Los reyes del mundo 2022

Los reyes del mundo 2022

Los reyes del mundo 2022

Los reyes del mundo 2022
1h 43m | Adventure, Drama | 6 October 2022 (Colombia)

Storyline:

Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano live on the streets of Medellín. The five children no longer have any contact with their families. They form a kind of fraternal clan in which they have to make their way in a parallel world without laws. In doing so, they uphold ideals such as friendship and dignity, but also display disobedience and resistance. In a dangerous journey between delirium and nothingness, the group leaves the city and enters the depths of the Colombian interior. There they hope to find a piece of land that Rá inherited from her late grandmother. Like thousands of other Colombians, she was once violently expelled by paramilitaries. After his death, Rá received the “promised land” through a government restitution program. The boys make friends that help them advance but also warn them of the dangers of their company. They also meet sex workers who provide them with short-term maternity care.

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Adventures in Appletown 2008

Adventures in Appletown 2008

Adventures in Appletown 2008

Adventures in Appletown 2008
1h 33m | Adventure, Comedy, Crime | 19 March 2013 (USA)

Storyline:

Will and Clayton witness a murder, but out of fear decide not to tell anyone. They and their friend Betsy, whose father has been wrongfully accused of the crime, go on a journey to find the real killer, and at the same time redeem themselves.

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Beautiful Beings 2022

Beautiful Beings 2022

Beautiful Beings 2022

Beautiful Beings 2022
Berdreymi (original title)
2h 3m | Drama | 22 April 2022 (Iceland)

Storyline:

Fourteen-year-old Balli is something of a misfit. He lives with his drug-addicted mother in a squalid house and is bullied by his classmates. A stepfather who “thought the gun wasn’t loaded” has left him with a glass eye. But then Balli meets three boys of his own age – Addi, Konni and Siggi – and a friendship gently develops. For the first time in his life, Balli finds that he is able to connect, especially with Addi, whose mother believes in “the subconscious”. Addi is fighting his own demons and, when his visions appear to indicate that Balli’s brutal stepfather can no longer be tolerated, the boys decide to act. Icelandic director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson finds poetic images for a world marked by violence and aggression in his coming-of-age drama. In it, he depicts a group of youths who are in danger of foundering on the gender-normative behavioural code of their peer group. Desperately they cling to each other – with a grip that is painful and tender in equal measure.

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Mother 2020

Mother 2020

Mother 2020

Mother 2020
Mother: Mazâ (original title)
2h 6m | Drama, Thriller | 3 July 2020 (Japan)

Storyline:

Akiko (Masami Nagasawa) is a single mother and her son is Shuhei (Sho Gunji). Akiko casually has sex with other men, including Ryo (Sadao Abe). Akiko is the only person whom Shuhei can rely on. One day, Shuhei makes a shocking decision.

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Volando voy 2006

Volando voy 2006

Volando voy 2006

Volando voy 2006
1h 55m | Action, Drama | 13 January 2006 (Spain)

Storyline:

Biopic of Spain’s Juan Carlos Delgado “El Pera”, a young delinquent in the 1980s, who is now a car driver and a sport journalist.

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Bingwit 2022

Bingwit 2022

Bingwit 2022

Bingwit 2022
1h 35m | Drama | 8 August 2022 (Philippines)

Storyline:

Salem is an ambitious woman who uses her body to attract three men – her politician husband Domingo, the hunk servant Medel/Arnel, and her boy toy Aldon – until Medel/Arnel and Aldon fall in love with each other!

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King of Thieves 2003

King of Thieves 2003

King of Thieves 2003

King of Thieves 2003
König der Diebe (original title)
1h 41m | Drama | 2003 (Austria)

Storyline:

Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, 10-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West. Caruso smuggles them to Berlin and separates them from each other; he sells Mimma into prostitution, while Marcel, an older Albanian boy, teaches Barbu how to snatch purses. When Barbu discovers what happened to Mimma, he decides to free her from the brothel.

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The Lion Child 1993

The Lion Child 1993

The Lion Child 1993

The Lion Child 1993
L’enfant lion (original title)
1h 26m | Family | 16 June 1993 (France)

Storyline:

Set in the past, follows young African boy who uses his friends, the wild animals, to defend his village from Arab slave traders.

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