Rapito 2023
Rapito 2023
2h 14m | Drama, History | Release date: May 25, 2023 (Italy)
Storyline:
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
Paljas 1997
Paljas 1997
1h 59m | Drama | Release date: January 23, 1997 (South Africa)
Storyline:
A family’s life in the Karoo (a semi-desert area in South Africa) is changed when a travelling circus leaves behind a clown.
Il mare 1962
Il mare 1962
1h 50m | Drama | Release date: September 16, 1964 (Sweden)
Storyline:
A well known actor comes to off-season Capri to unwind and meets a teenaged boy. The attraction is immediate and mutual but before their relationship can get off the ground, an alluring woman with a spontaneous sexuality and care free attitude joins the triangle and the boy is slowly pushed out of the picture.
L’avenir 2022
L’avenir 2022
19m | Short, Drama | Release date: October 27, 2022 (Spain)
Storyline:
Biel and Sara are 10 years old and are enjoying the last few days of summer. However, everything changes when in a game their friendship is put to the test. The world that Biel thought he had under control will break and from this moment on, he will no longer know what to think or feel.
The New Boy 2023
The New Boy 2023
1h 56m | Drama, History, Fantasy | Release date: July 6, 2023 (Australia)
Storyline:
Set in 1940s Australia, The New Boy is the story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy (Reid) who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Sexo, Sua Única Arma 1981
Sexo, Sua Única Arma 1981
1h 33m | Drama | Release date: February 24, 1981 (Brazil)
Storyline:
Marta’s father, when she was still a child, killed himself for having been harmed in his business by his partner Humberto, a producer of grapes and wine. Twenty years later, pretending to be blind, Marta befriends Humberto, who invites her to spend a few days with her family.
Andriesh 1954
Andriesh 1954
1h 3m | Family | 1954
Storyline:
The first feature film by Paradjanov, which, presumably, is a relatively mainstream fairy tale about a young shepherd called Andriesh.
Le Loup et la Chatte 2023
Le Loup et la Chatte 2023
20m | Short, Drama | 2023
Storyline:
Loup, thirteen years old, deaf from birth, spends his summer vacation on a campsite with his mother, Léa. They have developed an exclusive relationship that the meeting with a lifeguard and a teenage girl will turn upside down.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984
2h 23m | Adventure, Drama | Release date: March 30, 1984 (United States)
Storyline:
A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon afterwards. An ape enters the house and kills the father, and a female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D’Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
