Urban Family 2015

Urban Family 2015

Urban Family 2015
Ollaan vapaita (original title)
1h 45min | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7 August 2015 (Finland)

Storyline:

Selja is in her thirties and lives in a shared flat with her friends. One day a boy appears at her door; a boy she gave up for adoption sixteen years earlier. Selja has a chance to get to know her son, but at the same time, makes a complete mess of her and her best friends’ lives. Urban Family is a new kind of music film set in the modern-day world. “Urban Family” is a new kind of music film set in the modern-day world.

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Unexpected Journey 2017

Unexpected Journey 2017

Unexpected Journey 2017
Saattokeikka (original title)
1h 18min | Comedy, Drama | 10 March 2017 (Finland)

Storyline:

Lasse is an old racist who has lives in an apartment block filled with a selection of refugees and immigrants. Kamal is a 16-year old boy who’s fed up in his life in Finland, and dreams of moving to Nairobi to live with his father. Only problem is that he doesn’t have the money to buy the ticket.

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On His Own 1939

On His Own 1939

On His Own 1939
V lyudyakh (original title)
1h 40min | Biography, Drama | 12 September 1939 (USA)

Storyline:

For the family really no money, Alexei began to make a living. Everything was limited to dirty chores, but while reading could end his depression. After hard working experience, he was determined to Kazan in the passion of being a strongmen.

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The Legend of Timm Thaler or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter 2017

The Legend of Timm Thaler or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter 2017

The Legend of Timm Thaler or The Boy Who Sold His Laughter 2017
Timm Thaler oder das verkaufte Lachen (original title)
1h 42min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 2 February 2017 (Germany)

Storyline:

The young Timm Thaler lives in the 1920s with his father in a small alley of a German city. Even when he grows up in poor circumstances, he is happy, and he has a laugh that nobody can resist. This is so contagious and disarming that Baron Lefuet, the fierce Baron, wants to have it.

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Fortune and Men’s Eyes 1971

Fortune and Men's Eyes 1971

Fortune and Men’s Eyes 1971
R | 1h 42min | Drama | 15 June 1971 (USA)

Storyline:

The young, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months; Cathy, his girlfriend, watches as he disappears behind the bars and barbed wire. He’s assigned a cell with Queenie, a balls-out drag queen, Rocky, a quiet but cocky con, and Mona, a young gay man who ministers to Rocky. Smitty watches in horror as gangs of inmates brutalize prisoners who lack protection. Those who complain risk beatings or murder at the hands of unsympathetic guards: all cries are bootless. Mona offers poetry – Shakespeare’s sonnet XXIX; Queenie and Rocky offer Smitty advice, and Rocky offers protection for a price. Smitty’s choices and their consequences are the film’s main subjects.

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