The 400 Blows 1959

The 400 Blows 1959

The 400 Blows 1959

The 400 Blows 1959
Les quatre cents coups (original title)
18 | 1h 39min | Crime, Drama | 4 May 1959 (France)

Storyline:

Seemingly in constant trouble at school, 14-year-old Antoine Doinel returns at the end of every day to a drab, unhappy home life. His parents have little money and he sleeps on a couch that’s been pushed into the kitchen. His parents bicker constantly and he knows his mother is having an affair. He decides to skip school and begins a downward spiral of lies and theft. His parents are at their wits’ end, and after he’s stopped by the police, they decide the best thing would be to let Antoine face the consequences. He’s sent to a juvenile detention facility where he doesn’t do much better. He does manage to escape however.

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Secretos del corazon 1997

Secretos del corazon 1997

Secretos del corazon 1997

Secretos del corazon 1997
1h 45min | Drama | 19 March 1997 (Spain)

Storyline

Javi and his friend Carlos snoop around an old house on the way home from school. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the room where his father was found dead). He is so interested in these mysteries that he starts to investigate all the secrets of these dead people and their stories.

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Nude Women’s Day Parade – April 3rd, 2016 – San Francisco

Nude Women’s Day Parade - April 3rd, 2016 - San Francisco

Nude Women’s Day Parade – April 3rd, 2016 – San Francisco

Description:

The very first in history of San Francisco (and possibly the world) Nude Women’s Day Parade was a protest against the San Francisco nudity ban and a celebration of International Women’s Day. We congregated in the Castro and then marched to the City Hall.
Among other things Gypsy Taub makes an announcement about George Davis. sexual harassment of her daughter ad asks him to never come to her events again.

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Lost Christmas 2011

Lost Christmas 2011

Lost Christmas 2011
1h 29min | Drama | 11 December 2011 (UK)

Storyline

Orphaned the previous Christmas young Goose looks after his demented grandma, selling stolen goods to soft-hearted fence Frank on his Manchester estate. One Christmas Eve Goose meets Anthony, an enigmatic, fey stranger with apparent psychic powers, able to tell by touching them what people have lost, from Frank’s first edition of Oscar Wilde to a retired doctor’s wife. Hoping that its return will lead to him finding his lost dog, Goose persuades Anthony to help him retrieve a bangle he stole and ends up meeting the wife of his probation officer, whose young daughter died on the same day as Goose’s parents. But Anthony is not what he seems to be at all and is capable of changing everybody’s life for the better when his true identity is revealed.

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Ivan’s childhood 1962

Ivan's childhood 1962

Ivan’s childhood 1962

Ivan’s childhood 1962
Ivanovo detstvo (original title)
1h 35min | Drama, War | 9 May 1962 (Poland)

Storyline

During World War II, 12-year old Ivan works as a spy on the eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers try to take care of this boy-child.

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La Tutora 2016

La Tutora 2016

La Tutora 2016

La Tutora 2016
1h 54min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 1 January 2017 (Argentina)

Storyline:

Mona picks up her first job tutoring two orphaned children living in a derelict house in the country. Her obsession with trying to educate these two nearly feral children blind her to the fact they have other plans for her.

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Noyuki yamayuki umibe yuki 1986

Noyuki yamayuki umibe yuki 1986

Noyuki yamayuki umibe yuki 1986
2h 15min | Comedy, Fantasy | 4 October 1986 (Japan)

Plot:

During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her. With surprising moments of caricature and slapstick, Obayashi celebrates the anarchic world of adolescence while also satirizing adult hypocrisy and conformism.

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