Harnessing Peacocks 1992

Harnessing Peacocks 1992

Harnessing Peacocks 1992
1h 45min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | TV Movie 28 November 1993

Storyline:

The beautiful Hebe has been cast out by her family after a teenage pregnancy to a masked stranger during a fiesta in Italy. She makes ends meet and pays for her son’s school fees by cooking for old ladies and sleeping with a small syndicate of adoring men (the “peacocks” of the title – from Greek mythology). The story revolves around Hebe, her “clients” and their families, and set against a backdrop of village life in South-West England. There is a sub-theme of the antiques trade which draws some of the characters together, and ultimately resolves the mystery of Hebe’s masked lover.

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Spud 3: Learning to Fly 2014

Spud 3: Learning to Fly 2014

Spud 3: Learning to Fly 2014
1h 29min | Comedy | 15 November 2014 (South Africa)

Storyline:

As Spud Milton continues his awkward stagger through adolescence, he learns one of life’s most important lessons: When dealing with women and cretins, nothing is ever quite as it seems. “I’m practically a man in most areas,” writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. The year is 1992 and, in South Africa, radical change is in the air. The country may be on the bumpy road to an uncertain future, but Spud Milton is hoping for a smooth ride as he returns to boarding school as a senior. Instead, he discovers that his vindictive arch enemy is back to taunt him and that a garrulous Malawian has taken residence in his dormitory, along with the regular inmates and misfits he calls friends. Spud’s world has never seemed less certain; he attempts to master Shakespeare, wrestles constantly with his God, and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a shocking discovery about his grandmother, Wombat.

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Gomen 2002

Gomen 2002

Gomen 2002
1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 12 October 2002 (Japan)

Storyline:

Sexuality blooms early when an elementary school student boy falls in love with a junior high school girl in tandem with the onset of his puberty. It is barely younger man and older woman relationship, but all concerned are proud and on a high including the students’ adoring parents.

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Bless the Beasts and Children 1971

Bless the Beasts and Children 1971

Bless the Beasts and Children 1971

Bless the Beasts and Children 1971
1h 49min | Comedy, Drama | June 1971 (West Germany)

Storyline:

A group of social misfits at a summer camp.for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club’s slaughter.

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Poletje v skoljki 1985

Poletje v skoljki 1985

Poletje v skoljki 1985
1h 35min | Comedy, Family | 19 March 1985 (Yugoslavia)

Storyline:

Young Tomaz has many problems. Not only is he quite lonely, but he also has to leave his hometown and move to the city with his family because of his father’s new job. In these difficult times, during the middle of summer, his only help is his computer Vedi. Even the rivalry between local children gangs from Piran and Portoroz can not solve any problems, at least not until both gangs get a common enemy – motorcyclists who steal shells.

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Wetlands 2013

Wetlands 2013

Wetlands 2013
Feuchtgebiete (original title)
18 | 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama | 11 August 2013 (Switzerland)

Storyline:

The eccentric 18 year-old Helen narrates the story of her life, including stories about her preferred sexual practices that involve vegetables, her attitude towards hygiene, drugs, her best friend Corinna and her challenging childhood. The frame story takes place in a hospital where she is treated because of an anal fissure. During her stay she plans to reunite her divorced parents and falls in love with the male nurse Robin.

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