Farewell My Concubine 1993
Farewell My Concubine 1993
Ba wang bie ji (original title)
R | 2h 51min | Drama, Music, Romance | 15 October 1993 (USA)
Storyline:
“Farewell, My Concubine” is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth century into a three-hour time-frame.
Sulphur and White 2020
Sulphur and White 2020
2h 1min | Drama | 6 March 2020 (UK)
Storyline:
City trader and mountaineer David Tait is a man whose professional success masks a series of traumatic secrets.
The German Lesson 2019
The German Lesson 2019
Deutschstunde (original title)
2h 10min | Drama | 3 October 2019 (Germany)
Storyline:
Siggi Jepsen is in Germany after the war in an institution for difficult to educate young people. He is to write an essay on the subject “The pleasures of duty”, but has no idea. Only when he is locked in a cell the next day, the memories of his childhood during the Second World War break out of him: His father Jens Ole Jepsen, a police officer, was then commissioned to bring the friendly expressionist painter Ludwig Nansen a professional ban , At Nansen’s surveillance, Siggi was supposed to help him at the time, but eventually he rebelled against his father, sided with the recalcitrant Nansen and hid some of the forbidden pictures, eventually leading to his stay in the asylum.
For the Love of a Child 2006
For the Love of a Child 2006
TV-14 | 1h 20min | Drama | TV Movie 9 January 2006
Storyline:
In 1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the States enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race ‘orphans’ who are locally neglected as outcasts. Thus originates Childhelp, which later runs multi-disciplinary centers for abused or neglected children in the States. Among them is bright Jacob Fletcher, whose stepfather, a lawyer, terrorized him into utter trauma and reclaims him shortly after 10 months in jail. Jacob’s peers have distressing stories of their own, but competent, devoted staff helps most of them decisively on the former farm, using animal therapy.
After This Our Exile 2006
After This Our Exile 2006
Fu zi (original title)
2h 1min | Drama | 30 November 2006 (Hong Kong)
Storyline:
After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive sort who is addicted to gambling.
Devil’s Playground 2014
Devil’s Playground 2014
45min | Drama | TV Mini-Series (2014)
Storyline:
In 1976, Fred Schepisi’s first feature film, The Devil’s Playground, daringly dealt with the conflict between desire and spirituality in a Catholic seminary. It’s now considered a classic of Australian cinema. At the film’s centre was a 13-year-old boy, Tom Allen, torn between his calling and his sexuality. This series picks up the story 35 years later. It is 1988 and Tom is now in his forties. A practising Catholic and respected Sydney psychiatrist, Tom accepts an offer from the Bishop of Sydney to become a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, and is soon embroiled in political and theological intrigue.
A Man Thing 2001
A Man Thing 2001
Meska sprawa (original title)
26min | Drama, Short | 22 March 2002 (Poland)
Storyline:
13-year-old Bartek tries desperately to hide the fact that his father beats him. Lonely and with no support from his mother or his school, tyrannised by his soccer coach, the boy finds his only friend in an old dying stray dog.
Neighbour No. 13 (2005)
Neighbour No. 13 (2005)
Rinjin 13-gô (original title)
R | 1h 55min | Horror, Thriller | 8 March 2006 (USA)
Storyline:
Jûzô Murasaki is a boy miscast in his classroom, being frequently abused, tortured, beaten and humiliated by the bully Tôru Akai and his gang of juvenile punks. After years of repression, rejection and fear without facing Akai, he develops a psychopathic dual personality with a violent alter-ego. While living in the apartment 13 of a tenement building, he becomes unable to control his violent dark personality, who plots an evil revenge against his upper floor neighbor Akai and his family.
