Sieben Sommersprossen 1978

Sieben Sommersprossen 1978

Sieben Sommersprossen 1978
1h 19min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6 October (East Germany)
Also Know As: Seven Freckles 1978

Storyline

Teens in a holiday-camp. First love, first sex, first self-made theatre performance of “Romeo and Julliet” – quite interesting to have a look at the east-German youth in the seventies.

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La buena vida 1996

La buena vida 1996

La buena vida 1996

La buena vida 1996
1h 47min | Comedy, Drama | 13 December 1996 (Spain)

Storyline

This humorous movie charts the life of a 14 year old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away on holiday). Things don’t quite go to plan when at the crucial moment the phone rings to tell him his parents have been killed in a car crash. From then he is on his own and in control of his destiny, or at least he things so.

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Wanna See My Beautiful Navel 1978

Wanna See My Beautiful Navel 1978

Wanna See My Beautiful Navel 1978
Vil du se min smukke navle? (original title)
1h 43min | Drama | 9 October 1978 (Denmark)

Storyline:

Amidst a bunch of kids from a 9th grade class from Denmark which goes on a school trip to Sweden having a lot of experiences , the story surrounds Claus and Lene, which meet the first real feelings of love.

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Ken Park 2002

Ken Park 2002

Ken Park 2002
18 | 1h 33min | Drama | 31 August 2002 (USA)

Storyline

Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They’re all rather tight, or so they claim. But they spend precious little time together and none of them seems to know much about one another’s family lives. This bizarre dichotomy underscores their alienation # the result of suburban ennui, a teenager’s inherent sense of melodrama, and the disturbing nature of their home environments.

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Jambon d’Ardenne 1977

Jambon d'Ardenne 1977

Jambon d’Ardenne 1977

Jambon d’Ardenne 1977
1h 26min | Comedy | 20 July 1977 (France)

Storyline

World Wars can break out for futile causes. But, in the holiday town of Durbuy (the smallest one in Belgium), there IS a good reason for civil war, namely the business rivalry between Simone, the energetic and successful owner of the Esplanade Hotel and Germaine Radoux, the envious tenant of the French fries stand across the square. Such an unbearable situation naturally pits half of the population against the other. Things do not improve when Simone’s son and Germaine’s daughter take it into their head to fall in love!

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The Blue Lagoon 1980

The Blue Lagoon 1980

The Blue Lagoon 1980
1h 44min | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 20 June 1980 (USA)

Storyline:

On a journey to San Francisco, Richard, his father and cousin Emmeline find themselves on a ship about to explode. Rushed to a lifeboat with Paddy Button, the two children escape while their father (and uncle) are on another lifeboat. In the chaos following, the lifeboats are separated. Paddy, Richard and Emmeline find themselves with no food and no water stuck in the middle of nowhere. After some time, the three come across an uncharted paradise, where Paddy quickly teaches the children fishing, hunting and building. After maybe a month or two, Paddy gets very drunk off a barrel of rum found on the island when they first arrive, and drowns in the middle of the night. Emmeline and Richard, now alone and very scared, move location and rebuild their island home. Many years later, the two young teenagers have developed a very real home, but hormones and feelings between the two strain their friendship, until Richard, who is still very determined to reach San Francisco, is let down by Emmeline when a ship passes by the island and she does not light the signal fire. Throwing her out of the home they had built together, Emmeline attempts to survive on her own but is hurt. After Richard finds her dying, he realizes how he really feels for her and manages to save her. Nature runs its course and their friendship turns into love as the couple learn about the facts of life, when Emmeline has a baby and does not understand why.

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