The Flight of the Innocent 1992
La corsa dell’innocente (original title)
R | 1h 40min | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 9 October 1992 (Italy)
Storyline
The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family’s sins.
Olivier Olivier 1992
Olivier Olivier 1992
R | 1h 50min | Drama | 28 October 1992 (France)
Storyline
A nine-year-old boy disappears without a trace. Six years later, he reappears in Paris but there are doubts about his real identity.
Sicario 1995
Sicario 1995
1h 47min | Drama | 2 January 1996 (Spain)
Storyline
Jairo (Laureano Olivares) is a teenager who lives in a squalid neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, devastated by drugs and violence. Tired of these influences and the unhealthy living conditions, he starts working as a hit man for the mafia for the purpose of helping his family. Despite the profits, he wants to leave the criminal world, but his boss in the drug cartel doesn’t think the same way.
Benny’s Video 1992
Benny’s Video 1992
1h 45min | Crime, Drama | 11 February 1993 (Norway)
Storyline:
A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to the real world, to such an extent that he commits murder and records an on-camera confession for his parents.
Iluzija 2004
1h 47min | Drama | 30 May 2007 (Poland)
Storyline
Marko has a poet’s sensibilities in Veles, a town in war-torn Macedonia. His sister is a bully, his mom’s a doormat, and his dad is a striking factory worker who drinks and plays bingo. At school, Marko is tormented by thuggish fellow students, led by the loutish Levi, the son of a police captain. Marko’s teacher of Macedonian, a Bosnian, sees promise in Marko’s writing and gives the lad hope that he can someday escape Veles. A chance friendship with a thief who’s passing through town furthers Marko’s education. Is hope a mirage? What sort of fatherland is Macedonia?
Sleepers 1996
R | 2h 27min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 28 August 1996 (Italy)
Storyline:
Four boys growing up in Hell’s Kitchen play a prank that leads to an old man getting hurt. Sentenced to no less than one year in the Wilkenson Center in upstate New York, the four friends are changed by the beating, humiliation and sexual abuse by the guards sworn to protect them. Thirteen years later and a chance meeting lead to a chance for revenge against the Wilkenson Center and the guards.
Jet Boy 2001
Jet Boy 2001
1h 39min | Drama | 30 September 2001 (Canada)
Storyline:
A drug dealer finds an unlikely traveling companion in an runaway kid trying to dodge social services.
Maske Ku Vi 1977
Maske Ku Vi 1977
Måske ku’ vi (original title)
1h 38min | Drama | 16 February 1976 (Denmark)
Storyline:
Kim (Karl Wagner) is an attractive and well-liked 15-year-old Danish boy with a rather ordinary life. He likes to drink beer and party with his friends. School is a bore. His parents are divorced and his mother doesn’t make much money. She nags at him, frustrated that he wants to go out all the time, and that he doesn’t apply himself or take responsibility. Suddenly Kim finds himself taken hostage by bank robbers, along with Marianne (Marianne Berg), who’s also 15. They find themselves out in the country, hiding from the police, making love and meeting unusual people with unconventional points of view. What will happen to the young lovers’ new romance when the adventure is over and they have to return to their real lives?
