The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2008

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2008

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2008
PG-13 | 1h 34min | Drama, War | 26 November 2008 (USA)

Storyline:

Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in prewar Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. The family relocates to the countryside where his father is assigned to take command a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped pajamas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination.

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The Butcher Boy 1997

The Butcher Boy 1997

The Butcher Boy 1997
R | 1h 50min | Comedy, Drama | 20 February 1998 (Ireland)

Storyline:

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. Unfortunately, one tragedy after another, Francie’s world sinks deeper and deeper into paranoia (directed mainly against Mrs. Nugent, a nasty neighbor) and fantasy (where he has visions of the Virgin Mary).

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Mariposas Verdes 2017

Mariposas Verdes 2017

Mariposas Verdes 2017
Drama | 20 July 2017 (Colombia)

Storyline:

Mateo is an intelligent boy who studies in a high school, and his life gives a scramble when he meets Daniel, a boy with preferences to the men, by which falls in love with Mateo, but when its companions, and the director Reveal Mateo relationship with Daniel, Mateo is suspended, and finds himself at a crossroads, deciding between fighting his adversities or giving up everything, until his life.

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The Last Mimzy 2007

The Last Mimzy 2007

The Last Mimzy 2007
PG | 1h 30min | Drama, Family, Sci-Fi | 23 March 2007 (USA)

Storyline:

The siblings Noah and Emma travel with their mother Jo from Seattle to the family cottage in Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days while their workaholic father David Wilder is working. They find a box of toys from the future in the water and bring it home, and Emma finds a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, and stones and a weird object, but they hide their findings from their parents. Mimzy talks telepathically to Emma and the siblings develop special abilities, increasing their intelligences to the level of genius. Their father becomes very proud when Noah presents a magnificent design in the fair of science and technology, and his teacher Larry White and his mystic wife Naomi Schwartz become interested in the boy when he draws a mandala. When Noah accidentally assembles the objects and activates a powerful generator creating a blackout in the state, the FBI arrests the family trying to disclose the mystery. But Emma unravels the importance to send Mimzy back to the future.

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Dorian Blues 2004

Dorian Blues 2004

Dorian Blues 2004
Not Rated | 1h 28min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 28 September 2006 (Germany)

Storyline:

Coming-of-age. A small-town young man realizes why he’s such a misfit – he’s gay! Adolescence is proving a pain for the always-thinking Dorian. He’s an outcast and the butt of classmates’ fag jokes at high school. He’s different and understands why when he reaches the conclusion that he’s a “stereotypical gay.” He soon announces this discovery to his homophobic, Nixon-loving dad. As Dad throws him out of the house, Dorian’s off to NYU to encounter a new world of coffee houses, sophisticates and handsome men.

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Fido 2006

Fido 2006

Fido 2006

Fido 2006
R | 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama, Horror | 16 March 2007 (Canada)

Storyline:

Space radiation turns dead into Zombies. Zomcon fights zombies and finds ways to pacify and use them. On preteen Timmy’s 1950s suburban street, all have a zombie doing menial chores. Timmy’s zombie becomes his pet/friend and is named Fido.

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Loev 2015

Loev 2015

Loev 2015
1h 32min | Drama, Romance | 12 May 2016 (Germany)

Storyline:

Tells the story of two friends with a complicated past: Wall Street deal maker Jai (Pandit) and Mumbai-based music producer Sahil (Ganesh). The two share an emotional weekend on a road trip into the hills and canyons of Maharashtra, where chances are missed, truths are evaded and an unexpected love develops.

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La Promesse 1996

La Promesse 1996

La Promesse 1996

La Promesse 1996
La promesse (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 30min | Drama | 16 May 1997 (USA)

Storyline:

Igor–a 15-year-old apprentice mechanic–spends his off hours at the beck and call of his father. Igor’s father, Roger, is a low-life involved with smuggling undocumented immigrants into Belgium, and acts as their slumlord, housing them in barely livable conditions, and paying them menial wages to work construction on his building (among other scams). When the building inspector pays a surprise visit and Amidou falls off a scaffold in his hurry to hide, things start to unravel, particularly when Igor makes a promise to the injured Amidou that ultimately exposes the different values of Igor and Roger, and of Amidou’s wife, Assita.

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