Scum 1979 (TV version)

Scum 1979 (TV version)

Scum 1979 (TV version)

Scum 1979 (TV version)
1h 18m | Crime, Drama | 12 September 1979 (UK)

Storyline:

This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the ‘tough’ new inmate and the ‘old hands’.

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Dedalus 2018

Dedalus 2018

Dedalus 2018

Dedalus 2018
1h 32m | Drama | 20 October 2020 (USA)

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DEDALUS is a fiction triptych portraying community, love, and loss. In rural Iowa, a grocery cashier watches helplessly as classmates conceal their act of sexual violence against his teenaged step-sister. Will she keep the child? A hustler tricks for food, shelter, and intimacy during a winter in New York City. A young woman takes him in, but nothing satiates his unrequited love for an older gay client. Mortality compels a father to leave his home in Los Angeles and move in with his daughter. Jonah Greenstein’s gorgeously shot feature debut laces loneliness with beauty to create a film of startling cinematic intimacy.

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Feathers in My Head 2003

Feathers in My Head 2003

Feathers in My Head 2003

Feathers in My Head 2003
Des plumes dans la tête (original title)
1h 46m | Drama, Mystery | 25 February 2004 (France)

Storyline:

This is the story about a family who looses their child. This is something very hard, but the mother (Blanche) won’t realize this. She lives in her own world and she still plays with her son. At the time Blanche plays with her son, she’s been watched by a boy names François. They become very close.

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Hell Is a Place on Earth 2022

Hell Is a Place on Earth 2022

Hell Is a Place on Earth 2022

Hell Is a Place on Earth 2022
10m | Short, Drama, Horror | 10 July 2022 (Brazil)

Storyline:

A guy starts to face his demons when the world goes into quarantine and he finds himself completely alone and stuck at home. What he will face will drastically change his life and reveal dark secrets. Based on Fernando Pessoa’s “The Tobacco Shop”.

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Hors-la-loi 1985

Hors-la-loi 1985

Hors-la-loi 1985

Hors-la-loi 1985
1h 47m | Action, Drama | 3 April 1985 (France)

Storyline:

A handful of teenagers, boys and girls, escape from a reform school and go round town. They go to a ball, the owner asks them to pay the bill. This man is very unpleasant, he hates the youth of today and he is a racist. The incident turns into free -for-all, then into a massacre. The runaways become chased criminals. One of the boys want to take his mates to a deserted village where they would find a refuge. Policemen and farmers are hot on their heels.

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Summerland 2020

Summerland 2020

Summerland 2020

Summerland 2020
1h 20m | Comedy, Drama | 14 September 2020 (USA)

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Surviving graduation is just the first challenge for Bray, Oliver, and Stacey, three friends determined to make it to the Summerland music festival, no matter what it takes. Embarking on a road-trip in high-spirits, there’s more than just music waiting for them at the end of the rainbow. Bray has plans to meet Shawn, a boy he met on an online dating site he’s convinced is questioning his sexuality. The problem? He’s been pretending to be Stacey, Oliver’s girlfriend, to get close to him.

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The Devil, Probably 1977

The Devil, Probably 1977

The Devil, Probably 1977

The Devil, Probably 1977
Le diable probablement (original title)
1h 35m | Drama | 15 June 1977 (France)

Storyline:

Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the only option…

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A Girl on the Shore 2021

A Girl on the Shore 2021

A Girl on the Shore 2021

A Girl on the Shore 2021
1h 47m | Drama, Romance | 20 August 2021 (Japan)

Storyline:

In a seaside town where very little happens, middle school students Keisuke Isobe and Koume Satou live a rather dull life. But when Koume’s crush breaks her heart, their situation becomes quite unordinary. She starts a “no-strings-attached” relationship with Keisuke, whom she had previously rejected, both finding solace in the other in order to fill the emotional voids in their lives. However, being “friends with benefits” becomes complicated when real feelings begin to develop, as the consequences of their relationship start to take their toll on those around them and themselves. Umibe no Onnanoko takes a harsh look at love, relationships, and the emotional price that will be paid as the result of a decision made between two teenagers.

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