Chetan, Indian Boy 1973

Chetan, Indian Boy 1973

Chetan, Indian Boy 1973
Tschetan, der Indianerjunge (original title)
1h 30min | Family, Western | 22 June 1973 (West Germany)

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Montana 1880: most aboriginal Americans have been killed or banned into reservations. Shepherd Alaska wants to pass the winter with his herd in this lonesome region. He saves the young Tschetan, one of the last of the tribe Lakota, from being lynched for cattle theft. Slowly they befriend each other, and together they stand up against their cruel neighbor, a self-righteous rancher.

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Shameless US S08E11

Shameless US S08E11

Shameless US S08E11
A Gallagher Pedicure
TV-MA | 46min | Comedy, Drama | Episode aired 21 January 2018

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Fiona’s homeless tenants barricade themselves inside her apartment. Lip takes in a terrified Sierra and Lucas when her father is released from prison, while Ian takes bigger action with his cult- like following.

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Baggage 2003

Baggage 2003

Baggage 2003
1h 30min | Drama | March 2003 (USA)

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Set in the San Fernando Valley, it’s a journey of three men who unknowingly interact, cause significant changes in each other’s lives, and ultimately learn what it takes to find happiness inside. A 28-year-old struggling writer re-evaluates his life when he returns home for his best friend’s wedding. A retired man tracks down an old high-school love and becomes reconciled with his own family. And a teenage boy breaks free of his bad-news friend and begins his first romantic relationship. By letting go of their respective emotional “baggage”, all of these characters are introduced to a newfound freedom and infinite possibilities for the rest of their lives.

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The Tic Code 1999

The Tic Code 1999

The Tic Code 1999
R | 1h 31min | Drama | 1 June 2000 (Germany)

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A 10 year old gifted boy wants to be a jazz pianist much to the chagrin of his more classical oriented piano instructor. With his mother’s help, he is an underage regular at a local nightspot, where he is teamed up with a sax superstar. Both come to learn that each suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome (thus the film title). The older man has developed mannerisms to cover up his own fallibilities and resents the boy and his mother’s acceptance of the disease.

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Camp Cool Kids 2017

Camp Cool Kids 2017

Camp Cool Kids 2017
TV-PG | 1h 44min | Family | 11 July 2017 (USA)

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At a Christian youth camp, kids learn to confront their fears and not seek revenge as a solution. Two brothers separate into different houses and after a series of pranks realize they need each other. In the finale all the teams competes against each other pitting the underdogs against the stronger kids. The focus on victory and dominance over peaceful coexistence and forgiveness in the final moments of the film tends to negate the attempt at moral guidance.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2010

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2010

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2010
PG | 1h 34min | Comedy, Family | 19 March 2010 (USA)

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To Greg Heffley, middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented. It’s a place rigged with hundreds of social landmines, not the least of which are morons, wedgies, swirlies, bullies, lunchtime banishment to the cafeteria floor – and a festering piece of cheese with nuclear cooties. To survive the never-ending ordeal and attain the recognition and status he feels he so richly deserves, Greg devises an endless series of can’t-miss schemes, all of which, of course, go awry. And he’s getting it all down on paper, via a diary – “it’s NOT a diary, it’s a journal!” Greg insists, preferring the less-sissyfied designation – filled with his opinions, thoughts, tales of family trials and tribulations, and (would-be) schoolyard triumphs. “One day when I’m famous,” writes Greg, “I’ll have better things to do than answer people’s stupid questions all day.” So was born the Wimpy Kid’s diary.

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Karakter 1997

Karakter 1997

Karakter 1997
R | 2h 2min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 27 March 1998 (USA)

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In the 20’s, in Netherlands, Jacob Willem Katadreuffe has just concluded the law school and has an argument with the High Court Enforcement Officer Dreverhaven at his office. Katadreuffe leaves the place covered in blood. On the next morning, he is arrested by the police for the murder of Dreverhaven. He claims that he is innocent and discloses the story of his life to the Chief of Police. His mother Joba was the maid at Dreverhaven. One night, she is raped by him and a couple of weeks later she learns that she is pregnant. Dreverhaven proposes to marry her but Joba quits her job and leaves his house. Along the years, Katadreuffe is bullied at school and called bastard by his mates and his mother never talks to him. One day, he is involved by other kids in a theft of bread and arrested by the police. When he calls his biological father to help him, Dreverhaven tells the police that he does not know who Katadreuffe is. The boy is intelligent and learns English reading a superseded and incomplete edition of encyclopedia that was left behind by the previous tenants of his apartment. Katadreuffe is also ambitious and asks for a job in a law office, where he becomes the protégé of his mentor De Gankelaar. Soon he falls in unrequited love with the secretary Lorna Te George Victor. Along the years, Dreverhaven uses his power to harm him. When he concluded his course, he decides to pay a visit to Dreverhaven to tell him that he has wined their dispute. May Katadreuffe have killed Dreverhaven?

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