Zakrytye prostranstva 2008

Zakrytye prostranstva 2008

Zakrytye prostranstva 2008
1h 35min | Comedy, Drama | 14 August 2008 (Russia)

Storyline:

The first Russian emo-movie, Closed Spaces is a story about the newest generation of Russians. Having grown up in Russia’s crazy 1990s, an era filled with constant and drastic change, these teenagers have no solid ground beneath their feet. They are trapped in a strange world in which their money-obsessed parents lead senseless lives and even kill each other. Vika is twenty years old. She has black fingernail polish, wears pink dresses, and is constantly depressed. While working at a pizza place, she gets an order for a pizza delivery from Venya, a strange twenty year old boy who lives all alone in a deserted apartment in the middle of Moscow. Venya suffers from agarophobia, the fear of open space. When Vika arrives Venya lets her in and locks the door behind her. The story begins.

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Le fils du requin 1993

The Son of the Shark 1993

The Son of the Shark 1993

Le fils du requin 1993
1h 30min | Crime, Drama | 24 November 1993 (France)

Storyline:

Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may date to their mother’s leaving the family.) Martin is philosophical, romantic, and poetic: he dreams of being the son of a shark; he holds tight to a book about goldfish his mother gave him. In both halting and wild ways, he tries to court Marie, a neighbor girl. Simon, with a pocketknife and an intractable will, seems more dangerous to others. What, on earth, is there for these children-becoming-men?

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Reckless 2013

Reckless 2013

Reckless 2013

Reckless 2013
22min | Short, Drama | 11 November 2013 (France)

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An uncompromising and controversial short set in the Scandinavian suburbia on the hottest day of the summer. A sister reluctantly babysits her little brother. Two young boys catch her attention, and she makes a crucial decision.

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Malizia 1973

Malizia 1973

Malizia 1973

Malizia 1973
1h 38min | Comedy, Fantasy | 29 March 1973 (Italy)

Storyline:

A widower and his sons fall in love with Angela (Laura Antonelli), the beautiful housekeeper. Each man uses his particular way to approach and capture the – apparently innocent and naive – young woman, and to see more of her sexy body. But only one of them succeeds in dominating and conquering her.

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Christiane F – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo 1981

Christiane F - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo 1981

Christiane F – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo 1981
2h 18min | Biography, Drama | 2 April 1981 (USA)

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This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story apartment building in Berlin. She’s fascinated by ‘The Sound’, a new disco with the most modern equipment. Although legally she’s too young, she asks a friend to take her. There, she meets Detlef, who’s in a clique where everybody’s on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.

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Die Erben 1983

Die Erben 1982

Die Erben 1982

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

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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)

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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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