The Story of Me 2009

The Story of Me 2009

The Story of Me 2009

The Story of Me 2009
O Contador de Histórias (original title)
1h 40m | Drama | Release date: August 7, 2009 (Brazil)

Storyline:

O Contador de Histórias (The Story of Me), a Luiz Villaça;a movie based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, is a story about how affection can change reality. The youngest of 10 brothers, Roberto showed a special talent to tell stories, by changing through narrative his own experiences about frustration into beautiful and touching fables. At age 6, the boy filled with imagination goes to live in a newly opened government institution, which main goal is to help young and poor children. His mother takes him there believing it will guarantee a better future for her child. But the reality of the institution is very different from what was advertised on TV. Roberto, little by little, loses hope. At age 13, after hundreds of escapes, he’s considered “irrecoverable”, in the words of the headmaster of the facility. However, Roberto proves to be a challenge to the French pedagogue Margherit, who comes to Brazil to work on a research. Determined to make the boy her object of study, she tries to get closer to him. At first, Roberto struggles, but after a traumatic experience, he looks for shelter in Margherit’s home. What comes out of it is a relationship based on friendship and tenderness, that will put Roberto’s disbelief in his future at check and will challenge Margherit to keep her beliefs.

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Gates to Paradise 1968

Gates to Paradise 1968

Gates to Paradise 1968

Gates to Paradise 1968
1h 29m | Drama | Release date: June 1968 (United Kingdom)

Storyline:

A group of children left their homes to follow Jacques de Cloyes (John Fordyce) in his pilgrim to Jerusalem. Jacques is saying that he had heard the Voice of God telling him to go to Jerusalem to find the grave of Jesus. While on their way there, a monk (Lionel Stander) accompany them. Some of the children (girls and boys) makes a confession to the monk, their unrequited love for Jacques, their jealousies. Last one to confess was Jacques himself, a boy so beautiful that girls and boys and even man fell in love with him. In the end, is it really the Voice of God he heard?

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The First Kiss 2023

The First Kiss 2023

The First Kiss 2023

The First Kiss 2023
El primer beso (original title)
14m | Short, Drama, Romance | Release date: June 23, 2023 (Spain)

Storyline:

Andi is a teenager living in a small commuter town. No one knows that he is gay, except his older brother. Today is a special day because he is going to Madrid where he has a date with a boy his age whom he has met online.

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Gacy: Serial Killer Next Door 2024

Gacy: Serial Killer Next Door 2024

Gacy: Serial Killer Next Door 2024

Gacy: Serial Killer Next Door 2024
1h 37m | Horror | Release date: January 30, 2024 (United States)

Storyline:

A young neighbor becomes suspicious of his new neighbor, John Gacy. He witnesses him bringing men home but they never leave, he tells his parents, who know something’s up and call the detectives. They then start to wonder if it’s really true while their son does some investigating of his own. He finds the bodies under the house and snaps some photos, he forgets his camera in his hurried escape and is kidnapped by Gacy while getting out of the shower. His parents get woken up by a plate night call from the detectives who confirm his son is right, the parents then realize their son is missing and his father goes on a rescue mission and barely gets there in time. Gacy is seen lowering himself into the Crawlspace and the movie ends.

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I am Urban 2015

I am Urban 2015

I am Urban 2015

I am Urban 2015
Urban and the Shed Crew (original title)
1h 38m | Drama | Release date: November 7, 2015 (United Kingdom)

Storyline:

Based on Bernard Hare’s Orwell-nominated memoir Urban and The Shed Crew. 11-year-old Urban’s been running away from care since he was 5 (6 care homes and 8 foster homes in 6 years); he’s Britain’s most runaway child…When he can’t find his mum, he sleeps rough on the streets, or in a shed with other runaways, The Shed Crew’. He’s never known a dad, just his mentally-ill addict mum Greta. So when she meets Chop, the first decent bloke they’ve ever known, Urban feels hope for the first time. For Chop, the once idealistic ex-social worker, it’s a chance of redemption. He takes in the broken family, helps Greta, teaches Urban and his brother Frank lessons in life. But the family’s new-found happiness is all too fleeting as Greta’s propensity to self-destruct proves too strong…leaving Urban to cope with the fallout the only way he knows.

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