El hoyo en la cerca 2021
1h 40m | Drama, Thriller | 9 June 2022 (Mexico)
Storyline:
Exposes the fault lines and schisms of contemporary Mexican society.
Big Boys Don’t Cry 2020
1h 30m | Biography, Crime, Drama | 27 May 2021 (Brazil)
Storyline:
Paul Connolly (Michael Socha) recalls his harrowing childhood growing up in a children’s home following a police investigation into his boyhood friend’s suicide. As Paul struggles to build a relationship with Anthea (Zoë Tapper), he is forced to confront those responsible for his shattered childhood and the death of his friend. Based on true events.
Nordstrand 2013
1h 29m | Drama | 24 January 2014 (Germany)
Storyline:
NORDSTRAND tells the story of two brothers, Marten and Volker, who meet in their parents’ now empty house on the coast. Older brother Marten would like to pick up together their mother from prison where she has been since the death of their violent father years ago. But Volker seems only to have come in order to sell the house. He apparently can’t forgive neither his mother nor his older brother for the fact they didn’t protect him from the abuse committed by the head of the family.
Mother 2020
Mother: Mazâ (original title)
2h 6m | Drama, Thriller | 3 July 2020 (Japan)
Storyline:
Akiko (Masami Nagasawa) is a single mother and her son is Shuhei (Sho Gunji). Akiko casually has sex with other men, including Ryo (Sadao Abe). Akiko is the only person whom Shuhei can rely on. One day, Shuhei makes a shocking decision.
King of Thieves 2003
König der Diebe (original title)
1h 41m | Drama | 2003 (Austria)
Storyline:
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, 10-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West. Caruso smuggles them to Berlin and separates them from each other; he sells Mimma into prostitution, while Marcel, an older Albanian boy, teaches Barbu how to snatch purses. When Barbu discovers what happened to Mimma, he decides to free her from the brothel.
The Lion Child 1993
L’enfant lion (original title)
1h 26m | Family | 16 June 1993 (France)
Storyline:
Set in the past, follows young African boy who uses his friends, the wild animals, to defend his village from Arab slave traders.
The Lambs 1996
Les agneaux (original title)
1h 30m | Drama | 28 June 1999 (France)
Storyline:
In a village of the French Juras, Daniel, 15, and Marie, 14, live in the shadow of their brutal, domineering father, who can only express his love through violence. When their mother dies, the two inseparable children flee into the forest pursued by their father.