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Nothing as It Was 2013

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Nothing as It Was 2013

Nothing as It Was 2013

Nothing as It Was 2013
Nichts mehr wie vorher (original title)
1h 33m | Drama | Release date: September 24, 2013 (Germany)

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The accusations against 16-year-old Daniel Gudermann ( Jonas Nay ) are serious. The youth is denounced in his small town as the perpetrator of a cruel crime. 11-year-old Fabian was abused and then killed. According to eyewitness reports, Daniel was the last person seen at the crime scene. The police then decide to question Daniel personally, but he flees. This is a godsend for the town’s residents, and they begin to vehemently incite against the Gudermann family.

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City of Dreams 2023

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City of Dreams 2023

City of Dreams 2023

City of Dreams 2023
1h 54m | Drama, Thriller | Release date: August 30, 2024 (United States)

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City of Dreams follows Jesús, a young farmer in rural Mexico who dreams of playing for Club Puebla, his local soccer team. With the promise of training at a soccer camp in Los Angeles, Jesús is convinced by his father to leave home, but he soon discovers that he’s been sold to a sweatshop run out of a decrepit mansion in downtown Los Angeles. Jesús is then subjected to the grueling 18-hour work schedule dictated by El Jefe, a boss who promises freedom for those who complete their quotas, and whose brutality is motivated by his own desperation to provide for his family back in Mexico. Despite all, Jesús finds solace in Elena, a girl who was similarly betrayed and sent to America under the guise of attending a fashion school. When Elena goes missing and another co-worker, Carlitos, is severely beaten for confronting El Jefe, Jesús realizes his only way out is a daring escape.

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Kalak 2023

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Kalak 2023

Kalak 2023

Kalak 2023
2h | Drama | Release date: February 29, 2024 (Netherlands)

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Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, a Greenlandic word with a double meaning of both a “true” and “dirty” Greenlander, he wears the epithet as a badge of honor. But ultimately he has to confront his father.

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La révolte des enfants 1992

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La révolte des enfants 1992

La révolte des enfants 1992

La révolte des enfants 1992
1h 37m | Drama | Release date: April 22, 1992 (France)

Storyline:

In the 19th century, children — particularly the children of the poor — were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would (at the very least) go to prison, regardless of their age. However, people of conscience were beginning to protest against this situation. The story takes place in a prison for children where conditions are particularly harsh. The warden is a thick-headed martinet who demands complete compliance with the rules, or the children will be brutally dealt with. The assistant warden is a more modern man, and is appalled by the whole institution, but seeks to begin by reforming it. To that end, he has invited a journalist to come and see the conditions that prevail there, in the hopes that she will rouse public opinion against at least this one form of injustice.

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Introspection Tower 1941

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Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941
Mikaheri no tô (original title)
1h 52m | Drama | Release date: January 30, 1941 (Japan)

Storyline:

Problem kids come to a reformatory school where they live, study and work. Here there are no fences and no one is ever beaten. The kids steal, play pranks, run away and help fix a water problem. Reformed kids introspect and go back home.

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Manic 2001

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Manic 2001

Manic 2001

Manic 2001
1h 40m | Drama | Release date: May 23, 2003 (United States)

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Lyle Jensen is subject to sudden and violent outbursts, and he is committed to the juvenile wing of the Northwood Mental Institution. Several other youths are there with a variety of serious problems. Lyle interacts with other patients and staff on a human, and sometimes not so human level. The psychological problems of the patients also forms the fabric by which we see what’s right with them, and what’s wrong with the society that affects them.

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Feuerzeichen 1979

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Feuerzeichen 1979

Feuerzeichen 1979

Feuerzeichen 1979
1h 42m | Drama | Release date: 1979 (West Germany)

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Adrian Melik grows up as a scholarship holder in a private boarding school. On his thirteenth birthday he makes a suicide attempt: he wants to plunge from the roof of the boarding school. One of the firefighters, an American named Dave, takes care of the boy and a friendship develops over time. Adrian gets to know security, warmth, understanding and trust in Dave. At the boarding school, Adrian’s friendship with Dave is increasingly being viewed with suspicion and they eventually prohibit the boy from any further contact with the American. Adrian sees only one way to send a “sign” to his friend.

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The Grandmother 1970

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The Grandmother 1970

The Grandmother 1970

The Grandmother 1970
34m | Animation, Short, Horror | Release date: July 1970 (United States)

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An imaginative lad of about ten has a couple of problems: he wets his bed, and his parents are abusive and disgusting. In a spare room, he finds a bag of seeds, which he plants in soil that he’s placed in the middle of a single bed. The seed sprouts and grows into a grandmother, who’s loving and approving. Life with his parents and with his imagination continues. Is a smiling grandmother enough to get him through?

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