Little Cheung 1999

Little Cheung 1999

Little Cheung 1999

Little Cheung 1999
Xilu xiang (Original title)
1h 58min | Drama | 30 December 1999 (Hong Kong)

Storyline:

In 1997, Little Cheung is a street-wise nine-year-old boy living in a bustling neighborhood of Hong Kong, just before the reunification with China. His parents are always working at their restaurant, so Little Cheung becomes much closer to his grandmother and her Filipino maid Armi. Little Cheung befriends Fan, a girl his age who is an illegal immigrant from China. He splits his tips with her when she helps him deliver take-outs for his father. The pair have some amusing adventures, and delight in peeing in the drinks of a troublesome thug. Against his father’s will, Little Cheung starts searching for his older brother, whom his father disowned because he became a gangster.

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Tom’s Midnight Garden 1999

Tom's Midnight Garden 1999

Tom’s Midnight Garden 1999

Tom’s Midnight Garden 1999
1h 47min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 7 April 2000 (USA)

Storyline:

Young Tom Long is forced to stay with his kindly Aunt and Uncle while his brother recovers from a bout of the measles. At their flat, he is, disappointed to find there is no garden in which to play, but his disappointment turns to wonder when he discovers a magical garden which only appears at night when an old grandfather clock strikes thirteen. His nightly excursions to this beautiful garden become even more interesting when he realizes that the people he meets cannot see him, except one young girl named Hatty.

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El corral 2017

El corral 2017

El corral 2017

El corral 2017
1h 30min | Drama | 2017

Storyline:

Two antisocial adolescents, resentful against their classmates and teachers, intend to provoke commotion in the school through a series of anonymous acts of vandalism. Little by little, the game is losing its naive side and the two young people are submerged in a dangerous spiral of violence that seems to have no limits.

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Lost in the Wild 1976

Lost in the Wild 1976

Lost in the Wild 1976

Lost in the Wild 1976
Barney (original title)
1h 33min | Adventure | 16 December 1976 (Australia)

Storyline:

A twelve year old boy and a common criminal are being transported in the same ship from England to Australia in the last century. When the ship wrecked they happen to be the only survivors of the catastrophe. Now they have to get along with each other and finally become friends.

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