Le Colosse aux Pieds d’Argile 2022

Le Colosse aux Pieds d'Argile 2022

Le Colosse aux Pieds d’Argile 2022

Le Colosse aux Pieds d’Argile 2022
1h 31m | Drama | Release date: April 30, 2023 (France)

Storyline:

Sébastien is a former rugby player and a true colossus. Between 12 to 16, he seemed to be a child with the happy demeanor typical of his native Southwest region. But this joie de vivre was actually a smokescreen intended to protect his family’s harmony. During those four years, Sébastien was a victim of rape. For four years, he suffered in silence because his abuser was none other than a close friend of his parents, loved by all. Thirty years later, Sébastien remains unable to come clean. His demons are destroying him. He wavers between his need for revenge and his desire to ensure that no one else will have to live through what he has. After Sébastien meets a kid, a wounded little giant like the child he once was, and reconnects with the girl he didn’t know how to love as a teenager, he is compelled to make the right choice – justice… But at what cost?

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Time Out 2018

Time Out 2018

Time Out 2018

Time Out 2018
Pieniä suuria valheita (original title)
1h 34m | Comedy, Drama | Release date: November 16, 2018 (Finland)

Storyline:

A priest who left his cheating wife (Mikko Nousiainen) moves with his school-aged son to a small town in Kainuu, where he plans to start a new life. The beginning, however, is not very rosy when the reception in the small community turns out to be cold, to say the least. The apartment that was supposed to be furnished is empty. The father immediately becomes the talk of the other members of the congregation and the son is being bullied at school. The situation begins to escalate, and very suddenly the continuation of life in a new community seems hopeless. “Time Out” is a heightened depiction of reality, an extreme story in which serious drama and equally serious black humor go hand in hand.

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May nagmamahal sa iyo 1996

May nagmamahal sa iyo 1996

May nagmamahal sa iyo 1996

May nagmamahal sa iyo 1996
2h 1m | Drama | Release date: January 25, 1996 (Philippines)

Storyline:

A woman who has a child out of wedlock decides to give him away to an orphanage; years later, when she goes back to the orphanage, she discovers that the place does not exist anymore.

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Hotel Paraiso 2019

Hotel Paraiso 2019

Hotel Paraiso 2019

Hotel Paraiso 2019
20m | Short, Drama | Release date: 2019 (Peru)

Storyline:

Andrés is a young gay dress maker who lives with his younger brother in a gay porn cinema. He works in a small textile factory in order to save up some money and move to another place. after being fired because a series of rumors about his sexuality, Andres turns to Omar, an older man that makes a living out of prostitution, who introduces him to a community that has isolated from Peruvian society willing to find protection from its prejudices.

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Somewhere Boy 2022 (s01)

Somewhere Boy 2022 (s01)

Somewhere Boy 2022 (s01)

Somewhere Boy 2022 (s01)
23m | Drama | Release date: October 16, 2022 (United Kingdom)

Storyline:

Danny was a baby when his mother was killed in a car crash. Overcome with grief, his father locked him away in a house, telling him the outside world is full of monsters that will spirit him away like his mother.

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The Nanny 1965

The Nanny 1965

The Nanny 1965

The Nanny 1965
1h 31m | Mystery, Thriller | Release date: January 20, 1966 (Italy)

Storyline:

Bette Davis is an English nanny whose charge is a rude 10-year-old Joey, just discharged from a disturbed children’s home where he’d spent two years undergoing treatment for drowning his little sister in the bath. He returns to an unloving father, fragile mother, and doting nanny — whom he hates. Suspicion arises again when his mother is poisoned, and Joey continues to insist Nanny is responsible. Joey contends the nanny was responsible for his little sister’s death, and only the upstairs neighbour girl believes him.

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Nebel im August 2016

Nebel im August 2016

Nebel im August 2016

Nebel im August 2016
2h 1m | Drama, War | Release date: September 29, 2016 (Germany)

Storyline:

A Yenish boy is placed in a mental hospital and experiences the Nazi euthanasia program. Aware of what is happening and attached to friends, the lad attempts to sabotage the program. The film addresses the complexities of the program director, the lives of the child victims, and the struggles of the child protagonist. More than 5,000 children were killed in the Nazi euthanasia program.

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Gone Case 2014

Gone Case 2014

Gone Case 2014

Gone Case 2014
1h 33m | Drama | Release date: February 2, 2014 (Singapore)

Storyline:

Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Dave Chua (winner of the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award), Gone Case is a heartfelt, coming-of-age story that revolves around twelve-year-old Yong, who struggles to cope with the tumultuous events that take place in his life as he approaches his PSLE exams – the death of his grandmother, the decaying relationship of his parents, the rigorous demands of school, run-ins with a neighborhood gang, his first crush and taste of heartache, and the tensions between him and his dysfunctional best friend, Liang. Like the HDB estate that the main characters reside in, Gone Case features a myriad of characters that weave in and out of Yong’s life, forming a poignant mosaic of Singapore heartlands in the 90s.

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