Forever Mary 1989

Forever Mary 1989

Forever Mary 1989

Forever Mary 1989
Mery per sempre (original title)
1h 42m | Drama, Crime | 4 May 1989 (Italy)

Storyline:

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamored of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?

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Place des Victoires 2019

Place des Victoires 2019

Place des Victoires 2019

Place des Victoires 2019
1h 42m | Drama | 21 August 2019 (France)

Storyline:

Place des Victoires is the story of an improbable and life-saving encounter between Bruno, a forty-year-old marginalized by professional and family setbacks, and Gagic, a mischievous street kid. Bruno will gradually rise to the surface, guided by this sunny little boy, full of mischief and poetry.

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Streetchild 1991

Streetchild 1991

Streetchild 1991

 

Streetchild 1991
Gossenkind (original title)
1h 28m | Drama | 9 April 1992 (Germany)

Storyline:

Axel is 14 years old, male prostitute, living in Düsseldorf. His mother drinks and her friends abuses him. He is sent to a bar to pick up customers. There he meets Karl-Heinz, and a loving relationship begins.

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The Story of My Son 1990

The Story of My Son 1990

The Story of My Son 1990

The Story of My Son 1990
Ngoi di sai gaai (original title)
1h 15m | Drama | 28 September 1990 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

Li Tzu-Liang is returning to Hong Kong with the ashes of his wife. He now has to bring up his two sons on his own. Though he is quite well-off, he his plagued by debts and when he loses a large sum of money betting on horses, he has to turn to dangerous loan-sharks. Here starts a spiral which gets him and his two sons deeper and deeper into trouble.

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Spící mesto 2021

Spící mesto 2021

Spící mesto 2021

Spící mesto 2021
1h 35m | Family, Fantasy, Mystery | 19 August 2021 (Czech Republic)

Storyline:

All the parents suddenly fall asleep, and children have to survive in the world. A thrilling adventure showing what can happen when chaos reigns and children are forced to face the pitfalls of the world on their own.

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Ashanti 1979

Ashanti 1979

Ashanti 1979

Ashanti 1979
1h 58m | Action, Adventure, Drama | 6 April 1979 (USA)

Storyline:

Dr. Anansa Linderby (Beverly Johnson) is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.

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Los Olvidados 1950

Los Olvidados 1950

Los Olvidados 1950

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

Storyline:

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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Where Eskimos Live 2002

Where Eskimos Live 2002

Where Eskimos Live 2002

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

Storyline:

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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Salaam Bombay! 1988

Salaam Bombay! 1988

Salaam Bombay! 1988

Salaam Bombay! 1988
1h 53m | Crime, Drama | 7 October 1988 (USA)

Storyline:

Young Krishna’s mother abandons him at the Apollo Circus and informs him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for his brother’s bicycle that he destroyed. The circus then leaves Krishna behind and he takes a train to Bombay, where he works delivering tee for Chacha’s street bar and being called “Chaipau” by the local street children. He befriends heroin addict and drug dealer Chillum, and young Manju Golub, the daughter of Baba Golub and prostitute Rekha Golub. Krishna dreams of saving 500 rupees to return home, but Bombay street life isn’t easy.

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