The King of Havanna 2015

The King of Havanna 2015

The King of Havanna 2015
El rey de La Habana (original title)
2h 5min | Drama | 16 October 2015 (Spain)

Storyline:

Recently escaped from reformatory, young Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, until he meets Magda and Yunisleidy, survivors like himself. In one or the other’s arms, he will try to escape the material and moral misery surrounding him, living love, passion, tenderness and uninhibited sex to the limit.

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Brombeerchen 2002

Brombeerchen 2002

Brombeerchen 2002
1h 31min | Drama | 25 January 2002 (Germany)

Critic:

André alias Blackberry and Lilian want to keep any kind of bitterness out of their lives. The pretty German couple at the beginning of the twentieth is then in any case still on the road to Spain and is hoping to experience the great adventure and above all “what is real”. “Blackberry” takes a lot of imagination with a generic specific subject, which is best captured by Felix von Muralt’s mischievous images. Nevertheless, the impression remains that this story lacks something fundamental. Or maybe you are not afraid to turn emptiness into the central theme. (google translated)

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Moritz lieber Moritz 1978

Moritz lieber Moritz 1978

Moritz lieber Moritz 1978
1h 36min | Drama | 15 September 1978 (Finland)

Storyline:

Moritz is fifteen years old and in the middle of puberty. His parents are in an economic crisis. Although the family still lives in a huge villa in Hamburg, it is only a matter of time to leave there. His grandmother was once a central person in his life, but she was deported to a retirement home by her parents. He remains alone and seeks contact.

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Sideline Secrets 2008

Sideline Secrets 2008

Sideline Secrets 2008
1h 36min | Mystery, Drama, Romance | Video 9 August 2006

Storyline

“Sideline Secrets” follows the story of high-school senior Devon Tyler. With successful parents, a popular girlfriend, plenty of friends, and being at the top of his class and about to graduate, all seems ideal. However underneath the surface, things are not what they seem. With the heightened awareness of his sexual identity, the crumbling marriage of his gruff, unsupportive father and alcoholic mother, and the overbearing persona of his girlfriend, things couldn’t get more difficult…or so he thinks. That is until a new boy enters his life and proves to be the missing key that brings everything together. But it also threatens everything he currently has.

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L’enfant du pays 2003

L'enfant du pays 2003

L’enfant du pays 2003
1h 50min | Comedy | 20 August 2003 (France)

Storyline:

This is the story of a childhood and an adolescence which are expressed through a hundred small sequences passing in the forties, fifties and sixties in a modest family of the Pas-de-Calais.
Paul, the main character to be found in five, thirteen and eighteen years, is the thread of this story broke that works in the disorder of memory.

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Irreversible 2002

Irreversible 2002

Irreversible 2002
Irréversible (original title)
18 | 1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 22 May 2002 (France)

Storyline

Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything.

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The Kindergarten Teacher 2014

The Kindergarten Teacher 2014

The Kindergarten Teacher 2014
Haganenet (original title)
1h 59min | Drama | 10 September 2014 (France)

Storyline

A kindergarten teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.

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Darker Secrets Sideline Secrets II 2008

Darker Secrets Sideline Secrets II 2008

Darker Secrets Sideline Secrets II 2008
1h 10min | Drama | Video 26 February 2008

Storyline:

Peter, a young traffic cop, is asked to look through hours of sex tapes the late psychiatrist Dr Tyler and his associate Detective Cunningham made of his unwilling male patients. Having both been killed in the first film they have left behind unanswered questions about one particular missing boy. During his search for the boy, Peter finds himself both repulsed and intrigued in the sexual perversion of Dr Tyler’s videos. After watching tape after tape Peter soon succumbs to his own dark and seedy side and hatches his own twisted plot . Peter is infatuated with his straight roommate TODD and with the secrets learned from the good doctor he plans on luring Todd into his bed. But sex with Todd is only the beginning…

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