King Jack 2015

King Jack 2015

King Jack 2015

King Jack 2015
1h 21min | Adventure | 26 February 2016 (UK)

Storyline:

Jack is a fifteen year-old boy stuck in a run-down small town. Trapped in a violent feud with a cruel older bully and facing another bout of summer school, Jack’s got all the problems he can handle. So when Jack’s aunt falls ill and his runty younger cousin must stay with him for the weekend the last thing Jack wants to do is look after him. Unfortunately no one really cares what Jack wants. Set over a hazy summer weekend, King Jack is a tough and tender coming of age story about friendship and finding happiness in bleak surroundings.

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Notre paradis 2011

Notre paradis 2011

Notre paradis 2011
1h 36min | Crime, Drama | 28 September 2011 (France)

Storyline:

Vassili is an aged prostitute with killer instincts. He finds an unconscious young man in the Forest of Boulogne and takes him home. Now lovers and accomplices, the two men become a couple in prostitution and steal from their clients. And yet, menaces of retaliation leave the couple with no choice but to escape from Paris. The runaway begins…

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Kiss me softly 2012

Kiss me softly 2012

Kiss me softly 2012

Kiss me softly 2012
Kus me zachtjes (original title)
16min | Short, Comedy, Drama | 2012 (Belgium)

Storyline:

17 year old Jasper lives in a very grey, small town. In his family, he cannot be himself. Jaspers dad is a singer, named Lukkie Luk. All the attention in the family goes to his career. Jasper searches a way to handle this and is faced with the typical questions in the live of an adolescent. Questions that will not be answered when he stays in his own routine.

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Juillet électrique 2014

Juillet électrique 2014

Juillet électrique 2014

Juillet électrique 2014
24min | Short, Adventure, Drama | 19 November 2014 (France)

Storyline:

In the burning heat of July, Thomas and Victor, two 14 year old teenagers, are bored to death and want to escape. Victor decides to take Thomas to an abandoned bridge. Timorous, he follows him. He will have to confront his fears and desires along that bridge whose end is uncertain.

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Run Boy Run 2013

Run Boy Run 2013

Run Boy Run 2013

Run Boy Run 2013
Lauf Junge lauf (original title)
12 | 1h 52min | Action, Drama, War

Storyline:

Srulik, an eight-year-old boy, flees from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. He attempts to survive, at first alone in the forest, and then as a Christian orphan named Jurek on a Polish farm. Throughout his ordeal, his Jewish identity is in danger of being lost. The story is based on the bestseller by Uri Orlev.

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All Things Fair 1995

All Things Fair 1995

All Things Fair 1995

All Things Fair 1995
Lust och fägring stor (original title)
2h 10min | Drama, Romance, War | 3 November 1995 (Sweden)

Storyline:

Malmö, Sweden during the Second World War. Stig is a 15 year old pupil on the verge of adulthood. Viola is 37 years old and his teacher. He is attracted by her beauty and maturity. She is drawn to him by his youth and innocence, a god-sent relief from her drunk and miserable husband. They start a passionate and forbidden relationship – but it has consequences they never could have expected.

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L.I.E 2001

L.I.E 2001

L.I.E 2001

L.I.E 2001
NC-17 | 1h 37min | Crime, Drama | 29 November 2002 (UK)

Storyline:

Fifteen-year-old Howie loses just about everything and everyone in the space of a single week, but ends up finding himself in the process. His mother has just died. His father, a building contractor, can barely keep tabs on his young girlfriend, let alone his own son. Thusly, the teen must navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised. Floating towards an ill-behaved existence, Howie and his crowd begin robbing houses in the middle-class neighborhoods off the Long Island Expressway. Together, he and his best friend Gary break into a place belonging to an old guy named Big John, a local man who is a respected pillar of the community. When Big John fingers Gary for the crime, Howie learns that his pal has been leading a secret, dangerous but also alluring double life. Subsequently, we also discover that Big John has secrets of his own.

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