The Harvesters 2018

The Harvesters 2018

The Harvesters 2018

The Harvesters 2018
Die Stropers (original title)
1h 42min | Drama | 13 September 2019 (USA)

Storyline:

South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.

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Mon frère 2019

Mon frère 2019

Mon frère 2019

Mon frère 2019
1h 36min | Drama | 31 July 2019 (France)

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Because he wanted to protect his little brother from a father too violent, Teddy, a young man without history, is accused of the murder of his father and is sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide . He then plunges into a brutal universe of which he does not know the rules. He meets Enzo, the boss of the center. After a period of hard confrontation, they will befriend and escape. Their beautiful escape to Amsterdam will allow them to flee a destiny that seemed to them promised.

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Fourth Place 2015

Fourth Place 2015

Fourth Place 2015

Fourth Place 2015
1h 56min | Drama, Sport | 13 April 2016 (South Korea)

Storyline:

A former Asian Games record breaker and Olympic tryout, Kim Gwang-su, endures beatings, abuse, and constant ridicule from his swimming coach. To justify this abusive behavior, his coach constantly reminded Gwang-su – this is for your own good!

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Buy Me a Gun 2018

Buy Me a Gun 2018

Buy Me a Gun 2018

Buy Me a Gun 2018
Cómprame un revolver (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 24min | Drama | 10 May 2019 (Mexico)

Storyline:

In a timeless México where women are disappearing, a girl called Huck wears a mask to hide her gender. She helps her dad, a tormented addict, to take care of an abandoned baseball camp where the narcos gather to play. The father tries to protect her as he can. With the help of her friends, a group of lost boys who have the power of camouflaging themselves in the windy desert, Huck has to fight to overcome her reality and to defeat the local capo.

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By the Grace of God 2018

By the Grace of God 2018

By the Grace of God 2018

By the Grace of God 2018
Grâce à Dieu (original title)
2h 17min | Drama | 20 February 2019 (France)

Storyline:

The portrait of 3 men today, Alexandre, François and Gilles. Quarantine, age of challenges and male interrogations. The three men, friends of childhood, Alexander the Catholic, François the fighter and Gilles the skinned alive, will cross, compare their personal experiences and question their life of couple, family and professional.

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Guardian Angel 1987

Guardian Angel 1987

Guardian Angel 1987

Guardian Angel 1987
Andjeo cuvar (original title)
1h 30min | Crime, Drama | 13 March 1987 (Yugoslavia)

Storyline:

The Guardian Angel in this harrowing film is the one who doesn’t protect gypsy children from being sold into virtual slavery with gangs of organized beggars, pickpockets, and thieves all over Europe. Once “on the job”, these young children are treated viciously, and even the mildest disobedience is met with extremely sadistic tortures. However, in this film, even when someone from outside takes an interest in an individual child and tries to help him escape this situation, there is little he can do, because even when the boy is returned to his home village, he is persuaded to sell himself again so his family can eat.

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Hunger 2009

Hunger 2009

Hunger 2009

Hunger 2009
18min | Short | 2 May 2009 (Germany)

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Siblings Roland and Paul see their immigrant neighbours taken away by the police, and they decide to go into the abandoned flat. There they explore the belongings of the family and enter their own fantasy world. Reality comes crashing back however, when their father returns and finds them there.

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Lamb 1985

Lamb 1985

Lamb 1985

Lamb 1985
1h 50min | Drama | 10 October 1986 (Ireland)

Storyline:

“Lamb” focuses on the relationship between Brother Michael Lamb (Liam Neeson), a teacher in a Roman Catholic-run institution for troubled boys in Ireland, and 10-year-old Owen Kane (Hugh O’Conor), the school’s most unruly pupil. Dumped into the institution by his abusive mother, Owen is an incorrigible mess who smokes cigarettes, curses, wets his bed, picks fights and has epileptic seizures.

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