Opal Dream 2006

Opal Dream 2006

Opal Dream 2006
PG | 1h 25min | Drama, Family | 13 April 2006 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

A young Australian girl living in a small rural mining town prefers the company of her two imaginary friends, Pobby and Dingan, to real children. She ends up looking awkward during social gatherings and her only tangible friend is her older brother, Ashmol, who finds Pobby and Dingan annoying and often makes fun of them because he’s embarrassed by his sister’s behavior. Kelly-Anne’s and Ashmol’s father is an opal miner trying to earn a living, and their mother is busy trying to fit in as a member of the community. Both parents agree that it’s time for Kelly-Ann to move on and leave her fantasy world behind – but when they force her to grow up too fast with a hasty decision, Pobby and Dingan are killed and Kelly-Ann falls into a grief-stricken illness. The only one who can set things right is Ashmol.

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Mean Creek 2004

Mean Creek 2004

Mean Creek 2004

Mean Creek 2004
R | 1h 30min | Crime, Drama | 29 September 2004 (France)

Storyline:

When Sam Merrick is beaten up by local bully George Tooney, Sam’s older brother Rocky and his friends Clyde and Marty plan to pretend it’s Sam’s birthday to “invite” George on a boat trip in which they would dare him to strip naked, jump in the lake, and run home naked. But when Sam, his girlfriend Millie, Rocky, and Clyde see George as not much of a bad guy, they want to call off the plan, but Marty refuses. Will the plan go ahead as planned?

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Navajeros 1980

Navajeros 1980

Navajeros 1980

Navajeros 1980
1h 35min | Biography, Crime, Drama | 6 October 1980 (Spain)

Storyline:

A gang of juvenile delinquents lead by a fifteen-year-old boy named ‘Jaro’ wrecks havoc in Madrid, Spain. A middle-aged prostitute takes a liking to Jaro and tries to care for him, but Jaro is on a path of self-destruction.

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Lion 2016

Lion 2016

Lion 2016
12 | 1h 58min | Drama | 10 September 2016 (Canada)

Storyline:

In 1986, Saroo was a five-year-old child in India of a poor but happy rural family. On a trip with his brother, Saroo soon finds himself alone and trapped in a moving decommissioned passenger train that takes him to Calcutta, 1500 miles away from home. Now totally lost in an alien urban environment and too young to identify either himself or his home to the authorities, Saroo struggles to survive as a street child until he is sent to an orphanage. Soon, Saroo is selected to be adopted by the Brierley family in Tasmania, where he grows up in a loving, prosperous home. However, for all his material good fortune, Saroo finds himself plagued by his memories of his lost family in his adulthood and tries to search for them even as his guilt drives him to hide this quest from his adoptive parents and his girlfriend. Only when he has an epiphany does he realize not only the answers he needs, but also the steadfast love that he has always had with all his loved ones in both worlds.

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Jamie Marks Is Dead 2014

Jamie Marks Is Dead 2014

Jamie Marks Is Dead 2014
1h 41min | Drama | 19 January 2014 (USA)

Storyline:

In a wintry small town, the body of a teenager named Jamie Marks is found by the river. Adam, the star of his cross-country team, becomes fascinated with Jamie-a boy nobody really knew or interacted with, except occasionally to bully him. When Jamie’s ghost begins to appear both to Adam and Gracie, the classmate who discovered the body, Adam is caught between two worlds. He has a budding romance with Gracie, but he also feels a deep connection to Jamie, who brings him closer to the world of the undead.

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My name is love 2008

My name is love 2008

My name is love 2008
Love (original title)
20min | Short, Drama, Romance | 8 March 2008 (Sweden)

Storyline:

Love and Sebastian meet by coincidence in the street in the Swedish summer night. They happen to share the same secret, but their encounter will have severe consequences for the both of them. An innocent flirtation soon turns into a dangerous liaison.

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Barracuda E04

Barracuda E04

Barracuda E04
57min | Drama, Sport | Episode aired 31 July 2016

Storyline:

It’s the opening night of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and the nation is buzzing with excitement. It’s been two years since Danny’s public loss and humiliation at the Commonwealth Games and he is still consumed with overwhelming disappointment and anger. He finishes his day at his dead-end job and returns home to the Kelly house where the family feels more fractured than ever.

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Interior. Leather Bar. 2013

Interior. Leather Bar. 2013

Interior. Leather Bar. 2013
1h | Drama | 3 October 2013 (Portugal)

Storyline:

In order to avoid an X rating, 40 minutes of gay S&M footage was rumored to be cut and destroyed from the 1980 film, “Cruising.” Inspired by the mythology of this controversial film, filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews collaborate to imagine their own lost footage. Amid the backdrop of a frenzied film set actor Val Lauren reluctantly agrees to take the lead in the film. Val is repeatedly forced to negotiate his boundaries during scenes on and “off camera,” as unsimulated gay sex happens around him. The film itself is constructed as a play with boundaries remaining queer in subject and form. As much a film about filmmaking as it is about an exploration of sexual and creative freedom, “Interior. Leather Bar.” defies easy categorization.

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El pico 2 (1984)

El pico 2 (1984)

El pico 2 (1984)
2h | Drama | 9 November 1984 (Spain)

Storyline:

Paco, son of the commander of the Guardia Civil Evaristo Torrecuadrada, has been involved in Bilbao in the murder of a drug dealer couple. His fathers’ efforts in suppressing evidence have nothing to do when the crime appears in the press. Paco is arrested and goes to prison, where he return to do drugs.

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