Mysterious Skin 2004

Mysterious Skin 2004

Mysterious Skin 2004

Mysterious Skin 2004
1h 45min | Drama | 24 June 2005 (USA)

Storyline:

Brian Lackey is determined to discover what happened during an amnesia blackout when he was eight years old, and then later woke with a bloody nose. He believes he was abducted by aliens, and N. McCormick, a fellow player on Brian’s childhood baseball team, may be the key as to exactly what happened that night. As Brian searches for the truth and tries to track him down, Neil McCormick takes up hustling and moves to New York, in attempts to forget childhood memories that haunt him. Together, the two of them uncover the terrible truth of the scars they share.

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Song for a Raggy Boy 2003

Song for a Raggy Boy 2003

Song for a Raggy Boy 2003

Song for a Raggy Boy 2003
1h 34min | Drama | 22 August 2003 (Denmark)

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The true story of a single teacher’s courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect’s sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.

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Sicario 1995

Sicario 1995

Sicario 1995

Sicario 1995
1h 47min | Drama | 2 January 1996 (Spain)

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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.

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The Demons 2015

The Demons 2015

The Demons 2015

The Demons 2015
Les démons (original title)
1h 58min | Drama | 30 October 2015 (Canada)

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Montréal is in the midst of a series of kidnappings of young boys, and Félix, at ten, is just finishing up the year at school. Gradually, his “imaginary demons” start to reflect those of the remarkably troubling and disruptive world around him.

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Quero 2007

Quero 2007

Quero 2007
Querô (original title)
1h 28min | Drama | 14 September 2007 (Brazil)

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Querô is an orphan teenager, living alone near the docks in Santos, Brazil. His mother, a prostitute, died when he was a baby, and he was raised in the bordello where she worked. He also doesn’t know who his father is. Believing he rules his own destiny, he refuses to compromise with anyone else, the corrupt policemen always chasing him, the oppressive discipline in the juvenile institution Febem, or the drug dealers who try to lure him. But this independence has a price

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Esperame mucho 1983

Esperame mucho 1983

Esperame mucho 1983

Esperame mucho 1983
1h 30min | Drama | 11 August 1983 (Argentina)

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Memories of Argentina in the early 1950s bring a man back (in his mind) to his neighborhood, his family, and their hardware store. Although the barrio was filled with people both for and against Juan Perón who was in office as President at this time, the bonds of friendship were stronger than political differences. This view, and the view held throughout the film is that of the man as a young child. Newsreel clips and scenes of Evita Perón’s funeral insert an adult perspective, though there is still an element of indecision throughout the film as to which perspective should hold.

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The Boys of St Vincent 15 Years Later 1992

The Boys of St Vincent 15 Years Later 1992

The Boys of St Vincent 15 Years Later 1992
1h 33min | Drama | TV Movie 7 December 1992

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Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now finally standing trial, who assaulted them when they were children. The former head of the orphanage, Peter Lavin, has been married for several years at this point, has two children, and is living in Montreal when he is placed under arrest and brought to stand trial. While he maintains his innocence, the boy he favoured durring those years, Kevin Reevey, as well as many others, are faced with revisiting the abuse and trauma they sustained as children.

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An Open Secret 2014

An Open Secret 2014

An Open Secret 2014
PG-13 | 1h 39min | Documentary, Crime | June 2015 (USA)

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AN OPEN SECRET looks at the lives of children betrayed and abandoned by a system that essentially funnels them towards sexual predators without any oversight or regard for their safety. It documents not only these young peoples’ experiences, but also how some have emerged stronger for their speaking out. It beg the questions of why children working in entertainment aren’t afforded the same protections they are afforded at school, and argues for more effective treatment and stronger penalties for child sex offenders.

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