Dans la maison 2012

Dans la maison 2012

Dans la maison 2012
16 | 1h 45min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | 10 September 2012 (Canada)
Also Know As: In the House

Storyline:

A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

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Vandal 2013

Vandal 2013

Vandal 2013
1h 24min | Drama | 9 October 2013 (France)

Storyline:

Like the stolen car he is driving in circles, Chérif’s life is going nowhere in a hurry. When he is arrested for the umpteenth time, Chérif’s exasperated mother strikes a last-chance deal with a judge to send the troubled juvenile to live quietly with his aunt and uncle and attend vocational school. Chérif’s earnest attempt to go straight is sending him directly to the doldrums, until he discovers that his even straighter-laced cousin Thomas is actually part of a local gang of taggers, who roam the night bombing walls and overpasses in the shadow of a mysterious tagger whose death-defying works have made him a legend.

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Little Manhattan 2005

Little Manhattan 2005

Little Manhattan 2005
PG | 1h 24min | Comedy, Family, Romance | 5 January 2006 (Puerto Rico)

Storyline:

In Manhattan, 10-year-old Gabe finds his first love when he meets his former kindergarten mate, eleven-year-old Rosemary, in his karate classes. Confused with his new feelings and with the divorce process of his beloved parents, Leslie and Adam, he experiences the delightful unknown sensation of being in love for the first time.

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Kid Svensk 2007

Kid Svensk 2007

Kid Svensk 2007
1h 30min | Drama | 9 March 2007 (Finland)

Storyline:

The year is 1984. It’s summer, and the rebellious 12-year-old girl Kid wants to stay in Gothenburg, but her mother has other plans. Kid discovers that summer vacation in Finland isn’t as bad as first feared. In a few hot weeks she discovers her dawning sexuality, and experience her first crush.

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La Traversee Du Phare 1999

La Traversee Du Phare 1999

La Traversee Du Phare 1999
La traversée du phare (original title)
1h 36min | family | TV Movie 27 January 1999

Storyline:

Crossing The Lighthouse is a story about the encounter of two ten-year old children (Jim Redler and Katty Loisel) who share a similar past. Two orphans who have taken refuge in lies to conceal a reality that causes them too much suffering. Two children who would like other people to stop treating them as though they are different, who want to live like everyone else. If this encounter is the result of chance, nothing will ever seperate them again. They need each other to learn to live again. The power of their friendship will be so great that it will change the attitude of the adults who come into contact with them.

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Preparez vos mouchoirs 1978

Preparez vos mouchoirs 1978

Preparez vos mouchoirs 1978
Préparez vos mouchoirs (original title)
1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 11 January 1978 (France)

Storyline:

Solange is depressed: she’s stopped smiling, she eats little, she says less. She has fainting fits. Her husband Raoul seeks to save her by enlisting Stephane, a stranger, to be her lover. Although he listens to Mozart and has every Pocket Book arranged in alphabetical order, Stephane fails to cheer Solange. She knits. She does housework. Everyone, including their neighbor a vegetable vendor, agrees that she needs a child, yet she fails to get pregnant by either lover. The three take a job running a kids’ summer camp where they meet Christian, the precocious 13-year-old son of the local factory manager. It is Christian who restores Solange to laughter.

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Jeux d’enfants 2003

Jeux d'enfants 2003

Jeux d’enfants 2003
14 | 1h 33min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 29 August 2003 (USA)

Storyline

Julien Janvier lost his mother young, drifted apart from his working class father and ever closer to confident Sophie Kowalsky, the Polish class outsider. Their dares game, symbolized by an interchanged music-box, grows ever bolder, regardless of harm to others and each-other. In his college years, it even suspends their relationship and toys with their marriages, but they are drawn back to each-other irresistibly.

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