Dreaming about you 1992

Dreaming about you 1992

Dreaming about you 1992

Dreaming about you 1992
Anoche soñé contigo (1992)
1h 30min | Comedy, Romance | 23 October 1992 (Mexico)

Storyline:

Two teenage friends spend their summer break preparing for the sexual conquests they hope to experience. That is, until one of the boys is visited by his older, more sexually aggressive cousin, Azucena. Ushering her naïve cousin into the world of sex could take more work than Azucena realized.

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Jongens 2014

Jongens 2014

Jongens 2014

Jongens 2014
1h 18min | Drama, Romance | TV Movie 9 February 2014

Storyline:

BOYS tells the story of Sieger, a sporty, rather quiet 15-year-old boy who discovers love during the summer holidays. Sieger is training in the new athletics team for the national relay championships and meets the intriguing and unpredictable Marc. The friendship that develops seems nothing out of the ordinary, but Sieger secretly harbours stronger feelings for Marc. He engages in a lonely struggle with himself when it emerges that Marc is also in love with him. With his best friend Stef, Sieger discovers a motocross track outside the village. Events soon take on a momentum of their own as Sieger quickly becomes involved with Jessica. At last, he counts for something in the eyes of his tough older brother Eddy, who is secretly using the track to tear around on a moped. Sieger keeps quiet about this to his father, who often clashes with the rebellious Eddy since their mother’s death. Sieger tries to make peace between the two, but his mind is elsewhere, as he finds it increasingly difficult to deny his feelings for Marc.

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Salvation Army 2013

Salvation Army 2013

Salvation Army 2013

Salvation Army 2013
L’armée du salut (original title)
1h 21min | Drama | 7 May 2014 (France)

Storyline:

In a working class neighborhood in Casablanca, Abdellah, a homosexual teen, tries to build his own life within his big family, caught between an authoritarian mother and an older brother, who he adores.

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Shabbat Dinner 2012

Shabbat Dinner 2012

Shabbat Dinner 2012

Shabbat Dinner 2012
Not Rated | 14min | Short, Drama, Romance | 2012 (USA)

Storyline:

Shabbat Dinner is boring as usual for William Shore. His mother has invited two crazy hippies and their son and is doing her best to show off, his father is drunk and berating their oddball guests, and he doesn’t have much in common with their son Virgo. That is, until Virgo tells him that he has just come out as gay. In William’s room, the boys speak directly to each other about themselves, while just a few feet away the adults discuss trivialities about prep school, marrying Jewish, and nonfat ice cream. Shabbat Dinner opens a window into the world of Upper Middle Class New York society, with its myriad rules and tensions. In telling the coming out story of two boys, it addresses universal issues of finding acceptance and truth as a teenager.

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Het leven volgens Nino 2014

Het leven volgens Nino 2014

Het leven volgens Nino 2014
1h 17min | Family | 15 October 2014 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

Life is good for Nino van Doorn (8). He has a terrific brother Lucas (14), wise father Bruno and an angel of a mother, Marla. When Marla dies, Bruno can’t cope with her death. Also the values like order, responsibility, love and care they represented. The two brothers create their own world. But soon the anarchistic world is threatened by the outside world. The two brothers are prepared to fool the system but what happens is that they really become a family again.

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Just a Question of Love 2000

Just a Question of Love 2000

Just a Question of Love 2000
Juste une question d’amour (original title)
1h 28min | Drama, Romance | TV Movie 26 January 2000

Storyline:

After his gay cousin dies from hepatitis, young Laurent, who lives with his best friend Carole, falls in love with Cedric, a plant scientist. He’s afraid to inform his conservative parents that he is gay.

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De witte 1980

De witte 1980

De witte 1980

De witte 1980
1h 46min | Drama | 25 March 1980 (Belgium)

Storyline:

The second movie version, now in color, of Flemish (heimat-)author Ernest Claes’ classical novel, titled after the nickname (Dutch ‘the White’, referring to a blond male) of the main character. The smart but naughty farmhands son’s eternal mischief, pranks and disobedience drive his elders (especially teachers, family and father’s grumpy employer, a rich farmer, but also neighbors and even the kind curate whose liturgical server he is) and classmates to despair in a time when a boy’s punishment was still inevitable, swift and often severe; thus when his mother catches him skinny dipping she takes all his clothes home, forcing him to a long walk of shame, dreading dad’s wrath all the way. This version also stresses the story’s social and Flamingant aspects.

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