France, 1798. In a forest, hunters discover and capture a 12 year old boy who appears to have spent his life living like a wild animal. He is taken to a school for deaf and dumb children in Paris, where is maltreated and used as an object of scientific curiosity. An eminent doctor, Jean Itard, takes an interest in the strange child and resolves to educate him. Little by little, the feral child, whom Itard christens Victor, responds to his benefactor’s patient attempts to civilise him.
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Peccati di gioventù (1975) Silvio Amadio, Gloria Guida, Dagmar Lassander, Fred Robsahm, Drama, Erotic
Angela is not happy about her daddy’s choice for a new wife and does everything she can to destroy her stepmother-to-be.
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Pas douce (2007) Jeanne Waltz, Isild Le Besco, Lio, Steven de Almeida, Drama
A young woman, Frédérique, finds herself alone in a deserted forest. It is the perfect place to commit suicide. But she is disturbed by two teeange boys and instinctively pulls her rifle on them. The bullet intended for herself ends up seriously wounding one of the boys. As she flees the scene of the shooting, Frédérique’s first thought is to give herself up. But then she changes her mind. No one saw her fire the gun. And who would suspect her, a 24-year-old nurse? But fate takes a cruel twist when the boy she shot, Marco, is taken to the hospital where she works. It is she who has to treat him and ensure that he recovers from his near-fatal injuries. How will Marco react when he discovers that she is the one who almost killed him?
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Je vais bien, ne t’en fais pas / Don’t Worry, I’m Fine (2006) Philippe Lioret, Mélanie Laurent, Kad Merad, Isabelle Renauld, Julien Boisselier, Drama
Lili,19, returns from a holiday in Barcelona, to find that her twin brother, Loic, has moved out of their house…
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Xi yan / Garcon d’honneur / The Wedding Banquet (1993) Ang Lee, Winston Chao, May Chin, Ya-Lei Kuei, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A gay New Yorker stages a marriage of convenience with a young woman to satisfy his traditional Taiwanese family, but the wedding becomes a major inconvenience when his parents fly in for the ceremony…
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Trzecia czesc nocy / La 3e Partie de la nuit (1972) Andrzej Zulawski, Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jan Nowicki, Drama, Horror, War
The film is set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. German soldiers slaughter Michal’s wife, son and mother. Michal and his father avoid death by remaining in the forest. Michal decides to join the resistance but before his first meeting, the Gestapo kill his go-between and chase him. During his escape he gets into an apartment of a pregnant woman and helps her with the childbirth…
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Pitfall (1948) André De Toth, Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
John Forbes is a family man who’s tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive. Life gets a little more exciting for him when he calls upon femme fatale Mona Stevens. Her boyfriend has embezzled from a store insured by Forbes’ company and has showered her with gifts using the loot. Forbes comes to collect the ill-gotten gifts, but the boyfriend is in jail, and Forbes falls hard for Mona and begins an affair. The only problem is that MacDonald, a private dick who freelances for the insurance company, has had his eyes on Mona first. The obsessed MacDonald turns the soon-to-be-released boyfriend against Forbes.
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I Ragazzi Della Roma Violenta (1976) Renato Savino, Gino Barzacchi, Alicia Bruzzo, Cristina Businari, Crime, Erotic
Gang are all bored teenagers from rich families. One of the gang prefers playing pin pall to getting a girlfriend, because playing pin ball literally gets him off. The leader of the gang indulges in violent sexual fantasies, which ultimately leads to rape and murder. This inspires a teen gang from the streets, whose members are poor kids from the ghetto.
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Schoolgirl Report 6 / Schulmädchen-Report 6. Teil – Was Eltern gern vertuschen möchten (1973) Ernst Hofbauer, Puppa Armbruster, Gerd Arnau, Ini Assmann, Comedy, Erotic
The sexual adventures of young German girls.
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Schoolgirl Report 5 / Schulmädchen-Report 5. Teil – Was Eltern wirklich wissen sollten (1973) Walter Boos, Ernst Hofbauer, Puppa Armbruster, Ekkehardt Belle, Erika Blumberger, Comedy, Drama, Erotic
Six more first-hand accounts of sexual awakening amongst school girls in the early Seventies – some with a happy end, some without.
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