
Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 years-old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor.
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Tag Archives: 2000s
Perl oder Pica / Little Secrets (2006) Pol Cruchten, Ben Hoscheit, André Jung, Nicole Max, Drama

A delightful coming-of-age story set in small town Luxembourg in 1962 about a sensitive 12-year-old boy who is struggling with puberty and a difficult family life within a society that is still recovering from the effects of the former Nazi occupation.
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Dasepo sonyo / Dasepo Naughty Girls (2006) Je-yong Lee, Ok-bin Kim, Jin-woo Park, Kyeon Lee, Comedy, Musical, Romance

Based on the popular Internet novel, “Multi-Cell Girl”, the film takes place in “No-Use High School”, a school renowned for its sexual aberrations. The student body is comprised of sexually ambiguous teenagers, and the student president and vice-present flaunt their taste for S&M.
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Jestem / I Am (2005) Dorota Kedzierzawska, Piotr Jagielski, Agnieszka Nagórzycka, Edyta Jungowska, Drama

An eleven-year-old (Piotr Jagielski) escapes from an orphanage and returns to his hometown where the other kids call him “Mongrel” and his young alcoholic mother (Edyta Jungowska) kicks him out again. Undaunted, he sets up quarters of his own in an abandoned barge.
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Dead of Winter (2014) Robert Rice, Dave Barclay, John Boylan, John Carew, Thriller

In the wilderness of Colorado teams compete in a Geocache treasure hunt that suddenly becomes a deadly game of survival.
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Große Mädchen weinen nicht / Big Girls Don’t Cry (2002) Maria von Heland, Anna Maria Mühe, Karoline Herfurth, Josefine Domes, Drama

Kati and Steffi are best friends since childhood. But as they step into adulthood, both their perfect friendship and their personalities get harshly tested by a series of unfortunate events; mainly caused by Steffi finding out her father wasn’t quite faithful to her mother, and the two girls getting hit by the consequences of her delirious revenge plans.
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Lucía y el sexo / Sex and Lucia (2001) Julio Medem, Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Drama, Romance

Lucía is a young waitress in a restaurant in the centre of Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island.
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Tang shan da di zhen / Aftershock (2010) Xiaogang Feng, Daoming Chen, Yi Lu, Fan Xu, Drama

In Tangshan, the truck driver Da Qiang, his wife Yuan Ni and their twins Fang Da, their son, and Fang Deng, their daughter, are a happy simple family. On 27 July 1976, a devastating earthquake destroys Tangshan, and Da Qiang dies while trying to rescue his children from their apartment. Read More »
Some Days Are Better Than Others (2010) Matt McCormick, Carrie Brownstein, James Mercer, David Wodehouse, Drama

Some Days are Better Than Others is a poetic, character-driven film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky.
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Snackbar (2012) Meral Uslu, Ali Cifteci, Nazmiye Oral, Dilara Horuz, Drama

This snackbar, owned by Ali, in a suburb of Rotterdam is a refuge for the local Moroccan youth. They are wild, violent and criminal. To them Ali is like an old, trustworthy Turkish uncle, understanding, funny but also strict. But what if Ali, with his addiction to gambling jeopardizes their habitat? SNACK BAR is a film, which is as hard, funny, tragic, wild and unpredictable as life itself.
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