Devil’s Playground 2014

Devil's Playground 2014

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.

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A Man Thing 2001

A Man Thing 2001

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.

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Neighbour No. 13 (2005)

Neighbour No. 13 (2005)

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.

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Fratricide 2005

Fratricide 2005

Fratricide 2005

Fratricide 2005
Brudermord (original title)
1h 30min | Drama | 12 April 2006 (France)

Storyline:

Two young Kurdish refugees, recently arrived in Germany struggle to make their way through the harshness of the occidental city. Their encounter with a gang of Turks will rapidly led them into an inevitable tragical spiral filled with death and revenge

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Anger 2008

Anger 2008

Anger 2008

Anger 2008
La rabia (original title)
1h 25min | Drama | 2 May 2008 (Argentina)

Storyline:

A forbidden passion story happening before the eyes of children, when a married woman with a mute daughter gets into a steamy relationship with a single father of a teenage boy. The husband of the woman openly dislikes and frequently argues with the owner of the neighboring farm, unaware of her wife’s affair with him.

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Small Change 1976

Small Change 1976

Small Change 1976

Small Change 1976
L’argent de poche (original title)
PG | 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama | 12 17 March 1976 (France)

Storyline:

The lives of a motherless boy, who is just starting to get interested in women, and his physically abused friend, who lives in poverty, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges of a number of children.

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