TKKG 2019

TKKG 2019

TKKG 2019

TKKG 2019
1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 6 June 2019 (Germany)

Storyline:

Tim (Ilyes Moutaoukkil) and Willi (Lorenzo Germeno), called dumplings, get to know each other at the boarding school on the first day of school. The two could hardly be more different and especially Willi, son of a good family, is not happy to share a room with Tim, a fellow from the suburbs. But when Dumplings father is abducted and with him a valuable statue disappears from his art collection, Tim is the only one who believes Willi, that the police is on the wrong track. Together with the highly intelligent outsider Karl (Manuel Santos Gelke) and the smart policewoman Gaby (Emma-Louise Schimpf), the group begins to investigate on its own: a plane crash, masked kung fu fighters, a hidden message from dumpling father. How does this all come together? And what do the blind psychics Raimondo (Milan Peschel) and his assistant Amanda (Mai Duong Kieu) have to do with it? Against all odds the four discover a conspiracy.

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The Goldfinch 2019

The Goldfinch 2019

The Goldfinch 2019

The Goldfinch 2019
R | 2h 29min | Drama | 13 September 2019 (USA)

Storyline:

13-year-old New Yorker Theo Decker’s life is turned upside-down when his mother is killed in a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Confused in the rubble of the tragedy, he steals a priceless piece of art known as The Goldfinch.

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Common Ground 2000

Common Ground 2000

Common Ground 2000

Common Ground 2000
R | 1h 45min | Drama | TV Movie 29 January 2000

Storyline:

This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In “A Friend of Dorothy”, a woman joins the Navy during the 1950’s and discovers lesbianism. In “Mr. Roberts”, a teacher in a 1970’s classroom struggles with his closeted gay status. Finally in “Amos and Andy”, a father wrestles with his own emotional acceptance of a present day wedding between his son and another man.

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Dirty Little Rascals 2018

Dirty Little Rascals 2018

Dirty Little Rascals 2018

Dirty Little Rascals 2018
11min | Short, Comedy | 21 September 2018 (UK)

Storyline:

Dirty Little Rascals is a coming-of-age story that explores boyhood and the budding friendship between two outcast teenagers, set in suburban 1980’s England. Reg, a thirteen year old misfit, reluctantly recruits Dom, an introversive boy from his class, to pull off the heist of a lifetime: to retrieve a bin full of pornographic newspaper clippings hidden within his Grandmothers house.

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The Death and Life of John F. Donovan 2018

The Death and Life of John F. Donovan 2018

The Death and Life of John F. Donovan 2018

The Death and Life of John F. Donovan 2018
2h 3min | Drama | 13 March 2019 (France)

Storyline:

A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces the written correspondence he shared with him, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.

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The Road Not Taken 2018

The Road Not Taken 2018

The Road Not Taken 2018

The Road Not Taken 2018
Wei ze zhi lu (original title)
1h 53min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 21 September 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

In the depths of western China’s Gobi Desert, Yong (Wang Xuebing) operates a dilapidated ostrich farm, which is the last throw of the dice for him as he tries to win back his ex-wife and repair his life. One day, Mr. Wu (Wang Xufeng) comes looking for a debt to be repaid. When Yong can’t come up with the money, Wu leaves a lonely little boy (Zhu Gengyou) behind, telling Yong to look after him. Suspecting his ex-wife might be considering another marriage, Yong can only take the boy along as he goes to find her. In three days crossing the Gobi, they meet a sad and depressed female trucker Mei (Ma YiLi), and the three lonely people become a pseudo-family.More people join the action and the relationship between Yong and the boy is constantly tested and evolving over this journey. In the end, through these series of random encounters, every person embarks on their own path of no return.

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Murderous Children 2018

Murderous Children 2018

Murderous Children 2018

Murderous Children 2018
Niños Asesinos (original title)
1h 52min | Drama, Thriller | 2018 (Mexico)

Storyline:

Murderous Children presents 4 files, 4 real stories of criminal children. The story begins in a reformatory where the most overwhelming and moving stories are gathered, showing the storms and abuses faced by children who have known abandonment, torture, rage and human disorder. Four lives that converge in the most culminating point to murder. Tweety and Cat: two teenagers who dispute their destinies in the world of drugs and human trafficking. Gerardo and Pablo: their proposal will be strong to push the people that they love the most. Carlos and Miguel: will take their inner grudges towards the most perverse. And Mariano: will have an opportunity to discover what is better? ¿kill or love?. Rather than showing a monstrous and ruthless society, it shows its most intimate, most innocent and illusive side, fractured at the most precise moment to become that they were so close to: Murderous Children. Killer children presents the most overwhelming and moving stories that show the storms, abuse and abuse faced by children who have known the abandonment, torture, rage and human disorder of the people with whom they have lived and loved. Their stories tell us the journeys, the decadence and the ruptures that have been taken to the limit of their control, the social events that have led our childhood to destroy that innocence, passing that thin thread between the illusion to become the evil and the absolute perversion. This saga not only narrates the cruelty in its reality and hopelessness, but also for the darkness of the lives portrayed, which rather than showing a monstrous and ruthless society, shows its most intimate, most innocent and hopeful side, fractured at the most precise moment the childhood.

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