The Kumite 2009

The Kumite 2009

The Kumite 2009

 

The Kumite 2009
45m | Documentary, Action, Sport | 1 January 2009 (Ukraine)

Storyline:

Maximus is twelve and captain of the National Ukrainian Karate Full-Contact Youth Team. They are the underdog favorites as they prepare and go into the ring against the much more experienced Russian team in the Europe Karate Finals. With his father as coach played by real life Dad, Victor, he fights his own fears of defeat and leads his team into an impossible win. All new-comers to the screen will delight you with their talent in Martial arts. You will be cheering for Maximus in the final bout. Viewer discretion is advised for fighting scenes and language.

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The Gorilla Kid 1977

The Gorilla Kid 1977

The Gorilla Kid 1977

The Gorilla Kid 1977
El rey de los gorilas (original title)
1h 42m | Action, Adventure, Family | 14 July 1977 (Mexico)

Storyline:

A small boy abandoned in the jungle and raised by a benevolent group of apes slowly begins to realize that he isn’t quite like the rest of his primate family in this touching meditation on the bond shared between man and beast.

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J’ai voulu rire comme les autres 1980

J'ai voulu rire comme les autres 1980

J’ai voulu rire comme les autres 1980

J’ai voulu rire comme les autres 1980
1h 10m | Family | 16 April 1980

Storyline:

In the last year of the First World War, six French boys in the age of puberty spend their summer holidays by the sea again. Since the fathers are fighting in the war and the mothers are working in hospitals, the children are left to themselves alone. They play war and discover their strengths and weaknesses…

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The Story of My Son 1990

The Story of My Son 1990

The Story of My Son 1990

The Story of My Son 1990
Ngoi di sai gaai (original title)
1h 15m | Drama | 28 September 1990 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

Li Tzu-Liang is returning to Hong Kong with the ashes of his wife. He now has to bring up his two sons on his own. Though he is quite well-off, he his plagued by debts and when he loses a large sum of money betting on horses, he has to turn to dangerous loan-sharks. Here starts a spiral which gets him and his two sons deeper and deeper into trouble.

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Tartsan Koivula suomalaisessa leppämetsässä 1980

Tartsan Koivula suomalaisessa leppämetsässä 1980

Tartsan Koivula suomalaisessa leppämetsässä 1980

Tartsan Koivula suomalaisessa leppämetsässä 1980
1h 6m | Family | 26 November 1980 (Finland)

Storyline:

A story of four 13-year-olds who start the Tartsan Society. The purpose of the club is to investigate the crimes that have taken place in the locality, which takes young people on a dizzying summer adventure. The film is based on a youth book written by Uolevi Nojonen.

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Gypsy 2011

Gypsy 2011

Gypsy 2011

Gypsy 2011
Cigan (original title)
1h 40m | Drama | 14 July 2011 (Slovakia)

Storyline:

Gypsy tells the story of Adam, a boy who, after his father dies, tries to cross the boundary of his Roma shantytown and to improve the lives of his brothers and sisters. He encounters racial, social and cultural prejudices and comes into conflict with the unwritten laws of his own community. Circumstances turn against him and his situation drives him to commit a tragic act: murder.

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Iratan e Iracema 1987

Iratan e Iracema 1987

Iratan e Iracema 1987

Iratan e Iracema 1987
1h 49m | Fantasy | 1987

Storyline:

The adventures of a couple of unruly siblings who, one fine day, decide to go out of their way to school and get involved in fanciful adventures in extraordinary worlds based on traditional Portuguese fables that evoke, for their strangeness and surrealism, Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland.

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Kde padají hvezdy 1996

Kde padají hvezdy 1996

Kde padají hvezdy 1996

Kde padají hvezdy 1996
25m | Family | 1996 (Czech Republic)

Plot:

In this series about a sanatorium for children with respiratory diseases, the children play a dominant role. For example, Sandra, a successful gymnast, in the focus of systematic preparation for her sports, but currently has a leg in plaster. Another hero is Lojza, a sympathetic boy who is already in the sanatorium for the third time. He found a real girlfriend in Kristýna, the niece of the chief doctor who lives with her parents in Switzerland.

We see the children from the recording examination to the farewell ceremony of the sanatorium. They have collected new power, met real friends and to take many important insights for life.

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