Nur neun Jahre Gluck 2012

Nur neun Jahre Gluck 2012

Nur neun Jahre Gluck 2012
Nur neun Jahre Glück (original title)
16min | Short, Biography, Drama | 2012 (Germany)

Storyline:

A young man is recounting events in his childhood that led him to where he is to an unseen person. Next we see him as a child around 10 years old who is a lonely boy at school that is befriended by the school workman. At first, the workman is the only source of emotional warmth and kindness in his life. Things deteriorate quickly and we eventually come to understand both the impact of those childhood events as well as the true nature of the opening scene.

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Acne 2008

Acne 2008

Acne 2008

Acne 2008
Acné (original title)
1h 27min | Comedy, Drama | 12 December 2008 (Mexico)

Storyline:

At the age of 13, Rafael Bregman has already lost his virginity, but has never kissed a girl. With his pimple-riddled face, his dysfunctional family, and a lowered self-esteem, getting this much anticipated first kiss proves trickier than expected. It’s now time for Rafa to build up some self confidence and attract the attention of his class mate, Nicole…

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Kid Svensk 2007

Kid Svensk 2007

Kid Svensk 2007
1h 30min | Drama | 9 March 2007 (Finland)

Storyline:

The year is 1984. It’s summer, and the rebellious 12-year-old girl Kid wants to stay in Gothenburg, but her mother has other plans. Kid discovers that summer vacation in Finland isn’t as bad as first feared. In a few hot weeks she discovers her dawning sexuality, and experience her first crush.

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Ciske de Rat 1984

Ciske de Rat 1984

Ciske de Rat 1984
1h 46m | Drama | 29 March 1984 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

11 year old Amsterdam schoolboy Ciske, a scamp with a heart of gold, causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher. Yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. His mother works in a bar and Ciske helps out often late into the night – his father is at sea and his mother supplements her income with prostitution. Ciske also smolders with rage at life’s injustices.

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Höhenfeuer 1985

Höhenfeuer 1985

Höhenfeuer 1985

Hohenfeuer 1985
Höhenfeuer (original title)
1h 59min | Drama | 30 January 1986 (West Germany)

Storyline

A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It’s the tradition of the father’s family, called “The Irascibles” by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.

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Oswalt Kolle Dein Kind – das unbekannte Wesen 1970

Oswalt Kolle Dein Kind - das unbekannte Wesen 1970

Oswalt Kolle Dein Kind – das unbekannte Wesen 1970
1h 33min | Documentary | 1 October 1970 (West Germany)

Plot:
Naturism on the island of Sylt in the North Sea, naked children, Kolle, and a real birth. Be frank sex education for young people, especially teenagers. Shame the outdated and lit (think) images are from the hippie era. More than twenty years later with new text and comments and reassembled (and a little shortened) for broadcast on TV, but it does not. (google translated)

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Peccato veniale 1974

Peccato veniale 1974

Peccato veniale 1974
1h 38min | Comedy | 24 January 1974 (Italy)

User review:

The sensational success of „Malizia” obviously called for a sequel of some kind. So one year later, in 1974, most of the „Malizia” production staff including the main actors, Laura Antonelli and Alessandro Momo, came back together to shoot „Peccato veniale”.

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