Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984
2h 23m | Adventure, Drama | Release date: March 30, 1984 (United States)

Storyline:

A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon afterwards. An ape enters the house and kills the father, and a female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D’Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

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Daily Life At The Christmas Brand Homes 1952

Daily Life At The Christmas Brand Homes 1952

Daily Life At The Christmas Brand Homes 1952

Daily Life At The Christmas Brand Homes 1952
19m | Documentary | 1952

Plot:

Film about the six Christmas mark homes in Denmark, where over 1,000 vulnerable and especially needy children are helped each year. The film opens with b/w footage of poor children in Copenhagen backyards. Then a series of everyday pictures in color from the homes Lindersvold near Præstø, Hobro, Fjordmark near Kollund, Mørkøv, Kildemose near Ølsted and Holbølls Minde near Svendborg are shown. Also b/w footage from King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid’s visit to Hobro in 1949. The year of the film is uncertain. Many of the recordings can also be seen in ‘Julemærkefilmen 1952’.

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Camada negra 1977

Camada negra 1977

Camada negra 1977

Camada negra 1977
1h 29m | Crime, Drama | Release date: June 1977 (West Germany)

Storyline:

Tatin is a young man of fifteen years old who joins a violent group of extreme right-wing ideology, led by Blanca, a mature woman of influential personality.

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Ezequiel y la galga María 2014

Ezequiel y la galga María 2014

Ezequiel y la galga María 2014

Ezequiel y la galga María 2014
23m | Short, Drama | Spain

Storyline:

Ezekiel, a ten-year-old boy with an extraordinary hearing capability, goes every day to the forest looking for nests to steal eggs. One day, amidst the sounds of the forest, he hears the painful whining of his greyhound Maria, who is struggling between life and death.

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Pod Jezevci skalou 1978

Pod Jezevci skalou 1978

Pod Jezevci skalou 1978

Pod Jezevci skalou 1978
1h 14m | Family | Release date: December 1978 (Czechoslovakia)

Storyline:

The gamekeeper Straka lives by himself in the Bohemian forest hill. He has quarreled with his only son. He cannot come to terms with the fact that his son has abandoned his beloved forests and settled in a town. He has never even met his grandson Vasek. Following an illness, however, little Vasek needs some country air, and so one day his mother Jarmila delivers him to her father-in-law’s cottage. At first Straka is angry, but Vasek is an unaffected lad and throws himself with verve into all the little adventures that the forest provides.

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The Police 1990

The Police 1990

The Police 1990

The Police 1990
1h 25m | Comedy, Crime, Drama | Release date: September 16, 1990 (United Kingdom)

Storyline:

Edgar is a nice, normal, clever 11-year-old – and he’s had enough of being bullied. He organises the other children into a police force, and they set out to bring justice to the school. Their law-and-order game is such a success there are no more ‘criminals’. But the story takes a sinister turn when an unpopular teacher publicly humiliates Edgar and he decides revenge is rightfully his.

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El camino 1964

El camino 1964

El camino 1964

El camino 1964
1h 35m | Drama | Release date: 1964 (Spain)

Storyline:

Daniel el Mochuelo (‘Little Owl’) is a boy who must leave his village to go study in the city. During the days leading up to his departure, Daniel and his inseparable friends Roque el Moñigo (‘Cowpat’) and Germán el Tiñoso (‘Mangy’) play, pull pranks, and observe the peculiar words of adults which is a clear portrait of life in a small Spanish village during the Franco regime.

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