Le bel été 1914 (1996)
Le bel été 1914 (1996)
1h 57min | Drama | 21 August 1996 (France)
Storyline:
A couple take their son for the holidays to an uncle, so short of money that he rents part of his big isolated house to a businessman whose wife and daughters are there on holiday too. An affair develops among the adults, while the children start their own explorations. Deaths, disappearances and financial ruin follow as the world drifts into war.
100 days Before The Command 1991
100 days Before The Command 1991
Sto dney do prikaza (1991)
1h 11min | Drama | February 1991 (Soviet Union)
Storyline
Five young Soviet Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other. Visually astonishing, erotically charged and emotionally jarring, this film is Hussein Erkenov’s courageous and stinging indictment of Communisum. Banned by the Soviet censors upon its initial release the film had to be smuggled out of the country to make its world wide premier at the 1995 Berlin Film Festival.
Freistatt 2015
Freistatt 2015
1h 44min | Drama | 25 June 2015 (Germany)
Storyline:
May 1968: Rolling Stones, bell-bottoms, mini-skirts, sexual revolution, protests against the Vietnam War… While Germany sets off for a new era of freedom, rebellious fourteen-year-old Wolfgang gets sent to Freistatt, a foster home for difficult children. There he shall be “educated” to become a decent boy. Wolfgang puts up a determined resistance against the brutal working conditions and the perfidious education methods of the wardens; he doesn’t allow them to get him down. But for how long can he manage to resist the system of violence and oppression without brutalising himself?
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.
En Rigtig Mand 2012
En Rigtig Mand 2012
18min | Short | 2012 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Short film produced in 2012, telling the story of Emil who wants to be a real man, so that he can take care of and protect his father and himself.
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
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.
Home 2008
1h 38min | Drama | 29 October 2008 (France)
Storyline
Life for an isolated rural family is upended when a major highway next to their property, constructed 10 years before but apparently abandoned, is finally opened.
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.
