Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes 2013

Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes 2013

Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes 2013

Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes 2013
Kvinden i buret (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 36min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 17 June 2016 (USA)

Storyline:

Chief detective Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad become involved in a five-year-old case concerning the mystery of politician Merete Lynggaard’s disappearance – a journey that takes them deep into the undercurrent of abuse and malice that lurks beneath the polished surface of Scandinavia.

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Devil’s Playground 2014

Devil's Playground 2014

Devil’s Playground 2014

Devil’s Playground 2014
45min | Drama | TV Mini-Series (2014)

Storyline:

In 1976, Fred Schepisi’s first feature film, The Devil’s Playground, daringly dealt with the conflict between desire and spirituality in a Catholic seminary. It’s now considered a classic of Australian cinema. At the film’s centre was a 13-year-old boy, Tom Allen, torn between his calling and his sexuality. This series picks up the story 35 years later. It is 1988 and Tom is now in his forties. A practising Catholic and respected Sydney psychiatrist, Tom accepts an offer from the Bishop of Sydney to become a secular confessor to the Catholic clergy, and is soon embroiled in political and theological intrigue.

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The Conformist 1970

The Conformist 1970

The Conformist 1970

The Conformist 1970
Il conformista (original title)
R | 1h 53min | Drama | 22 October 1970 (USA)

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This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello’s mind.

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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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