The New Boy 2023

The New Boy 2023

The New Boy 2023

The New Boy 2023
1h 56m | Drama, History, Fantasy | Release date: July 6, 2023 (Australia)

Storyline:

Set in 1940s Australia, The New Boy is the story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy (Reid) who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun (Blanchett), where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.

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Bruce Lee and the Outlaw 2018

Bruce Lee and the Outlaw 2018

Bruce Lee and the Outlaw 2018

Bruce Lee and the Outlaw 2018
1h 25m | Documentary | Release date: June 8, 2018 (United Kingdom)

Storyline:

Nicu, a young homeless boy, is adopted by Bruce Lee, the notorious “King of the Underworld” and goes to live with him in the tunnels underneath Bucharest. As Nicu grows up, he starts to realize that he is not the perfect father.

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May nagmamahal sa iyo 1996

May nagmamahal sa iyo 1996

May nagmamahal sa iyo 1996

May nagmamahal sa iyo 1996
2h 1m | Drama | Release date: January 25, 1996 (Philippines)

Storyline:

A woman who has a child out of wedlock decides to give him away to an orphanage; years later, when she goes back to the orphanage, she discovers that the place does not exist anymore.

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Dolina miru 1956

Dolina miru 1956

Dolina miru 1956

Dolina miru 1956
1h 22m | Drama, War | Slovenia, July 23 1956

Storyline:

A boy of 9 and a much-younger girl lose their families in an air raid. They have heard about a valley where peace always reigns, they fancy that it’s the boy’s uncle’s house, and they set out to find it. At the same time an airplane is shot down and the Black American pilot jumped by parachute. He finds the children at a ford. There is absolutely no danger, but the girl is standing in the middle of the river, scared and crying, and neither she nor the boy dare to go forth or back. The pilot cannot abandon the children although they will reduce his chance of escaping. Both the Germans and the partisans know that the pilot had survived. Who will find him first? Several things happen in rapid succession. The children and the pilot find the uncle’s house, which has long been empty. The Germans arrive and catch the pilot. The partisans attack and liberate the pilot, who joins them. But during the fight he is soon mortally wounded and orders the children to run away. Then the house explodes. The children conclude that this was the wrong valley and decide to continue to search for the right one, the peaceful one.

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Les trois frères 1995

Les trois frères 1995

Les trois frères 1995

Les trois frères 1995
1h 45m | Comedy | 13 December 1995 (France)

Storyline:

Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother’s funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.

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Amigo 1980

Amigo 1980

Amigo 1980

Amigo 1980
1h 25m | Action, Drama, Family | 31 January 1980 (Mexico)

Storyline:

Rudy, an ex-boxer who works as a film stuntman, is a kindhearted young man who dedicates his life to caring for a young orphan Poncho, until he leaves him at an orphanage that educates homeless children. Poncho feels betrayed.

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School of Life 2017

School of Life 2017

School of Life 2017

School of Life 2017
L’école buissonnière (original title)
1h 56m | Comedy, Drama, Family | 11 October 2017 (France)

Storyline:

Paris 1930. Paul always had only one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, a severe building on the outskirts of Paris. Entrusted to a cheerful lady of the countryside, Celestine and her husband, Borel, the somewhat rigid gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the child of the cities, recalcitrant and stubborn, arrives in a mysterious and worrying world, that of a sovereign and wild region. The immense forest, the misty ponds, the moors and the fields, everything here belongs to the Count of the Comte de La Salle. Fresnaye, a taciturn widower who lives alone in his mansion. The Count tolerates poachers on the estate, but Borel is relentlessly hunting them down and hounding the most cunning and elusive of them, Totoche. In the heart of the fairytale Sologne, next to the poacher, a great nature lover, Paul will learn about life but also the forest and its secrets. An even heavier secret weighs on the estate, because Paul did not come here by chance.

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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles 2005

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles 2005

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles 2005

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles 2005
Qian li zou dan qi (original title)
1h 47m | Drama | 22 December 2005 (China)

Storyline:

In a village of fishermen in Japan, Takata misses his son Kenichi, to whom he has been estranged for many years. When his daughter-in-law Rie tells him that Kenichi is sick in the hospital, she suggests Takata to come to Tokyo to visit his son in the hospital where he would have the chance to retie the relationship. However, Kenichi refuses to receive his father in his room, and Rie gives a videotape to Takata to know about the work of his son. Once at home, Takata sees a documentary in the remote village Lijiang, in the province of Younnan, about the passion of Kenichi, the Chinese opera, where the lead singer Li Jiamin promises to sing an important folk opera on the next year. When Rie calls Takata to tell that her husband has a terminal liver cancer, Takata decides to travel to Lijiang to shoot Li Jiamin singing the opera to give to Kenichi.

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