De tasjesdief 1995

De tasjesdief 1995

De tasjesdief 1995

De tasjesdief 1995
1h 36min | Drama, Family, Thriller | 6 April 1995 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

Alex is very close to his elderly grandmother partly because his busy parents seem to have little or no time for him. One day he surprises two boys from his school leaving her house and is shocked to find her tied up inside – they have robbed her! Alex is sworn to secrecy as his gran is worried that her daughter will think her incompetent. This secret leads Alex into trouble as the two boys accost him in the street and bully him into becoming a “bagsnatcher” (tasjesdief) for them, mugging old ladies. Alex learns how to deal with this situation in the end.

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A Ciambra 2017

A Ciambra 2017

A Ciambra 2017

A Ciambra 2017
1h 58min | Drama | 26 January 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

In A CIAMBRA, a small Romani community in Calabria, Pio Amato is desperate to grow up fast. At 14, he drinks, smokes and is one of the few to easily slide between the region’s factions – the local Italians, the African refugees and his fellow Romani. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere, learning the necessary skills for life on the streets of their hometown. When Cosimo disappears and things start to go wrong, Pio sets out to prove he’s ready to step into his big brother’s shoes but soon finds himself faced with an impossible decision that will show if he is truly ready to become a man.

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Rough Road Ahead 2014

Rough Road Ahead 2014
Von jetzt an kein Zurück (original title)
1h 48min | Drama, Family, History | 12 March 2015 (Germany)

Storyline:

Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and ultimately institutionalization. But they are ready to take on the cause of love.

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Son of Sofia 2017

Son of Sofia 2017

Son of Sofia 2017

Son of Sofia 2017
O gios tis Sofías (original title)
TV-14 | 1h 51min | Drama | 30 November 2017 (Greece)

Storyline:

Athens, 2004 summer Olympic Games. 11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn’t know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.

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The 4th Company 2016

The 4th Company 2016

The 4th Company 2016

The 4th Company 2016
La 4ª Compañía (original title)
1h 49min | Action, Crime, Drama | 13 January 2017 (USA)

Storyline:

Zambrano is a juvenile offender that when arrives to the penitentiary only longs to join a football team, Los Perros. Such illusion ends up involving him with the organized crime under the auspices of the authority, because the team is also the 4th Company, a squad of inmates that controls services and privileges in prison, and submits the city to crime, reporting big dividends to men of Power.

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The Butterfly Tree 2017

The Butterfly Tree 2017

The Butterfly Tree 2017

The Butterfly Tree 2017
1h 37min | Drama, Family | 23 November 2017 (Australia)

Storyline:

Evelyn, an ex-burlesque queen, bewitches single dad Al and his teenage son Fin with her zest for life. When father and son discover they are competing for the affections of the same woman, it reopens old wounds over the death of Fin’s mother.

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If I Had Wings 2013

If I Had Wings 2013

If I Had Wings 2013

If I Had Wings 2013
PG | 1h 29min | Drama, Family, Sport | December 2013 (Canada)

Storyline:

Seventeen-year-old Alex Taylor dreams of running for his high school’s cross-country team, a dream that’s a bit out of reach for this gifted runner as Alex has been blind since the age of two. Determined to run, he practices with his father, Probation Officer Geoff Taylor. Geoff, with additional girth and age working against him, finds he no longer can keep up with his son. He must find a running partner at the school who’s fast enough to help Alex make the cross-country team. This help comes from the unlikeliest of sources. Brad Coleman, a schoolmate of Alex’s, spends most of his time running from the law. Caught in a pathetic daytime robbery attempt, Brad faces incarceration for repeat offenses. To keep Brad out of jail and in school, Geoff makes a deal and pairs the two boys, opposite in many ways. Despite a rocky start over their many differences, an unlikely friendship forms.

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After Louie 2017

After Louie 2017

After Louie 2017

After Louie 2017
1h 40min | Drama, Romance | 30 March 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

After Louie explores the contradictions of modern gay life and history through Sam, a man desperate to understand how he and his community got to where they are today. As an AIDS activist and member of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s, Sam witnessed the deaths of too many friends and lovers. Battlewounded and struggling with survivor’s guilt, Sam now resents the complacency of his former comrades and derides what he sees as the younger generation’s indifference to the politics of sex, and of death. An unexpected intimacy with a much younger man challenges Sam’s understanding of contemporary gay life. Through this unconventional romance, he is forced to deal with the trauma that so informs his past, their present, and an unknown future.

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