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.
Deep End 1970 UNCUT
1h 32min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 18 March 1971 (Denmark)
Storyline:
15-year-old Mike takes a job at the local swimming baths, where he becomes obsessed with an attractive young woman, Susan, who works there as an attendant. Although Susan has a fiancé, Mike does his best to sabotage the relationship, to the extent of stalking both her and her fiancé. Mike becomes increasingly desperate to have Susan for himself, with tragic results.
The Mirror 1975
Zerkalo (original title)
1h 47min | Biography, Drama | 7 March 1975 (Soviet Union)
Storyline:
Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family. The story interweaves reflections about Russian history and society.
Amerikanka 2001
1h 30min | Comedy | 27 January 2001 (Hungary)
User review:
One of the best movies I have ever seen. It is very different from mainstream films that you can see in most of the movie-theaters worldwide.
Mon oncle Antoine 1971
Mon oncle Antoine 1971
1h 44min | Drama | 12 November 1971 (Canada)
Storyline:
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town’s general store and undertaking business.
La lengua de las mariposas 1999
R | 1h 36min | Drama | 24 September 1999 (Spain)
Storyline:
For Moncho, it’s an idyllic year: he starts school, he has a wonderful teacher, he makes a friend in Roque, he begins to figure out some of the mysteries of Eros, and, with his older brother, a budding saxophone player, he makes a trip with the band from their town in Galicia. But it’s also the year that the Spanish Republic comes under fire from Fascist rebels. Moncho’s father is a Republican as is the aging teacher, Don Gregorio. As sides are drawn and power falls clearly to one side, the forces of fear, violence, and betrayal alter profoundly what should be the pleasure of coming of age.
