Impudicizia 1991

Impudicizia 1991

Impudicizia 1991
1h 20min | Drama | 5 July 1991 (Turkey)

Storyline:

Florentine is a young, beautiful and passionate woman with a desire for love. Feeling abandoned by her husband’s impotency, she searches for outside affection and seduction within brief, but often passionate encounters. During this web of desire she encounters Dorothy. Unknown to Florentine she is her husband’s accomplice. In this twisted, frenzied fantasy her husband Jake becomes excited and aroused by the seduction of his wife. With his secret darkrooms and two-way mirrors he begins to desire his wife once more. Florentine, with the help of their adopted son, discovers his world of distorted fantasy. Amazed, but realising that Jake still loves her, she must act.

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Pafnucio Santo 1977

Pafnucio Santo 1977

Pafnucio Santo 1977
1h 40min | Drama, History | 27 October 1977 (Mexico)

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The controversial, sexy, surreal story of a messenger and his journey and encounters with many historical events and people like Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and Emiliano Zapata (as a beautiful woman!).

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The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978

The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978

The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978
L’albero degli zoccoli (original title)
3h 6min | Drama, History | May 1978 (France)

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The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy’s shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy another pair. What can they do?

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Posledniy pobeg 1981

Posledniy pobeg 1981

Posledniy pobeg 1981
1h 32min | Drama | July 1981 (Soviet Union)

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The hero of the film Scrubs – a war veteran who works in a school for troubled teens. On the day of release from the special school his favorite pupil Victor waited in vain for his mother – she did not come for her son, and went out to meet the swimming man, Vitina stepfather. Then the teacher took home Vitya – Aleksey Ivanovich. But when Victor saw the house merry company, his resentment prevailed, and the stubborn kid runs away from the bush, and the caretaker does not do anything but go in search of the fugitive …(google translated)

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Pay It Forward 2000

Pay It Forward 2000

Pay It Forward 2000
PG-13 | 2h 3min | Drama | 12 October (USA)

Storyline:

Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother’s alcoholism and fears of his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet. The assignment: think of something to change the world and put it into action. Trevor conjures the notion of paying a favor not back, but forward–repaying good deeds not with payback, but with new good deeds done to three new people. Trevor’s efforts to make good on his idea bring a revolution not only in the lives of himself, his mother and his physically and emotionally scarred teacher, but in those of an ever-widening circle of people completely unknown to him.

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