The Runaways 2019
The Runaways 2019
1h 53min | Adventure | 17 November 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
After their home life is turned upside down three children and the family’s donkeys escape across the backbone of Northern England, confronting both the harsh landscapes and what it means to be siblings. A throwback to classic children’s adventure films but with a modern aesthetic.
The Life Ahead 2020
The Life Ahead 2020
La vita davanti a sé (original title)
PG-13 | 1h 34min | Drama | 13 November 2020 (USA)
Storyline:
In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
Co slonko widzialo 2006
Co slonko widzialo 2006
1h 47min | Drama | 1 December 2006 (Poland)
Storyline:
Three strangers living in Silesia – a 12-year-old half-orphan, a musically talented girl and a middle-aged unemployed ex-miner – are all desperate to get money to make their small dreams come true.
Edges of the Lord 2001
Edges of the Lord 2001
R | 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 12 October 2001 (Poland)
Storyline:
Polish 12 year-young city Jew Romek gets a crash-course in Catholicsim from his daddy (‘stay hanging by your arms till your prayers are perfect’) so he can be sent away and escape deportation (Auschwitz?) hiding in the country where the clergy found a host, Gniecio’s simple peasant family, posing as their city relative. Gniecio’s eldest son Vladek proves rather tyrannical but no brighter then gullible junior Tollo, who takes a role play in catechism class to ‘become’ a Last Supper character, in his case Jesus, to the extreme, even training for a crucifixion from a tree. Neighbor Batylin and his wife are executed by the Nazis when their illegally kept pig is found. Kluba plays a dirty trick when Gniecio tries to sell his in the city; his son is as problematic for the boys, who meanwhile play involving a single girl-playmate, Maria, who takes Romek in when he’s stupidly thrown out by his widowed host by mistake. The horror of war itself suddenly shows its ugly head again, big time and in weird ways with unforeseen consequences…
Among Wolves 2010
Among Wolves 2010
Entrelobos (original title)
TV-PG | 1h 53min | Drama | 26 November 2010 (Spain)
Storyline:
A child who lived alone with wolves for 12 years.
Spooky House 2002
Spooky House 2002
PG | 1h 46min | Comedy, Family | 19 April 2002 (Usa)
Storyline:
Mysterious reclusive magician the Great Zamboni and his pet jaguar Shadow reside in the Spooky House, an old mansion that’s rigged with magic tricks and hidden chambers. Young orphan Max attempts to befriend Zamboni. After a trio of teenage bullies who work for the town’s eccentric crime queen Boss chase Max and his friends into the Spooky House on Halloween, a night of hilarious magic and amazing illusions ensues.
Innocent Boy 2020
Innocent Boy 2020
14min | Short, Horror | 29 February 2020 (Ireland)
Storyline:
On an unforgiving, dust-swept highway, a group of rag-tag hustlers, led by a loathsome Madam, preys on the desperados who have come for sex, drugs and Momma’s special milk. A young black trans boy in the throws of withdraw, desperate for love and affection, is relentlessly bullied by his brother in trade, but things change when a ruthless Cowboy rides into town. As the boys begin to fall one-by-one, Penny is caught between Cowboy’s murderous rage and the greed and corruption that Momma represents.
Mother 2020
Mother 2020
2h 6min | Thriller | 3 July 2020 (Japan)
Storyline:
Her name is Akiko and she is a fun-loving single mother to a young schoolboy. He needs her. She needs men. Specifically, she needs sex and attention from men and almost any man would do so sometimes the boy Shuhei does not receive the attention he craves. Men come and go, pleasure is given and received and it is all good until one day there is a large blood stain on Shuhei’s clothes. He has murdered his grandparents.
A Killer in the Family 1983
A Killer in the Family 1983
1h 30min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | TV Movie 30 October 1983
Storyline:
A father serving time for murder convinces his three teenage sons that his life is being threatened by fellow inmates and that they should break him out of jail. However, when his sons succeed in the jailbreak attempt, the father brings along his cell-mate, a former two time killer, and soon the sons find themselves involved in the pair’s murderous crime spree.
