A Very Serious Person 2006

A Very Serious Person 2006

A Very Serious Person 2006

A Very Serious Person 2006
Not Rated | 1h 35min | Drama | 28 April 2006 (USA)

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Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with his cousins in Florida after his grandmother’s death. A deep friendship grows between these two solitary people. By the end of the summer, Gil has developed a new maturity and independence, while the enigmatic Jan has revealed his own vulnerability.

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Krempoli – Ein Platz für wilde Kinder e04-06

Krempoli – Ein Platz für wilde Kinder e04-06

Krempoli – Ein Platz für wilde Kinder e04-06

Krempoli – Ein Platz für wilde Kinder e04-06
50min | Family | TV Series (1975– )

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A family comedy series about a group of children from Munich who are trying to build a Luna-park.

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Sonny Boy 2011

Sonny Boy 2011

Sonny Boy 2011

Sonny Boy 2011
2h 10min | Biography, Drama, Romance | 27 January 2011 (Netherlands)

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Waldemar, a young man from Suriname, meets middle-aged Dutch woman Rika and they fall in love. In pre-WWII Netherlands they could not be more different. The one black, the other white, 17 years between them and on top of that she already has four children with another man. They love each other, but then she appears to be pregnant from Waldemar. They choose each other despite the high price they have to pay for it. They have a son, Waldy, their own ‘Sonny Boy’. Then World War II breaks out and they risk their lives to save people in hiding. However, this is not without major consequences.

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Cientouno 2020

Cientouno 2020

Cientouno 2020

Cientouno 2020
Short, Comedy, Drama | 30 September 2020 (Spain)

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“You die if you jerk off 100 times.” This often repeated threat rings through the ears of a 14-year-old boy from rural Spain at the beginning of the 20th century. Urged on by the hot flushes of youth, he carefully counts his “sins” one by one so as not to cross over that fateful line. One day, however, having reached 99, he has to choose between imminent hell and the impetuousness of adolescence. How will it all end? An amusing short film about the feeling of guilt…

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Wild Flowers 1997

Wild Flowers 1997

Wild Flowers 1997

Wild Flowers 1997
Det store flip (original title)
1h 25min | Comedy, Drama | 31 January 1997 (USA)

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Denmark in the 70’s. The teenager Christoffer’s parents Nisse and Maria have decided to move into a commune because they want to try the alternative lifestyle. But Christoffer doesn’t like it and has trouble adapting. In school the others tease him because he lives in a commune. As a plan from the elders in the commune he starts in a Maoist group to learn about the real ways of the society. He doesn’t like it but when his new girlfriend starts to see what he does as cool he goes into it. But at the same time the police start to suspect him to be the terrorist who blows up telephone booths around Copenhagen.

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Donny’s Bar Mitzvah 2021

Donny's Bar Mitzvah 2021

Donny’s Bar Mitzvah 2021

Donny’s Bar Mitzvah 2021
Comedy | 23 March 2021 (USA)

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According to Jewish Law, a bar mitzvah is when, at 13, boy becomes a man and can be held accountable for his actions. The film Donny’s Bar Mitzvah seems to have been written by a 13 year-old who needs to be held accountable for his actions.

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Ernesto 2020

Ernesto 2020

Ernesto 2020

Ernesto 2020
1h 16min | Drama | 28 November 2020 (Italy)

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Ernesto (Federico Russo) is a teenager who wanders, in search of himself, through the streets of Rome. Chapter after chapter, time passes and people just disappear but he continues to live impromptu relationships, causing pain to himself and to others. Taking refuge in his happy moments and in political ideologies, he believes he can save his soul from suffering although life will force him to grow and move forward.

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Tudo Que Deus Criou 2012

Tudo Que Deus Criou 2012

Tudo Que Deus Criou 2012

Tudo Que Deus Criou 2012
1h 40min | Drama | 19 February 2015 (Brazil)

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Miguel is a young boy who lives in poverty with his mother, Da Guia, with his sister Angela, lovingly rejected, and the brother-in-law, Bio in Paraíba. He tries to help his family with household expenses with prostitution and is afraid to prove himself homosexual to the family. His sister is insecure and repressed by her husband, with whom she has not been happy. She lives to take care of the house and the grumpy and unappreciated mother, who suffers from the consequences of diabetes without care. Miguel has been abused by his brother-in-law for years and feels obliged to hide his secrets from the family. His only comfort is the friendship with John, a shy postman neighbor, who every day reads stories to Maura, a blind woman of thirty years who longs to have her first sexual experience.

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