Peccato veniale 1974

Peccato veniale 1974

Peccato veniale 1974
1h 38min | Comedy | 24 January 1974 (Italy)

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The sensational success of „Malizia” obviously called for a sequel of some kind. So one year later, in 1974, most of the „Malizia” production staff including the main actors, Laura Antonelli and Alessandro Momo, came back together to shoot „Peccato veniale”.

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Shelter 2007

Shelter 2007

Shelter 2007
Shelter (original title)
R | 1h 37min | Drama, Romance, Sport | 16 April 2009 (Germany)

Storyline

Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach spends his days working a dead-end job and helping his needy sister care for her son. In his free time he surfs, draws and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe, who lives on the wealthy side of town. When Gabe’s older brother, Shaun, returns home, he is drawn to Zach’s selflessness and talent. Zach falls in love with Shaun while struggling to reconcile his own desires with the needs of his family.

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Jacquot de Nantes 1991

Jacquot de Nantes 1991

Jacquot de Nantes 1991
1h 58min | Biography, Drama | 15 May 1991 (France)

Storyline

Jacquot Demy is a little boy at the end of the thirties. His father owns a garage and his mother is a hairdresser. The whole family lives happily and likes to sing and to go to the movies. Jacquot is fascinated by every kind of show (theatre, cinema, puppets). He buys a camera to shoot his first amateur film… An evocation of French cineast Jacques Demy’s childhood and vocation for the cinema and the musicals.

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Summer of 42 (1971)

Summer of 42 (1971)

Summer of 42 (1971)
1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 9 April 1971 (USA)

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Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of ’42 on an US island with their parents – rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy’s main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who’s married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her.

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Mumu 2010

Mumu 2010

Mumu 2010
1h 35min | Comedy, Drama | 24 March 2010 (France)

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The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat’s life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He’s a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. He is sent to a small boarding school in a small village. Mumu reigns over here. She’s not the bitchest school teacher of the area. Roger has already been expelled from several schools and this is his last chance to avoid the reformatory his father has been promising him for a long time. But this is will change with the vigilance of Mumu, who, despite her strict aspects, proves herself to have a big heart.

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House of Boys 2009

House of Boys 2009

House of Boys 2009

House of Boys 2009
1h 57min | Drama, Musical, Romance | 20 November 2009 (Luxembourg)

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A glamorous, colourful coming-of-age story that follows the dramatic journey of Frank, a high school kid in 1984, through an exciting world of sex and music, where his deep new passion is suddenly turned into a struggle for courage facing a new disease – the “gay cancer” – and becomes deep, true love in the expectancy of his friend’s horrible death and beyond.

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Kids 1995

Kids 1995

Kids 1995

Kids 1995
1h 31min | Drama, Romance | January 19957 (USA)

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Disturbing, dark, low-budget independent film about teen-agers in New York City. The story focuses on Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), a teen who has a goal to de-flower as many virgins as he can. When one of his old encounters discovers that she is H.I.V.-positive, after only one encounter with a guy, Telly remains undaunted.

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Shivers 1981

Shivers 1981

Shivers 1981
Dreszcze (original title)
1h 46min | Drama, History | 23 November 1981 (Poland)

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Set in the early 1950’s, during the Stalin’s Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek’s father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with the task of raising two kids alone. The neighbor upstairs commits suicide when her husband is also arrested and transported to the prison camp. It’s winter so the kids keep their hands warm at school by hand-beating themselves. The teachers at school are mean, narrow minded idealists, When they ask the kids who goes to church on Sundays, the whole class stands up to defeat the purpose of the propaganda lesson. Tomek is sent to the training school in the summer. There he absorbs most of the ideology pumped into his head, and when his father is released from prison he finds another boy he has left.

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