Cilveka berns 1992

Cilveka berns 1992

Cilveka berns 1992

Cilveka berns 1992
1h 38m | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 17 January 1992 (Latvia)

Storyline:

A story about Pavulans family life in Latgale, traditions and values that are passed down from generation to generation. Little Bonuks from an early age learns to build relationships with family members and others, with God and nature.

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The Republic of ShKID 1966

The Republic of ShKID 1966

The Republic of ShKID 1966

The Republic of ShKID 1966
Respublika ShKID (original title)
1h 40m | Comedy, Drama, Family | 29 December 1966 (Soviet Union)

Storyline:

The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters – Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director (Yursky) is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.

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Dreaming Youth 1974

Dreaming Youth 1974

Dreaming Youth 1974

Dreaming Youth 1974
1h 14m | Drama | 26 September 1974 (Hungary)

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Infused with the atmosphere of a provincial town in Hungary in the year 1906, this film considers the ensuing conflict when changes come to that part of the world, and the tendency of the town’s established intellectuals to cling to the high culture of a bygone era. The story focuses on the experiences of a young, blond Jewish teen, growing up in a family of intellectuals. Signs of the changes to come are the arrival in town of a committed anarchist, and nearly simultaneously, the screening of the first motion pictures to be shown there.

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Nachhilfe für Vati 1984

Nachhilfe für Vati 1984

Nachhilfe für Vati 1984

Nachhilfe für Vati 1984
1h 25m | Family | 1 January 1984 (East Germany)

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Siblings Sebastian and Bettina come to their father, who is separated from the family, during the holidays. While he struggles with the unfamiliar role of a father, the children try all sorts of tricks to bring the parents back together.

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Daddy’s War 1977

Daddy's War 1977

Daddy’s War 1977

Daddy’s War 1977
La guerra de papá (original title)
1h 31m | Comedy | 19 September 1977 (Spain)

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Spain, March 1964: Quico is a very naughty child of three belonging to a wealthy middle-class family. Since Cristina’s birth, he feels he has lost the privileged position of “prince” of the house for his eight months old sister. So, with his brother Juan, who is eight years old and is quite disobedient, spend their time committing prank after prank, causing the resulting anger of his mother, the nanny and the old housemaid. The rest of the family members are two much older brothers, his resigned mother and a retrograde father of authoritarian ideas. But many years have passed, and the civil war that won the despot Don Pablo is simply for their children “Dad’s war”.

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C’est la vie 1990

C'est la vie 1990

C’est la vie 1990

C’est la vie 1990
La Baule-les-Pins (original title)
1h 50m | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 14 February 1990 (France)

Storyline:

Summer 1958. Frédérique and Sophie go on vacation as they do every year to La Baule, where they find their uncle, Léon, nice and loud mouth, their aunt Bella, pregnant, and their little cousins. Like every year? Not quite. This year, Léna, their mother, is still staying in Lyon for mysterious reasons. If Sophie’s six-year-old’s don’t pay attention any more, Frédérique’s thirteen-year-old noticed a discomfort between Mom and Dad. In fact, nothing is going well. Léna can no longer support life with Michel, her husband, and is in love with a young artist, Jean-Claude. He comes to join Léna as soon as she arrives and finds her every evening on the beach, in her tent. The smoldering crisis does not prevent children from doing stupid things (setting fire to the Mickey Club, poisoning goldfish with suppositories), nor from experiencing their first emotional emotions. One day, Michel arrives. Things are going very badly, and Frédérique is forced to intervene to separate him from his mother. Lena then announces her decision to divorce the children. Michel will try to convince her one last time, but in vain. At the end of the holidays, Léna and the two little girls do not return to Lyon.

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The Believers 1987

The Believers 1987

The Believers 1987

The Believers 1987
1h 54m | Crime, Drama, Horror | 10 June 1987 (USA)

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After the death of his wife, police psychiatrist Cal Jamison moves to New York. There he has to help in the investigation of the murder of two youths, who seem to have been immolated during a cult ritual. Jamison believes it’s been Voodoo and, ignoring the warnings of his housekeeper, enters the scenery and soon gets under their influence. They try to get him to sacrifice his own son.

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