Beat 2018
Beat 2018
TV-MA | 1h | Drama, Thriller | TV Series (2018)
Storyline:
Beat works as a promoter in Berlin’s most famous techno club and does not miss a party himself. The european secret services recruit him as an undercover insider. Soon, he discovers the shocking extent of corruption in his close network – as well as his personal limits.
Bin ich Moses? 1975
Bin ich Moses? 1975
2h 27min | Drama, Family | TV Mini-Series (1975– )
Storyline:
13-year-old Frank Mosmann, called “Moses”, often simply dreams into the day. He tries to distract himself from everyday problems because his parents are on the verge of separation. But life is not a dream country and reality catches up with him faster than he thinks. An unfulfilled love for the neighbor girl Dinah almost throws him off the rails. But after school he catches up and starts an apprenticeship as a construction worker. There he meets Dinah again …
Theeb 2014
Theeb 2014
Not Rated | 1h 40min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 19 March 2015 (United Arab Emirates)
Storyline:
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
The Painted Bird 2019
The Painted Bird 2019
18 | 2h 49min | Drama, War | 24 October 2019 (USA)
Storyline:
In an unidentified area of war-torn Eastern Europe, a young boy is sent by his parents to live in safety with his aunt. But she dies unexpectedly, so he sets off on a journey to return home. He roams alone in a wild and hostile world in which only local rules, prejudices and superstitions apply. His struggle for virtually physical survival after the war turns into a battle of a different type. A battle that he doesn’t even realize, a fight with himself, a fight for his soul, for his future.
Little Vampire 1968
Little Vampire 1968
Bübchen (original title)
1h 26min | Drama | 21 February 1969 (West Germany)
Storyline:
A strange case baffles the police and the citizens of a German small town. A two-year old girl has disappeared. There are suspects, innocents, guilty ones and a web of lies. It’s Saturday afternoon, and Achim’s parents are invited for a topping-out ceremony. The neighbor’s daughter, Monika (Renate Roland), is the babysitter for Achim (Sascha Urchs) and his little sister Kathrin, but Monika doesn’t take the job too serious. She’d rather go for a ride with her boyfriend. Through a unforeseen row of circumstances, Achim becomes the murderer of his sister, and hides the body in a wrecked car on the scrapyard. When the parents return home, a frantic search for the little child begins. Only the father (Sieghardt Rupp) seems to know the truth.
Blue Bird 1979
Blue Bird 1979
Blauvogel (original title)
1h 36min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 13 December 1979 (East Germany)
Storyline:
In the middle of the 18th Century, the Ruster family immigrates to the United States. The father, a former farm laborer, leads a hard life as a settler along with his family. One day the nine year-old George, his second-youngest son, is kidnapped by Iroquois. He is taken in by an Indian family in the place of a deceased son and receives the name “Blue Bird.” The boy has homesickness and difficulties accustoming to the customs of the Indians. But gradually he begins to feel at home with them, and advances to a full-fledged member of his new community. As the regular white settlers are attacked, he feels more associated with the Indians than with his former people. After the victory of the English over the French in 1763, all of the captured white settlers are to be exchanged for the captured Indians, including George/Blue Bird. He decides to remain with the Indians.
Blood 1989
Blood 1989
O Sangue (original title)
1h 35min | Drama, Mystery | 7 December 1990 (Portugal)
Storyline:
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don’t seem to remember their mother, and are very much attached to their father, despite his temper, and his frequent absences from home. One day, the father leaves for good, and Vicente and Nino swear to cover it up. It’s their secret. Clara, the primary school assistant, is fascinatingly beautiful, and secretive, and (may be) she knows it aswel. There are other secrets, though: the origin of the money that appears at Vicente’s house; the relationship between Vicente’s well-to-do uncle and his girlfriend; the relationship between the four people who once played the cards together, and now can’t stand each other.
Prison for Children 1987
Prison for Children 1987
1h 30min | Drama | TV Movie 14 March 1987
Storyline:
Sentenced to incarceration until 21, a boy plans his desperate escape.
