Blood 1989

Blood 1989

Blood 1989

Blood 1989
O Sangue (original title)
1h 35min | Drama, Mystery | 7 December 1990 (Portugal)

Storyline:

Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don’t seem to remember their mother, and are very much attached to their father, despite his temper, and his frequent absences from home. One day, the father leaves for good, and Vicente and Nino swear to cover it up. It’s their secret. Clara, the primary school assistant, is fascinatingly beautiful, and secretive, and (may be) she knows it aswel. There are other secrets, though: the origin of the money that appears at Vicente’s house; the relationship between Vicente’s well-to-do uncle and his girlfriend; the relationship between the four people who once played the cards together, and now can’t stand each other.

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Special Education 1977

Special Education 1977

Special Education 1977

Special Education 1977
Specijalno vaspitanje (original title)
1h 50min | Drama | 28 April 1977 (Yugoslavia)

Storyline:

Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.

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Anche Libero Va Bene 2006

Anche Libero Va Bene 2006

Anche Libero Va Bene 2006

Anche Libero Va Bene 2006
1h 48min | Drama | 3 May 2006 (Italy)

Storyline:

Tommi (11) and his slightly older sister Viola live in the city with their father. They cope with being a single parent family until their mother shows up, having disappeared without trace – not for the first time, we soon learn. These are the four protagonists in a bittersweet portrait of their ongoing struggle with love, friendship, puberty and life in general.

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Adventure Boyz 2019

Adventure Boyz 2019

Adventure Boyz 2019

Adventure Boyz 2019
1h 33min | Family | 21 February 2020 (USA)

Storyline:

When England’s largest castle is robbed by a notorious crime boss (Jon Campling, Harry Potter’s Death Eater), the last thing he and his criminal gang expected to be up against were two boys on BMX. When the boys mother (Angela Dixon, Never Let Go) leaves her sons with their Speedway racer father for a trip back to San Francisco, their ‘old school’ dad disapproves of their time on devices and instead reminds them of the exhilaration or real life adventure. A twist of fate leads the boys to uncover the diamond theft but in the process gets their father arrested for the crime. A race against time ensues. Can these boys use their dad’s training to get him out of jail in time for his Speedway race. With twists, turns, laughs and outrageously fun plot, Adventure Boyz aims not only to entertain the whole family, but remind us all of the thrills and adventure we can all have away from a device.

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No End 1985

No End 1985

No End 1985

No End 1985
Bez konca (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 47min | Drama, Romance | 17 June 1985 (Poland)

Storyline:

It’s 1982: Poland is under martial law, and Solidarity is banned. Ulla, a translator working on Orwell, suddenly loses her husband, Antek, an attorney. She is possessed by her grief, and Antek continues to appear to her. She seeks to free herself in her work, in her relationship with her son, in sex, and in hypnosis. In a subplot, Ulla refers the wife of one of her husband’s clients – Darek, a jailed Solidarity strike organizer – to Labrador, a world-weary, aging attorney, who works to free Darek by various political manipulations and psychological ploys.

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The Lodge 2019

The Lodge 2019

The Lodge 2019

The Lodge 2019
R | 1h 48min | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 16 January 2020 (Italy)

Storyline:

A soon-to-be-stepmom is snowed in with her fiance’s two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations finally begin to thaw between the trio, strange and frightening events threaten to summon psychological demons from her strict religious childhood.

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Foxter & Max 2019

Foxter & Max 2019

Foxter & Max 2019

Foxter & Max 2019
1h 30min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 19 September 2019 (Ukraine)

Storyline:

An artistic, frustrated pre-teen discovers that the graffiti dog he painted with a found can of what he thought was spray-paint, has come to life in the form of an ultra-intelligent super-dog made of nanobots. But now both of them are being hunted by the most dangerous criminal in the city, who will stop at nothing to get this newest technology in his grasp.

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Body Troopers 1996

Body Troopers 1996

Body Troopers 1996

Body Troopers 1996
Jakten på nyresteinen (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 31min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | 4 October 1996 (Norway)

Storyline:

A little kid shrinks himself so that he can travel into the body of his grandfather. Here he has to kill the kidney-stone his grandfather is suffering from.

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