Baby Bump 2015

Baby Bump 2015

Baby Bump 2015

Baby Bump 2015
1h 29min | Drama | 3 June 2016 (Poland)

Storyline:

11-year-old Mickey House is no longer a child. But who is he? He doesn’t know. He’s friendless. He doesn’t understand his mother. He hates what’s happening to his body. Reality and imagination come together in a toxic mix. Events escalate to extremes… at home and at school. Mickey has to find the strength within him to put a stop to what’s begun. Where will his encounter with his own maturing body take him? Growing up… not for kids.

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The Tin Drum 1979

The Tin Drum 1979

The Tin Drum 1979

The Tin Drum 1979
Die Blechtrommel (original title)
2h 22min | Drama, War | 19 September 1979 (France)

Storyline:

Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on…

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Skipped Parts 2000

Skipped Parts 2000

Skipped Parts 2000

Skipped Parts 2000
R | 1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6 December 2001 (Philippines)

Storyline:

It’s 1963. Poor little rich girl Lydia and her 14-year-old love-child Sam are banished from North Carolina while her powerful father runs for governor. They end up in Wyoming where she parties and Sam finds he’s one of only two Grosvant High School students who read. Maurey is the other, a pre-pubescent girl wanting to discover what sex is about. She and Sam set out to learn with help from Lydia, who tells them it stops when Maurey has her first period. Trouble is, pregnancy comes first. In this small town, what can Maurey do, and will Sam have any say? Meantime, Hank Elkrunner, a Blackfoot, falls for the feckless Lydia, while her dictatorial dad keeps tabs on them all from afar.

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Yo, ‘El Vaquilla’ 1985

Yo, 'El Vaquilla' 1985

Yo, ‘El Vaquilla’ 1985

Yo, ‘El Vaquilla’ 1985
1h 45min | Action, Biography, Drama | 8 November 1985 (Spain)

Storyline:

Juan Jose Moreno Cuenca, alias the Heifer, is 23 years old and tells his story as a criminal offender from 1 Ocaña Toledo. Fatherless, the offender has his childhood and how everything changed when her mother went to prison.

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Nito 2003

Nito 2003

Nito 2003

Nito 2003
17min | Short | 19 October 2003 (Spain)

Storyline:

Nito is a young teenager who attends to class with children younger than him due to his psychological retardation. Children in the class make jokes and mock Nito continuously. Stirred by them and under the slogan they put in their head, Nito will try to lose his virginity.

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Marilena from P7 2006

Marilena from P7 2006
Marilena de la P7 (original title)
48min | Drama, Fantasy | 15 February 2006 (Romania)

Storyline:

Andrei, a 13-year-old teenager living on Bucharest outskirts, decides one day to steal a trolleybus in order to impress Marilena, a prostitute he fell in love with.

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Young Thugs: Nostalgia 1988

Young Thugs: Nostalgia 1988

Young Thugs: Nostalgia 1988
Kishiwada shônen gurentai: Bôkyô (1998)
1h 34min | Comedy, Drama | 26 September 1998 (Japan)

User review:

This was a pleasant surprise. As a sort of prequel to the film Young Thugs: Innocent Blood, which was a memorable but disjointed tale of teenage waste and wanton self-destruction, I wasn’t sure what to expect. But what Takashi Miike delivered was a rather sweet elegy to youth, though still packaged as a “crime movie” on the cover. It’s really not that at all, but more like Miike’s Radio Days, or a form of Stand by Me (though Radio Days came more to mind, especially as it deals more with sometimes-funny sometimes-not family dysfunction). It follows two of the characters from the first film, Riichi (mostly Richii as I could tell) and Isami, as they meet as adolescents and become friends, collaborating on a model of the Apollo 11 pod.

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