War of the Buttons 1994

War of the Buttons 1994

War of the Buttons 1994
1h 34min | Adventure, Drama, Family | 14 October 1994 (UK)

Storyline

The children of Ballydowse & Carrickdowse engage in battles in which they cut off the buttons, shoe-laces, belts and braces of their captured opponents. This gets their opponents in trouble with parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, wielding sticks & slingshots. It’s a battle of strategic skills for the opposing leaders, Including one scene in which the principal gang uses an ancient war trick to overcome their opponents with successful and itchy results.

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Harmony Lessons 2013

Harmony Lessons 2013

Harmony Lessons 2013
Uroki garmonii (original title)
2h | Drama | 5 December 2013 (Kazakhstan)

Storyline:

Aslan is a 13-year-old loner who lives with his grandmother on a farm somewhere on the steppes of Kazakhstan. When he goes to school, he becomes the victim of bullying by the local thug Bolat. Shy and taciturn Aslan, supported by the relentless new student Mirsayin, starts to seek cruel revenge on the bully.

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G.B.F. 2013

G.B.F. 2013

G.B.F. 2013
R | 1h 32min | Comedy, Romance | 17 January 2014 (USA)

Storyline

Social warfare erupts when three high school clique queens battle for supremacy: drama diva Caprice, Mormon princess ‘Shley and blonde fashionista Fawcett. When unassuming Tanner is outted, he finds himself cast as the hottest new teen-girl accessory: The Gay Best Friend. The clique queens immediately pounce and makeover Tanner into their ideal arm candy, forcing him to choose between popularity and the true friends – including his own B.F.F. Brent – that he’s leaving behind.

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Phares d’ouest 1990

Phares d'ouest 1990

Phares d’ouest 1990

Phares d’ouest 1990
1h 57min | Documentary | 1990 (France)

Storyline:

Twelve youngsters (ages 10 to 15) from the French experimental school L’Ecole en Bateau (The Floating School) have set out on a unique educational expedition that will take them on the voyage of a lifetime, sailing the “Kerrek Ven” – a 3-masted fishing schooner, as they follow the voyages of Christopher Columbus from Seville to the Caribbean and Venezuela.

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Nachttocht 1982

Nachttocht 1982

Nachttocht 1982

Nachttocht 1982
1h 3min | Drama | TV Movie 21 February 1982

Storyline:

12 year old Thomas ( Abel Claassen) and his quest for friendship and love. He takes rowing lessons and grows rather fond of his teacher…who, according to his mother, is unlike the bully trainers in the other clubs…he really knows how to work with children. Thomas idolizes his trainer – and when the boy discovers that the person he felt such a love for lied to him in order to sleep with his mother – his heart is broken. It’s hard for him to understand why his trainer would prefer to be intimate with his mother than to be with him…

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Get Real 1998

Get Real 1998

Get Real 1998
R | 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 14 May 1999 (UK)

Storyline

This tenderly romantic film tells the story of Steve, a young man in a British prep school, as he struggles with coming out and falling in love with the class jock, John… who, amazingly, falls in love with him as well.

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From Beginning to End 2009

From Beginning to End 2009

From Beginning to End 2009
Do Começo ao Fim (original title)
1h 34min | Drama, Romance | 27 November 2009 (Brazil)

Storyline

Two brothers develop a very close relationship as they are growing up in an idyllic and happy family. When they are young adults their relationship becomes very intimate, romantic, and sexual.

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Was soll bloß aus dir werden 1984

Was soll bloß aus dir werden 1984

Was soll bloß aus dir werden 1984
1h 34min | Family | TV Movie 27 March 1984

Storyline:

In this 1984 West German film, a 12 year-old street kid in a slum of Berlin struggles to stay afloat through a commitment to his compassionate teacher and ambivalent classmates, aged 11-14, who also bear the harsh marks of impoverishment, which manifest themselves in peer ruthlessness and disrespect of adults. Movie does not, however, end in a tragic manner. Film contains frequent profanity, alcoholism, mild crime and peer violence, brief male nudity. This describes the film in German, without dubbing or subtitles.

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Bang Gang 2015

Bang Gang 2015

Bang Gang 2015
Bang Gang (une histoire d’amour moderne) (2015)
1h 38min | Drama | 13 January 2016 (France)

Storyline

In the well-to-do suburbs of a small town, a group of pretty average, well-adjusted sixteen and seventeen year olds are ordinary adolescents who take a singular path.

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