Demolition 2015
Demolition 2015
R | 1h 41min | Comedy, Drama | 8 April 2016 (USA)
Storyline
A successful investment banker struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. With the help of a customer service rep and her young son, he starts to rebuild, beginning with the demolition of the life he once knew.
Song for a Raggy Boy 2003
Song for a Raggy Boy 2003
1h 34min | Drama | 22 August 2003 (Denmark)
Storyline:
The true story of a single teacher’s courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect’s sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.
The Devil’s Playground 1976
The Devil’s Playground 1976
1h 47min | Drama | 12 August 1976 (Australia)
Storyline:
Fred Schepisi’s film, ‘The Devil’s Playground’ is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story of the Brothers and how they cope with the demands of their faith.
Sicario 1995
Sicario 1995
1h 47min | Drama | 2 January 1996 (Spain)
Storyline
Jairo (Laureano Olivares) is a teenager who lives in a squalid neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, devastated by drugs and violence. Tired of these influences and the unhealthy living conditions, he starts working as a hit man for the mafia for the purpose of helping his family. Despite the profits, he wants to leave the criminal world, but his boss in the drug cartel doesn’t think the same way.
Maruyama the Middle Schooler 2013
Chûgakusei Maruyama (original title)
1h 59min | Comedy | 18 May 2013 (Japan)
Storyline:
Of what does a fourteen-year-old boy often think and fantasize? Well, supposedly the answer is mostly of an erotic nature and, more particularly, quite often self-eroticism. In this case our middle-school hero is not content to wonder. He is willing to put in the work, exercise and effort to achieve his goal. To complement our young man there is the offbeat father, obsessed mother and a whole cast of curious characters.
Elias of het gevecht met de nachtegalen 1991
Elias of het gevecht met de nachtegalen 1991
1h 20min | Drama | 24 September 1991 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
Elias has hardly left his childhood behind him than he is sent to boarding school with his older cousin. But before that he spends his holidays on the isolated estate belonging to his family, a little group fully out of touch with the world.
Conducta 2014
1h 48min | Drama | January 2014 (Cuba)
Storyline:
Aging teacher Carmela has a special heart for pupils from broken families, is challenged by the headmaster for this. The poor 12 year old Chala and Yeni, in which he is infatuated has both severe troubles on home ground.
100 days Before The Command 1991
100 days Before The Command 1991
Sto dney do prikaza (1991)
1h 11min | Drama | February 1991 (Soviet Union)
Storyline
Five young Soviet Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other. Visually astonishing, erotically charged and emotionally jarring, this film is Hussein Erkenov’s courageous and stinging indictment of Communisum. Banned by the Soviet censors upon its initial release the film had to be smuggled out of the country to make its world wide premier at the 1995 Berlin Film Festival.
