Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012

Meine keine Familie 2012
1h 33m | Documentary, Biography | Release date: April 19, 2013 (Austria)

Storyline:

Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family – these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl at the beginning of the 1970’s. In my fathers, my mother and me the director Paul-Julien Robert, who was born into this commune, embarks on a personal journey into his past. Including archive material made public for the first time in this film, the director confronts himself and his mother with the question ‘What is family?’.

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Rapito 2023

Rapito 2023

Rapito 2023

Rapito 2023
2h 14m | Drama, History | Release date: May 25, 2023 (Italy)

Storyline:

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984
2h 23m | Adventure, Drama | Release date: March 30, 1984 (United States)

Storyline:

A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon afterwards. An ape enters the house and kills the father, and a female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D’Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

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Toto And His Sisters 2014

Toto And His Sisters 2014

Toto And His Sisters 2014

Toto And His Sisters 2014
Toto si surorile lui (original title)
1h 34m | Documentary, Drama, Family | Release date: January 6, 2016 (France)

Storyline:

Totonel (10) and his sisters, Andreea (14) and Ana (17), are waiting for their mother to come back home from prison. As they grow up, each of them learns how to survive on their own, hoping that when their mother returns, the family will be reunited.

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Daily Life At The Christmas Brand Homes 1952

Daily Life At The Christmas Brand Homes 1952

Daily Life At The Christmas Brand Homes 1952

Daily Life At The Christmas Brand Homes 1952
19m | Documentary | 1952

Plot:

Film about the six Christmas mark homes in Denmark, where over 1,000 vulnerable and especially needy children are helped each year. The film opens with b/w footage of poor children in Copenhagen backyards. Then a series of everyday pictures in color from the homes Lindersvold near Præstø, Hobro, Fjordmark near Kollund, Mørkøv, Kildemose near Ølsted and Holbølls Minde near Svendborg are shown. Also b/w footage from King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid’s visit to Hobro in 1949. The year of the film is uncertain. Many of the recordings can also be seen in ‘Julemærkefilmen 1952’.

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El camino 1964

El camino 1964

El camino 1964

El camino 1964
1h 35m | Drama | Release date: 1964 (Spain)

Storyline:

Daniel el Mochuelo (‘Little Owl’) is a boy who must leave his village to go study in the city. During the days leading up to his departure, Daniel and his inseparable friends Roque el Moñigo (‘Cowpat’) and Germán el Tiñoso (‘Mangy’) play, pull pranks, and observe the peculiar words of adults which is a clear portrait of life in a small Spanish village during the Franco regime.

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Old Narcissus 2023

Old Narcissus 2023

Old Narcissus 2023

Old Narcissus 2023
Ro narukisosu (original title)
1h 50m | Drama | Release date: May 20, 2023 (Japan)

Storyline:

74-year-old Yamazaki, an eccentric and prideful gay man, meets the young and lonely sex worker Leo, and for the first time in his long tumultuous life, falls in love with another person.

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