Pelle erobreren 1987

Pelle erobreren 1987

Pelle erobreren 1987
PG-13 | 2h 37min | Drama | 25 December 1987 (Sweden)

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The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner. But none of them wants to give up their dream of finding a better life than the life they left in Sweden.

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Svolochi 2006

Svolochi 2006

Svolochi 2006
1h 37min | Action, Drama, War | 2 February 2006 (Russia)

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A “Hitlerjugend” kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin. The Red Army has a gang of juveniles for a clandestine operation against the Nazis. The boys are trained by a dangerous crime lord at a top secret boot camp. They are doomed to die in the mission, or after it, just to keep it a secret. Continue reading

The Better Angels 2014

The Better Angels 2014

The Better Angels 2014
PG | 1h 35min | Biography, Drama, History | 7 November 2014 (USA)

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Indiana, 1817. The entire nation, only 40 years old and a few years removed from a second war of independence, is raw. Men, women, and children alike must battle nature and disease to survive in remote log cabins. This is young Abraham Lincoln’s world. Spanning three years of the future president’s childhood, The Better Angels explores his family, the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him forever, and the two women who guided him to immortality.

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The Quarry 2010

The Quarry 2010

The Quarry 2010

The Quarry 2010
13min | Short, Drama

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Set in the 1990’s, The Quarry takes place over the course of one day, following the main character, Charlie. 12-year-old Charlie’s best friend Natalie is moving away, and as he confronts his growing feelings towards her, he learns to cope with the added pressure from his friends and family. Charlie attempts to make Natalie’s last day one to remember.

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Limbo 2014

Limbo 2014

Limbo 2014

Limbo 2014
1h 45min | Horror | 2 February 2014 (Argentina)

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Limbo is a secluded colony of child-vampires who are anything between 4 and 120 years old, all having all been victims of ‘shameless’ adult vampires. They are led by a formidable and deeply religious old ex-nurse whose destiny in life is to find these ‘lost souls’, and bring them of age in her colony. Through teaching, religious rituals adapted from the Catholic faith, and the occasional visit to local towns for blood, she is preparing them for what God had in mind for them: the replacement old the common and ‘deeply sinful’ human, and the creation a new race of men through ‘natural cloning’, or in more lay terms, their infection by her children. But they are not the only such colony in the world, nor are they as ‘secluded’ from outside threats as they think.

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Giochi d’estate 2011

Giochi d'estate 2011

Giochi d’estate 2011
2h 21min | Drama, Romance | 8 February 2012 (France)

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The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic’s parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms with his father’s traumatizing violent outbursts in games with other children. He tries to teach Marie, who is of his age and suffers from her own relationship with her father, to feel nothing. In fact, both of them are transformed by their experience of the joys and pains of first love. A film about the first steps towards a life of one’s own.

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Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 – 1976

Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 - 1976

Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 – 1976
1h 38min | Drama | 4 March 1976 (Norway)

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Peter is telling his story about a special summer, when he was invited over to summer holiday from bickering parents, to his aunt and uncle in the country. He’s been there before, but this summer was quite one to remember.

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