Jan Dara: The Beginning (2012)

Jan Dara: The Beginning (2012)

Jan Dara: The Beginning (2012)

Jan Dara: The Beginning (2012)
Jan Dara pathommabot (original title)
2h 17min | Drama, Romance | 13 September 2012 (Singapore)

Storyline:

Set in the 1930s the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by his sadistic and debauched father, Luang Wisnan. The story recounts the growing pains of Jan, whose mother dies while giving birth to him and who’s intensely hated by his father. Jan grows up with Aunt Wad, his stepmother, and he struggles to reconcile his guilt and longing with different women in his life, including a girl called Hyacinth, whom he adores, and later Madame Boonleung, his father’s mistress who becomes a key to Jan’s sexual awakening.

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Les orphelins de Duplessis 1999

Les orphelins de Duplessis 1999

Les orphelins de Duplessis 1999

Les orphelins de Duplessis 1999
Drama | TV Mini-Series (1999– )

Storyline:

The Duplessis Orphans (French: les Orphelins de Duplessis) were children victimized in a mid-20th century scheme in which approximately 20,000 orphaned children were falsely certified as mentally ill by the government of the province of Quebec Canada and confined to psychiatric institutions. The Catholic Church has denied the allegations and disputes the claims of those seeking payments.

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Neberte nám princeznú (1981)

Neberte nám princeznú (1981)

Neberte nám princeznú (1981)

Neberte nám princeznú (1981)
55min | Family, Musical | TV Movie 1981

Storyline:

Modern version of Snowhite fairytale. Girl Katka is frustrated and restless. She escapes from home and find herself in the orphanage. Seven orphan boys hide her and call her “Princess”. But Katka is soon uncovered and her frantic mother is on the way…

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El Chata 2018

El Chata 2018

El Chata 2018

El Chata 2018
TV-MA | 1h 15min | Drama | 5 April 2018 (Puerto Rico)

Storyline:

Although Samuel has plenty of talent to be a boxing champion, he seems destined to receive blows like a punching bag. Now at thirty, he has to become a sparring partner because nobody is willing to give him a chance. Joe, his former coach, who is training a new prospect, decides to put him to test. Unable to feed his family and with temptations all over him, what he can only think about is getting back on the ring and prove himself and everybody else, that time in prison has changed him, and that he is determined to recover his family and win back his son affection. Back now in the neighborhood, life doesn’t let him take off his gloves off, not for a second. While the possibility of migrating is seen as a rebirth, Samuel knows that no matter where you go, the neighborhood is always within you.

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Martí, the Eye of the Canary 2010

Martí, the Eye of the Canary 2010

Martí, the Eye of the Canary 2010

Martí, the Eye of the Canary 2010
José Martí: El ojo del canario (original title)
1h 45min | Drama, History | 8 March 2011 (USA)

Storyline:

The story of José Martí’s (Cuba’s National Hero) youth.

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Flying Classroom 1954

Flying Classroom 1954

Flying Classroom 1954

Flying Classroom 1954
Das fliegende Klassenzimmer (original title)
1h 32min | Drama, Comedy, Family | 3 September 1954 (West Germany)

Storyline:

All is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other! The continuous feud between the pupils is only one of the pleasant alternations, which life brings into the everyday school life. In addition, there are the rehearsals for the school theatre; and there are the secrets around a teacher called ‘Justus’ and a man called ‘Nichtraucher’ or the “non-smoker” since he lives in an abandoned non-smoking railway carriage. Moreover, in between all the exciting surprises, a few serious things remain to be done…

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Paws P.I. (2018)

Paws P.I. (2018)

Paws P.I. (2018)

Paws P.I. (2018)
PG | 1h 26min | Action, Comedy, Family | 1 June 2019 (Poland)

Storyline:

A boy determined to save his father’s failing private detective business enlists the help of his pet dog and parrot…who talk. Together they will try to take down the town’s tyrannical tycoon who’s determined to stop a mansion from being turned into an animal rescue.

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