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The Wastrel 1961

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The Wastrel 1961

The Wastrel 1961

The Wastrel 1961
Il relitto (original title)
1h 24min | Drama | 24 February 1961 (Italy)

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Duncan Bell (Van Heflin) is a wealthy man who sets out to sail around the globe with his son. Traveling in Bell’s yacht, the two ambitious sailors face a perilous situation when an accident causes the boat to explode, throwing them both into the sea, with only debris to keep them afloat. While they drift on the ocean, Bell thinks back on his troubled life, particularly on how his alcohol problem has damaged his relationship with his wife, Liana (Ellie Lambeti)

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Confessions of an Invisible Girl 2021

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Confessions of an Invisible Girl 2021

Confessions of an Invisible Girl 2021

Confessions of an Invisible Girl 2021
Confissões de uma Garota Excluída (original title)
1h 31min | Comedy, Drama | 22 September 2021 (USA)

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Tetê doesn’t feel accepted either at school or at home. When her unemployed parents must move in with her grandparents to their home in Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro, the 16-year-old girl must start over at a new school. She will try everything not to be bullied again, and maybe make friends and have a social life.

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The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi 2003

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The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi 2003

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi 2003

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi 2003
Zatôichi (original title)
1h 56min | Action, Comedy, Crime | 2 September 2003 (Italy)

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Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But behind his humble facade, Zatoichi is a master swordsman, gifted with lightning-fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. Zatoichi wanders into a town run by sinister gangs and a powerful samurai. He’s destined for violent showdowns when he stumbles on two beautiful geishas avenging their parents’ murder… Duels, wit and a touch of zen! Cult anti-hero Zatoichi is back in a sword-fighting adventure written, directed and starring Takeshi Kitano.

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The Scent of Oranges 2019

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The Scent of Oranges 2019

The Scent of Oranges 2019

The Scent of Oranges 2019
Uzly a pomerance (original title)
1h 32min | Drama, Family, Romance | 27 May 2019 (Czechia)

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In love with a girl that smells of oranges while in a complicated relationship with his father, Darek is gentle, strong and devoted to his little sister and their herd of horses. Darek’s world is a story about the joy and pain of growing up in the isolated yet beautiful Lusatian Mountains. Here, horses are not expensive specimens of racing stables but beings you should care for and love. Not even that is enough in life though, as Darek finds out nearing the Summer’s end, closing his childhood definitely. However, just like any ending, this is a start of something new. This is an adaptation of the book, “The Orange Days,” which has won literary prizes in Europe and been published in five languages.

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Run Wild, Run Free 1969

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Run Wild, Run Free 1969

Run Wild, Run Free 1969

Run Wild, Run Free 1969
1h 40min | Drama, Family | 28 March 1969 (UK)

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Philip Ransome, a northern English boy about ten-years-old, has been mute since age three and spends his days roaming the moors alone. His parents despair of a cure. One day, he sees a singular wild albino pony with blue eyes and befriends it avidly. A kindly retired Colonel, who accepts Philip as he is, a girl his age, and a pet falcon she gives him provide him with more things to love and care about. Gradually, Philip emerges from his shell. But the way out is full of heartbreak and setbacks.

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Menino de Engenho 1965

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Menino de Engenho 1965

Menino de Engenho 1965

Menino de Engenho 1965
1h 22min | Drama | 28 September 1993 (Brazil)

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1920, in Paraíba. After his mother’s death, the boy Carlinhos (Sávio Rolim) is sent to the Santa Rosa mill to be raised by his grandfather and uncles. There he witnesses the arrival of a new era, with the advent of modern sugar mills and the economic and social transformations that sugarcane production goes through, changes that will affect everyone’s life. When he grows up and goes to school, he is no longer the naive and innocent boy who arrived at the mill.

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Train in the Snow 1976

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Train in the Snow 1976

Train in the Snow 1976

Train in the Snow 1976
Vlak u snijegu (original title)
1h 24min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 10 June 1976 (Yugoslavia)

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One class of school children from a small village make the trip to Zagreb. Teacher gets sick and the class is forced to go home without him. During their journey the train gets stuck in a snowstorm.

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