Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012
1h 33m | Documentary, Biography | Release date: April 19, 2013 (Austria)

Storyline:

Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family – these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl at the beginning of the 1970’s. In my fathers, my mother and me the director Paul-Julien Robert, who was born into this commune, embarks on a personal journey into his past. Including archive material made public for the first time in this film, the director confronts himself and his mother with the question ‘What is family?’.

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Why Is Mother in My Bed 1994

Why Is Mother in My Bed 1994

Why Is Mother in My Bed 1994

Why Is Mother in My Bed 1994
Pourquoi maman est dans mon lit? (original title)
1h 32m | Comedy | Release date: July 6, 1994 (France)

Storyline:

The whole story begins the day Antoine steals a jacket from a store. Believing that lack of money is the main cause of the crime, her mother decides to find a job. From promotion to promotion, she very quickly earns more money than her husband, which leads to arguments and crisis in the household. Until the day Antoine’s father leaves the house. Antoine then finds himself alone with his mother. One evening, the latter threw herself into her bed, Antoine decided to react.

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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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