Bad education 2004

Bad education 2004

Bad education 2004

Bad education 2004
La mala educación (original title)
16 | 1h 46min | Crime, Drama | 9 September 2004 (Hungary)

Storyline

In the early 60s, two boys – Ignacio and Enrique – discover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and Literature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries. The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70s and in 1980. These meetings are set to change the life and death of some of them.

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Quemar las naves 2007

Quemar las naves 2007

Quemar las naves 2007

Quemar las naves 2007
PG-13 | 1h 40min | Drama | 4 April 2008 (Mexico)

Storyline

Eugenia is a former pop singer who is bedridden and dying of cancer. Her 19 year old daughter Helena dreams of traveling the world and learns foreign languages at home and wishes she could be a glamorous pop star like her mother was. Helena cares for her mother with the help their house maid Chaya who also keeps the aging house in working order. Sebastian is Helena’s teenage brother who attends a Catholic high school run by a Monsignor who plays classical music over the loudspeakers thinking it will calm down the boisterous kids. Sebastian’s dreams are simple and he merely wants to move to the beach. Helena is smart and pretty but she has no friends, male or female and is totally devoted to her mother’s care and is also on the verge of initiating an incestuous relationship with Sebastian. Sebastian however, is falling in love with a boy at school named Juan who is the school roughneck and the son of a single father who owns a little bar…

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Eroddity(s) 2014

Eroddity(s) 2014

Eroddity(s) 2014
1h 10min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 23 April 2014 (France)

Storyline:

In “Forever Mine”, a confused boy seeks a love that will last him a lifetime. A teen’s long forgotten past leads to his short lived future in “A Mind Of Their Own” Proving some things should remain in the closet! A Christmas present, in the hands of a young voyeur, leads to a holiday tale of woe in an “Unsolved Christmas” In “The Way To A Mans Heart” an abused lover gets his revenge from beyond the grave.

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I Am Happiness on Earth 2014

I Am Happiness on Earth 2014

I Am Happiness on Earth 2014

I Am Happiness on Earth 2014
Yo soy la felicidad de este mundo (2014)
2h 2min | Drama | 23 October 2014 (Germany)

Storyline

Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and forcing you to remember, believe and convince yourself.

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Father and son 2015

Father and son 2015

Father and son 2015
Phor lae lukchai (original title)
1h 24min | Drama | 12 November 2015 (Thailand)

Plot:

Father and Son, meanwhile, has a more serious tone, with its story of a gay dad who has raised his surrogate son alone after the death of his partner. The kid, weary of being bullied, seeks to break out on his own. He takes up with a guy who it turns out has a crush on the kid’s dad. In limited release at CentralWorld and Esplanade Ratchada, Father and Son is rated 20

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Ang lihim ni Antonio 2008

Ang lihim ni Antonio 2008

Ang lihim ni Antonio 2008
1h 57min | Crime, Drama | 13 February 2008 (Philippines)
Also Known As: Antonio’s Secret

Storyline:

Adolescent curiosities and sexual explorations of a 15-year-old boy named Antonio who’s just coming to terms with his sexuality. Through Antonio’s mother and friends, we get an interesting look at what people in Manila think about homosexuality and gay people. Antonio’s life takes a turn when his uncle comes to stay with him and his mother

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Mandragora 1997

Mandragora 1997

Mandragora 1997
2h 6min | Drama | 23 October 1997 (Czech Republic)

Storyline:

Marek is a 16-year-old from a provicial village who runs away to Prague when he begins to fail at school. He mugged shortly after arriving in the city and is rescued by Honza with the promise of work. Marek is taken to an apartment, drugged, and becomes a male prostitute. He is a bit smarter that his collegues and teams up with a friend, David, in order to go after bigger scores–to cash in and get out. They manage to stash away a bit of money, but when it comes time to return home, Marek loses his nerve and is soon back in the city.

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Velociraptor 2014

Velociraptor 2014

Velociraptor 2014

Velociraptor 2014
1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7 June 2014 (Mexico)

Storyline:

Two friends walk around the city one afternoon, on the verge of imminent Apocalypse.

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