King Jack 2015

King Jack 2015

King Jack 2015

King Jack 2015
1h 21min | Adventure | 26 February 2016 (UK)

Storyline:

Jack is a fifteen year-old boy stuck in a run-down small town. Trapped in a violent feud with a cruel older bully and facing another bout of summer school, Jack’s got all the problems he can handle. So when Jack’s aunt falls ill and his runty younger cousin must stay with him for the weekend the last thing Jack wants to do is look after him. Unfortunately no one really cares what Jack wants. Set over a hazy summer weekend, King Jack is a tough and tender coming of age story about friendship and finding happiness in bleak surroundings.

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Ostorozhno, deti! 2009

Ostorozhno, deti! 2009

Ostorozhno, deti! 2009
Осторожно, дети!
1h 17min | Comedy, Family | 23 April 2009 (Russia)

Storyline:

Two fifth-grader, Excellent Grigoriev and Losers Gorokhov, skipping classes, are in various funny situations. Getting into the ridiculous stories, and overcoming obstacles, the boy quietly to themselves become good friends …
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A Serbian film 2010 UNCUT

A Serbian film 2010 UNCUT

A Serbian film 2010 UNCUT

A Serbian film 2010 UNCUT
Srpski film (original title)
NC-17 | 1h 44min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 21 January 2012 (Japan)

Storyline

An aging porn star agrees to participate in an “art film” in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.

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L.I.E 2001

L.I.E 2001

L.I.E 2001

L.I.E 2001
NC-17 | 1h 37min | Crime, Drama | 29 November 2002 (UK)

Storyline:

Fifteen-year-old Howie loses just about everything and everyone in the space of a single week, but ends up finding himself in the process. His mother has just died. His father, a building contractor, can barely keep tabs on his young girlfriend, let alone his own son. Thusly, the teen must navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised. Floating towards an ill-behaved existence, Howie and his crowd begin robbing houses in the middle-class neighborhoods off the Long Island Expressway. Together, he and his best friend Gary break into a place belonging to an old guy named Big John, a local man who is a respected pillar of the community. When Big John fingers Gary for the crime, Howie learns that his pal has been leading a secret, dangerous but also alluring double life. Subsequently, we also discover that Big John has secrets of his own.

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Viva la muerte 1971

Viva la muerte 1971

Viva la muerte 1971

Viva la muerte 1971
1h 30min | Drama, War | 12 May 1971 (France)

Storyline:

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father’s arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father’s arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what’s going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad’s natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother’s nature and his father’s fate. Will Fando survive the search?

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The Kite 2016

The Kite 2016

The Kite 2016

The Kite 2016
Dragen (original title)
14min | Short, Drama, Romance | 29 March 2016 (Denmark)

Storyline:

A kite reunites two lovers after a 15-year separation. Outstanding short by Danish Director Lasse Nielsen, best known for 1978 feature “You Are Not Alone.”

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Benny’s Video 1992

Benny's Video 1992

Benny’s Video 1992

Benny’s Video 1992
1h 45min | Crime, Drama | 11 February 1993 (Norway)

Storyline:

A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to the real world, to such an extent that he commits murder and records an on-camera confession for his parents.

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