The River Thief 2016

The River Thief 2016

The River Thief 2016
1h 27min | Action, Adventure, Crime | 14 October 2016 (USA)

Storyline:

Diz (Joel Courtney) is a reckless teenage drifter living life on the run. Abandoned by his parents as a child, he looks out for himself and doesn’t accept handouts. He takes whatever he wants and runs. Jaded and determined to answer to no one, Diz lives a life marked by thievery and abandonment. Things change for Diz when he floats into a small town on the Snake River. There he is confronted by an unflappable old man named Marty and falls for Marty’s guarded granddaughter, Selah. When Diz robs a local drug-dealing crazy, he becomes the owner of a giant pile of cash and the target of two vicious killers. With more money than he knows what to do with, and criminals at his heels, Diz puts the people he’s learned to care about in danger, still trying to win Selah. But some things can’t be stolen or bought. The River Thief is a film about guilt, self-sacrifice, and accepting life as a gift.

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Mean Creek 2004

Mean Creek 2004

Mean Creek 2004

Mean Creek 2004
R | 1h 30min | Crime, Drama | 29 September 2004 (France)

Storyline:

When Sam Merrick is beaten up by local bully George Tooney, Sam’s older brother Rocky and his friends Clyde and Marty plan to pretend it’s Sam’s birthday to “invite” George on a boat trip in which they would dare him to strip naked, jump in the lake, and run home naked. But when Sam, his girlfriend Millie, Rocky, and Clyde see George as not much of a bad guy, they want to call off the plan, but Marty refuses. Will the plan go ahead as planned?

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Navajeros 1980

Navajeros 1980

Navajeros 1980

Navajeros 1980
1h 35min | Biography, Crime, Drama | 6 October 1980 (Spain)

Storyline:

A gang of juvenile delinquents lead by a fifteen-year-old boy named ‘Jaro’ wrecks havoc in Madrid, Spain. A middle-aged prostitute takes a liking to Jaro and tries to care for him, but Jaro is on a path of self-destruction.

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De grot 2001

De grot 2001

De grot 2001
1h 30min | Romance, Thriller, Crime | 27 September 2001 (Netherlands)

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Psychological thriller. For a manipulative childhood friend, a geographer smuggles a suitcase of heroin to an Asian city. The woman he hands the smuggled goods to says, just like him, not to have any experience in the drugs trade. How did these people come to this?

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Pay It Forward 2000

Pay It Forward 2000

Pay It Forward 2000
PG-13 | 2h 3min | Drama | 12 October (USA)

Storyline:

Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother’s alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet. The assignment: think of something to change the world and put it into action. Trevor conjures the notion of paying a favor not back, but forward–repaying good deeds not with payback, but with new good deeds done to three new people. Trevor’s efforts to make good on his idea bring a revolution not only in the lives of himself, his mother and his physically and emotionally scarred teacher, but in those of an ever-widening circle of people completely unknown to him.

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Everlasting 2016

Everlasting 2016

Everlasting 2016
1h 25min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 13 February 2016 (USA)

Storyline:

A High School Filmmaker documents his solo journey from Colorado to L. A. in search of the serial killer responsible for the murder of his girlfriend. The film intermixes home footage, real time clips and the eventual climax with the murderer.

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