Country Teacher 2008

Country Teacher 2008

Country Teacher 2008

Country Teacher 2008
Venkovský ucitel (original title)
1h 43min | Drama, Romance | 20 March 2008 (Czechia)

Storyline:

Petr, youthful, quiet, and sensitive, comes from Prague to teach natural science in a country town. The gruff principal asks what he’s running from and predicts he’ll be gone in six months. Marie, a widow with a teen son, Lada, befriends Petr. She’s lonely. Petr does some chores at her farm and watches Lada with his weekend girlfriend, Bara. We meet Petr’s parents and understand some of why he left Prague, then Petr’s friend Mihi pays a visit and we understand more. Mihi throws a wrench in things, and Lada comes to Petr for help. Has Petr found his place in the world, but what about his nature?

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Errol 2003

Errol 2003

Errol 2003

Errol 2003
2h 6min | Drama | 2003

Storyline:

12-year-old Errol is found by police in a wardrobe in a drug parade on New Year’s Eve. No one knows who he is or where he comes from and it takes months before he gives his name or talks at all. In his first foster family, he thrives over time, and just as confidence has begun to grow strong, Errol finds out that the placement is only temporary. In desperation, he flees to Stockholm, where he is confronted with the harsh life on the street and in the doorways, utilized by dirty boots with features borrowed by Fagin and hiding from the police. Together with Alfons, who came from Germany during the war, he hangs himself as a small criminal circus artist…

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The Boy Behind the Door 2020

The Boy Behind the Door 2020

The Boy Behind the Door 2020

The Boy Behind the Door 2020
1h 28min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 29 July 2021 (USA)

Storyline:

After Bobby and his best friend Kevin are kidnapped and taken to a strange house in the middle of nowhere, Bobby manages to escape. But as he starts to make a break for it, he hears Kevin’s screams for help and realizes he can’t leave his friend behind.

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Exit 7 (1978)

Exit 7 (1978)

Exit 7 (1978)

Exit 7 (1978)
1h 35min | Crime, Drama | 1978

Storyline:

A 40-year-old architect begins to doubt his role as a father in a world sliding into decadence. When he meets a young Polish girl he runs off with her to Rhodes. His psycho-moralistic angst is presented in a series of flashbacks when the hijack of his airplane forces him to take stock of his life.

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Yes 2019

Yes 2019

Yes 2019

Yes 2019
1h 40min | Drama | 26 June 2019 (USA)

Storyline:

Based on Tim Realbuto’s critically acclaimed Off-Broadway play, YES tells the story of washed up child star Patrick Nolan who decides to mentor 17-year-old Jeremiah Rosenhaft. What begins as an innocent acting lesson turns into something much more intimate between two surprisingly common minds.

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The Kid 2010

The Kid 2010

The Kid 2010

The Kid 2010
1h 51min | Drama | 23 June 2010 (UK)

Storyline:

Kevin Lewis never had a chance. Growing up on a poverty-stricken London council estate, beaten and starved by his parents, bullied at school and abandoned by social services, his life was never his own. Even after he was put into care, he found himself out on the streets caught up in a criminal underworld that knew him as ‘The Kid’. Yet Kevin survived to make a better life for himself. This international bestseller published in 2003 is his heartbreaking and inspiring story. The screenplay written by Mark Thomas and Kevin Lewis is a faithful adaptation of the novel.

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Man Behind the Sun 1988

Man Behind the Sun 1988

Man Behind the Sun 1988

Man Behind the Sun 1988
Hei tai yang 731 (original title)
1h 45min | Drama, History, Horror | 1 December 1988 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

Story of a Japanese terror camp in the end of WW2, where the Japanese are using the Chinese as guinea pigs in terrible experiments to develop deadly bacterial-plagues.

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Without Snow 2011

Without Snow 2011

Without Snow 2011

Without Snow 2011
Utan snö (original title)
35min | Drama, Short | 2 April 2011 (Poland)

Storyline:

A brutal and naked portrait of a group of youngsters in a small Swedish town, where bullying leads to fatal consequences. 16-year-old Linus and his best friend are systematically harassing a boy in their school.

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