Day breaks on the eighth floor in a suburban neighbourhood of Lisbon and 14-year-old Bruno’s grandfather is still in hospital. Doctors give him only a few days to live. The imminence of death and the void that it will leave force Bruno to become the man of the house, where he lives with his mother Mónica, who is in her 30s, and his three-year-old sister Érica.
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Drama
Sensation Hunters / Club Paradise (1945) Christy Cabanne, Robert Lowery, Doris Merrick, Eddie Quillan, Drama, Film-Noir
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
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Bulgarian Rhapsody / Raphsodia Bulgarit (2014) Ivan Nitchev, Kristiyan Makarov, Moni Moshonov, Tatyana Lolova, Drama
Summer of 1943. The Jews of Greater Bulgaria must adhere to the laws of Germany. Moni, (17) a Jewish youngster from Sofia and Giogio the son of the commissar for Jewish affairs’ driver, meet Shelly (17) a Jewish girl from Kavala (Greece). The two face the values and limits of friendship, as they both fall in love with her, while outside rages their conflicted world.
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Kept Husbands (1931) Lloyd Bacon, Clara Kimball Young, Joel McCrea, Dorothy Mackaill, Drama, Romance
Blue collar steelworker Richard Brunton (McCrea) saves two of his fellow workers after an accident at a factory. In gratitude, his boss, millionaire Arthur Parker invites Richard for dinner with his family. Arthur’s daughter Dot (Mackaill) is instantly impressed and infatuated with Richard She vows to marry him within a month.
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Área de descanso / Rest Area (2011) Michael Aguiló, Jaroslaw Bielski, Emma Suárez, Ewa Kasprzyk, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Road movie in which a woman helps the Polish driver of a tourist bus waiting at the foot of the road, next to your disabled vehicle arrival of a replacement. Will hellish 14 days in which to find a stowaway who was traveling in the bus, and will meet truckers and law enforcement.
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Chorus (2015) François Delisle, Sébastien Ricard, Fanny Mallette, Geneviève Bujold, Drama
A separate couple meet again after ten years when we found the body of their missing son. During their forced reunion, they both handle the death of their child in their own way. Amid the guilt of losing a loved one, they haltingly move toward affirmation of life, acceptance of death and even the possibility of reconciliation.
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Revolver (1988) Toshiya Fujita, Kenji Sawada, Masatoshi Murakami, Shiori Sakura, Action, Crime, Drama
When a gun belonging to a police officer is stolen, it ends up in the hands of a student, who decides to use it on a yakuza who beat him recently. Now the police officer is hot on the student’s trail, and he’s determined to prevent the gun from going off.
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Serious Charge (1959) Terence Young, Anthony Quayle, Sarah Churchill, Andrew Ray, Drama
Howard Phillips, a vicar who’s new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar’s daughter, Hester Peters, who fears being a spinster, wants to be his wife. He tells her he’s not interested.
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Szezon / Eastern Sugar (2004) Ferenc Török, Zsolt Nagy, Judit Rezes, Ervin Nagy, Comedy, Drama
Three young friends, from the Hungarian countryside, want more sex and excitement in their life. Together they undertake a journey to Lake Balaton, where they hope to find plenty of summer fun as well as a temporary job.
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Young People (1940) Allan Dwan, Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, Charlotte Greenwood, Drama
Shirley’s last film on her 20th Century Fox contract (aged 12). Her parents (Oakie, Greenwood) decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life.
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Windwalker (1980) Kieth Merrill, Trevor Howard, Nick Ramus, James Remar, Adventure, Drama, Western
An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his ‘death’ to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of ‘Indians without a single cowboy.’
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The Love Machine (1971) Jack Haley Jr., John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon, Robert Ryan, Drama
Robin Stone, an ambitious, sex driven TV news anchor catches the eye of Judith Austin, the wife of network executive Greg Austin. She pressures Greg into promoting him to a higher position and before long, he is running the network while Greg recovers from a massive coronary.
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Kes (1969) Ken Loach, David Bradley, Brian Glover, Freddie Fletcher, Drama, Family
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper (David Bradley), a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes.
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Absolute Beginners (1986) Julien Temple, Patsy Kensit, Eddie O’Connell, David Bowie, Drama, Fantasy, Musical
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes’ novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin’s Notting Hill housing estate…
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Die Frau des Polizisten / The Police Officer’s Wife (2013) Philip Gröning, Alexandra Finder, David Zimmerschied, Pia Kleemann, Drama
Christine (Alexandra Finder) is married to police officer Uwe (David Zimmerschied) and together with their little girl Clara (played by Pia and Chiara Kleemann) they live in a small town near the Dutch border.
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