Phares d’ouest 1990

Phares d'ouest 1990

Phares d’ouest 1990

Phares d’ouest 1990
1h 57min | Documentary | 1990 (France)

Storyline:

Twelve youngsters (ages 10 to 15) from the French experimental school L’Ecole en Bateau (The Floating School) have set out on a unique educational expedition that will take them on the voyage of a lifetime, sailing the “Kerrek Ven” – a 3-masted fishing schooner, as they follow the voyages of Christopher Columbus from Seville to the Caribbean and Venezuela.

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Unexpected Encounters 1995

Unexpected Encounters 1995

Unexpected Encounters 1995

Unexpected Encounters 1995
Nesmluvená setkání (original title)
1h 40min | Sci-Fi | TV Movie 13 December 1995

Storyline:

The movie based on the Russian scifi book “Malysh” (The Kid) by the authors Boris and Arkadi Strugatski.
An expedition arrives on planet Arkha, which appears desolate and uninhabited and yet suitable for a planned mass exodus from polluted Earth. One day seemingly from nowhere and quite unexpectedly a young boy wanders into their ship and then runs off…

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Nachttocht 1982

Nachttocht 1982

Nachttocht 1982

Nachttocht 1982
1h 3min | Drama | TV Movie 21 February 1982

Storyline:

12 year old Thomas ( Abel Claassen) and his quest for friendship and love. He takes rowing lessons and grows rather fond of his teacher…who, according to his mother, is unlike the bully trainers in the other clubs…he really knows how to work with children. Thomas idolizes his trainer – and when the boy discovers that the person he felt such a love for lied to him in order to sleep with his mother – his heart is broken. It’s hard for him to understand why his trainer would prefer to be intimate with his mother than to be with him…

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The Revolt of Job 1983

The Revolt of Job 1983

The Revolt of Job 1983

The Revolt of Job 1983
Jób lázadása (original title)
1h 45min | Drama | 1 December 1983 (Hungary)

Storyline

Hungary, 1943. An elderly Jewish couple, Job and Roza, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.

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Was soll bloß aus dir werden 1984

Was soll bloß aus dir werden 1984

Was soll bloß aus dir werden 1984
1h 34min | Family | TV Movie 27 March 1984

Storyline:

In this 1984 West German film, a 12 year-old street kid in a slum of Berlin struggles to stay afloat through a commitment to his compassionate teacher and ambivalent classmates, aged 11-14, who also bear the harsh marks of impoverishment, which manifest themselves in peer ruthlessness and disrespect of adults. Movie does not, however, end in a tragic manner. Film contains frequent profanity, alcoholism, mild crime and peer violence, brief male nudity. This describes the film in German, without dubbing or subtitles.

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Elvis Elvis 1976

Elvis Elvis 1976

Elvis Elvis 1976

Elvis Elvis 1976
1h 41min | Drama | 20 November 1976 (Sweden)

Storyline

Tale of a boy, roughly eight, who experiences a number of problems due to his estranged relationship with his mother. Mom wants her little boy to be someone other than who he is; junior is stubborn, fights back. Can these two find a common ground before the ending credits roll?

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Le Monde De Ludovic 1993

Le Monde De Ludovic 1993

Le Monde De Ludovic 1993

Le Monde De Ludovic 1993
De wereld van Ludovic (original title)
1h 31min | Drama | TV Movie 2 February 1993

Storyline:

Ludovic, a young boy neglected by his artsy parents, falls in love with Sophie, the daughter of a piano teacher. They meet in secret places in the city. Not long after Sophie’s father finds them naked together in her room, Ludovic is sent away to spend time with his grandparents. Sophie runs away from home to join him, and they hide along the seashore and in abandoned buildings. After they are found, their parents try to keep them separate, but they both fall into deep depressions.

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Das Jahr Der Ersten Kusse 2002

Das Jahr Der Ersten Kusse 2002

Das Jahr Der Ersten Kusse 2002

Das Jahr Der Ersten Kusse 2002
Das Jahr der ersten Küsse (original title)
1h 34min | Comedy, Drama | 3 October 2002 (Germany)

Storyline:

31 year-old Tristan remembers the time when he was 15 and had just hit puberty. But he is not alone in this, he is with a large group of friends: Specki, a fat kid who is always stuffing himself, Streusel, a cheeky boy covered with spots, Tümai, a pretty Turkish girl, Kerstin, best friend of Tümai and very sporty, Elrond, with a heavy stutter, but regardless extremely popular and good looking, Lars and Simone, so far the only couple in the class who spend most of their time smooching and Long Jana, a girl who is at least 6 foot tall and extremely skinny. Tristan has just developed a huge crush on Kerstin, but is too shy to do anything about it. As if that weren’t enough, his parents, both psychoanalysts, separate – which puts an abrupt end to childhood naivety. Tristan is supposed to move town at the end of the school year. But time is too short to grow grey hair. The friends experience awkwardness at dance school, masturbation and first fantasies of the opposite sex, amateur school theatre, the first ?real? party with lots of alcohol, strip poker etc. The biggest interest is of course to get ahead with the girls which often ends up in very funny situations. Their mutual enemy is Simone’s father who beats her until Tristan finally takes up the courage to stop him. On Tristan’s last day, when all his friends come to say goodbye, Kerstin is missing. To his surprise she waits on the swing in front of Tristan’s new home. This is the beginning of a long, deep love, which leaves Tristan with the knowledge that he experienced something extraordinary, which most people never will.

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