All About Lily Chou-Chou 2001
Riri Shushu no subete (original title)
2h 26min | Crime, Drama, Music | 6 October 2001 (Japan)
Storyline:
Life isn’t easy for a group of high school kids growing up absurd in Japan’s pervasive pop/cyber culture. As they negotiate teen badlands- school bullies, parents from another planet, lurid snapshots of sex and death- these everyday rebels without a cause seek sanctuary, even salvation, through pop star savior Lily Chou-Chou, embracing her sad, dreamy songs and sharing their fears and secrets in Lilyholic chat rooms. Immersed in the speed of everyday troubles, their lives inevitably climax in a fatal collision between real and virtual identities, a final logging-off from innocence.
The Champ 1979
PG | 2h 1min | Drama, Sport | 4 April 1979 (USA)
Storyline:
A former boxer discovers that his biggest battle of all is going to be with his ex-wife, Annie, who returns after abandoning their young son seven years prior.
In This Very Moment 2003
Milchwald (original title)
1h 27min | Drama | 4 August 2004 (France)
Storyline:
This is the story of Sylvia, who looses her stepchildren on a shopping trip in Poland. For fear of loosing her husband’s love, too, she is unable to tell him what has happened and returns home, pretending anything is fine. When realising the missing of his children, the father starts a desperate retrieval. He is ready to give up anything in order to find them. Sylvia supports him in any way; she tries to comfort him and takes care of his hope’s vulnerable flame. For the first time he really needs her. While the children are trying their best to get home, the police fails in detecting their whereabouts. When a very vague trace leads to Poland, the parents hit the road to find their children on their own.
Kidnapped Home 2002
Únos domú (original title)
1h 43min | Adventure, Drama | 18 April 2002 (Czech Republic)
Storyline:
Twelve-year-old Libor lost his parents in an automobile accident. He lives in luxury at the house of his rich uncle and aunt, has everything but lives a life barren of emotion. On the way back from a party at the boarding school for the children of the wealthy, Libor is kidnapped and held for ransom. However, Libor escapes his kidnappers and gets to a small railway station in South Bohemia. This is where the Panenka family lives, and after various emotional twists the boy realizes that he has found a home. And truly so, because they are mistaking him for someone else.
Mirage 1972
Espejismo (original title)
1h 22min | Drama | 27 September 1975 (Japan)
Storyline:
A young man inherits a broken down estate at the edge of the Peruvian desert, with no explanation about the former owners or what had become of the once thriving house.
I Are You, You Am Me 1982
Tenkôsei (original title)
1h 53min | Comedy | 17 April 1982 (Japan)
Storyline:
9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched, and the result is a touching and hilarious coming-of-age comedy as they attempt to survive the pressures of junior high school life.
The Child 2012
1h 40min | Thriller | 18 October 2012 (Germany)
Storyline:
Simon Sachs, a terminally ill ten year old boy, claims to have been a serial killer in his previous life and apparently he can prove it. He leads a lawyer, Robert Stern to the locations of the bodies, who were killed long before Simon was born. Stern takes on the most compelling and mysterious case of his life.
The Newman Shower 2001
TV-MA | 25min | Comedy, Short | 17 January 2001 (USA)
Storyline:
It’s the summer of 1990 at Camp Colman, and while most of his cabinmates are busy bragging about their sexual exploits, Zach Newman is keeping something secret. Ashamed to shower in front of his friends, he quickly becomes the target of ridicule, threatening his chances with Wendy, the girl he’s liked for two summers. When ignoring and fighting back both prove futile, Newman is left with no choice but to do what he has most wanted to avoid… to face them.