Beslan: Three Days in September 2006
Beslan: Three Days in September 2006
1h 15m | Documentary | 1 May 2006 (USA)
Storyline:
In September 2004, Chechen rebels occupied a school in the small Russian city of Beslan, taking some 1,200 people-most of them children-hostage. At the end of three days, over 330 were dead.
A Higher Law 2021
A Higher Law 2021
Balaur (original title)
2h 3m | Thriller | 28 November 2021 (India)
Storyline:
Ecaterina, a high school Religion teacher and wife of the town priest, gets involved with Iuliu, a 16-year-old student with a troubled past. Ecaterina tries to keep him under control, but she loses her own sense of control in this process.
Two Deaths of Henry Baker 2020
Two Deaths of Henry Baker 2020
1h 34m | Crime, Thriller | 25 January 2022 (USA)
Storyline:
When the famous outlaw Henry Baker is released from prison after 25 years, old friends and enemies are waiting for him. The son he left behind, entrusted to watch over his ill-gotten riches. A bearded vagrant with a pistol and a decades-old bullet scar in his stomach. An alcohol soaked deputy with half an ear on one side. And a burned out street hustler with a sick mother and a festering vendetta. They trail Henry to a dilapidated hotel where he plans to reunite with his son and the secret bag of gold he left behind.
Body of Love 1973
Body of Love 1973
Corpo d’amore (original title)
1h 42m | Drama | 3 August 1973 (Italy)
Storyline:
A father and son, separated by the “generation gap,” discover kinship in their common affection for a young woman washed up onto their shore. Their bond is then strongly reinforced when, together, they kill a dangerous intruder.
Homebound 2021
Homebound 2021
1h 11m | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 13 May 2022 (USA)
Storyline:
Holly’s excited to finally meet fiancé Richard’s three children for the first time at a birthday celebration for his youngest in the English countryside. Holly is nervous to make a good impression, however when they arrive circumstances are far from ideal.
Beatriz 1976
Beatriz 1976
1h 25m | Drama, Horror | 25 September 1976 (Spain)
Storyline:
In the woods, a boy named Juan witnesses the Lorenzo el Quinto’s band’s assault on a mysterious friar, who manages to escape after killing several of his attackers and takes refuge in the manor where the boy lives with his mother–the Countess Doña Carlota–and her sister Beatriz. Basilisa, their servant, conjures up Satan to free her son from an irreversible illness, but for that the evil must be transferred to an innocent soul–and she chooses Beatriz’s. The young woman becomes the victim of a possession, for which everyone blames the friar.
Blown Away 1993
Blown Away 1993
1h 32m | Action, Drama, Romance | 1 April 1993 (USA)
Storyline:
Megan, the seventeen year old daughter of a strict but wealthy businessman, falls for Rich who works at his ski resort. Megan’s mother has recently died in a car accident, which she blames on her father. Is Rich so in love with Megan that he’ll watch her kill her own father?
The Cowboys 1972
The Cowboys 1972
2h 14m | Adventure, Drama, Western | 13 January 1972 (USA)
Storyline:
When his cattle drivers abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his drivers in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man’s job under Andersen’s tutelage; however, neither Andersen nor the boys know that a gang of cattle thieves is stalking them.
Notwendige Lehrjahre 1960
Notwendige Lehrjahre 1960
18m | Documentary, Short | 1960
Storyline:
Böttcher made his graduation film about young people who had become delinquent in a youth work yard in Thuringia. Already here a striking feature of his later films becomes apparent: Jürgen Böttcher gives his protagonists a lot of space; he approaches them without prejudice, empathetically and carefully. In addition, his curiosity can be felt in the life situations and stories of his characters.
