Anger 2008

Anger 2008

Anger 2008

Anger 2008
La rabia (original title)
1h 25min | Drama | 2 May 2008 (Argentina)

Storyline:

A forbidden passion story happening before the eyes of children, when a married woman with a mute daughter gets into a steamy relationship with a single father of a teenage boy. The husband of the woman openly dislikes and frequently argues with the owner of the neighboring farm, unaware of her wife’s affair with him.

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TKKG 2019

TKKG 2019

TKKG 2019

TKKG 2019
1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 6 June 2019 (Germany)

Storyline:

Tim (Ilyes Moutaoukkil) and Willi (Lorenzo Germeno), called dumplings, get to know each other at the boarding school on the first day of school. The two could hardly be more different and especially Willi, son of a good family, is not happy to share a room with Tim, a fellow from the suburbs. But when Dumplings father is abducted and with him a valuable statue disappears from his art collection, Tim is the only one who believes Willi, that the police is on the wrong track. Together with the highly intelligent outsider Karl (Manuel Santos Gelke) and the smart policewoman Gaby (Emma-Louise Schimpf), the group begins to investigate on its own: a plane crash, masked kung fu fighters, a hidden message from dumpling father. How does this all come together? And what do the blind psychics Raimondo (Milan Peschel) and his assistant Amanda (Mai Duong Kieu) have to do with it? Against all odds the four discover a conspiracy.

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The Goldfinch 2019

The Goldfinch 2019

The Goldfinch 2019

The Goldfinch 2019
R | 2h 29min | Drama | 13 September 2019 (USA)

Storyline:

13-year-old New Yorker Theo Decker’s life is turned upside-down when his mother is killed in a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Confused in the rubble of the tragedy, he steals a priceless piece of art known as The Goldfinch.

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Karate Warrior 1987

Karate Warrior 1987

Karate Warrior 1987

Karate Warrior 1987
Il ragazzo dal kimono d’oro (original title)
1h 34min | Action | 3 September 1987 (Italy)

Storyline:

Anthony is in the Phillipines visiting his father. He inadvertently interferes with the affairs of local gangster Quino, who also happens to be a champion Karate fighter. After embarrassing Quino near a local tournament, Anthony is beaten up and left for dead. An old monk nurses Anthony back to health and teaches him the ways of martial arts so he may go back and fight Quino again.

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Fresh 1994

Fresh 1994

Fresh 1994

Fresh 1994
R | 1h 54min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 2 September 1994 (USA)

Storyline:

Fresh (Sean Nelson) is a 12-year-old drug dealer who finds himself trapped in a web of poverty, corruption and racial tension in Brooklyn, New York. When his drug-addict sister Nichole (N’Bushe Wright) starts sleeping with local drug lord Esteban (Giancarlo Esposito), Fresh calls upon the skills he learned playing chess with his alcoholic father and speed-chess champion Sam (Samuel L. Jackson) and devises a complex strategy that will free both himself and his sister.

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Happy Endings Sleepover 2019

Happy Endings Sleepover 2019

Happy Endings Sleepover 2019

Happy Endings Sleepover 2019
1h 40min | Drama | 13 December 2019 (USA)

Storyline:

American CIA Field Operative, Johnnie Allen, is assigned to Denmark for his first mission. An American spy highly placed in the Kremlin is to be spirited out of Russia, and it is Johnnie’s job to get him safely to Antwerp where the agent will board a freighter. Johnnie, who is a young gay man, meets and falls in love with a Danish lad named Sander, who is apparently straight. Wanting to keep his friend close to him, he makes the mistake of bringing him on the mission. What will become of their friendship if Johnnie confesses his love to Sander? And is the Russian agent all he seems to be? Set against a backdrop of European espionage, Happy Endings Sleepover is a celebration of gay youth in a world where love should never be Top-Secret.

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The Road Not Taken 2018

The Road Not Taken 2018

The Road Not Taken 2018

The Road Not Taken 2018
Wei ze zhi lu (original title)
1h 53min | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 21 September 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

In the depths of western China’s Gobi Desert, Yong (Wang Xuebing) operates a dilapidated ostrich farm, which is the last throw of the dice for him as he tries to win back his ex-wife and repair his life. One day, Mr. Wu (Wang Xufeng) comes looking for a debt to be repaid. When Yong can’t come up with the money, Wu leaves a lonely little boy (Zhu Gengyou) behind, telling Yong to look after him. Suspecting his ex-wife might be considering another marriage, Yong can only take the boy along as he goes to find her. In three days crossing the Gobi, they meet a sad and depressed female trucker Mei (Ma YiLi), and the three lonely people become a pseudo-family.More people join the action and the relationship between Yong and the boy is constantly tested and evolving over this journey. In the end, through these series of random encounters, every person embarks on their own path of no return.

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