Caligula 1979

Caligula 1979

Caligula 1979

Caligula 1979
Caligola (original title)
2h 36min | Drama, History | 14 August 1979 (Italy)

Storyline:

The perversion behind Imperial Rome and the epic story of its maddest emperor. All the details of Caligula’s cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: his unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome’s most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.

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Medeas 2013

Medeas 2013

Medeas 2013

Medeas 2013
1h 37min | Drama | 22 May 2015 (Mexico)

Storyline:

Medeas is a daring and lyrical exploration of alienation and desperation through the intimate observation of a family’s inner lives and their relationship to each other and their environment. Without moral judgment, it probes the boundaries of human behavior and the lengths to which people can be driven for love and self-preservation.

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Kindergarten 1989

Kindergarten 1989

Kindergarten 1989

Kindergarten 1989
1h 19min | Drama, Romance

Storyline:

Middle aged couple Graciela and Arturo operate a kindergarten in their mansion. They live with Graciela’s wheelchair bound widowed mother, Luisa. Graciela is particularly keen on one boy, Luciano, on whom she makes sexual advances. As time progresses, the relationship between Graciela and Arturo tenses. Scenes show them celebrating kids’ birthdays while having sex in hiding, practicing a ritualistic burning of a wrecked car, mistreating their comatose grandfather (victim of said car wreck) and generally torturing Luciano. The end has Luciano imprisoning and gassing Graciela and Arturo, and then escaping with Luisa on a horse-drawn carriage.

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Les exploits d’un jeune Don Juan 1987

Les exploits d’un jeune Don Juan 1987

Les exploits d’un jeune Don Juan 1987

Les exploits d’un jeune Don Juan 1987
1h 35min | Comedy | 6 January 1987 (Italy)

Storyline

Roger (Fabrice Josso) is a 16-year-old who seeks to lose his virginity in this softcore erotic drama. His initial efforts are unsuccessful, but World War I breaks out and men are seen marching off to battle. Roger goes overboard when he is presented with several amorous opportunities. He soon impregnates the maid, his aunt, and his sister in quick succession. Roger desperately tries to marry off the women to other men to avoid a lurid scandal.

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Y tu mama tambien 2001

Y tu mama tambien 2001

Y tu mama tambien 2001
Y tu mamá también (original title)
16 | 1h 46min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 8 June 2001 (Mexico)

Storyline:

In Mexico City, late teen friends Tenoch Iturbide and Julio Zapata are feeling restless as their respective girlfriends are traveling together through Europe before they all begin the next phase of their lives at college. At a lavish family wedding, Tenoch and Julio meet Luisa Cortés, the twenty-something wife of Tenoch’s cousin Jano, the two who have just moved to Mexico from Spain. Tenoch and Julio try to impress the beautiful Luisa by telling her that they will be taking a trip to the most beautiful secluded beach in Mexico called la Boca del Cielo (translated to Heaven’s Mouth), the trip and the beach which in reality don’t exist. When Luisa learns of Jano’s latest marital indiscretion straight from the horse’s mouth, she takes Tenoch and Julio’s offer to go along on this road trip, meaning that Tenoch and Julio have to pull together quickly a road trip to a non-existent beach. They decide to head toward one suggested by their friend Saba, who seems a little confused himself of this beach’s location. On the road trip, which ends up not being totally harmonious, the three go on a trip of discovery. For Luisa, she has to figure out what to do with her immediate future based on the news from Jano and a secret she is keeping. And Tenoch and Julio have to figure out what their friendship really means as they grow up.

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The Devil’s Playground 1976

The Devil's Playground 1976

The Devil’s Playground 1976

The Devil’s Playground 1976
1h 47min | Drama | 12 August 1976 (Australia)

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Fred Schepisi’s film, ‘The Devil’s Playground’ is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story of the Brothers and how they cope with the demands of their faith.

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Toilers and the Wayfarers 1995

Toilers and the Wayfarers 1995

Toilers and the Wayfarers 1995
1h 16min | Drama | 14 March 1997 (USA)

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Phillip and Dieter nearly suffocate hiding their sexual identity in the face of puritanical small town values. Joined by a mysterious German relative, the three misfits escape to the big city searching for a place to belong.

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Sicario 1995

Sicario 1995

Sicario 1995

Sicario 1995
1h 47min | Drama | 2 January 1996 (Spain)

Storyline

Jairo (Laureano Olivares) is a teenager who lives in a squalid neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, devastated by drugs and violence. Tired of these influences and the unhealthy living conditions, he starts working as a hit man for the mafia for the purpose of helping his family. Despite the profits, he wants to leave the criminal world, but his boss in the drug cartel doesn’t think the same way.

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