The Painted Bird 2019

The Painted Bird 2019

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.

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Little Vampire 1968

Little Vampire 1968

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.

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Blue Bird 1979

Blue Bird 1979

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.

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Blood 1989

Blood 1989

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.

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Anche Libero Va Bene 2006

Anche Libero Va Bene 2006

Anche Libero Va Bene 2006

Anche Libero Va Bene 2006
1h 48min | Drama | 3 May 2006 (Italy)

Storyline:

Tommi (11) and his slightly older sister Viola live in the city with their father. They cope with being a single parent family until their mother shows up, having disappeared without trace – not for the first time, we soon learn. These are the four protagonists in a bittersweet portrait of their ongoing struggle with love, friendship, puberty and life in general.

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Totally True Love 2011

Totally True Love 2011

Totally True Love 2011

Totally True Love 2011
Jørgen + Anne = sant (original title)
1h 23min | Family, Mystery | 25 February 2011 (Norway)

Storyline:

A 10-year-old Norwegian girl falls in love for the first time. Her friends confront their own feelings as they witness her no-holds-barred battle with a rival student for the affections of a boy who moves into town.

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