Verschwinde von hier 1999

Verschwinde von hier 1999

Verschwinde von hier 1999

Verschwinde von hier 1999
1h 30m | Drama | Release date: September 4, 2005 (Hungary)

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“Someday I’ll get you out of here,” promises 16-year-old Janna (Gruschenka Stevens) and leaves her newborn with her mother. Little Lukas lives in her musty pet shop for five years. At least he learns over time to imitate all the bird calls. When Janna finally takes him in, it is mainly her friend Janosch (Martin Feifel) who looks after Lukas. Although the freaky guy smokes pot and gambles away the household money, he lets Lukas feel genuine affection and gives him new courage to face life. When his idolised surrogate father ends up in jail, Lukas’ little world comes crashing down…Over a period of eight years, director Franziska Buch follows the fate of the boy. Her heartfelt drama about an unusual father-son relationship with a great cast won the Max Ophüls Prize in 2000.

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The Nanny 1965

The Nanny 1965

The Nanny 1965

The Nanny 1965
1h 31m | Mystery, Thriller | Release date: January 20, 1966 (Italy)

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Bette Davis is an English nanny whose charge is a rude 10-year-old Joey, just discharged from a disturbed children’s home where he’d spent two years undergoing treatment for drowning his little sister in the bath. He returns to an unloving father, fragile mother, and doting nanny — whom he hates. Suspicion arises again when his mother is poisoned, and Joey continues to insist Nanny is responsible. Joey contends the nanny was responsible for his little sister’s death, and only the upstairs neighbour girl believes him.

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Capra cu trei iezi 2022

Capra cu trei iezi 2022

Capra cu trei iezi 2022

Capra cu trei iezi 2022
1h 23m | Horror, Thriller | Release date: 2022 (Romania)

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Secluded from the world, in XIX century rural Romania, a widow and mother of three must defend what’s left of her family, at all costs, from an old family friend turned foe. Based on one of the best-known Romanian folk tales (The Goat and Her Three Kids by Ion Creanga), this film aims to unveil the true nature of the famed bedtime story and to treat the audience to a different perspective, one that offers a glimpse of what the tragedy looks like beyond the happy songs and affable characters.

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Prayer of the Rollerboys 1990

Prayer of the Rollerboys 1990

Prayer of the Rollerboys 1990

Prayer of the Rollerboys 1990
1h 35m | Action, Crime, Drama | Release date: March 21, 1991 (Germany)

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Set in an unspecified time in the future, USA has declined and become a country of violence and racial prejudice. Griffin earns his living delivering pizzas while he tries to take care of his little brother. An old friend of his, Gary Lee, is the leader of a gang with big ambitions, the Rollerboys. Griff joins them to help the police keep track of the gang.

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Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia 1984

Los abandonados - Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia 1984

Los abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia 1984

Los Abandonados – Die Niemandskinder von Camanducaia 1984
1h 29m | Drama | West Germany/Mexico 1985

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Semi-documentary film about one of those “no man’s children”, the “Abandonados”, whose fate became known in the mid 70s. The orphaned or abandoned children and young people had been deported under inhumane circumstances to a neighboring province by the Brazilian judicial authorities to relieve the overcrowded prisons, where they were abandoned without food or clothing. The specific case described should not be construed as an indictment of an event or a country, but rather as a reminder to work for the welfare of the children of our time.

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Mondocane 2021

Mondocane 2021

Mondocane 2021

Mondocane 2021
1h 56m | Action, Sci-fi | Release date: September 3, 2021 (Italy)

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In the near future, Taranto is a ghost town surrounded by barbed wire that no one, not even the police, dares to enter. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while a gangs are competing for territory. Two thirteen-year-old orphans, who grew up together, dream of joining one of the gangs.

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Secret Lives of Housewives 2022

Secret Lives of Housewives 2022

Secret Lives of Housewives 2022

Secret Lives of Housewives 2022
1h 26m | Drama | Release date: May 8, 2022 (United States)

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Follows Kendra who is close to have an affair with a younger man, when her young almost-lover dies she begins to doubt that her husband had anything to do with Eric’s death, but it turns out she wasn’t the young man’s only lover.

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Bruno Reidal 2021

Bruno Reidal 2021

Bruno Reidal 2021

Bruno Reidal 2021
1h 41m | Biography, Crime, Drama | Release date: March 23, 2022 (France)

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In 1905, French seminarian Bruno Reidel is found guilty of murdering a child. At the request of the doctors observing him, he writes his memoirs to explain his action.

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