The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978

The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978

The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978
L’albero degli zoccoli (original title)
3h 6min | Drama, History | May 1978 (France)

Storyline:

The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy’s shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy another pair. What can they do?

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Posledniy pobeg 1981

Posledniy pobeg 1981

Posledniy pobeg 1981
1h 32min | Drama | July 1981 (Soviet Union)

Storyline:

The hero of the film Scrubs – a war veteran who works in a school for troubled teens. On the day of release from the special school his favorite pupil Victor waited in vain for his mother – she did not come for her son, and went out to meet the swimming man, Vitina stepfather. Then the teacher took home Vitya – Aleksey Ivanovich. But when Victor saw the house merry company, his resentment prevailed, and the stubborn kid runs away from the bush, and the caretaker does not do anything but go in search of the fugitive …(google translated)

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Pay It Forward 2000

Pay It Forward 2000

Pay It Forward 2000
PG-13 | 2h 3min | Drama | 12 October (USA)

Storyline:

Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother’s alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet. The assignment: think of something to change the world and put it into action. Trevor conjures the notion of paying a favor not back, but forward–repaying good deeds not with payback, but with new good deeds done to three new people. Trevor’s efforts to make good on his idea bring a revolution not only in the lives of himself, his mother and his physically and emotionally scarred teacher, but in those of an ever-widening circle of people completely unknown to him.

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Toto le heros 1991

Toto le heros 1991

Toto le heros 1991

Toto le heros 1991
Toto le héros (original title)
PG-13 | 1h 31min | Comedy, Drama | 16 May 1991 (Belgium)

Storyline:

Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred’s good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can’t help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred’s, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a relationship with the woman Evelyne. So, as his life is ending, he formulates a plan of revenge against his bitter enemy, his lifetime adversary, the man who stole his existence.

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The Day Will Come 2016

The Day Will Come 2016

The Day Will Come 2016
Der kommer en dag (original title)
1h 50min | Drama | 21 April 2016 (Denmark)

Storyline:

‘Der kommer en dag’ is a movie about an orphanage where violence and humiliations is a part of the everyday life. The history is based on real stories from a boy home called ‘godhavn’, where lots of boys were victims of violent and sexual abuse and medical experiments.

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Martin’s Day 1985

Martin's Day 1985

Martin’s Day 1985
1h 38min | Drama | 22 February 1985 (USA)

Storyline:

Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too – a quiet “good little boy” always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and frustration in return. Soon he begins to admire “Stech” for his cheeky pranks against society and his desperate mission to make dreams come true. In a climactic moment, he chooses to stay with the man even though he could run away. Via hijacks and hijinx, they flee to the idyllic peace of the older Martin’s childhood home, a cabin on a lake. But the police are close behind, impatient and trigger-happy.

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Moja Australia 2011

Moja Australia 2011

Moja Australia 2011
1h 37min | Drama | 14 April 2011 (Poland)

Storyline:

City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one of the boys gets hurt, she realizes what is going on. Then she decides to leave Poland together with her family and go to… Australia. At the end of the trip it comes out that the goal was not to reach Australia but Israel. Boys become aware of their and their family roots.

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