Histoires extraordinaires 1968
2h 1min | Horror, Mystery | 12 September 1968 (Italy)
Storyline:
Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: “Toby Dammit” features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. “Metzengerstein” features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion – who, it turns out is really her dead lover. “William Wilson” tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills.
Taps 1981
2h 6min | Drama | 25 December 1981 (USA)
Storyline:
Military cadets take extreme measures to insure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
The Squid and the Whale 2005
R | 1h 21min | Comedy, Drama | 16 December 2005 (USA)
Storyline:
In 1986, In Brooklyn, New York, the dysfunctional family of pseudo intellectuals composed by the university professor Bernard and the prominent writer Joan split. Bernard is a selfish, cheap and jealous decadent writer that rationalizes every attitude in his family and life and does not accept “philistines” – people that do not read books or watch movies, while the unfaithful Joan is growing as a writer and has no problems with “philistines”. Their sons, the teenager Walt and the boy Frank, feel the separation and take side: Walt stays with Bernard, and Frank with Joan, and both are affected with abnormal behaviors. Frank drinks booze and smears with sperm the books in the library and a locker in the dress room of his school. The messed-up and insecure Walt uses Roger Water’s song “Hey You” in a festival as if it was of his own, and breaks up with his girlfriend Sophie. Meanwhile Joan has an affair with Frank’s tennis teacher Ivan and Bernard with his student Lili.
Mio in the Land of Faraway 1987
Mio min Mio (original title)
1h 39min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 16 October 1987 (Sweden)
Storyline:
A fantasy about the lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real father is the king. In that country he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy the evil Knight Kato.
Swiss Family Robinson 1960
Approved | 2h 6min | Adventure, Family | 10 December 1960 (Usa)
Storyline:
A family in route to New Guinea is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. They are forced to remain on the island because of the damage to the ship and the pirates that are roaming the islands. They create a home on the island (centering around a huge tree house) and explore the island and its wildlife. Plenty of adventure ensues as the family deals with issues of survival and pirates, and the brothers must learn how to live on the island with an uncertain future.
Nickelodeon’s Sizzling Summer Camp Special 2017
1h | Comedy | TV Movie 4 June 2017
Storyline:
Two of Santa’s elves are getting ready to take the summer off and discuss the story of Nickelodeon stars going to camp together and discovering Bighand.
Real Boy 2016
Real Boy 2016
1h 12min | Documentary, Family, Music | 2016 (USA)
Storyline:
REAL BOY is an intimate story of a family in transition. As 19-year-old Bennett Wallace navigates early sobriety, late adolescence, and the evolution of his gender identity, his mother makes her own transformation from resistance to acceptance of her trans son. Along the way, both mother and son find support in their communities, reminding us that families are not only given, but chosen.
