The Best of All Worlds 2017

The Best of All Worlds 2017

The Best of All Worlds 2017

The Best of All Worlds 2017
Die beste aller Welten (original title)
1h 40min | Drama | 8 September 2017 (Austria)

Storyline:

Based on true events seven year old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of the Austrian city Salzburg, famous for culture and classical music. His mother Helga is torn between her drug addiction and her love and dedication for her son. Despite this environment Adrian has a happy and normal childhood, the best of all worlds. Their relationship is tested to the limit when the authorities and child welfare services find out about Helga’s addiction.

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Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements 2019

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements 2019

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements 2019

Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements 2019
1h 30min | Documentary | 13 September 2019 (USA)

Storyline:

Moonlight Sonata is a deeply personal memoir about a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata. Their lives weave a story about what we discover when we push beyond loss.

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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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La Canta delle marane 1961

La Canta delle marane 1961

La Canta delle marane 1961

La Canta delle marane 1961
10min | Short | 1961 (Italy)

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A seemingly flattering eulogy of the existential anarchy of the young Roman sub-proletarians, their desperate vitality, their gaming communities … The film is in fact a striking social portrait and a precise denunciation, sketched without any sociological heaviness, because rich of piety and love never paternalistic. Thanks to a form with unrestricted sequence shots, the result is fully achieved and the film moves as much as it unworthy.

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A Time to Remember 1988

A Time to Remember 1988

A Time to Remember 1988

A Time to Remember 1988
G | 1h 17min | Drama, Music | 26 August 1988 (USA)

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It is small town America in the 1950’s. Twelve year-old Angelo Villano has one dream: to someday sing like his idol, Mario Lanza. His grandmother, Mama Theresa encourages him; and his beautiful voice catches the attention of the formidable but kind Father Walsh who arranges for him to receive formal training. This infuriates Angelo’s widowed father, Frank, who wants his son to be a steelworker like him. Determined to “make a man out of him”, Frank forbids Angelo from singing. When Angelo is chased by bullies into the path of an oncoming car, he recovers all but his voice, retreating into a silent world that no one can touch. One night, locked in the church basement, the frightened Angelo experiences a spectacular vision, a true Christmas miracle, that changes his life. And when his vision and his voice return during Christmas Eve Mass, no one can deny the beauty and blessing of his amazing gift.

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Alone with Mr Carter 2011

Alone with Mr Carter 2011

Alone with Mr Carter 2011

Alone with Mr Carter 2011
TV-G | 17min | Short, Drama, Romance | 17 September 2011 (USA)

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In 1997, the year Ellen DeGeneres comes out, John is a boy who dreams of becoming a cop. He wants to confide in his neighbor, Mr. Carter, that he is secretly in love with him. Time is of the essence as the 65-year-old heterosexual detective is moving away forever.

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Still Walking 2008

Still Walking 2008

Still Walking 2008

Still Walking 2008
Aruitemo aruitemo (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 55min | Drama | 28 June 2008 (Japan)

Storyline:

Still Walking is a family drama about grown children visiting their elderly parents, which unfolds over one summer day. The aging parents have lived in the family home for decades. Their son and daughter return for a rare family reunion, bringing their own families with them. They have gathered to commemorate the tragic death of the eldest son, who drowned in an accident fifteen years ago. Although the roomy house is as comforting and unchanging as the mother’s homemade feast, everyone in the family has subtly changed.

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