Sparta 2022

Sparta 2022

Sparta 2022

Sparta 2022
1h 41m | Drama | Release date: May 5, 2023 (Austria)

Storyline:

Sparta is a 2022 drama film directed by Ulrich Seidl. It depicts an Austrian man named Ewald who is a non-offending pedophile and teaches judo to boys in Romania. The film is the second in a diptych; the other film, Rimini, centres on Ewald’s brother.

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The Doom Generation 1995

The Doom Generation 1995

The Doom Generation 1995

The Doom Generation 1995
1h 23m | Comedy, Crime, Drama | Release date: United States, October 27, 1995

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Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex-and-violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickie marts.

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Lie with Me 2022

Lie with Me 2022

Lie with Me 2022

Lie with Me 2022
Arrête avec tes mensonges (original title)
1h 38m | Drama | Release date: February 22, 2023 (France)

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Upon agreeing to be the brand ambassador for a famous cognac celebrating their bicentennial, novelist Stéphane Belcourt returns to his hometown for the first time in many years. Once there, he meets his first love’s son, Lucas. Memories come rushing back to him: irrepressible attraction, bodies becoming one in the heat of desire, a passion that can never be revealed… His first love’s name was Thomas. They were 17.

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Romeo and Juliet 1968

Romeo and Juliet 1968

Romeo and Juliet 1968

Romeo and Juliet 1968
2h 18m | Drama, Romance | Release date: United Kingdom, March 5, 1968

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A venomous blood feud divides the powerful clans of the Montagues and the Capulets in the medieval city of Verona, unfolding William Shakespeare’s eternal story of teenage love. And as youth’s insolence arms charming young Romeo Montague with dauntless courage to come uninvited to the Capulets’ scintillating masked ball, a brief but thrilling encounter with delicate dark-haired Juliet Capulet paves the way for ardent passions and cruel romantic tragedy. Once, the star-crossed lovers exchanged vows of everlasting devotion despite their perilous plight. But now, before the grim machinations of fate, man stands powerless. Are Romeo and Juliet destined to be together?

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Der Passfälscher 2022

Der Passfälscher 2022

Der Passfälscher 2022

Der Passfälscher 2022
1h 56m | Biography, Drama | Release date: October 13, 2022 (Germany)

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21-year-old Cioma Schönhaus won’t let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. He wants to discover life, but has the misfortune of living as a Jewish person in Berlin in the 1940s. Since the best hiding spots are in plain sight, Cioma decides to go out into the light to escape deportation. Using the identity of a marine officer he created for himself, he throws himself into the city’s nightlife and even finds a fragile hope for love during the darkest moments of the war. Throughout the day he forges IDs with just a brush, some ink and a steady hand – and saves the lives of many others. His talent puts him in more and more danger, though, and at some point Cioma’s only hope to survive is a last forged ID – with his own name on it.

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Beauty and the Beast 2021

Beauty and the Beast 2021

Beauty and the Beast 2021

Beauty and the Beast 2021
La belle et la bête (original title)
13m | Short, Drama, Fantasy | Release date: December 2021 (France)

Storyline:

Our program for the evening has been composed by and for grown-ups, who haven’t lost their child soul. Eternal history, the tale of Belle-Rose. As known as Beauty and the beast. Warning, some images are likely to offend homophobic sensitivity.

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A Matter of Trust 2022

A Matter of Trust 2022

A Matter of Trust 2022

A Matter of Trust 2022
Ingen kender dagen (original title)
1h 45m | Drama | Release date: October 27, 2022 (Denmark)

Storyline:

On a perfectly ordinary late summer day, the lives of five unrelated people are turned upside down. A husband, a doctor, a wife, a student, and a young daughter are unsuspectingly put on a collision course with each their own fateful crossroads. In search of love, identity, and moral gauge they all risk the most precious aspect of life: Trust. But trust is vulnerable, and the consequences will be irreversible, forbidden and embarrassingly amusing.

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Le lycéen 2022

Le lycéen 2022

Le lycéen 2022

Le lycéen 2022
2h 2m | Drama | Release date: November 30, 2022 (France)

Storyline:

Set over the course of one winter, it revolves around a 17-year-old high school student struggling to get to grips with new challenges posed by death, life, the city and “the temptation of renouncement”. In a bid to regain his momentum, he decides to ditch the lies he has been feeding himself.

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