Follow You Follow Me 1979

Follow You Follow Me 1979

Follow You Follow Me 1979

Follow You Follow Me 1979
35min | Drama, Short | October 1979 (USA)

Storyline:

The film explores the development in the friendship of two teenage boys. Joseph who is introspective and shy and Peter, more confident and whose father is an employee at the factory owned by Joseph’s father. A dispute at the factory affects the relationship and reveals their feelings.

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The German Lesson 2019

The German Lesson 2019

The German Lesson 2019

The German Lesson 2019
Deutschstunde (original title)
2h 10min | Drama | 3 October 2019 (Germany)

Storyline:

Siggi Jepsen is in Germany after the war in an institution for difficult to educate young people. He is to write an essay on the subject “The pleasures of duty”, but has no idea. Only when he is locked in a cell the next day, the memories of his childhood during the Second World War break out of him: His father Jens Ole Jepsen, a police officer, was then commissioned to bring the friendly expressionist painter Ludwig Nansen a professional ban , At Nansen’s surveillance, Siggi was supposed to help him at the time, but eventually he rebelled against his father, sided with the recalcitrant Nansen and hid some of the forbidden pictures, eventually leading to his stay in the asylum.

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Mino 1986

Mino 1986

Mino 1986

Mino 1986
5h 44min | Drama, War | TV Mini-Series (1986– )

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1914 : Giacomino “Mino ” Rasi is the ten -year – old son of a Milan university mathematics professor . His family is friends with the aristocratic Austrian consul Karl Stolz and his much younger wife Freda . In August 1914 the Rasi family travels to Austria to visit the Stolz family . World War I has already broken out, but the spirit is upbeat and both families spend a happy time . That Italy , a member of the Triple Alliance , has remained neutral at the outbreak of the war causes a slight alteration between Karl and Minos father .

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Liberté 2019

Liberté 2019

Liberté 2019

Liberté 2019
2h 12min | Drama, History | 4 September 2019 (France)

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1774, a few years before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin… Madame de Dumeval, the Duke of Tesis and the Duke of Wand, libertines expelled from the Puritan court of Louis XVI, sought the support of the legendary Duke of Walchen, a seducer and free thinker from Germany, alone in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reigned. Their mission: to export libertinage to Germany, a philosophy of enlightenment based on the rejection of morality and authority but also, and above all, to find a safe place to continue their misguided games.

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Children of Darkness 2008

Children of Darkness 2008

Children of Darkness 2008

Children of Darkness 2008
Yami no kodomo-tachi (original title)
2h 18min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 2 August 2008 (Japan)

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A Middle-aged Japanese ex-pat journalist investigates child organ trafficking in Thailand and he uncovers a sinister network.

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Sound and Fury 1988

Sound and Fury 1988

Sound and Fury 1988

Sound and Fury 1988
De bruit et de fureur (original title)
1h 35min | Drama | 1 June 1988 (France)

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This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who’s from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he’s doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno’s interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.

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I Love You, I Don’t 1976

I Love You, I Don't 1976

I Love You, I Don’t 1976

I Love You, I Don’t 1976
Je t’aime moi non plus (original title)
R | 1h 29min | Drama | 10 March 1976 (France)

Storyline:

The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she’s lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he’s gay. Maybe because of her boyish looks, Krassky likes her too. Both don’t notice the growing jealousy of Krassky’s boyfriend Padovan – until an escalation.

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Out in the Open 2019

Out in the Open 2019

Out in the Open 2019

Out in the Open 2019
Intemperie (original title)
1h 43min | Thriller | 22 November 2019 (Spain)

Storyline:

In a tyrannical and oppressive Spain of misery and poorness, a child starts a runaway looking for freedom.

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