Soft 2006

Soft 2006

Soft 2006
14min | Short, Drama | 20 April 2007 (UK)

Storyline:

A man gets home from work, shouts some complaints at Scott, his teen son who’s upstairs, and heads to a mini-mart for a pint of milk. There he’s accosted, harassed, and jeered by six youths in hooded sweatshirts, and he’s punched by their leader, a budding sociopath in white. Dad walks home. The gang trails about a block behind. At home, Scott confesses he was in a fight today but didn’t hit back. His father tells him that he must defend himself, then does nothing when the gang arrives in front of their home and starts hollering and throwing things. Finally dad goes outside. Is that going to be it?

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El verano de la señora Forbes 1989

El verano de la señora Forbes 1989

El verano de la señora Forbes 1989
1h 29min | Drama | TV Movie 15 August 1989

Storyline:

Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes’ secret.

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Yepeto 1999

Yepeto 1999

Yepeto 1999
1h 47min | Drama | 6 May 1999 (Argentina)

Storyline:

Yepeto is a professor in his 50’s, a prestigious writer who holds a chair in the literature department. Cecilia, an 18 year old student is the object of Antonio’s desire. (Antonio is a young athlete, also very attractive.) Yepeto starts to feel passionately, but silently attracted to Cecilia, while at the same time, builds up his friendship with Antonio. Will this force Yepeto to give up, out of loyalty to his friend and student Antonio, all contact with his desired student Cecilia?

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Yo, ‘El Vaquilla’ 1985

Yo, 'El Vaquilla' 1985

Yo, ‘El Vaquilla’ 1985

Yo, ‘El Vaquilla’ 1985
1h 45min | Action, Biography, Drama | 8 November 1985 (Spain)

Storyline:

Juan Jose Moreno Cuenca, alias the Heifer, is 23 years old and tells his story as a criminal offender from 1 Ocaña Toledo. Fatherless, the offender has his childhood and how everything changed when her mother went to prison.

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Mir v drugom izmerenii 1990

Mir v drugom izmerenii 1990

Mir v drugom izmerenii 1990
1h 19min | Drama | December 1990 (Soviet Union)

Storyline:

A delinquent boy of about fifteen years is sent to a reformatory and there finds himself in more trouble than he was in the outside world. Can he endure the frequent bullying that occurs at his new home?

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King of Devil’s Island 2010

King of Devil's Island 2010

King of Devil’s Island 2010
Kongen av Bastøy (original title)
1h 56min | Action, Drama | 17 December 2010 (Norway)

Storyline:

Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the island Bastoy, located in the Oslo fjord live a group of delinquent, young boys aged 11 to 18. The boys daily, sadistic regime is run by the guards and the principal who bestow both mental and physical abuse on them. Instead of the boys being straightened out with education they end up being used as cheap, manual labor. The boys attempt to survive by adapting to their inhumane conditions. One day a new boy, Erling (17), arrives with his own agenda; how to escape from the island. How far is he willing to go in order to get his freedom?

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Zero de Conduite 1933

Zero de Conduite 1933

Zero de Conduite 1933

Zero de Conduite 1933
Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège (original title)
44min | Short, Comedy, Drama | 7 April 1933 (France)

Storyline:

After the holidays, Caussat and Bruel are going back to the boarding school, where their life is sad, dull, as all prisoner’s ones. But there is plot setting up for a revolt…

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Light Gradient 2009

Light Gradient 2009

Light Gradient 2009
Rückenwind (original title)
1h 15min | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 4 June 2009 (Germany)

Storyline:

A young gay couple go on a camping trip, biking through the woods of Brandenburg. They have some mishaps along the way before meeting a woman and her teenager son on a farm.

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