Bouka 1988

Bouka 1988

Bouka 1988

Bouka 1988
1h 30min | Drama

Storyline:

Bouka is a gifted young teenager. He lives with his parents in a village and forms with them a solid family. His father gives him a traditional education close to nature. Unfortunately this happiness will be troubled by the brutal death of the fatherRemained widow, the mother of Bouka will suffer the consequences of a relentless traditional principle. She become the new wife of the nephew of her late husband, Bouka doesnt accepts this new condition of her mother. He suspects his stepfather to be involved in his father death. He stops to go to school and organize a gang in the forest. In this tormented atmosphere, he develops a mortal hate towards its new “father”

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The Wild Little Bunch 1973

The Wild Little Bunch 1973

The Wild Little Bunch 1973

The Wild Little Bunch 1973
The 14 (original title)
1h 45min | Drama | 19 December 1973 (USA)

Storyline:

“The 14” or “Existance” has a mother of 14 children living in poor working class England falling sick and the children try to carry on as a family. Convincing acting from young actors raises this gritty tale above the horizon.

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Georgica 1998

Georgica 1998

Georgica 1998

Georgica 1998
1h 49min | Drama | 14 October 1998 (Estonia)

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Quiet Tarkovskian drama about an old man who lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. A young mute boy is sent from the mainland to keep him company. Both are haunted by memories, the boy about his mother and the old man about his younger days as a missionary in Africa.

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Boy’s Choir 2000

Boy's Choir 2000

Boy’s Choir 2000

Boy’s Choir 2000
Dokuritsu shônen gasshô-dan (original title)
2h 9min | Drama, Music | 10 February 2000 (Germany)

Storyline:

The lives of two orphan boys begin to intertwine when the choir and the feelings they share bring them closer to one another.

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Edges of the Lord 2001

Edges of the Lord 2001

Edges of the Lord 2001

Edges of the Lord 2001
R | 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 12 October 2001 (Poland)

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Polish 12 year-young city Jew Romek gets a crash-course in Catholicsim from his daddy (‘stay hanging by your arms till your prayers are perfect’) so he can be sent away and escape deportation (Auschwitz?) hiding in the country where the clergy found a host, Gniecio’s simple peasant family, posing as their city relative. Gniecio’s eldest son Vladek proves rather tyrannical but no brighter then gullible junior Tollo, who takes a role play in catechism class to ‘become’ a Last Supper character, in his case Jesus, to the extreme, even training for a crucifixion from a tree. Neighbor Batylin and his wife are executed by the Nazis when their illegally kept pig is found. Kluba plays a dirty trick when Gniecio tries to sell his in the city; his son is as problematic for the boys, who meanwhile play involving a single girl-playmate, Maria, who takes Romek in when he’s stupidly thrown out by his widowed host by mistake. The horror of war itself suddenly shows its ugly head again, big time and in weird ways with unforeseen consequences…

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Mother 2020

Mother 2020

Mother 2020

Mother 2020
2h 6min | Thriller | 3 July 2020 (Japan)

Storyline:

Her name is Akiko and she is a fun-loving single mother to a young schoolboy. He needs her. She needs men. Specifically, she needs sex and attention from men and almost any man would do so sometimes the boy Shuhei does not receive the attention he craves. Men come and go, pleasure is given and received and it is all good until one day there is a large blood stain on Shuhei’s clothes. He has murdered his grandparents.

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When Beckham Met Owen 2004

When Beckham Met Owen 2004

When Beckham Met Owen 2004

When Beckham Met Owen 2004
Dong Pek Ham yu sheung O Wan (original title)
1h 20min | Comedy, Drama | 30 September 2004 (Hong Kong)

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Thirteen-year-olds David and Michael are brought together by their mutual love of soccer. United by their obsession with the game and idolization of British soccer stars, the boys build a strong friendship. But as puberty brings about changes, the boys start to grow in separate directions. While David loves to talk about sex and other raunchy topics, Michael tries to avoid such conversations. Eventually Michael must face what he’s been avoiding for some time, that his feelings for David are becoming increasingly complex. In his interesting take on adolescent sexual awakening.

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Fishing Platform 2008

Fishing Platform 2008

Fishing Platform 2008

Fishing Platform 2008
Jermal (original title)
1h 28min | Drama | 12 March 2009 (Indonesia)

Storyline:

After his mother’s death, 12-year-old Jaya (Iqbal S. Manurung) is sent to his father, Johar (Didi Petet), who works as a supervisor on a jermal (a fishing platform perched on log stilts in the middle of the sea). Johar is shocked, never knowing he has a son and rejects the boy as his kin. Fully aware he can’t bring Jaya back to land due to a dark past, Johar is forced to accept the boy as a worker on the site.

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