Los Olvidados 1950

Los Olvidados 1950

Los Olvidados 1950

Los Olvidados 1950
1h 20m | Crime, Drama | 9 November 1950 (Mexico)

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Hell-bent on revenge, cocky reform-school runaway El Jaibo returns to his old neighborhood in post-World-War-II Mexico City’s poor and squalid slums, to reunite with his faithful gang of juvenile delinquents and street urchins. However, as the dangerous ringleader lives and breathes retribution, his destructive obsession to find the informant who supposedly sent him to jail will intricately interweave his bitter fate with that of Pedro, his weak, unwitting accessory, in a despicable act of pure evil. In the end, are humans inherently good or bad? Is immorality contingent with society?

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2021

Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2021

Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2021

Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2021
2h 4m | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 19 November 2021 (USA)

Storyline:

When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

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Lord of the Flies 1990

Lord of the Flies 1990

Lord of the Flies 1990

Lord of the Flies 1990
1h 30m | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 16 March 1990 (USA)

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After a plane crash in the ocean, a group of military students reach an island. Ralph organizes the boys, assigning responsibilities for each one. When the rebel Jack Merridew neglects the fire camp and they lose the chance to be seen by a helicopter, the group split under the leadership of Jack. While Ralph rationalizes the procedures, Jack returns to the primitivism, using the fear for the unknown (in a metaphor to the religion) to control the other boys, and hunting and chasing pigs, stealing the possession of Ralph’s group and even killing people.

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Where Eskimos Live 2002

Where Eskimos Live 2002

Where Eskimos Live 2002

Where Eskimos Live 2002
1h 35m | Action, Drama | 5 December 2003 (Poland)

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Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and fight to stay alive, they find a special love and compassion from which emerges their ultimate moral and spiritual redemption.

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I Am Kalam 2010

I Am Kalam 2010

I Am Kalam 2010

I Am Kalam 2010
1h 28m | Comedy, Drama, Family | 5 August 2011 (India)

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The film celebrates the survival of the human spirit against overwhelming odds and highlights the need for underprivileged children’s education. Its a film based on former indian president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and is aimed at inspiring the poor to educate their children.

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Steppe 1978

Steppe 1978

Steppe 1978

Steppe 1978
Step (original title)
2h 14m | Drama, History | April 1978 (Soviet Union)

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Based on a story by Anton Chekhov, this film by renowned director Sergei Bonderchuk basks in the vast and visually magnificent qualities of life on the steppes of southern Russia in the era before the Russian Revolution. The story revolves around the journey of a wagon train bearing materials from the countryside to the marketplace. Riding along with the wagon train in carriages are an Orthodox priest and a trader carrying his nephew Yegorushka into town to receive some schooling.

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The Plane 2005

The Plane 2005

The Plane 2005

The Plane 2005
L’avion (original title)
1h 40m | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 20 July 2005 (France)

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Charlie is waiting for his Christmas gift , a new bicycle. Instead his father gives him a small toy-aeroplane which he had constructed. After his death the plane reveals its magic powers.

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Le baiser sous la cloche 1998

Le baiser sous la cloche 1998

Le baiser sous la cloche 1998

Le baiser sous la cloche 1998
1h 35m | Drama | 9 February 1998 (France)

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1962. Joseph, 13 years old, a choirboy and a true “light” of religion, set out to become Pope. Not less. Of Spanish origin, Angela and José, her parents, fled their country and misery to settle in a small village around Perpignan. Angela, sensual and beautiful to damn a saint, is an attentive and possessive mother. Joseph, this only son, she feels that she has received him as a gift from heaven. So she puts all her energy and maternal love overflowing to encourage the vocation of her son, unlike José who wishes for him a “normal” life, a life of man, simply. Pensioner at the junior seminary, Joseph is happy to be called, to be part of the elite, even if the atmosphere is not always the one he imagined. Fortunately, there are Louis and Emile, his two friends, and especially Sister Agnès, a young novice, a music teacher who must make her wishes at the end of the year. She will disturb Joseph by informing him of his uncertainties. Then come the questions: what if this vocation was only the desire of a mother not to share her son with other women? Returned a few days of the seminar for misbehavior, Joseph will have the opportunity to live in the village like other children his age and, perhaps to take taste.

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