Aching Hearts 2009

Aching Hearts 2009

Aching Hearts 2009
Kærestesorger (original title)
1h 57min | Drama, Romance | 13 March 2009 (Denmark)

Storyline:

A bunch of 15-year-olds in Viborg make their first experiences with love, kissing and sexuality, coming together and drifting apart. The film follows the adolescents over a three-year-period, focusing on the relationship between Jonas and Agnete, which is made difficult by misconceptions, Agnete’s interest for philosophy and Jonas’s friend Toke, her father’s mental illness and Jonas’s own indecision regarding his feelings for her. The story ends when the protagonists finish school.

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Black Moon 1975

Black Moon 1975

Black Moon 1975
1h 35min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 24 September 1975 (France)

Storyline:

There is a war in the world between the men and the women. A young girl tries to escape this reality and comes to a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: Sister, Brother, many children and an old woman that never leaves her bed but stays in contact with the world through her radio. Since the content of this picture is not as important as the pictures and allegories, the simple plot can not be described further.

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Death at Oslo Central Station 1990

Death at Oslo Central Station 1990

Death at Oslo Central Station 1990
Døden på Oslo S (original title)
1h 39min | Action, Crime, Drama | 3 May 1991 (Sweden)

Storyline:

A young boy named Pelle falls in love with the drug addict Lena. Then he and his friend Proffen tries to save her from the drugs.

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The Mirror 1975

The Mirror 1975

The Mirror 1975
Zerkalo (original title)
1h 47min | Biography, Drama | 7 March 1975 (Soviet Union)

Storyline:

Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family. The story interweaves reflections about Russian history and society.

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Zlati Uhori 1979

Zlati Uhori 1979

Zlati Uhori 1979
Drama | TV Movie 1979

Storyline:

A little boy, named Prdelka, traveled with his father from Prague to the country during the Second World War. There, the boy became friends with a local fisherman and learned to catch the golden eels. Eventually, his father and mother were arrested by the Nazis and the boy stayed with the fisherman.

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Poletje v skoljki 1985

Poletje v skoljki 1985

Poletje v skoljki 1985
1h 35min | Comedy, Family | 19 March 1985 (Yugoslavia)

Storyline:

Young Tomaz has many problems. Not only is he quite lonely, but he also has to leave his hometown and move to the city with his family because of his father’s new job. In these difficult times, during the middle of summer, his only help is his computer Vedi. Even the rivalry between local children gangs from Piran and Portoroz can not solve any problems, at least not until both gangs get a common enemy – motorcyclists who steal shells.

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Judas Kiss 2011

Judas Kiss 2011

Judas Kiss 2011
1h 34min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 1 April 2011 (USA)

Storyline:

Failed filmmaker Zachary Wells is convinced by his best friend and hotshot director Topher into replacing him as a judge in their film school’s annual festival. Zach’s one-night stand with a student backfires when that student walks into an interview the next morning calling himself Danny Reyes, the name Zach went by when he attended the school. And Danny’s film, “Judas Kiss,” is a finalist in the competition Zach is judging. Zach’s film, also “Judas Kiss,” won the festival years before. As Zach scrambles for answers, a mysterious, chain-smoking campus tour guide, counsels him: “Change the kid’s past, change your future.” But how? Zach comes to believe he can mend his life by disqualifying Danny from competition, putting him on a different path than Zach followed. But will Zach’s plan work?

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Wetlands 2013

Wetlands 2013

Wetlands 2013
Feuchtgebiete (original title)
18 | 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama | 11 August 2013 (Switzerland)

Storyline:

The eccentric 18 year-old Helen narrates the story of her life, including stories about her preferred sexual practices that involve vegetables, her attitude towards hygiene, drugs, her best friend Corinna and her challenging childhood. The frame story takes place in a hospital where she is treated because of an anal fissure. During her stay she plans to reunite her divorced parents and falls in love with the male nurse Robin.

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