Slaughterhouse-Five 1972

Slaughterhouse-Five 1972

Slaughterhouse-Five 1972

Slaughterhouse-Five 1972
1h 44m | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | Release date: March 15, 1972 (United States)

Storyline:

Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is “unstuck in time”, which means he is moving between different points in his life uncontrollably, although he is aware of it at certain of those points as witnessed by the letter to the editor he writes to the Ilium Daily News about his situation. Primarily, he is moving between three general time periods and locations. The first is his stint as a GI during WWII, when, as a pacifist, he was acting as a Chaplain’s assistant for his unit. This time is largely as a POW, where he was in Dresden the day of the bombing, spending it with among others an older compassionate GI named Edgar Derby, and a brash loudmouth GI named Paul Lazzaro. The second is his life as an optometrist in Ilium in upstate New York, eventually married to the wealthy and overbearing Valencia Merble, and having two offspring, Robert, who would spend his teen-aged years as a semi-delinquent, and Barbara, who would end up much like her mother. And the third is as an abductee on the planet Tralfamadore, along with his devoted dog Spot, and Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack – who was not averse to taking off her clothes to further her career – the Tralfamadorians who have put them on display. The more time he spends on Tralfamadore, the more he understands the meaning of what is happening to him.

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Las noches de Tefía 2023

Las noches de Tefía 2023

Las noches de Tefía 2023

Las noches de Tefía 2023
TV Series | Comedy, Drama, Music | Release date: June 25, 2023 (Spain)

Storyline:

Set inside a Francoist labor camp, follows prisoners as they escape into stories shared by a bunkmate of El Tindaya, an imagined cabaret where each one of the prisoners has an alter ego.

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Absolute Beginners (2023) S01

Absolute Beginners (2023) S01

Absolute Beginners (2023) S01

Absolute Beginners (2023) S01
48m | Drama, Romance | Release date: October 25, 2023 (Poland)

Storyline:

A teenager in the spectrum of autism, who looks at the world through a camera lens, goes to the Polish sea with her best friend to make a film about love that is to give them a place in their dream film school. A boy from a sports camp appears on the horizon, whose presence puts the friendship of two teenagers to the test.

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Feuerzeichen 1979

Feuerzeichen 1979

Feuerzeichen 1979

Feuerzeichen 1979
1h 42m | Drama | Release date: 1979 (West Germany)

Storyline:

Adrian Melik grows up as a scholarship holder in a private boarding school. On his thirteenth birthday he makes a suicide attempt: he wants to plunge from the roof of the boarding school. One of the firefighters, an American named Dave, takes care of the boy and a friendship develops over time. Adrian gets to know security, warmth, understanding and trust in Dave. At the boarding school, Adrian’s friendship with Dave is increasingly being viewed with suspicion and they eventually prohibit the boy from any further contact with the American. Adrian sees only one way to send a “sign” to his friend.

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The Trace of Your Lips 2023

The Trace of Your Lips 2023

The Trace of Your Lips 2023

The Trace of Your Lips 2023
La huella de unos labios (original title)
1h 21m | Drama | Release date: June 17, 2023 (United States)

Storyline:

Román is an actor who works in B-movies and who’s isolated in his apartment as a pandemic keeps the world on edge. Aldo, an indigenous young man, is an essential worker who’s allowed by the authorities to come and go. They live across from each other in an apartment complex. They meet online, and they can talk and even see each other in videocalls, but they can’t meet in person. Eventually, the temptation to break out of their lockdown comes up.

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Piove 2022

Piove 2022

Piove 2022

Piove 2022
1h 35m | Horror, Thriller | Release date: November 10, 2022 (Italy)

Storyline:

In the past few days Rome has been the scene of a singular event: when it rains, the manholes exhale a dense steam whose origin and composition is unknown. No one can imagine that whoever breathes in the mysterious substance will have to deal with what he/she represses, their darkest instincts, their anger. Not even the Morel family.

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Elephant 2022

Elephant 2022

Elephant 2022

Elephant 2022
Slon (original title)
1h 34m | Drama, Romance | Release date: November 18, 2022 (Poland)

Storyline:

Bartek runs a small horse farm in the mountains in Southern Poland. He has to become head of the family when his father leaves and his mother has a breakdown. One day their neighbour dies and his son Dawid comes to the village for the funeral. Bartek becomes fascinated by Dawid and his recklessness. First love will force him to decide if he’s ready to choose his freedom over family obligations.

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Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006
46-okunen no koi (original title)
1h 25m | Drama, Fantasy | Release date: August 26, 2006 (Japan)

Storyline:

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.

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Bodyshop 2022

Bodyshop 2022

Bodyshop 2022

Bodyshop 2022
1h 29m | Drama, Fantasy | Release date: April 7, 2023 (Taiwan)

Storyline:

The ghost of a young soldier, who bids farewell to his mother and travels the world to see his transgender sister. By possessing living bodies, he meddles with the romances of unfaithful lovers along the way in Taiwan, Japan, Spain and Thailand. He meets a soul mate amid the massive protests of Hong Kong and they take shelter in a disguised garage, where human bodies are treated in a way beyond moral limits.

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