Sweet Journey 2011

Sweet Journey 2011

Sweet Journey 2011

Sweet Journey 2011
Yun xia de ri zi (original title)
1h 42m | Drama | Release date: March 8, 2011 (China)

Storyline:

Guizhou province, southern China, spring 1980. Schoolboys Zhao Qiangsheng (Ma Guoxing) and Fulai (Wang Shibin), who’ve spent their whole life in a remote village, hear from a PLA soldier about a thing called a “city”, full of people, buildings and cars, three mountains away. Full of curiosity, and with the orphaned Fulai fed up with being passed around the community, the two set off to reach it when their school is closed for five days…

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The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels 1995

The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels 1995

The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels 1995

The Tale of the Three Lost Jewels 1995
Hikayatul jawahiri thalath (original title)
1h 52m | Drama, Romance, War | Release date: December 6, 1995 (France)

Storyline:

A Palestinian boy becomes entranced with a beautiful Gypsy girl and a fairy tale world she weaves amidst conflict in Gaza. The children explore nature, mysticism and what their future holds, while learning to live with the surrounding brutality c. 1990. Yusef’s family scrapes by in a seaside camp while his father’s in prison and his heavily-armed brother’s on the run, parrying with Israeli troops. Salah, Yusef’s schoolmate from a well-off Arab family strives faithfully to assist them, while Yusef helps an elderly, blind neighbor escape from his lonely abandonment into the North American dreamworld he’s waited so long for.

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Those Half Hidden 2009

Those Half Hidden 2009

Those Half Hidden 2009

Those Half Hidden 2009
4h | Drama | TV Mini Series

Storyline:

The story of “The Half Hidden” is like a tapestry, in which the threads run obliquely between four different families in two different decades. Weaving recurrent patterns, the story unfolds upon the loom of our vulnerability in lives that are as brittle as the morning ice. This is the story of those who survived, and this is the story of those who did not survive.

The half-hidden, Jonas Gardell engaging depiction of a number of people in the two eras. The script, brilliant acting and strong efforts directed by Simon Kaijser da Silva quickly made the half-hidden to a cult series – one of the most unpredictable, most poignant and breathtakingly exciting ever shown on Swedish television.

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Bizarre Again 2022

Bizarre Again 2022

Bizarre Again 2022

Bizarre Again 2022
1h 50m | Drama | Release date: September 16, 2022 (United States)

Storyline:

From the confined universe of Brooklyn’s BIZARRE cabaret, we set off on a road movie across the American West. We are 7 years later. Lucas and Maurice have never seen each other again and have no contact since the tragic events of the BIZARRE cabaret in New York. Lucas now lives in Denver, Colorado. He is married to a slightly older man who is the father of a 16-year-old child. In the middle of this peaceful life, Maurice will again cross paths with Lucas. As another tragic event takes place in Denver, Maurice and Lucas will have only one solution, to flee towards San Francisco through the American West.

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Saltburn 2023

Saltburn 2023

Saltburn 2023

Saltburn 2023
2h 11m | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | Release date: November 17, 2023 (United Kingdom)

Storyline:

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

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Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006
46-okunen no koi (original title)
1h 25m | Drama, Fantasy | Release date: August 26, 2006 (Japan)

Storyline:

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.

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Blodsband 2007

Blodsband 2007

Blodsband 2007

Blodsband 2007
Blodsbånd (original title)
1h 40m | Crime, Drama | Release date: March 2, 2007 (Norway)

Storyline:

15-year old Mirush. He travels to Norway to find his father, as he left the family when Mirush was small. Now his dad is running a restaurant in Oslo’s backyards and struggling with debt burdens to the Albanian mafia in the capital city. His father has started a new life with a Norwegian girlfriend, and his Albanian family is just a vague memory–until Mirush shows up. He starts working for his father but doesn’t say much. Slowly but surely they get to know each other but Mirush isn’t fully prepared for what he finds out, and he’s forced to make choices that will have major consequences for both of them.

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Bodyshop 2022

Bodyshop 2022

Bodyshop 2022

Bodyshop 2022
1h 29m | Drama, Fantasy | Release date: April 7, 2023 (Taiwan)

Storyline:

The ghost of a young soldier, who bids farewell to his mother and travels the world to see his transgender sister. By possessing living bodies, he meddles with the romances of unfaithful lovers along the way in Taiwan, Japan, Spain and Thailand. He meets a soul mate amid the massive protests of Hong Kong and they take shelter in a disguised garage, where human bodies are treated in a way beyond moral limits.

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