1988
PG | 1h 46min | Drama | 23 December 1988 (USA)

Storyline:

While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat’s lonely 12-year-old son is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. During a story of his war experiences, the baron reveals the scar of a wound from an American soldier and thrusts a pin through it, saying “see– no feeling.” Little does the boy realize that it is his turn to be wounded. But soon his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother. The boy’s jealousy and feelings of betrayal become uncontrollable.

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