Cinema Paradiso 1988
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (original title)
R | 2h 35min | Drama | 29 September 1988 (Italy)
Storyline
A famous film director remembers his childhood at the Cinema Paradiso where Alfredo, the projectionist, first brought about his love of films. He returns home to his Sicilian village for the first time after almost 30 years and is reminded of his first love, Elena, who disappeared from his life before he left for Rome.
Ballo a tre passi 2003
1h 47min | Drama | 19 February 2004 (Netherlands)
Storyline
Four separate-but-interconnected stories – one for each season – about life in Sardinia.
Kung-fu master 1988
Kung-fu master 1988
1h 20min | Drama, Romance | 9 March 1988 (France)
Storyline:
Mary-Jane asks, “Do all women fall in love with a boy, or just those without sons?” She’s divorced with two daughters, Lucy and Loulou. Lucy has a party where Mary-Jane notices Julien, 14, small and brassy, but she sees a sensitive side. She contrives to spend time with him and lets him know she’s available to him. He’s on the cusp between child and man, alternating between playing a video game, Kung Fu Master, where he tries to rescue Sylvie, and joining friends in bluff talk about sexual exploits. As Lucy realizes what is happening, she’s repulsed, but Mary-Jane, encouraged by her own mother, carries on. Is it love or jealousy of lost youth? Is there any way this can end well?
Mirakel 2000
1h 20min | Family, Musical, Drama | 13 October 2000 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Ttwelve-year-old boy Dennis P lives in Copenhagen with his mother. Since the death of his father, his mother has been both depressed and overprotective. At school he struggles to cope with a mean and obsessive teacher, and the girl he likes seems to be more interested in his best friend than him. One day he walks into a church and, expecting little effect, exclaims his wishes of better luck at home and at school. Miraculously, an angel who looks a lot like Dennis’ father appears and presents him the gift of a pair of angel wings. From then on, Dennis can literally get anything he points at, changing the behaviour of other people as he sees fit. It’s the experience of a lifetime, but can it last?
Parle tout bas Si c’est d’amour 2012
1h 30min | Comedy | TV Movie 17 June 2015
Storyline:
A biology teacher who is asked to show his students how to use a condom. A grandmother who loves talking about relationships and sexuality. Parents who are upset and a principal who’s fed up but concerned about his students’ health. A mother who worships a long-gone man… Caroline and Olivier are sixteen, and they’d like it if their parents and teachers would stop wanting to talk to them about love, since most of them obviously don’t understand a thing about teenage feelings. Caroline and Olivier love each other. And they’re scared. Scared not to be up to the task of their love story. They want their first time to be beautiful and wonderful…
Herz Im Kopf 2001
1h 30min | Drama, Romance | 6 June 2002 (Germany)
Storyline:
akob, an 18-year-old boy, comes back to Frankfurt after he left after his mothers death one year ago. While trying to sort his life he meets a Polish Au-Pair, Wanda, and falls in love with her. But there are several disappointments on both sides…
Uma Pedra no Bolso 1988
Uma Pedra no Bolso 1988
1h 31min | Drama | 15 June 1989 (Portugal)
Storyline:
A story of initiation and struggle with adulthood: on vacation at the inn of an aunt by the sea, Miguel meets Luísa, fisherman João and Dr. Fernando, three characters that will mark the entrance of his first “stone in his pocket.
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Sieben Sommersprossen 1978
1h 19min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6 October (East Germany)
Also Know As: Seven Freckles 1978
Storyline
Teens in a holiday-camp. First love, first sex, first self-made theatre performance of “Romeo and Julliet” – quite interesting to have a look at the east-German youth in the seventies.
La buena vida 1996
La buena vida 1996
1h 47min | Comedy, Drama | 13 December 1996 (Spain)
Storyline
This humorous movie charts the life of a 14 year old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away on holiday). Things don’t quite go to plan when at the crucial moment the phone rings to tell him his parents have been killed in a car crash. From then he is on his own and in control of his destiny, or at least he things so.
