The Sandlot 3 (2007)

The Sandlot 3 (2007)

The Sandlot 3 (2007)

The Sandlot 3 (2007)
1h 36m | Family, Sport | Release date: May 1, 2007 (United States)

Storyline:

Successful, arrogant baseball superstar Tommy “Santa” Santorelli travels back in time to 1976 and relives his boyhood days on the sandlot baseball team, and has the chance to this time choose friendship over glory.

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Noci sonanti 2019

Noci sonanti 2019

Noci sonanti 2019

Noci sonanti 2019
1h 19m | Documentary | Release date: 2020 (Italy)

Storyline:

Siddharta and Fabrizio, one of them nine years old, the other 65, are the core of a community that renounces every civilising comfort. Damiano Giacomelli and Lorenzo Raponi observe the life of the ‘Noci Sonanti’ over one summer marked by sun-drenched days and newborn cats.

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Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941

Introspection Tower 1941
Mikaheri no tô (original title)
1h 52m | Drama | Release date: January 30, 1941 (Japan)

Storyline:

Problem kids come to a reformatory school where they live, study and work. Here there are no fences and no one is ever beaten. The kids steal, play pranks, run away and help fix a water problem. Reformed kids introspect and go back home.

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Bogus 1996

Bogus 1996

Bogus 1996

Bogus 1996
1h 50m | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | Release date: September 6, 1996 (United States)

Storyline:

Seven year-old Albert is the son of a Las Vegas circus performer. When she is killed in a car wreck, Albert is sent to live with his mother’s foster sister, Harriet Franklin, a no-nonsense businesswoman struggling in New Jersey. Albert hates it with the dour Harriet, but takes refuge in the company of Bogus, a flamboyant, gentle, loving, and altogether imaginary Frenchman. With Bogus’s help, Albert can perhaps come to terms with his mother’s death, and Harriet with her own loss of childhood innocence.

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Monster 2023

Monster 2023

Monster 2023

Monster 2023
Kaibutsu (original title)
2h 7m | Drama, Thriller | Release date: June 02, 2023 (Japan)

Storyline:

A suburban town with a large lake. A single mother who loves her son, a school teacher who cares about her students, and innocent children lead a peaceful life. One day, a fight breaks out at school. It looked like a common fight between children, but their claims differed, and it gradually developed into a big deal involving society and the media. Then one stormy morning, the children suddenly disappear.

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The Grandmother 1970

The Grandmother 1970

The Grandmother 1970

The Grandmother 1970
34m | Animation, Short, Horror | Release date: July 1970 (United States)

Storyline:

An imaginative lad of about ten has a couple of problems: he wets his bed, and his parents are abusive and disgusting. In a spare room, he finds a bag of seeds, which he plants in soil that he’s placed in the middle of a single bed. The seed sprouts and grows into a grandmother, who’s loving and approving. Life with his parents and with his imagination continues. Is a smiling grandmother enough to get him through?

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L’arbre de Noël 1969

L'arbre de Noël 1696

L’arbre de Noël 1696

L’arbre de Noël 1969
1h 50m | Drama | Release date: October 10, 1969 (Italy)

Storyline:

Since the death of his mother, Pascal, ten years old, spends his holidays with his father, the rich Laurent Segur. One day, when diving near the shores of Corse, an aircraft falls into the sea. The holiday goes on happily with Catherine, the young and pretty girlfriend of Laurent. But soon blue marks appear on the face of Pascal. He has been contaminated by a nuclear weapon carried by the destroyed plane, and he won’t survive more than six months. There is nothing Laurent can do, except give his son the best six months he has ever lived.

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Dva lidi v zoo 1989

Dva lidi v zoo 1989

Dva lidi v zoo 1989

Dva lidi v zoo 1989
1h 29m | Comedy | Release date: January 1, 1989 (Czechoslovakia)

Storyline:

Twin brothers are sent to Grandpa to spend some days. The Grandpa is a vet at a zoo and barely has time or patience to deal with the boys, most of the time the boys just help the animals by feeding, petting or playing their violins.

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Sweet Journey 2011

Sweet Journey 2011

Sweet Journey 2011

Sweet Journey 2011
Yun xia de ri zi (original title)
1h 42m | Drama | Release date: March 8, 2011 (China)

Storyline:

Guizhou province, southern China, spring 1980. Schoolboys Zhao Qiangsheng (Ma Guoxing) and Fulai (Wang Shibin), who’ve spent their whole life in a remote village, hear from a PLA soldier about a thing called a “city”, full of people, buildings and cars, three mountains away. Full of curiosity, and with the orphaned Fulai fed up with being passed around the community, the two set off to reach it when their school is closed for five days…

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