Child Bride 1938

Child Bride 1938

Child Bride 1938

Child Bride 1938
1h 2min | Drama | 2 March 1938 (USA)

Storyline:

12-year-old Jennie lives with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher Miss Carol, a mountain girl herself, went off to get educated and has returned hoping to stop the tradition of child marriage which permeates the culture. Jennie’s father Ira is a good man who tries to protect Miss Carol from the men who warn her to call off her crusade. One of those threatening men, Jake Bolby, has his eye on young Jennie and plots to make her his bride.

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The Stepmother 1972

The Stepmother 1972

The Stepmother 1972

The Stepmother 1972
R | 1h 34min | Drama | 22 March 1972 (USA)

Storyline:

Returning home late one night from a business trip to Mexico, architect Frank Delgado finds the car of wealthy client Alan Richmond in his driveway. Suspecting that his wife Margo and Richmond are having an affair, Frank attacks Richmond when he steps outside and strangles him to death. Although stunned by his action, Frank drives Richmond’s body to the beach and, using a spade he brought from his home, buries the body in the sand. As he finishes the burial, Frank overhears a nearby, young, Latin couple’s argument escalate into a fight, but drives away without being seen. The next morning as the police receive a report of the discovery of two bodies at the beach, Frank and Margo are awakened by the arrival of Frank’s business partner Dick Hill, his wife Sonya and their friends, pornographic film director Goof and his wife Rita. Although reluctant, the tense Frank agrees to accompany the others to the beach house belonging to Richmond, for whom he and Dick are building another property.

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Tough Love 2015

Tough Love 2015

Tough Love 2015

Tough Love 2015
Härte (original title)
1h 29min | Biography, Drama | 23 April 2015 (Germany)

Storyline:

A karate expert recounts his early life, his turbulent childhood, rife with sexual abuse and a career as a pimp. Andreas “Karate Andy” Marquardt’s subsequent rehabilitation treatment, enables him to start life again with the one girl who suffered his worst abuse. He runs a karate school today for children to prove that its possible to turn over a new leaf.

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Georgica 1998

Georgica 1998

Georgica 1998

Georgica 1998
1h 49min | Drama | 14 October 1998 (Estonia)

Storyline:

Quiet Tarkovskian drama about an old man who lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. A young mute boy is sent from the mainland to keep him company. Both are haunted by memories, the boy about his mother and the old man about his younger days as a missionary in Africa.

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Satan’s Children 1975

Satan's Children 1975

Satan’s Children 1975

Satan’s Children 1975
Not Rated | 1h 27min | Horror | 1 June 1975 (USA)

Storyline:

Runaway teen Bobby is given shelter by a cult of Satanists, but his presence and questionable sexuality leads to conflicts within Satan’s Children.

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Boy’s Choir 2000

Boy's Choir 2000

Boy’s Choir 2000

Boy’s Choir 2000
Dokuritsu shônen gasshô-dan (original title)
2h 9min | Drama, Music | 10 February 2000 (Germany)

Storyline:

The lives of two orphan boys begin to intertwine when the choir and the feelings they share bring them closer to one another.

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His Mother’s Eyes 2011

His Mother's Eyes 2011

His Mother’s Eyes 2011

His Mother’s Eyes 2011
Les yeux de sa mère (original title)
1h 45min | Drama | 23 March 2011 (France)

Storyline:

Torn apart by ambition? An investigative writer’s next target is a famed anchorwoman, whose daughter travels from Spain after attending the daughter’s father’s funeral. A boxer is training for a fight under the watchful eyes of his parents.

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