Svolochi 2006

Svolochi 2006

Svolochi 2006
1h 37min | Action, Drama, War | 2 February 2006 (Russia)

Storyline

A “Hitlerjugend” kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin. The Red Army has a gang of juveniles for a clandestine operation against the Nazis. The boys are trained by a dangerous crime lord at a top secret boot camp. They are doomed to die in the mission, or after it, just to keep it a secret. Continue reading

Alabama Moon 2009

Alabama Moon 2009

Alabama Moon 2009
PG | 1h 39min | Drama, Family | 18 March 2011 (USA)

Storyline:

Moon Blake is raised by his loving but government-paranoid father Oliver in a hidden cave in the Alabama forests. Oliver dies from a leg wound he refuses to have medically treated, so Moon is told to move away, alone, and start a new home in the Alaskan wild-lands. Constable Sanders, however – the mean local cop – finds the boy with his father’s guns, abuses him and has him locked away till majority age for ‘assault’ within Mr. Gene’s grim Pinson home for boys. Moon soon makes friends with shy, sickly Kit and apparent bully Hal, then sets up a mass escape, on which only the trio actually follows through. Sanders fails to catch them, but the unforgiving elements reshuffle the cards dramatically. An uncle is meanwhile found.

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Plemya 2014

Plemya 2014

Plemya 2014
2h 6min | Crime, Drama | 21 May 2014 (France)

Storyline:

A deaf teenager enters a specialized boarding school where, to survive, he becomes part of a wild organization – the tribe. His love for one of the concubines will unwillingly lead him to break all the unwritten rules within the Tribe’s hierarchy.

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St. Vincent 2014

St. Vincent 2014

St. Vincent 2014
12 | 1h 42min | Comedy, Drama | 30 October 2014 (Hungary)

Storyline:

Vincent is an old Vietnam vet whose stubbornly hedonistic ways have left him without money or a future. Things change when his new next-door neighbor’s son, Oliver, needs a babysitter and Vince is willing enough for a fee. From that self-serving act, an unexpected friendship forms as Vincent and Oliver find so much of each other’s needs through each other. As Vincent mentors Oliver in street survival and other worldly ways, Oliver begins to see more in the old man than just his foibles. When life takes a turn for the worse for Vincent, both them find the best in each other than no one around them suspects.

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Christian 2004

Christian 2004

Christian 2004

Christian 2004
35min | Short | 2004 (UK)

Storyline

A fourteen year-old boy named Christian arrives for his first day at a new school. His classmates sense there is something different about him, but no-one can explain why. Maria, the girl everyone picks on, warms to Christian’s friendship. The class bullies, led by Pullen, feel threatened by the attention he’s getting. Tension mounts as the day progresses… and something has to give before the final bell.

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Eres mi héroe 2003

Eres mi héroe 2003

Eres mi héroe 2003

Eres mi héroe 2003
1h 42min | Comedy, Drama | 30 May 2003 (Spain)

Storyline:

The odds were stacked against Ramón (Manuel Lozano) from the start. He was always an outsider, and to keep himself sane, he lived by a strict mantra: Don’t Fight, Don’t Snitch and Don’t Cry.

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Keeper’n til Liverpool 2010

Keeper'n til Liverpool 2010

Keeper’n til Liverpool 2010

Keeper’n til Liverpool 2010
1h 30min | Comedy | 22 October 2010 (Norway)

Storyline:

Jo (13) is a smart thinker with a vivid imagination, but is bothered by classmates, and is a rather hopeless soccer goalie. He does what he has to survive this difficult time in life.

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