Toto le heros 1991

Toto le heros 1991

Toto le heros 1991

Toto le heros 1991
Toto le héros (original title)
PG-13 | 1h 31min | Comedy, Drama | 16 May 1991 (Belgium)

Storyline:

Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred’s good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can’t help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred’s, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a relationship with the woman Evelyne. So, as his life is ending, he formulates a plan of revenge against his bitter enemy, his lifetime adversary, the man who stole his existence.

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Jan auf der Zille 1986

Jan auf der Zille 1986

Jan auf der Zille 1986
1h 26min | Drama, War | 26 March 1986 (East Germany)

Storyline:

1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is accused of a political murder, and predicted to be shot by the police when he was on the run. Jan lives with his aunt and finds a friend, Max, who wants to help him to find out what really with his father happened. During a conspirative gathering Max is shot by SA (Nazi paramilitary) and Jan succeed to escape in a barge. Erika, the daughter of the captain of the barge, and a boatman hide him. They try to help Jan to escape from police and find his father, who really survived.

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Die Wilden Kerle 2 – 2005

Die Wilden Kerle 2 - 2005

Die Wilden Kerle 2 – 2005
1h 35min | Comedy, Family, Sport | 17 February 2005 (Germany)

Storyline:

The Wild Bunch junior soccer team wants to play against the national team, but rules stipulate they can’t unless their playing field can provide emergency exits, bathroom facilities, dressing rooms, grand stand seating and security for handling hooligans. Leon leads the team to Maxi’s father’s bank to negotiate the $5000 deal for these improvements. Per the deal they strike, if the Wild Bunch loses in the qualifying game, they agree to dissolve their gang, surrender their playing field, and become Christmas ornament craftsmen; but, if they win, Maxi’s father must join the WIld Bunch and attend all their games. The real worry starts, though, when ace player Vanessa is subsequently lured away by personal attentions from the silky, dreadlocks-adorned leader of a rival skateboarding gang.

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Uskyld 2012

Uskyld 2012

Uskyld 2012
1h 45min | Drama | 2 November 2012 (Norway)

Storyline:

Two brothers in their 40s are found dead in the forest. By their side lies a woman, very weak, but still alive. “All that matters is past” is the story of how Janne meets William after many years of separation. She leaves her family to live with him in a cabin by the river. They recreate the feeling of love and lust that they had as children, being sweethearts playing in the woods. But one day a Chinese baby girl is found floating down the river, and they realize that they are being haunted by William’s brother. William and Janne runs further into the woods, trying to escape from their nemesis.

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Sondagsbarn 2013

Sondagsbarn 2013

Sondagsbarn 2013
1h 58min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 28 August 1992 (Sweden)

Storyline:

The film switches back and forth between the adventures of Pu on a summer holiday in Norrland in Sweden and and the adult Pu visiting his father who lives in an old people’s home. Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland in the 1920s with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns to shoot with a bow and follow his father on a bicycle trip.

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Cartouches gauloises 2007

Cartouches gauloises 2007

Cartouches gauloises 2007
1h 32min | Drama | 8 August 2007 (France)

Storyline:

A young Algerian paperboy with friends and associates of all ages on both sides of the conflict experiences history leading up to the March 1962 independence of Algeria, witnesses ruthless violence perpetrated by French and Arabs, sees his French friends depart or die, and tries to relate to his patriotic French soccer pal to the end.

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L’enfance nue 1968

L’enfance nue 1968

L’enfance nue 1968

L’enfance nue 1968
1h 23min | Drama | 22 January 1969 (France)

Storyline:

An anguished foster child takes to mischief and lies as his foster parents do their best to love and care for him. But it might be too little, too late in this emotionally devastating portrayal of the orphaned child.

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