Schellebelle 1919 (2011)

Schellebelle 1919 (2011)

Schellebelle 1919 (2011)
1h 40min | Drama | 27 July 2011 (Belgium)

Storyline:

After the Great War, traumatized Yser front hero Casimir Van De Velde returns home. He’s not amused to see his bitchy sister Coralie turned it into a virtual orphanage and home for other juvenile strays while their father, an even worse traumatized sniper but now utter lush, has to be chained in a barn. Yet Casimir soon takes to the kids and grows utterly protective of the irregular commune, which displeases the municipal authorities, who want the minors placed in official care and the land used for a project of the mayor’s business ally. French colonial cavalry veteran Latiff was hired into a band of ruffians to chase them, but decides to join instead and fight off the fiends.

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Ma’ Rosa 2016

Ma' Rosa 2016

Ma’ Rosa 2016
Not Rated | 1h 50min | Drama | 6 July 2016 (Philippines)

Storyline:

Ma’ Rosa has four children. She owns a small convenience store in a poor neighborhood of Manila where everybody likes her. To make ends meet, Rosa and her husband, Nestor, resell small amounts of narcotics on the side. One day, they get arrested. Rosa and her children are ready to do anything to buy her freedom from the corrupt police.

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Une si petite semaine 2002

Une si petite semaine 2002

Une si petite semaine 2002
42min | Drama, Short | 2002 (France)

Storyline:

In a small provincial town, Franck learns one day that his mother is gone, framed by gendarmes. Magré his brother, despite the friend of his mother, the boy of thirteen then rocking in a world without landmarks where the emptiness left by his absent mother leads him, for a week, to commit the irreparable.

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Lemonade 2018

Lemonade 2018

Lemonade 2018
1h 28min | Drama | 4 October 2018 (Germany)

Storyline:

Mara, a young Romanian woman, has just moved to the US with Dragos, her 9-year-old son, marrying Daniel, an American she has met only a few months ago. The film follows her through a series of revealing encounters during one day, from her problems of babysitting, her unplanned and uncomfortable meeting with a U.S. immigration official, to dealing with the police about her son she had to leave in a motel room and the bank issue for a loan with her husband.

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