Wir sind doch keine lahmen Enten 1988

Wir sind doch keine lahmen Enten 1988

Wir sind doch keine lahmen Enten 1988

Wir sind doch keine lahmen Enten 1988
1h 9m | Family | 1988

Storyline:

The summer holidays are finally here. Marco (Tobias Blume) and Tobi (René Hahn) have made many plans in advance that they believe are suitable for making the entire eight-week vacation accordingly varied and among boys. But then comes the “bad” news: Marco is supposed to go to a holiday camp in the Ore Mountains for a while. What about the beautiful plans of the two?
In order not to have to throw everything overboard in this respect and to be able to experience adventures together, Marco persuades his friend to accompany him by horse and cart from home to the holiday camp – the whole thing, of course, in a roundabout way, of course! And so the two boys begin an interesting, adventurous expedition. But then everything doesn’t go entirely without little “ailments”, so that they arrive at the holiday camp quite damaged.

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Mérette 1982

Mérette 1982

Mérette 1982

Mérette 1982
1h 35m | Drama | 3 April 1982 (France)

Storyline:

Mérette is a pretty child, living within a patrician, strictly Calvinist family in the Switzerland of the 19th century. She is happy, until her mother dies, and she blames God, and gives up her religion. Her family turns against her, the villagers reject her, and her priest drives her into isolation.

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Meztelen vagy 1972

Meztelen vagy 1972

Meztelen vagy 1972

Meztelen vagy 1972
1h 33m | Drama | 12 May 1972 (Hungary)

Storyline:

The director of Meztelen Vagy was imprisoned for many years during the latter part of the Stalin era and is known for his highly imagistic and symbolic storytelling techniques. This film tells its story in the same way, and at no point is the story made explicit. Images of love, death, suicide, violence and mutilation dominate.

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At Play in the Fields of the Lord 1991

At Play in the Fields of the Lord 1991

At Play in the Fields of the Lord 1991

At Play in the Fields of the Lord 1991
3h 9m | Drama, Romance | 6 December 1991 (USA)

Storyline:

Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic ‘rivals’ than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie’s young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?

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Vägen till Gyllenblå! 1985

Vägen till Gyllenblå! 1985

Vägen till Gyllenblå! 1985

Vägen till Gyllenblå! 1985
2h 20m | Family, Sci-fi | 29 December 1985 (Sweden)

Storyline:

Ratio Rasch, the president of planet Gyllenblå, has banned laughter and emotions in order to create a society based on reason. Police are constantly patrolling the planet and anyone caught laughing is imprisoned and given anti-laughter serum. Only a few members of an underground guerrilla oppose the president. On Earth, the eccentric Dr. Krull listens to signals from outer space and realizes that something needs to be done so he sends the two children Cecilie and Fredrik to Gyllenblå. Epicykel, a guerrilla member, senses their presence and hopes to get to them first but fails. The children are put in school, where Fredrik has great difficulty controlling his laughter but Cecilie adapts well. The guerrilla knows that laughter is contagious and Fredrik gives them new hope of returning laughter to the people of Gyllenblå.

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Les trois frères 1995

Les trois frères 1995

Les trois frères 1995

Les trois frères 1995
1h 45m | Comedy | 13 December 1995 (France)

Storyline:

Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother’s funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.

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Three Tickets to Hollywood 1993

Three Tickets to Hollywood 1993

Three Tickets to Hollywood 1993

Three Tickets to Hollywood 1993
Tri karte za Hollywood (original title)
1h 58m | Comedy | 9 April 1993 (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)

Storyline:

Three boys who are fascinated with seventh art magic decide to escape from their remote village straight to Hollywood. At the same time, a local policeman frantically organizes a reception for the president of the state. His “strictly controlled” citizens, under the influence of events in Cuba, in 1962, start dividing in two parties, resolved to succeed where Khrushchev and JFK have failed.

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