The Promised Neverland 2020

The Promised Neverland 2020

The Promised Neverland 2020

The Promised Neverland 2020
Yakusoku no Neverland (original title)
1h 59min | Action, Adventure, Drama | 18 December 2020 (Japan)

Storyline:

A number of Japanese children all complete with Western names are being well fed, taken care of and pampered at a very meticulate and managed orphanage. The facility and grounds are impressive, but the wall acting as a barrier is high. There is a secret to the place and once it is revealed to several orphans they are desperate to depart from the facility.

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The Unhealer 2020

The Unhealer 2020

The Unhealer 2020

The Unhealer 2020
1h 34min | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8 June 2021 (USA)

Storyline:

A botched faith healing bestows supernatural Shaman powers on a bullied teenager. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that kills someone he loves, he uses his powers for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to settle the score.

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Bloody Beans 2013

Bloody Beans 2013

Bloody Beans 2013

Bloody Beans 2013
Loubia hamra (original title)
1h 20min | Drama | 6 April 2016 (France)

Storyline:

While the French army is shooting at the OAS, children plunder the French army of its provisions and even of a war prisoner, condemned to eat a dish of beans. But the war catches up with the adventure and bloodies the beans.

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Dog Pound 2010

Dog Pound 2010

Dog Pound 2010

Dog Pound 2010
Not Rated | 1h 31min | Crime, Drama | 23 June 2010 (France)

Storyline:

When 17-year-old Butch is sent to the Enola Vale Youth Correctional Center in Montana for blinding an abusive correctional officer, he brings with him a deep-seated intolerance for injustices and a penchant for meting out retributions on his own. No one had better mess with him or anyone else while he’s there. Unfortunately, many do.

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Chasing Wonders 2020

Chasing Wonders 2020

Chasing Wonders 2020

Chasing Wonders 2020
1h 26min | Drama | 23 October 2020 (Australia)

Storyline:

A coming-of-age story set across the lush wine country of both Australia and Spain, a young man explores the nature of father-son relationships and the pathway toward understanding and forgiveness.

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Didn’t You Hear? (1970)

Didn't You Hear? (1970)

Didn’t You Hear? (1970)

Didn’t You Hear? (1970)
GP | 1h 32min | Drama, Fantasy | 16 December 1970 (USA)

Storyline:

Kevin is wandering through the confused haze that most college students pass through at one time or another: lectures that make little – if any – sense, pranks by the fraternities and sororities, deep yet meaningless discussions on philosophy with ones friends. Through all of this, Kevin passes in and out of a dream-like fantasy world, in which he and his friends sail a ship christened “Queen of Sheba” to a variety of islands, with natives both friendly and hostile.

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Un embrujo 1998

Un embrujo 1998

Un embrujo 1998

Un embrujo 1998
2h 10min | Drama, Romance | 22 February 1999 (USA)

Storyline:

Eliseo, a 13-year-old boy, is initiated into love by Felipa, his school teacher. After discovering the relationship, she leaves town, leaving him mired in nostalgia. Forced to marry another woman and lead a routine life, Eliseo spends the years remembering the romance with Felipa until, ten years later, the woman returns, removing his wounds and forever changing his life, that of his family and his of the entire town.

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Jan Dara: The Finale (2013)

Jan Dara: The Finale (2013)

Jan Dara: The Finale (2013)

Jan Dara: The Finale (2013)
Jan Dara Pachimmabot (original title)
2h 18min | Drama | 7 February 2013 (Thailand)

Storyline:

Set in the 1930s, the film tells the story of Jan Dara, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by his sadistic and debauched stepfather, Luang Wisnan in Bangkok. The story recounts the growing pains of him, whose mother dies while giving birth to him and who intensely hated by his stepfather. When he goes to Phijit where his wealthy grandmother lives, he learns the truth behind his birth from an old police officer. Then he returns home, to Bangkok to take revenge against his stepfather. Driving him to ruin, he takes over the family, including his stepfather’s mistress Boonleung. In his frightening quest for vengeance, however, he finds himself walking the same loathsome path as the man he hates.

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