L’uomo fiammifero 2009

L'uomo fiammifero 2009

L’uomo fiammifero 2009
1h 18min | Fantasy | 7 December 2009 (Italy)

Storyline:

Simone, eleven and lost his mother, lives with his father in the Abruzzo countryside in the early eighties. It’s summer and, since most of his friends are on holiday, Simone spends time with Lorenza, a girl two years older, and especially with imaginary figures created by his imagination. This imagination, too externalized, forcing his father to close it in the house. But the boy did not give in and manages to escape in search of ” Man match, “the most remarkable among the creatures sprung from his mind of the child.

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Mother’s Boys 1993

Mother's Boys 1993

Mother’s Boys 1993
R | 1h 36min | Drama, Thriller | 18 March 1994 (USA)

Storyline:

Jude Madigan abandons her husband Robert and her three sons without any explanation. Three years later Jude inexplicably returns to reunite her family. However Robert and his new lover Callie see Jude for the true psychopath she is and try their best to protect their sons. Jude embarks on a non stop stalking and harassment campaign against the family, and even seduces her eldest son Kess into committing her acts of violence.

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Crustaces Et Coquillages 2005

Crustaces Et Coquillages 2005

Crustaces Et Coquillages 2005
Crustacés & coquillages (original title)
1h 36min | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 30 March 2005 (France)

Storyline:

A family comprising of a father, mother, daughter and son head to the south of France for summer vacation. Charly’s friend, Martin joins them. He is gay and has a crush on Charly. Charly’s mother, Beatrix, thinks Charly is gay and having an affair with Martin. Charly’s father is somewhat bothered by this and by the open sexuality in the family.

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Lilja 4-ever 2002

Lilja 4-ever 2002

Lilja 4-ever 2002

Lilja 4-ever 2002
16 | 1h 49min | Crime, Drama | 23 August 2002 (Sweden)

Storyline:

While waiting for her mothers reply to take her to the USA, Lilya idles the time away smoking, drinking and having fun with her, too, outcast friend Volodya. In time, the chance of a new life becomes non-existent; her life is going nowhere. Meeting a young man, she then finds a plane ticket in her hand and a new life in Sweden: a job, an apartment and prospects. All is not what it seems. There shall be work, there shall be housing and there shall be no escape. This is the stark, frank and disturbing vision of the life of a young victim of the underground sex trade and in all its tone of realism of abject poverty, despicable actions and of wanting to show that dreaming of a better life is not a crime but that life can shatter the illusion of a happy ending.

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Santa sangre 1989

Santa sangre 1989

Santa sangre 1989
NC-17 | 2h 3min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 24 November 1989 (Italy)

Storyline:

A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre (“Holy Blood”), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother. Against his will, he “becomes her arms” and the two undertake a grisly campaign of murder and revenge.

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Genti di Muerti 2014

Genti di Muerti 2014

Genti di Muerti 2014
24min | Short, Fantasy | 30 July 2014 (Spain)

Storyline:

Javier and his father, David, come back to the village before the summer, earlier than expected. His grandma is really sick. Javier is such a special boy that, even the relationship with his own family is sometimes cold and distant…with all of them excepting with Laura, his playground friend since he was a child. The return of Javier to the village coincides with the death of Laura’s grandfather and the arrival of two mysterious visitors that no one in the village would dare to name…the Genti di muerti.

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