Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998

Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998

Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998

Lovers of the Arctic Circle 1998
Los amantes del Círculo Polar (original title)
R | 1h 52min | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 28 August 1998 (Spain)

Storyline:

Otto and Ana are kids when they meet each other. Their names are palindromes. They meet by chance, people are related by chance. A story of circular lives, with circular names, and a circular place (Círculo polar) where the day never ends in the midnight sun. There are things that never end, and Love is one of them.

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Prospero’s Books 1991

Prospero's Books 1991

Prospero’s Books 1991

Prospero’s Books 1991
R | 2h 4min | Drama, Fantasy | 30 August 1991 (UK)

Storyline:

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the ‘The Tempest’.

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Tikkun 2015

Tikkun 2015

Tikkun 2015

Tikkun 2015
Unrated | 1h 59min | Drama, Mystery | 12 January 2017 (Israel)

Storyline:

Haim-Aaron is an ultra-Orthodox religious scholar from Jerusalem whose talent and devotion are envied by all. One evening, following a self-imposed fast, he collapses and loses consciousness in the bathroom. The paramedics announce his death, but his father, refusing to let him go, takes over resuscitation efforts and, beyond all expectations, he comes back to life. After the accident, the scholar remains apathetic to his studies. He suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him. When his father notices these changes in his son’s behavior, he tries to forgive him, tormented by the fear that he has crossed God’s will when he resuscitated him.

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The Northerners 1992

The Northerners 1992

The Northerners 1992

The Northerners 1992
De noorderlingen (original title)
1h 48min | Comedy, Drama | 17 April 1992 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960’s housing development. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas, a young boy, becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news. The liberation of the Belgian Congo is taking place and Thomas becomes Lumumba, one of the contenders as the Congo’s new leader. He is encouraged in this escapism by Plagge, the postman who reads all the mail and knows all of the bizzarre and intimate secrets of the eccentric inhabitants of the estate.

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Dance with the Devil 1997

Dance with the Devil 1997

Dance with the Devil 1997

Dance with the Devil 1997
Perdita Durango (original title)
R | 2h 9min | Action, Crime, Horror | 31 October 1997 (Spain)

Storyline:

Rough girl Perdita and her demonic lover Romeo Dolorosa need humans to sacrifice following Romeo’s religion before he can go on a mission ordered by mob boss Santos. They kidnap teen sweethearts Duane and Estelle and travel with them to Las-Vegas.

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Mammal 2016

Mammal 2016

Mammal 2016

Mammal 2016
Unrated | 1h 36min | Drama, Romance | 1 April 2016 (Ireland)

Storyline:

The compelling story of a woman who has lost her son and develops an unorthodox relationship with a homeless youth that she seems to fall in love with but doesn’t realize it cause she Is stuck in the past with a older man. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband’s grieving rage.

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Amateur Teens 2015

Amateur Teens 2015

Amateur Teens 2015

Amateur Teens 2015
1h 32min | Drama | 30 September 2015 (Switzerland)

Storyline:

A group of normal 14-year-old teenagers at a secondary school in Zürich with the normal yearnings for love and acceptance. But the power of social media, with its high-gloss selfies and perpetual pressure towards cooler and sexier, increasingly forces the kids to deny their true feelings. So a tragedy runs its course, one in which it is almost impossible to differentiate between perpetrator and victim, guilt and innocence.

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Drive Me Home 2018

Drive Me Home 2018

Drive Me Home 2018

Drive Me Home 2018
1h 34min | Drama | 26 September 2019 (Italy)

Storyline:

Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations bring them through Europe on a truck journey.

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