Die Erben 1983

Die Erben 1982

Die Erben 1982

Die Erben 1983
1h 37min | Drama | 25 February 1983 (Austria)

Storyline:

A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist father and a scolding social-climbing mother. He attends private school and has a brother who’s an accomplished musician, but neither can satisfy mom’s constant demands for school and social success. She belittles them, and there’s incessant bickering at their table. Charly, a dropout, is the son of an abusive, alcoholic laborer. In the youth group, each finds order, respect, camaraderie, and adults who seem to value them. Where do domestic abuse and sanctioned political violence end?

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Plyontek 1991

Plyontek 1991

Plyontek 1991

Plyontek 1991
1h 25min | Drama | 4 November 1991 (Bulgaria)

Storyline:

Plyontek, a boy with a weak constitution and traumatized psyche. Sent to a sanatorium where established rules among graduates, black pirate threats and combat establishes its rules. Plyontek gradually becomes ruler of a small kingdom of bitter and abused subjects. The circle is close to the emergence of the next willing to participant to fight evil.

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Noi 4 2014

Noi 4 2014

Noi 4 2014
1h 33min | Comedy | 20 March 2014 (Italy)

Storyline:

The sun rises and Lara, Ettore, Emma and Giacomo wake up in different places: Lara on his bed; Ettore, on the couch of a friend; Emma, in a busy theater, and Giacomo, in the house of her aunt. Not likely, but they are a family, very close once; today, something less. We are about to witness one day in their lives: frantic, complicated, ordinary and special.
(Google translated)

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Turn Me On Goddammit 2011

Turn Me On Goddammit 2011

Turn Me On Goddammit 2011
Få meg på, for faen (original title)
1h 16min | Comedy, Romance | 19 August 2011 (Norway)

Storyline

In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.

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Asfour Stah 1990

Asfour Stah 1990

Asfour Stah 1990

Asfour Stah 1990
1h 38min | Drama, Comedy | 26 September 1990 (France)

Storyline

A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds – the loving world of Muslim women and the vastly different, harsher world of men – while also dealing with his own budding sexuality.

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Low Tide 2012

Low Tide 2012

Low Tide 2012

Low Tide 2012
1h 32min | Drama | 2 September 2012 (Italy)

Storyline:

A 12 year old boy and his single mother live parallel lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. The boy’s solitude is both a source of freedom and a cause for grief. His explorations slowly bring to light the dark contrast between the rules of society and the laws of nature. And before long, the delicate balance of his inner world becomes shattered by unforeseen events.

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Svolochi 2006

Svolochi 2006

Svolochi 2006
1h 37min | Action, Drama, War | 2 February 2006 (Russia)

Storyline

A “Hitlerjugend” kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin. The Red Army has a gang of juveniles for a clandestine operation against the Nazis. The boys are trained by a dangerous crime lord at a top secret boot camp. They are doomed to die in the mission, or after it, just to keep it a secret. Continue reading