Safe Harbor 2009

Safe Harbor 2009

Safe Harbor 2009

Safe Harbor 2009
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Drama | TV Movie 30 May 2009

Storyline:

Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home for boys permanently.

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Hard Goodbyes: My Father 2002

Hard Goodbyes: My Father 2002

Hard Goodbyes: My Father 2002

Hard Goodbyes: My Father 2002
Dyskoloi apohairetismoi: O babas mou (original title)
1h 53min | Drama, Family | 27 December 2002 (Greece)

Storyline:

Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne’s stories and in astronomy. His father, with whom Elias has a strong relationship, is a travelling salesman and his absence affects the whole family. On the eve of his departure for a long business trip he promises his son that he’ll be back in time to watch the moon landing on TV together, but he is killed in a car accident. While Elias’ mother and his elder brother deal with the loss in their own way, Elias refuses to accept his father’s death. He creates an imaginary world, in which his father is alive. He shares fictitious stories with his friends, he sends letters to his grandmother on behalf of his father and he dreams of places like he did with him. Elias’ mother and his godfather, who do everything to bring him back to reality, take him to a summer house. On the night of the moon landing Elias meets his father in his own way and comes to terms with his loss.

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Bin ich Moses? 1975

Bin ich Moses? 1975

Bin ich Moses? 1975

Bin ich Moses? 1975
2h 27min | Drama, Family | TV Mini-Series (1975– )

Storyline:

13-year-old Frank Mosmann, called “Moses”, often simply dreams into the day. He tries to distract himself from everyday problems because his parents are on the verge of separation. But life is not a dream country and reality catches up with him faster than he thinks. An unfulfilled love for the neighbor girl Dinah almost throws him off the rails. But after school he catches up and starts an apprenticeship as a construction worker. There he meets Dinah again …

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Little Vampire 1968

Little Vampire 1968

Little Vampire 1968

Little Vampire 1968
Bübchen (original title)
1h 26min | Drama | 21 February 1969 (West Germany)

Storyline:

A strange case baffles the police and the citizens of a German small town. A two-year old girl has disappeared. There are suspects, innocents, guilty ones and a web of lies. It’s Saturday afternoon, and Achim’s parents are invited for a topping-out ceremony. The neighbor’s daughter, Monika (Renate Roland), is the babysitter for Achim (Sascha Urchs) and his little sister Kathrin, but Monika doesn’t take the job too serious. She’d rather go for a ride with her boyfriend. Through a unforeseen row of circumstances, Achim becomes the murderer of his sister, and hides the body in a wrecked car on the scrapyard. When the parents return home, a frantic search for the little child begins. Only the father (Sieghardt Rupp) seems to know the truth.

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Blue Bird 1979

Blue Bird 1979

Blue Bird 1979

Blue Bird 1979
Blauvogel (original title)
1h 36min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 13 December 1979 (East Germany)

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In the middle of the 18th Century, the Ruster family immigrates to the United States. The father, a former farm laborer, leads a hard life as a settler along with his family. One day the nine year-old George, his second-youngest son, is kidnapped by Iroquois. He is taken in by an Indian family in the place of a deceased son and receives the name “Blue Bird.” The boy has homesickness and difficulties accustoming to the customs of the Indians. But gradually he begins to feel at home with them, and advances to a full-fledged member of his new community. As the regular white settlers are attacked, he feels more associated with the Indians than with his former people. After the victory of the English over the French in 1763, all of the captured white settlers are to be exchanged for the captured Indians, including George/Blue Bird. He decides to remain with the Indians.

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The Current 2014

The Current 2014

The Current 2014

The Current 2014
Not Rated | 1h 25min | Drama, Family | January 2014 (USA)

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Jake loves living in Chicago but when big city violence hits a little too close to home his parents buy a campground in rural Minnesota and move the family there. Jake hates living at the campground until he meets Peter, the boy across the river. The two quickly become best friends and spend a fun-filled summer together on the river. In one of their conversations, Peter shares his Christian faith with Jake. Jake uses his new faith to help a friend through a tragedy.

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Eleven Days 2018

Eleven Days 2018

Eleven Days 2018

Eleven Days 2018
1h 33min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 26 January 2018 (Malaysia)

Storyline:

AJIT SINGH 12, blends in happily in to his new home in the middle of Australia. However, his brother RAJVEER 20, finds it unbearable to be constantly labelled a terrorist due to his beard and turban that he keeps faithfully according to his Sikh heritage. Rajveer then decides to join the army and leaves home after an argument with their dad SARJIT, 50. Fearing for his brother’s safety, Ajit goes on a quest to go after Rajveer in order to bring him home. Ajit not only has to survive the outback, he also must to locate Rajveer within ELEVEN DAYS or it will all be too late.

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