Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder.
Uskyld 2012
1h 45min | Drama | 2 November 2012 (Norway)
Storyline:
Two brothers in their 40s are found dead in the forest. By their side lies a woman, very weak, but still alive. “All that matters is past” is the story of how Janne meets William after many years of separation. She leaves her family to live with him in a cabin by the river. They recreate the feeling of love and lust that they had as children, being sweethearts playing in the woods. But one day a Chinese baby girl is found floating down the river, and they realize that they are being haunted by William’s brother. William and Janne runs further into the woods, trying to escape from their nemesis.
Der Laden 1998 – Teil 3
4h 33min | Drama, War | TV Mini-Series (1998– )
Plot:
The main figure is the beginning of nine-year-old Esau Matt, who leads the story as a narrator. In the summer of 1919 the Esaus family moved from Grausteen to Bossdom, where the parents bought a bakery shop. This was done with great financial support from the grandfather, who also lives in the house with his wife. Neither father Heinrich nor mother Lenchen, however, have commercial skill and therefore must always borrow money from the grandfather without being able to repay it.
Sent to spend the summer on a remote and mysterious island, teenage brothers embark on a thrilling treasure hunt to restore their family’s lost fortune.
Boy Missing 2016
Secuestro (original title)
1h 45min | Thriller | 19 August 2016 (Spain)
Storyline:
Víctor is a child who is found casually roaming by a country road. His mother, Patricia, a well-known lawyer specialist in media trails, realizes about it and she goes to the hospital, where explains to the police that Víctor is deaf, and he’s unable to talk, speaking using sign language. In the police headquarter Víctor explains that he was kidnapped by a strange man when we was entering to the school. The police identifies a possible suspect named Charlie, a man with money troubles and an 8-months pregnant wife who can’t explain where he was when Víctor was kidnapped from the school. Seeing the inability of the police to arrest Charlie after some failed attempts to meet Víctor, Patricia contacts Raúl, Patricia’s former love interest and Víctor’s father, to ask him that he or a friends of him threat seriously Charlie. But when is discovered that Víctor made a false identification, Patricia tries to stop Raúl, starting a chain of events which consequences will be out of control…
Osada havranu 1978
1h 4min | Adventure | September 1978 (Czechoslovakia)
Storyline:
A river in flood carries a small boy to the Raven settlement. The hunters want to kill him, but when a ravenfeather floats down onto him the boy is saved, for ravens are sacred in the stronghold. The boy is adopted into the clan and gets the name Ravenfeather. The years go by and Ravenfeather has become a strapping youth but has still not been accepted among the men. When the men go out hunting he has to stay at home and guard the women. He makes friends with young Falco from the neighboring village and Falco teaches him to shoot with a bow and catch small game. One day, when the men have gone off to hunt boar, brigands attack the village, steal a cow, abduct the girl Squirrel and knock Ravenfeather senseless. But Falco is at hand.
Shtorm na sushe 1976
1h 17min | Family | November 1976 (Soviet Union)
Plot:
Based on Boris Zhitkova stories. The seaside town of Russia, 1913. Mitka Hryapov with suburban kids dreaming of distant countries and travel. With envy, thinking of the harbor, where they still are not allowed to visit, they spent whole days on the beach and Mitka patiently teaches friends uncomplicated cases, without which there is a large swimming. Painting “The Storm on the overland” Sergei Gerasimov named the best film for children.
Der Laden 1998 – Teil 1
4h 33min | Drama, War | TV Mini-Series (1998– )
Stroyline:
The main figure is the beginning of nine-year-old Esau Matt, who leads the story as a narrator. In the summer of 1919, the Esau family moved from Grausteen to Bossdom, where the parents bought a bakery shop. This was done with great financial support from his grandfather, who also lives with his wife in the house. Neither father Heinrich nor mother Lenchen, however, have commercial skill and therefore must always borrow money from the grandfather without being able to repay it.
The father has an affair with the child girl Hanka, in which Esau is also in love. But Lenchen, too, a little left-back brother, Phile, who comes back late from the war, has cast an eye on Hanka.
After the conservative village teacher Rumposch was replaced by a more progressive and committed teacher, he discovered that Esau had talent to write. He suggests that Esau will go to the High School in Spremberg in the future. (google translated)
The Cure 1995
PG-13 | 1h 37min | Drama | 21 April 1995 (USA)
Storyline:
Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Erik, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Erik also becomes closer to Dexter’s mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their friendship upon learning of it. When they read that a doctor in distant New Orleans claims to have found a cure for AIDS, the boys leave home on their own, planning to float down the Mississippi river and find him.