My Brothers 2010

My Brothers 2010

My Brothers 2010

My Brothers 2010
1h 27min | Drama | 17 August 2012 (Ireland)

Storyline:

Set over Halloween weekend of 1987, My Brothers is the story of three young brothers’ epic quest to replace their dying father’s watch. Noel, 17, serious, weighed down by responsibility; Paudie: 11, cocky, not so bright and dreams of playing in goals for Liverpool and Scwally: 7, naive and obsessed with Star Wars (despite never actually having seen the films). Using a battered bread van, the brothers embark on a journey across the wild Irish landscape on the Halloween weekend, grinding gears and screaming at each other to get to an arcade machine in Ballybunion. Along the way they are detoured by escalating brotherly battles in an off-beat and moving journey that can only lead them home.

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The Wait 2013

The Wait 2013

The Wait 2013

The Wait 2013
R | 1h 36min | Drama, Thriller | 10 March 2013 (USA)

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An enigmatic phone call from a psychic, catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected. One sister believes the claim, and the other staunchly opposes it until she encounters a chance at love, giving her hope that anything, even resurrection, is possible. A discordant struggle between sisters plays out in a world where the virtual and real often converge.

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Mother 2019

Mother 2019

Mother 2019

Mother 2019
Madre (original title)
2h 8min | Drama, Thriller | 30 October 2020 (USA)

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Elena receives a call from her six-year-old son, who tells her that he is lost on a beach in France and that he does not find his father. These desperate words of his son were the last that she learned about him. In the end, she finds herself on the same beach where her son disappeared, works as a manager in a restaurant and begins to leave this dark tunnel, where she has been anchored for so long. After ten years her life shakes again when she accidentally meets Gene, a French teenager resembling her son. A strong bond arises between them, which ultimately wreaks havoc and mistrust around them.

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It Doesn’t Hurt Me 2006

It Doesn't Hurt Me 2006

It Doesn’t Hurt Me 2006

It Doesn’t Hurt Me 2006
Mne ne bolno (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 40min | Drama, Romance | 15 June 2006 (Russia)

Storyline:

Three young friends have all they need for a sterling life besides money. The pursuit of them leads guys to Natella Antonovna. She’ll show them luxury life. Unless, one surprise is going to turn up…

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Swan Lake: The Zone (1990)

Swan Lake: The Zone (1990)

Swan Lake: The Zone (1990)

Swan Lake: The Zone (1990)
Lebedyne ozero. Zona (original title)
1h 36min | Drama | 1990 (Soviet Union)

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This film tells what it was like to live in the USSR with brutal reality. A convict is forced to hide within a model of a hammer and sickle. Here a tragic romance ensues between the convict and woman worker.

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The Paradise Suite 2015

The Paradise Suite 2015

The Paradise Suite 2015

The Paradise Suite 2015
2h 3min | Drama | 29 October 2015 (Netherlands)

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The Paradise Suite is a story about six people finding each other and, sometimes with just one glance, influencing each other’s lives irreversibly. For the beautiful young Bulgarian Jenya, her journey to Amsterdam turns out to be the opposite of what she hoped for. Her grueling captivity forces the angelic African, Yaya, to fight for her freedom – a dangerous fight in which he loses everything but his beloved faith. The Serbian war criminal Ivica, who has just become a father, is painfully confronted with the fact that crimes will never go unpunished. Bosnian Seka has nothing left to live for except her vengeance but as it turns out, it’s that same vengeance that brings love back in her life. And when the Swedish piano-wonder boy, Lukas, runs away from his new temporary home, his father Stig finally realizes that their mutual passion for music damages their relationship.

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Frisk 1995

Frisk 1995

Frisk 1995

Frisk 1995
Unrated | 1h 28min | Drama, Thriller | 22 March 1996 (USA)

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A first person narrative of the exploits of a gay serial killer in deeply disturbing, controversial drama about violence, sexuality, and the imagination. Dennis, the main character, whose lead we follow on this path between what is real and what we can only hope is surreal. His friends attempt to determine if he’s truly a psychopath. The story, is told in the form of a succession of ritual-like murders, comes to life through the letters he writes to his sometime lover and best friend Julian and the object of his desire, Julian’s younger brother, Kevin. The film is set in an erotic world of sado-masochism and portrays the sexual appetites of a young man for whom killing and engorging the victim become the ultimate thrill.

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Your Name Engraved Herein 2020

Your Name Engraved Herein 2020

Your Name Engraved Herein 2020

Your Name Engraved Herein 2020
The Name Engraved in Your Heart (original title)
1h 58min | Romance | 23 December 2020 (USA)

Storyline:

In 1988, martial law ends in Taiwan and two schoolboys, A-han and Birdy, are about to enter into an illicit love affair after meeting in the school band led by a Canadian priest named Oliver. While the whole country commemorates the late president, the two boys bask in each other’s presence as A-han’s affection for Birdy is awakened. However, society is homophobic and the threat of violence and social shaming enacted by adults and their fellow teens causes the two to come into conflict as they edge closer to physically enacting on their passions for each other. Birdy pushes A-han away by pretending to fall in love with a girl and this misunderstanding separates them. In desperation, A-han confessed to Father Oliver about his sexuality, only to be cut off again but love knows no bounds and the boys are meant to be together – Inspired by real events, the film is emblematic of the changes in Taiwan which became the first country in Asia to legalise gay marriage.

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Boot Camp 2008

Boot Camp 2008

Boot Camp 2008

Boot Camp 2008
Not Rated | 1h 39min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8 May 2008 (Kuwait)
Storyline:

When provocatively impish drug addict Sophie is forcibly shipped off by her passive mother and brutally domineering stepfather to dodgy, messianic and platitude-spouting Dr. Arthur Hail’s completely isolated Fiji island boot camp for wayward teens (a.k.a. Camp Serenity), her perfectly respectable boyfriend Ben refuses to stand passively by. He fakes a drug problem to get himself enrolled in Dr. Hail’s Advanced Serenity Achievement Program, where he plans to find and escape with Sophie. Meanwhile both teens witness and endure the physically harsh and psychologically brutal conditions fostered by the doctor and enforced by Logan, his militaristic and imposing chief of security – where all “enrollees” have “less rights than prisoners on death row.

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