Rolling Elvis 2019

Rolling Elvis 2019

Rolling Elvis 2019

Rolling Elvis 2019
1h 30min | Comedy, Family | 7 January 2019 (Colombia)

Storyline:

It’s 1985 and while the country is focused in the victories of the national cyclists in the Tour of France, life changes in the blink of an eye for Elvis Antonio, a 12 year old boy passionate for pro cycling and her ex-hippie mom, a big Elvis Presley fan; when Elvis skips school to watch TV and is caught, her mom forces him to enter the school talent show dressed as Elvis Presley, as punishment. Elvis Antonio runs away and starts a painful but hilarious journey that leads him to discover the biggest secret his family keeps.

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Prospero’s Books 1991

Prospero's Books 1991

Prospero’s Books 1991

Prospero’s Books 1991
R | 2h 4min | Drama, Fantasy | 30 August 1991 (UK)

Storyline:

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the ‘The Tempest’.

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A’Mare 2008

A'Mare 2008

A’Mare 2008

A’Mare 2008
15min | Short, Drama | 16 January 2009 (USA)

Storyline:

Two boys, 11 or 12, perhaps brothers, take a rowboat from shore to fish. Andrea, who’s tougher, complains a lot, sometimes criticizing Felice, sometimes just complaining about life and his situation. Out of sight of shore, Andrea sees a suitcase; he jumps into the water, swims to it, and starts to push it back to the boat. While he’s doing that, Felice sees a man floating, face up. While he tries to grab the man and hold on, he knocks an oar into the sea. The boys are unable to lift the man into the boat, and without two oars, can’t head to shore. Will rescue come? Andrea tries to reassure Felice while also figuring out who the man is and what he’s doing in the sea.

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The Education of Little Tree 1997

The Education of Little Tree 1997

The Education of Little Tree 1997

The Education of Little Tree 1997
PG | 1h 52min | Drama | 25 December 1997 (USA)

Storyline:

Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and grandpa and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.

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Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010

Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010

Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010

Je vous aime très beaucoup 2010
1h 31min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7 July 2010 (France)

Storyline:

When the mother they have never known dies, three half brothers aged 8, 15 and 17 respectively, who were all brought up in different ways, meet for the very first time. They spend the long summer holidays with Nonna, their grandmother, and start sharing secrets and rabbits, polenta and mean tricks, adventures and first time experiences, together. At last their once solitary lives take a new direction.

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Byens bad 1952

Byens bad 1952

Byens bad 1952

Byens bad 1952
13min | Documentary, Short | 1952 (Norway)

Storyline:

There was a time when only half of Oslo’s apartments had their own bathrooms. Because of this, the municipal baths played an important role, both for public health and sport. The municipality had the responsibility for the swimming pools, both indoor and outdoor.

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Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort: Küsse und Schläge

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort: Küsse und Schläge

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort: Küsse und Schläge

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort: Küsse und Schläge
1h 21min | Crime, Drama | Episode aired 10 June 1990

Plot:

Paul Redelow loses his mother in an accident. It was only then that his father Achim Ziergel found out about his son’s existence. Because the marriage to his wife Christine has long suffered from the couple’s unfulfilled desire to have children, the Ziergels decide to take Paul in. With all good will, however, Christine lacks understanding of the stepson who suddenly appeared. She is overwhelmed with the upbringing of the child and is reacting increasinglyirritated. Soon your hand will slip for the first time. The situation worsens when Christine suddenly becomes pregnant. Her whole love is only for her own baby. The spatial confinement in the small apartment and the ongoing dispute over Paul, who can never please his stepmother, also drain on his father’s nerves. He starts beating the boy and drowns his helplessness in alcohol. A hopeless vicious circle … among other things

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Alfons Zitterbacke S01 e03-e04 (1986)

Alfons Zitterbacke S01 e03-e04 (1986)

Alfons Zitterbacke S01 e03-e04 (1986)

Alfons Zitterbacke S01 e03-e04 (1986)
30min | Family | TV Series (1986– )

Plot:

Alfons Zitterbacke is a popular children’s book character of the GDR , by Gerhard Holtz-Baumert was invented. Several books and the film of the same name by the director Konrad Petzold , created in 1966, tell humorous but also thoughtful stories from the life of the rascal . Although this is not expressly mentioned, various passages of the third volume suggest that Alfons, described there, is the son of the maincharacter from the first and second volumes.

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