Aching Hearts 2009

Aching Hearts 2009

Aching Hearts 2009
Kærestesorger (original title)
1h 57min | Drama, Romance | 13 March 2009 (Denmark)

Storyline:

A bunch of 15-year-olds in Viborg make their first experiences with love, kissing and sexuality, coming together and drifting apart. The film follows the adolescents over a three-year-period, focusing on the relationship between Jonas and Agnete, which is made difficult by misconceptions, Agnete’s interest for philosophy and Jonas’s friend Toke, her father’s mental illness and Jonas’s own indecision regarding his feelings for her. The story ends when the protagonists finish school.

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Small Faces 1996

Small Faces 1996

Small Faces 1996
R | 1h 48min | Drama | 5 April 1996 (UK)

Storyline:

Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama’s boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a downward spiral after he accidentally shoots the leader of Bobby’s gang. Lex’s cockiness and immaturity unfortunately prevent him from understanding the effect his subsequent crimes will have on both himself, and on those around him.

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Bless the Beasts and Children 1971

Bless the Beasts and Children 1971

Bless the Beasts and Children 1971

Bless the Beasts and Children 1971
1h 49min | Comedy, Drama | June 1971 (West Germany)

Storyline:

A group of social misfits at a summer camp.for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club’s slaughter.

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Death at Oslo Central Station 1990

Death at Oslo Central Station 1990

Death at Oslo Central Station 1990
Døden på Oslo S (original title)
1h 39min | Action, Crime, Drama | 3 May 1991 (Sweden)

Storyline:

A young boy named Pelle falls in love with the drug addict Lena. Then he and his friend Proffen tries to save her from the drugs.

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Message Sent 2013

Message Sent 2013

Message Sent 2013
9min | Short, Drama | 20 September 2013 (USA)

Storyline:

Message Sent is the story of Michael Collins, a teenager struggling to find himself. Michael lives what most would call a perfect life. He has perfect friends, an amazing girlfriend, and a future. But he also has a secret. A secret that has been eating away at him for years.

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Sortie de route 2013

Sortie de route 2013

Sortie de route 2013
28min | Short, Drama | 9 August 2013 (Switzerland)

Storyline:

Paul, fourteen, neglects his studies to spend all his time on his moped, to the consternation of his parents. When his beloved moped disappears, none of his nearest and dearest seem to realize what this means to him. Paul soon tracks down the thief, Karim, a young apprentice mechanic of his own age. From this an unexpected relationship develops.

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