Senza amore 2007

Senza amore 2007

Senza amore 2007

Senza amore 2007
1h 40min | Drama | 2007 (Italy)

Director: Renato Giordano
Stars: Francesco De Vito, Lidia Vitale, Eleonora Neri

(Google translate): Luigi was a kid growing up in a family environment socio-economically deprived. Him began dealing with Angelo, an unsuspecting policeman, who seems to show a paternal attitude towards him, but that really has an ulterior motive turbid and who ends up abusing him. When Luigi tries to tell her mother what is happening, this just does not want to believe him and a young brother of his mother gives him understanding and help. Luigi then growing discover how the events of his childhood and how they have marked to be able to determine in him a deep suffering from which there seems to be able to save themselves.

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The Cold Lands 2013

The Cold Lands 2013

The Cold Lands 2013

The Cold Lands 2013
1h 40min | Drama | February 2013 (Germany)

Storyline:

When his self-reliant mother dies unexpectedly, Atticus flees deep into the forests surrounding his Catskills home. Wandering the woods in shock, relying on what meager food and shelter he comes across, Atticus’ grasp on reality begins to fray. His nerves worn thin, Atticus latches on when he encounters Carter, a scruffy, pot smoking drifter, who lives out of his car and sells handmade necklaces on the festival circuit. A wary alliance forms, with each dependent on the other, but neither sure he is making the right decision.

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The Dynamiter 2011

The Dynamiter 2011

The Dynamiter 2011
1h 13min | Drama | 2011 (USA)

Storyline:

All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he’s left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep days and nights pass without her return and with older brother Lucas dangerously in their lives again, Robbie must face the fact that his dream of a family may only be a dream and he might just lose the only family he’s ever had: Fess.

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The Tit and the Moon 1994

The Tit and the Moon 1994

The Tit and the Moon 1994

The Tit and the Moon 1994
La teta y la luna (original title)
1h 30min | Comedy, Romance | September 1994 (Italy)

Storyline:

A child cannot stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a teet only for him.

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The Man Without a Face 1993

The Man Without a Face 1993

The Man Without a Face 1993
PG-13 | 1h 55min | Drama | 3 November 1994 (Hungary)

Storyline:

The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was incinerated and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. He is also suspected of being a pedophile. He is befriended by Chuck, igniting the town’s suspicion and hostility. McLeod instills in his protégé a love of justice and freedom from prejudice which sustains Chuck beyond the end of the film.

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Todos Estan muertos 2014

Todos Estan muertos 2014

Todos Estan muertos 2014
Todos están muertos (original title)
1h 33min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 16 October 2015 (Mexico)

Storyline:

If you saw Lupe (35) in her bathrobe and slippers, stuck at home making pies, you would never imagine that back in the 80’s she was a pop-rock star. She and her brother Diego made up the band Groenlandia, whose first album was a huge hit. But Lupe has turned her back on that distant past of touring and concerts. She lives wholly dependent on her mother Paquita (65) and has a teenage son, Pancho(14), who hates her. Her agoraphobia won’t even let her leave the house to buy the ingredients she needs for cooking. Luckily her mother, Paquita, a superstitious Mexican woman with a heart of gold,is there to do the shopping, deal with her frequent crises and do what matters most: be a mother to Pancho. But Paquita is running out of time. She just found out that she’s going to die and she has only one final goal: to prepare her family for life without her.

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Tendres cousines 1980

Tendres cousines 1980

Tendres cousines 1980

Tendres cousines 1980
1h 32min | Drama, Romance | 19 November 1980 (France)

Storyline:

Summer 1939 in the Provence, France: the 14 years old Julien has a crush on his cousin Julia, who lives together with his family in their small hotel. Unfortunately she ignores him, because she’s several years older. Then the hotel guest Charles enters the competition, a slimy twenty-something who lusts for the girl, despite the fact that he’s engaged.

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Leolo 1992

Leolo 1992

Leolo 1992

Leolo 1992
Léolo (original title)
1h 47min | Comedy, Drama | 16 September 1992 (France)

Storyline:

Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds – the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he constructs for himself through his writings, where he’s Leolo Lozone, son of a Sicilian peasant (conceived in a bizarre act involving a tomato). And his experiences of growing up (especially his sexual development) affect his response to both these worlds…

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