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)

Storyline:

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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Radio Flyer 1992

Radio Flyer 1992

Radio Flyer 1992

Radio Flyer 1992
PG-13 | 1h 54min | Drama | 21 February 1992 (USA)

Storyline:

A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the “Radio Flyer”, into a plane to fly him to safety.

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001

Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001

Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001

Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2001
R | 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Music | 31 August 2001 (USA)

Storyline:

A transgender punk-rock girl from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.

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The Child 2012

The Child 2012

The Child 2012
1h 40min | Thriller | 18 October 2012 (Germany)

Storyline:

Simon Sachs, a terminally ill ten year old boy, claims to have been a serial killer in his previous life and apparently he can prove it. He leads a lawyer, Robert Stern to the locations of the bodies, who were killed long before Simon was born. Stern takes on the most compelling and mysterious case of his life.

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We Die Young 2019

We Die Young 2019

We Die Young 2019

We Die Young 2019
R | 1h 32min | Drama | 1 March 2019 (USA)

Storyline:

Lucas, a 14-year-old boy inducted into the gang life in Washington, D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother won’t follow the same path. When an Afghanistan war veteran comes into the neighborhood, an opportunity arises.

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Les Vauriens 2006

Les Vauriens 2006

Les Vauriens 2006
1h 25min | Drama | TV Movie 30 September 2006

Storyline:

The story of boys who were condemned to the severe reformatory regime in a French penal ‘colony’. It’s run by a former prison warden, based on ‘rehabilitattion’ trough manual labor and strict discipline. Young Reynard, a novice to crime and juvenile detention, meets horrible hardened villains and sadistic staff as well as people with some heart among fellow inmates and their supposed educators.

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