Gone Case 2014

Gone Case 2014

Gone Case 2014

Gone Case 2014
1h 33m | Drama | Release date: February 2, 2014 (Singapore)

Storyline:

Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Dave Chua (winner of the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award), Gone Case is a heartfelt, coming-of-age story that revolves around twelve-year-old Yong, who struggles to cope with the tumultuous events that take place in his life as he approaches his PSLE exams – the death of his grandmother, the decaying relationship of his parents, the rigorous demands of school, run-ins with a neighborhood gang, his first crush and taste of heartache, and the tensions between him and his dysfunctional best friend, Liang. Like the HDB estate that the main characters reside in, Gone Case features a myriad of characters that weave in and out of Yong’s life, forming a poignant mosaic of Singapore heartlands in the 90s.

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Belle and Sebastian: Next Generation 2022

Belle & Sebastien - Next Generation 2022

Belle & Sebastien – Next Generation 2022

Belle and Sebastian: Next Generation 2022
Belle et Sébastien: Nouvelle génération (original title)
1h 36m | Action, Adventure, Drama | France: October 19, 2022

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10-year-old Sebastien reluctantly spends his vacation in the mountains with his grandmother and aunt. Helping them with the sheep is hardly an exciting prospect for a city boy like him – but that is without considering his encounter with Belle, a huge dog mistreated by her owner. Ready to do anything to fight injustice and to protect his new-found friend, Sebastien will spend the craziest summer of his life.

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Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia 1984

Los abandonados - Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia 1984

Los abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia 1984

Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia 1984
1h 29m | Drama | West Germany/Mexico 1985

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Semi-documentary film about one of those “no man’s children”, the “Abandonados”, whose fate became known in the mid 70s. The orphaned or abandoned children and young people had been deported under inhumane circumstances to a neighboring province by the Brazilian judicial authorities to relieve the overcrowded prisons, where they were abandoned without food or clothing. The specific case described should not be construed as an indictment of an event or a country, but rather as a reminder to work for the welfare of the children of our time.

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Secret Lives of Housewives 2022

Secret Lives of Housewives 2022

Secret Lives of Housewives 2022

Secret Lives of Housewives 2022
1h 26m | Drama | Release date: May 8, 2022 (United States)

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Follows Kendra who is close to have an affair with a younger man, when her young almost-lover dies she begins to doubt that her husband had anything to do with Eric’s death, but it turns out she wasn’t the young man’s only lover.

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Tonbi 2022

Tonbi 2022

Tonbi 2022

Tonbi 2022
2h 19m | Drama | Release date: April 8, 2022 (Japan)

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Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo’s life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed after his wife died in accident. Since that time, Yasuo, who never experienced parents’ love himself, has to raise his son Akira alone. Based on novel “Tonbi” by Kiyoshi Shigematsu (published October 30, 2008 by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd.).

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Jeune et jolie 2013

Jeune et jolie 2013

Jeune et jolie 2013

Jeune et jolie 2013
1h 35m | Drama, Romance | Release date: August 21, 2013 (France)

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French teenager Isabelle is spending her summer holiday with her middle-class family in the south of France and decides to lose her virginity with German teenager Felix. Then she returns to Paris with her mother Sylvie, her stepfather Patrick and her younger brother Victor. Then Isabelle works as a call girl using the nickname Lea, meeting old men. She feels affection for her client Georges that is married with a daughter. When Georges dies from a heart attack while having sex with Isabelle in a hotel, she flees but the police investigate and identify her. The detectives in charge of the investigation disclose to Sylvie, who is devastated.

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Sorteper – Det kan du selv være 1980

Sorteper - Det kan du selv være 1980

Sorteper – Det kan du selv være 1980

Sorteper – Det kan du selv være 1980
48m | Drama | 1980 (Denmark)

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Two children aged 14-15, Carl and Hanne, are the main characters in the film, which is about the connection between illness and society over a century. The small dramatic episodes from a century of daily life in the shadow side tell of a poverty that calls for society’s help.

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Le nouveau jouet 2022

Le nouveau jouet 2022

Le nouveau jouet 2022

Le nouveau jouet 2022
1h 52m | Comedy | France October 19, 2022

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Samy lives happily outside the system, in the housing projects, alongside his childhood friends and his wife Jihane, who is expecting their first child. To provide for the needs of his future family – very reluctantly – he takes a job as a night watchman in a luxury goods store. Philippe Etienne is the wealthiest man in France. Cold, unfeeling, since his wife died a year ago, he has devoted himself entirely to his business. Alexandre – his only son, and heir to the entire Etienne fortune – keeps his father at arms’ length, seeking refuge in the lonely world of the spoiled child. For his birthday, Philippe opens the toy department of the store where Samy works and tells Alexandre he can take whatever he wants. Alexandre chooses Samy.

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