I Want to Be a Soldier 2010

I Want to Be a Soldier 2010

I Want to Be a Soldier 2010
1h 40min | Drama | 14 October 2011 (Italy)

Storyline:

I Want To Be A Soldier” is the story of Alex, an average eight year old kid who seems to grow a morbid fascination for images portraying violence. He begins to develop a communication problem with his parents and other kids at school, and closes in on himself, inventing two imaginary friends..

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Mother’s Boys 1993

Mother's Boys 1993

Mother’s Boys 1993
R | 1h 36min | Drama, Thriller | 18 March 1994 (USA)

Storyline:

Jude Madigan abandons her husband Robert and her three sons without any explanation. Three years later Jude inexplicably returns to reunite her family. However Robert and his new lover Callie see Jude for the true psychopath she is and try their best to protect their sons. Jude embarks on a non stop stalking and harassment campaign against the family, and even seduces her eldest son Kess into committing her acts of violence.

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Tom at the Farm 2013

Tom at the Farm 2013

Tom at the Farm 2013
Tom à la ferme (original title)
1h 42min | Drama, Thriller | 16 April 2014 (France)

Storyline:

The story of Tom, who is in the grip of grief and depression following the death of his lover. When he meets the family of the deceased, it is revealed the mother was not aware of her son’s sexual orientation, or his relationship with Tom either, for that matter.

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Honey 2010

Honey 2010

Honey 2010
Bal (original title)
1h 43min | Drama | 11 February 2010 (Germany)

Storyline:

The young boy Yusuf’s best friend is his father, who supports his family’s modest life with the honey he collects from tall trees in the forests of the remote Turkish countryside. Yusuf is a quiet boy, and his mother is concerned for his future. Perhaps he will follow in his father’s footsteps, or perhaps school will offer him other opportunities. But the honey crop is failing, and Yusuf has trouble learning how to read. The greatest fear strikes when Yusuf’s father doesn’t return home from the forest.

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Lilja 4-ever 2002

Lilja 4-ever 2002

Lilja 4-ever 2002

Lilja 4-ever 2002
16 | 1h 49min | Crime, Drama | 23 August 2002 (Sweden)

Storyline:

While waiting for her mothers reply to take her to the USA, Lilya idles the time away smoking, drinking and having fun with her, too, outcast friend Volodya. In time, the chance of a new life becomes non-existent; her life is going nowhere. Meeting a young man, she then finds a plane ticket in her hand and a new life in Sweden: a job, an apartment and prospects. All is not what it seems. There shall be work, there shall be housing and there shall be no escape. This is the stark, frank and disturbing vision of the life of a young victim of the underground sex trade and in all its tone of realism of abject poverty, despicable actions and of wanting to show that dreaming of a better life is not a crime but that life can shatter the illusion of a happy ending.

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My Queen Karo 2009

My Queen Karo 2009

My Queen Karo 2009
1h 41min | Drama, Romance | 28 October 2009 (Belgium)

Storyline:

Nine-year-old Karo grows up with her parents in an Amsterdam commune in the Seventies. She leads a carefree existence in this utopia-for-adults. Everything is shared in the squat, but not everyone is able to honor these ideals. Karo gets confused because of the internal conflicts that start to divide the group. Karo slowly realizes that nothing can stay the same forever.

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Santa sangre 1989

Santa sangre 1989

Santa sangre 1989
NC-17 | 2h 3min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 24 November 1989 (Italy)

Storyline:

A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre (“Holy Blood”), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother. Against his will, he “becomes her arms” and the two undertake a grisly campaign of murder and revenge.

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