Mid90s 2018

Mid90s 2018

Mid90s 2018

Mid90s 2018
R | 1h 25min | Comedy, Drama | 26 October 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

This movie follows a teenager named Stevie growing up in Los Angeles. He’s struggling with his family, including his co-dependent single mom and his abusive older brother, and at school, where his richer friends seem to overlook him. When Stevie befriends a crew of skateboarders, he learns some tough lessons about class, race, and privilege.

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Kauwboy 2012

Kauwboy 2012

Kauwboy 2012
1h 21min | Drama | 18 April 2012 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

Jojo, a lively 10-year-old with a difficult home life marked by a volatile father & an absent mother, finds solace in an abandoned baby jackdaw. Through the special friendship he builds with the bird, the wall between him & his father will be brought down.

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Travelling Circus 1988

Travelling Circus 1988

Travelling Circus 1988
Ganh xiec rong (original title)
1h 16min | Drama |

Storyline:

Dat (Vien Minh) lives with his little sister with his always drunken father in a Vietnamese mountain. There it ends up a small traveling circus, which fascinates Dat quickly. Especially Lan (Thai Ngan), the girl of the troupe, it has done to him, because she performs a trick with rice in an empty basket is suddenly. He hopes to be able to nourish his poor and hungry village through this spell.

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Nanami: The Inferno of First Love 1968

Nanami: The Inferno of First Love 1968

Nanami: The Inferno of First Love 1968

Nanami: The Inferno of First Love 1968
Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen (original title)
X | 1h 27min | Drama, Romance | 10 June 1969 (USA)

Storyline:

In the seminal tragedy of a love story, which is shot in a documentary style, a young and inexperienced man falls for a nude and desirable model and the consequences are painful. The hot spots of downtown Tokyo are magical while it lasts however.

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Discreet 2017

Discreet 2017

Discreet 2017

Discreet 2017
Unrated | 1h 21min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 1 June 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

After years in hiding and struggling to control his demons, an eccentric drifter returns home and discovers that his childhood abuser, the center of his pain, is still alive. Armed with this knowledge, the drifter plots his revenge, all the while navigating the perilous land of masculine fragility in modern-day America.

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Turtles Can Fly 2004

Turtles Can Fly 2004

Turtles Can Fly 2004
Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand (original title)
PG-13 | 1h 38min | Drama, War | 23 February 2005 (France)

Storyline:

On the Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border, the boy Satellite is the leader of the kids. He commands them to clear and collect American undetonated minefields in the fields to sell them in the street market and he installs antennae for the villagers. He goes with the local leader to buy a parabolic antenna to learn the news about the eminent American invasion but nobody speaks English and Satellite that knows a couple of words is assigned to translate the Fox News. When the orphans Agrin and her armless brother Hengov and the blind toddler Riga come from Halabcheh to the camp, Satellite falls in an unrequited love for Egrin. But the girl is traumatized by a cruel raid in her home, when her parents were murdered and she was raped. She wants to leave Riga behind and travel with her brother Hengov to another place, but he does not agree with her intention.

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