Cross My Heart and Hope to Die 1994

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die 1994

Cross My Heart and Hope to Die 1994
Ti kniver i hjertet (original title)
1h 36min | Drama | 5 August 1994 (Norway)

Storyline

The young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60’ies Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.

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Sugar 2004

Sugar 2004

Sugar 2004
R | 1h 18min | Drama, Romance | 22 May 2004 (Canada)

Storyline

A provocative and challenging coming-of-age story between Cliff, a restless suburban teen, and Butch, a street hustler, on the eve of his 18th birthday. Butch challenges Cliff’s sheltered upbringing by exposing him to a different world that changes Cliff forever.

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Sebastian – When Everybody Knows 1995

Sebastian - When Everybody Knows 1995

Sebastian – When Everybody Knows 1995
När alla vet (original title)
1h 28min | Drama | 3 November 1995 (Norway)

Storyline:

16 year old Sebastian behaves strangely. He stays alone in his room for hours thinking and doesn’t talk to his parents as he used to. He refuses to explain to them what his problem is. The truth is that he slowly discovers that he feels stangely for his best friend Ulf. Soon he is going to accept his true self – that he is gay and that he is also in love with his best friend Ulf.

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Asfour Stah 1990

Asfour Stah 1990

Asfour Stah 1990

Asfour Stah 1990
1h 38min | Drama, Comedy | 26 September 1990 (France)

Storyline

A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds – the loving world of Muslim women and the vastly different, harsher world of men – while also dealing with his own budding sexuality.

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L’amant de poche 1978

L'amant de poche 1978

L’amant de poche 1978

L’amant de poche 1978
1h 35min | Comedy | 15 February 1978 (France)

Storyline:

“The Pocket Lover” tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julien will have to face several obstacles, which includes his parents opposition with this affair, and Julien’s own perceptions about the woman’s line of work, going out with wealthy guys.

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La Luna 1979

La Luna 1979

La Luna 1979
2h 22min | Drama | 29 August 1979 (Italy)

Storyline:

Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate attempts to wean the youth off the drug result in an incestuous relationship, but also in a possibility to reunite Joe–maybe even herself–with his real father, whose existence she has kept a secret from him.

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The Mudge Boy 2003

The Mudge Boy 2003

The Mudge Boy 2003
R | 1h 34min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 2010 (Belgium)

Storyline:

Sensitive, somewhat effeminate farm-boy Duncan Mudge can barely cope with grim, since Ma’s death even gloomier father Edgar’s manly expectations, and seeks comfort in petting a chicken he associates with his late Ma. Macho mate Perry Foley, who has it physically even harder on his dad’s farm, usually comforts Duncan and defends his ‘wimpiness’ to their cocky ruffian mates Travis, Scotty and Brent. But although clearly attracted to gentle gentile Ducan himself, the socially unacceptable suggestion of ‘sissy’ homosexuality makes Perry over-react and turn on his friend.

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Return to Innocence 2001

Return to Innocence 2001

Return to Innocence 2001

Return to Innocence 2001
1h 50min | Drama | 13 November 2007 (USA)

Stroyline:

Glen Erskine: A family man and the director and chief of staff of New Horizons, a group home and counseling center for abused boys. Glen is a child psychologist with impeccable credentials who has an international reputation as one of the foremost scholars in the study of male adolescent sexuality. Tommy Jackson: A victim of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse since he was an infant, Tommy is taken into custody by the Department of Social Services and placed at New Horizons after his mother is arrested by the FBI for making pornographic videos of him and selling them on the Internet. At New Horizons, Tommy’s young life finally seems to be coming together. But when the nature of the love he shares with one of his counselors is discovered and their relationship is destroyed, Tommy strikes back by accusing the man he believes responsible – Glen Erskine. With that accusation, the stage is set for a dark, disturbing, and yet poignant tale of love, commitment, betrayal, forgiveness, and redemption^×and a riveting look at the processes and agendas involved in the prosecution of a child sex abuse case.

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