Jan Dara: The Beginning (2012)

Jan Dara: The Beginning (2012)

Jan Dara: The Beginning (2012)

Jan Dara: The Beginning (2012)
Jan Dara pathommabot (original title)
2h 17min | Drama, Romance | 13 September 2012 (Singapore)

Storyline:

Set in the 1930s the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by his sadistic and debauched father, Luang Wisnan. The story recounts the growing pains of Jan, whose mother dies while giving birth to him and who’s intensely hated by his father. Jan grows up with Aunt Wad, his stepmother, and he struggles to reconcile his guilt and longing with different women in his life, including a girl called Hyacinth, whom he adores, and later Madame Boonleung, his father’s mistress who becomes a key to Jan’s sexual awakening.

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The War Zone 1999

The War Zone 1999

The War Zone 1999

The War Zone 1999
R | 1h 38min | Drama, Thriller | 29 January 1999 (USA)

Storyline:

Suddenly, the moody 15-year-old, Tom, and his 18-year-old sister, Jessie, find themselves relocated from the hustle and bustle of urban London to the sullen silence of wind-swept rural Devon, at a little but neat cottage in the middle of nowhere. Dad is caring and kind, and very much in love with mum who has just given birth; however, an accidental glimpse of a disturbing and well-hidden secret in the family will bring Tom face-to-face with shock, denial, and ultimately, rage. What mystery could be so appalling that threatens to bring everyone in the family to their knees?

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Dancing on the Dark Side of the Moon 2021

Dancing on the Dark Side of the Moon 2021

Dancing on the Dark Side of the Moon 2021

Dancing on the Dark Side of the Moon 2021
Unrated | 1h 1min | Sci-Fi | 28 February 2021 (USA)

Storyline:

Picture this if you will. A futuristic lighthouse floating through dark space. Aboard this lighthouse is a Spirit Guide and his two younglings Alexi and friend Micah. Three spiritual beings on an unusual journey. When the curious Alexi asks what his life will be like on earth the Spirit Guide is compelled to show him. He knows that dark forces are at hand and Alexi may indeed never be born at all. The Guide reluctantly shows him special moments in time where we find Alexi’s family in deep turmoil where dark secrets abound.

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The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael 2005

The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael 2005

The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael 2005

The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael 2005
1h 36min | Crime, Drama | 20 October 2006 (UK)

Storyline:

An introverted, socially awkward, middle-class youth, Robert Carmichael, is a talented cello player but is bored by his existence in the coastal town of Newhaven. He becomes associated with several other unsavory teenagers and is soon tempted into the use of hard drugs like cocaine and ecstasy. Robert initially does not take part in the rape of a teenage girl in a squalid flat with the gang, but later joins in another violent attack on a middle-aged couple, with the woman involved being viciously raped.

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Little Brothers 1999

Little Brothers 1999

Little Brothers 1999

Little Brothers 1999
Petits frères (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 32min | Comedy, Drama | 7 April 1999 (France)

Storyline:

Talia runs away from home taking her beloved dog with her. When her dog is stolen Talia enlists the help of a gang of boys to help her find her pet.

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Tudo Que Deus Criou 2012

Tudo Que Deus Criou 2012

Tudo Que Deus Criou 2012

Tudo Que Deus Criou 2012
1h 40min | Drama | 19 February 2015 (Brazil)

Storyline:

Miguel is a young boy who lives in poverty with his mother, Da Guia, with his sister Angela, lovingly rejected, and the brother-in-law, Bio in Paraíba. He tries to help his family with household expenses with prostitution and is afraid to prove himself homosexual to the family. His sister is insecure and repressed by her husband, with whom she has not been happy. She lives to take care of the house and the grumpy and unappreciated mother, who suffers from the consequences of diabetes without care. Miguel has been abused by his brother-in-law for years and feels obliged to hide his secrets from the family. His only comfort is the friendship with John, a shy postman neighbor, who every day reads stories to Maura, a blind woman of thirty years who longs to have her first sexual experience.

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Locked Up 2004

Locked Up 2004

Locked Up 2004

Locked Up 2004
Gefangen (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 36min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 26 May 2005 (Germany)

Storyline:

Dennis is a new inmate. Mike is an older black inmate. Together the two face hostile prison officals and inmates in their attempts to become a loving couple.

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The Paradise Suite 2015

The Paradise Suite 2015

The Paradise Suite 2015

The Paradise Suite 2015
2h 3min | Drama | 29 October 2015 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

The Paradise Suite is a story about six people finding each other and, sometimes with just one glance, influencing each other’s lives irreversibly. For the beautiful young Bulgarian Jenya, her journey to Amsterdam turns out to be the opposite of what she hoped for. Her grueling captivity forces the angelic African, Yaya, to fight for her freedom – a dangerous fight in which he loses everything but his beloved faith. The Serbian war criminal Ivica, who has just become a father, is painfully confronted with the fact that crimes will never go unpunished. Bosnian Seka has nothing left to live for except her vengeance but as it turns out, it’s that same vengeance that brings love back in her life. And when the Swedish piano-wonder boy, Lukas, runs away from his new temporary home, his father Stig finally realizes that their mutual passion for music damages their relationship.

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Landscape in the Mist 1988

Landscape in the Mist 1988

Landscape in the Mist 1988

Landscape in the Mist 1988
Topio stin omihli (original title)
TV-MA | 2h 7min | Drama | 10 September 1988 (Greece)

Storyline:

Road movie about two children (Voula and Alexandre) searching for their father who is supposed to live in Germany. Their obsession for this father figure will take them to the boundaries between childhood and adolescence.

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