Panya Raenu 2011

Panya Raenu 2011

Panya Raenu 2011

Panya Raenu 2011
1h 27min | Comedy, Drama, Music | 22 December 2011 (Thailand)

Storyline:

Set in a village in Northeastern Thailand, “Panya Raenu” is a story of friendship and dream that centers on a young boy named Panya who has a talent to sing, but who is too poor to afford a local music contest. However, with his endeavor and the support from friends, Panya becomes determined to win while at the same time fending off the advances of a chubby girl named Raenu. One day, a bus carrying students from the capital breaks down near their village and the rich city kids have to spend the night with the rural poor ones.

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Errol 2003

Errol 2003

Errol 2003

Errol 2003
2h 6min | Drama | 2003

Storyline:

12-year-old Errol is found by police in a wardrobe in a drug parade on New Year’s Eve. No one knows who he is or where he comes from and it takes months before he gives his name or talks at all. In his first foster family, he thrives over time, and just as confidence has begun to grow strong, Errol finds out that the placement is only temporary. In desperation, he flees to Stockholm, where he is confronted with the harsh life on the street and in the doorways, utilized by dirty boots with features borrowed by Fagin and hiding from the police. Together with Alfons, who came from Germany during the war, he hangs himself as a small criminal circus artist…

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Exit 7 (1978)

Exit 7 (1978)

Exit 7 (1978)

Exit 7 (1978)
1h 35min | Crime, Drama | 1978

Storyline:

A 40-year-old architect begins to doubt his role as a father in a world sliding into decadence. When he meets a young Polish girl he runs off with her to Rhodes. His psycho-moralistic angst is presented in a series of flashbacks when the hijack of his airplane forces him to take stock of his life.

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Pagine chiuse 1969

Pagine chiuse 1969

Pagine chiuse 1969

Pagine chiuse 1969
1h 28min | Drama | May 1969 (France)

Storyline:

Northern Italy, late sixties. In the midst of the family crisis, with the parents on the brink of separation, little Luciano is forced to move to a religious college. The stern father, long distracted by a lover, fears that the mother’s influence could harm her son in such a delicate period. But Luciano ill-suited to life in college. While the rigid priests stifle every momentum, the boy, who is homesick, closes more and more in himself and can not make friends with his companions.

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Man Behind the Sun 1988

Man Behind the Sun 1988

Man Behind the Sun 1988

Man Behind the Sun 1988
Hei tai yang 731 (original title)
1h 45min | Drama, History, Horror | 1 December 1988 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

Story of a Japanese terror camp in the end of WW2, where the Japanese are using the Chinese as guinea pigs in terrible experiments to develop deadly bacterial-plagues.

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En Sabana Grande siempre es de dia 1988

En Sabana Grande siempre es de dia 1988

En Sabana Grande siempre es de dia 1988

En Sabana Grande siempre es de dia 1988
1h 43min | Drama | 1 October 1990 (Sweden)

Storyline:

It tells the story, adventures and misadventures that a small and unsuspecting boy of barely ten years old goes through while desperately trying to fulfill and make his greatest wish come true: to meet and be reunited with his father. In this unbridled search, our little friend will walk through the great Caracas and will know first-hand the rigors of living in the concrete jungle, a jungle where for many it is and will always be daytime.

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My Dad Is a Jerk 1997

My Dad Is a Jerk 1997

My Dad Is a Jerk 1997

My Dad Is a Jerk 1997
Dui bu qi, duo xie ni (original title)
108min | Comedy | 30 August 1997 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

Lee Lap Cheung is a slacker who is going nowhere. His ex-wife Yip Ting has become powerful in the business world. In a moment of anger Cheung requests Ting to allow him and his son Jason to spend some time together.

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First Love 2002

First Love 2002

First Love 2002

First Love 2002
Premier amour (original title)
8min | Drama, Short | 31 October 2002 (USA)

Storyline:

In a schoolyard, kids play tag at recess. Back in class, Pol sits beside Justine. When the teacher’s back is turned he twirls her hair. After school the boys scoff some candy and share it with the girls… The class is at the swimming pool. One boy diverts the teacher’s attention so the others can sneak a peek into the girls’ change room. But the surprise is on Pol when he finds himself trapped inside with the girls, his swimsuit still outside!

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Joe the King 1999

Joe the King 1999

Joe the King 1999

Joe the King 1999
R | 1h 33min | Crime, Drama | 22 January 1999 (USA)

Storyline:

A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother’s hands, harsher abuse at his father’s, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works. Although Joe uses the money to pay off some of his father’s debts and to replace his mother’s records that his father smashed in a fit of temper, Joe gets no thanks.

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