La Virgen de los Sicarios 2000

La Virgen de los Sicarios 2000

La Virgen de los Sicarios 2000

La Virgen de los Sicarios 2000
R | 1h 41min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 20 September 2000 (France)

Storyline:

The tempestuous love story between Fernando, an older man who has recently returned to his crime-ridden drug capitol hometown of Medellin, Colombia and the gun-happy 16-year-old assassin Alexis, who murders all too easily. When Alexis himself is fatally gunned down, grief-stricken Fernando hunts for his young lover’s killer in the Medellin slums, but instead encounters Wilmar, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Alexis.

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Bless the Beasts and Children 1971

Bless the Beasts and Children 1971

Bless the Beasts and Children 1971

Bless the Beasts and Children 1971
1h 49min | Comedy, Drama | June 1971 (West Germany)

Storyline:

A group of social misfits at a summer camp.for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club’s slaughter.

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Nils Karlsson Pyssling 1990

Nils Karlsson Pyssling 1990

Nils Karlsson Pyssling 1990

Nils Karlsson Pyssling 1990
1h 15min | Family | 9 November 1990 (Sweden)

Storyline:

7-year-old Bertil’s parents are at work and Bertil are home alone and bored. He is the only child in the family since his sister Martha died of an illness. But everything changes when he meets little Nils Karlsson Pyssling and they become friends. Nisse who lives in the basement in a room he rents from the rat Tjofsan,wich is cruel.

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Quelque part vers Conakry 1992

Quelque part vers Conakry 1992

Quelque part vers Conakry 1992

Quelque part vers Conakry 1992
1h 18min | Drama | 16 June 1993 (France)

Storyline:

1971: Guinea, thirteen years after independence. A revolutionary storm is brewing on the streets of the city of Fria. Somewhere near Conakry – Children play, far from the adults’ worries. The gigantic land stretches from the savanna to the marshes. In this mosaic of people in conflict, Jacques leads his warriors though an Africa that has been torn apart, where only children and the elderly have kept a innocent look in their eyes. Beyond the taboos and laws governing the country, Jacques and Madiou, the little African boy, will experience the trial of friendship and parting.

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The Cure 1995

The Cure 1995

The Cure 1995
PG-13 | 1h 37min | Drama | 21 April 1995 (USA)

Storyline:

Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Erik, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Erik also becomes closer to Dexter’s mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their friendship upon learning of it. When they read that a doctor in distant New Orleans claims to have found a cure for AIDS, the boys leave home on their own, planning to float down the Mississippi river and find him.

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Det skaldede spogelse 1992

Det skaldede spogelse 1992

Det skaldede spogelse 1992

Det skaldede spogelse 1992
Det skaldede spøgelse (original title)
1h 15min | Drama | 9 October 1992 (Denmark)

Storyline:

11 y.o. Jasper’s only friend, an old retired sailor living alone by the stream, dies. He gets his cat. A ghost appears. At the village school, he’s bullied by the vicar’s son, but there are also two nice girls in his class.

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Machuca 2004

Machuca 2004

Machuca 2004

Machuca 2004
1h 56min | Biography, Drama, History | 11 June 2004 (Spain)

Storyline

Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each other’s world as political tensions in their country increase.

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Ogginoggen 1997

Ogginoggen 1997

Ogginoggen 1997

Ogginoggen 1997
40min | Short, Drama, Romance | 7 July 1997 (Denmark)

Storyline

Ida and her family are recovering from the divorce. She is looking forward to the upcoming dance contest. She is also growing up and developing romantic urges of her own. But romance almost destroyed her family and almost cost her her life and Ida wants nothing to do with it. Which is stronger, biology or will-power.

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