Clay Farmers 1988

Clay Farmers 1988

Clay Farmers 1988

Clay Farmers 1988
1h | Drama | 10 February 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

Mike, a young hired hand in California is working a small farm with a close friend, Dan. Mike is content on the farm and obviously attracted to the handsome Dan. Dan seems to be attracted to Mike as well but is a drifter and not happy as a farmer. He longs to finish out the contract and move on to a big city, perhaps with Mike. Gary, a boy from the next farm over, befriends them during their daily chores. Gary lives with his abusive father, a stepmother and a stepbrother. Gary is drawn to the camaraderie of the young farmhands in part to avoid his problems at home. When an innocent session of skinny-dipping is misconstrued by the boy’s father, the young hired hands soon find themselves unjustly suspected of wrongdoing in a suddenly hostile small town.

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Ranenyy angel 2016

Ranenyy angel 2016

Ranenyy angel 2016
1h 53min | Drama | 11 May 2016 (France)

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In Kazakhstan life is hard and childhood, as we know it, is virtually non-existent. Children and adults alike do what they can to get by. Emir Baigazin’s remarkable. virtually plot less film is divided into a number of chapters, each one examining boys struggling with the pain of the everyday and a life, if a life it is, far removed from what we in the West are used to.

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G: Lost in Frankfurt 2015

G: Lost in Frankfurt 2015

G: Lost in Frankfurt 2015
1h 28min | Drama | 11 June 2015 (Germany)

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G is a small study on the excitement a new life can bring. The film talks about the many levels of sensing and experiencing the complexity of the big city with its electronic music, clubs and the licentious sex between men under the influence of the fashionable drug G (GBL). Trying to find the very essence of life and love without ever getting enough of each, and the sneaking onset of disillusionment.

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You’ll Never Be Alone 2016

You'll Never Be Alone 2016

You’ll Never Be Alone 2016

You’ll Never Be Alone 2016
Nunca vas a estar solo (original title)
1h 21min | Action, Drama | 10 November 2016 (Chile)

Storyline:

First feature film directed by Alex Anwandter. You’ll never be alone tells the story of Juan, a withdrawn manager at a mannequin factory who after his teenage gay son suffers a violent attack, struggles between paying his son’s exorbitant medical bills and his last attempt at becoming partners with his boss. As he runs into dead-ends and unexpected betrayals, he’ll discover the world he knew was already waiting to be violent with him too.

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Le ring 2007

Le ring 2007

Le ring 2007
1h 27min | Drama | 14 October 2007 (Canada)

User review:

This movie was selected in 3 film festivals: Berlin (Germany) 2008, Pusan (South Korea) 2007 and India 2007. I believe it was the first movie that directed Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette which is only 28 years-old. It was from my point of view very well directed and I am looking forward to watch her future work. The main actor of this movie, Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay was also in his premiere, having never acted before. In short, he was OUTSTANDING. He interprets 12-year-old Jessy who has a tough childhood in Hochelaga (an underprivileged area of Montreal) growing up into a broken home. Basically, Jessy uses wrestling to escape from his chaotic family life. Although, the story isn’t about wrestling but about the courage and determination of its 12-year-old character.

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Dichter op de Zeedijk 2000

Dichter op de Zeedijk 2000

Dichter op de Zeedijk 2000
TV Movie 16 March 2000 | Drama | Romance

Storyline:

Constant Wegman (Benja Bruijning), a 14 year old boy, raised by his grandmother (Carry Tefsen) in Zeedijk, Amsterdam. She is the owner of a cafe-hotel “De Rode Laars” (“The Red Boots”). The dreaming Constant runs away from this world of drunkards, gamblers, fighters by writing poems. His grandmother wants him to take control of the cafe. Then Constant secretly subscribes to a national poem writing competition: a new Vondel is born!

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Gomen 2002

Gomen 2002

Gomen 2002
1h 43min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 12 October 2002 (Japan)

Storyline:

Sexuality blooms early when an elementary school student boy falls in love with a junior high school girl in tandem with the onset of his puberty. It is barely younger man and older woman relationship, but all concerned are proud and on a high including the students’ adoring parents.

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