Plac zabaw 2016

Plac zabaw 2016

Plac zabaw 2016
1h 22min | Drama, Thriller | 18 November 2016 (Poland)

Storyline:

Final day of school in a small Polish town. It’s the very last chance for a 12 year old Gabrysia to tell her classmate that she had fallen in love with him. She sets up a secret meeting and blackmails the boy to show up. But what was supposed to be an intimate talk spins out of control and leads to an unexpected ending.

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Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song 1971

Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song 1971

Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song 1971

Sweet Sweetback’s Badass Song 1971
1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 22 March 1973 (Netherlands)

Storyline:

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from “the man” with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

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Joshua 2007

Joshua 2007
R | 1h 46min | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 13 July 2007 (USA)

Storyline:

The Cairn’s life seems to be a harmonic family: The father Brad works as a stockbroker, his wife Abby takes care of their common new-born daughter Lily, and the 9-year-old Joshua is high-talented. But the appearances are deceptive. Joshua becomes gradual jealously, that his parents give the baby more attention than him. Therefore he begins to terrorize his family.

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Apt Pupil 1998

Apt Pupil 1998
R | 1h 51min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 23 October 1998 (USA)

Storyline:

Neighborhood boy Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers that an old man living on his block named Arthur Denker (Mackellan) is Nazi war criminal. Bowden confronts Denker and offers him a deal: Bowden will not go to the authorities if Denker tells him stories of the concentration camps in WWII. Denker agrees and Bowden starts visiting him regularly. The more stories Bowden hears, the more it affects his personality.

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In the Name of 2013

In the Name of 2013

In the Name of 2013

In the Name of 2013
W imie… (original title)
1h 42min | Drama, Thriller | 8 February 2013 (Germany)

Storyline:

Adam, a Catholic priest who discovered his calling as a servant of God at the relatively late age of 21, now lives in a village in rural Poland working with behavioral problem teens who fight and yell abuses. He declines the advances of a young brunette named Ewa, saying he is already spoken for; however, celibacy is not the only reason for his rejection. Adam knows he desires men and that his embrace of the priesthood has been a flight from his own sexuality. When he meets Lukasz, the strange and taciturn son of a simple rural family, Adam’s self-imposed abstinence becomes a heavy burden.

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Moon 44 (1990)

Moon 44 (1990)

Moon 44 (1990)

Moon 44 (1990)
1h 38min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 15 February 1990 (West Germany)

Storyline:

In 2038, Earth’s mineral resources are drained, there are space fights for the last deposits on other planets and satellites. This is the situation when one of the bigger mining corporations has lost many mineral moons except one and many of their fully automatic mining robots are disappearing on their flight home. Since nobody else wants the job, they send prisoners as a last resort to defend the mining station. Among them, internal affairs agent Felix Stone, assigned to clear the whereabouts of the expensive robots. In an atmosphere of corruption, fear and hatred, Stone gets between the fronts of rivaling groups and locates the person committing sabotage.

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Baise-moi 2000

Baise-moi 2000

Baise-moi 2000
1h 17min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 28 June 2000 (France)

Storyline:

Manu and Nadine lose their last tenuous relationship with main-stream society when Manu gets raped and Nadine sees her only friend being shot. After a chance encounter, they embark on an explosive journey of sex and murder. Perhaps as a revenge against men, perhaps as a revolt against bourgeois society, but certainly in a negation – almost joyful in its senseless violence – of all the codes of a society which has excluded, raped and humiliated them. Controversial for its violence and real sex scenes: a vividly nihilist road movie set in France.

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