Stand Clear of the Closing Doors 2013
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors 2013
1h 42m | Drama | 23 May 2014 (USA)
Storyline:
The story of an autistic youth named Ricky who, after a particularly difficult day at school, escapes into the subways. It’s here that he starts his real journey, on a days-long voyage of discovery while, above ground, his mom frantically searches for him.
Boy of Two Worlds 1959
Boy of Two Worlds 1959
Paw (original title)
1h 33m | Family, Drama | 18 December 1959 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Young boy whose father was from Denmark and mother from a tropical island must live with his paternal aunt in Denmark. His skin color becomes an issue right away and he decides to escape and live in the forest.
Bari Theke Paliye 1958
Bari Theke Paliye 1958
2h 4m | Drama | 24 June 1958 (India)
Storyline:
Kanchan, all of eight years old is always up to pranks and mischief in his village home. He finds his father a cruel demon who keeps his mother oppressed and imprisoned. In his dreams, the big city is El Dorado, till he reaches there. But the glimpses of reality are harsher and the victims he meets give him a different view of the city. He himself has to struggle for survival and experiences life as it is, only to go back to his village home. This time as a mature person and with the realization that his father is no demon after all, but yet another victim struggling with poverty and still a loving father.
Nobody’s Child 2021
Nobody’s Child 2021
L’enfant de personne (original title)
1h 38m | Biography, Drama | 17 February 2021 (Belgium)
Storyline:
Lyes, a young boy, is brutally torn away from Emilie, the foster mother who took in him as a baby, and who nevertheless wishes to adopt him. The child thus finds himself confronted with the violence of the homes of the ASE(CPS in USA), which refuses to cut the link with the biological mother, yet unable to take care of him. Agathe, Emilie’s sister, has never abandoned the child. She will fight against the system to try to maintain a link with him, determined to take him home to help him rebuild …
Beware of Children 1960
Beware of Children 1960
No Kidding (original title)
1h 26m | Comedy | 18 December 1960 (UK)
Storyline:
A young, married couple inherit an estate and decide to turn it into a summer camp for children.
The Tiger Rising 2022
The Tiger Rising 2022
1h 42m | Family | 8 February 2022 (USA)
Storyline:
A young boy discovers a caged tiger in the woods near his home.
The Cowboys 1972
The Cowboys 1972
2h 14m | Adventure, Drama, Western | 13 January 1972 (USA)
Storyline:
When his cattle drivers abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man’s job under Andersen’s tutelage; however, neither Andersen nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
The Skin 1981
The Skin 1981
La pelle (original title)
2h 11m | Drama, War | 25 November 1981 (France)
Storyline:
In 1943, as the Italian Captain, Curzio Malaparte, shakes hands with the U.S. Army General, Mark Clark, the war is practically over for battle-scarred Naples. However, the long-awaited peace is yet to come. Among the devastating war’s many casualties, once more, the innocents are the biggest victims, as the impoverished mothers and daughters are forced into prostitution, having no other means of survival. Against the backdrop of the mighty Mount Vesuvius, three disparate women–the virginal, Maria Concetta; Capri’s aristocratic princess, Consuelo Caracciolo, and the idealistic U.S. Air Force pilot, Deborah Wyatt–find themselves trapped in an unbearable hell on earth. Is our delicate skin the only barrier between the immortal soul and the evils of the world?
En attendant Bojangles 2021
En attendant Bojangles 2021
2h 4m | Drama | 5 January 2022 (France)
Storyline:
In front of their little boy, Camille and Georges dance on their favorite song “Mr Bojangles”. With them, there is only place for fun and fantasy. The one who shows the way is the mother, an unpredictable wisp. She leads them into a whirlwind of poetry so that the party continues again and again, no matter what happens. Mad love has never lived up to its name so well.
