Cinema Directory

Summary: Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures...

Languages: French,

Comments: A new provocation from the director of "Romance"

Summary: A Ma Soeur! is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, but harbouring jealousy and similar desires. Their actions, however, have unforeseen tragic consequences for the whole family.

Languages: French Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: Sometimes you just have to be yourself.

Summary: Ludovic is a small boy who cross-dresses and generally acts like a girl, talks of marrying his neighbor's son and can not understand why everyone is so surprised about it. His actions lead to problems for him and his family.

Summary: Based on a story by Mariya Khalfina. Shura Olevantseva leads a happy life with her children and her loving husband Pavel. One day she hears the news that the woman, who once loved her husband, died and that Sveta, Pavel's daughter about whom he knew nothing, is now an orphan. It wasn't easy for Shura to welcome Sveta into her home. It was even more difficult to win her heart, and to give her back the joy of childhood and the belief that she's not alone.

Summary: In 1973, in Santiago of Chile of the first socialist president democratically elected in a Latin-American country, President Salvador Allende, the principal of the Saint Patrick School, Father McEnroe (Ernesto Malbran) makes a trial of integration between students of the upper and lower classes. The bourgeois boy Gonzalo Infante (Matías Quer) and the boy from the slum Pedro Machuca (Ariel Mateluna) become great friends, while the conflicts on the streets leads Chile to the bloody and repressive military coup of General Augusto Pinochet on 11 September 1973, changing definitely their lives, their relationship and their country.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: Anyone can make it if they know how to shake it.

Summary: Eleven-year-old New York City public school kids journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reveal pieces of themselves and their world along the way. Told from their candid, sometimes hilarious perspectives, these kids are transformed, from reluctant participants to determined competitors, from typical urban kids to "ladies and gentlemen," on their way to try to compete in the final citywide competition. Providing unique insight into the incredible cultural diversity that is New York City, this film profiles several kids from three schools (out of 60) at this dynamic age, when becoming that "cool" teenager vies for position with familiar innocence, while they learn the merengue, rumba, tango, the foxtrot and swing.

Summary: Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like. During the two holy days sin does not exist: God is dead and can't see what is happening. Everything is accepted and allowed, without remorse. Year after year, Madeinusa and her sister Chale, and her father Don Cayo, the Mayor and local big shot, maintain this tradition without questioning it. However, everything changes with the arrival in the village of Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, who will unknowingly change the destiny of the girl.

Languages: English

Comments: In an old house in Paris, that was covered with vines...

Summary: The schoolgirl adventures of Madeline, a flame-haired orphan, are lovingly adapted from Ludwig Bemelmans's classic children's books. His sly and witty writing is transferred to this first-rate film, one that should not be thought of merely as childhood entertainment. Spunky Madeline is most adept at finding trouble. She is also a quick-witted and likeable child who can solve almost any problem. Her latest scheme is to keep her school, which is also her home, from being sold by its owner, the recently widowed Lord Covington (Nigel Hawthorne). Unlike most youthful movie fare, this adventure boasts high production values that wisely include colour ful Parisian locations. Hatty Jones is all spunky self-sufficiency and sweet innocence in the title role, and Frances McDormand is quite humorous as the stern school-mistress, Miss Clavel. "--Rochelle O'Gorman"

Comments: Ett härligt sommaräventyr av Astrid Lindgren.

Summary: Meg and her little sister Lisabet live with their family in Junibacken. Their next door neighbours have a son Abbe whom Meg is fond of though he scares her with ghost stories.

Summary: A musical group of kids comes to Argentina to roll a film. In the heat of shooting, the children are themselves related to a police history. Second largometraje rolled in Argentina by the musical group the Parchís, had - taking advantage of the great success the group between the Argentine boys one third part, all directed by Mario Sábato. [translated online from Spanish]

Comments: In a small town, on a peaceful lake, a mythical creature is about to surface.

Summary: Radio psychologist Jack Black takes his children Joshua and Ashley on a 'vacation' to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster "Orky" may not be just a gimmick to attract tourists after all. In fact, Orky may enable them to get closer to their workaholic dad, and help stop local polluters who are dumping toxic waste into Orky's home.

Summary: Delightful comedy about two trouble causing best friends who compete for the new girl in school.

Summary: Moss On The Asphalt

A boy-poet lives in seemingly romantic environment of a mountain village. Little dog, white rabbit, snow and treetops are his friends. His first rhymes are written there. Suddenly, everything changes. This little man needs a lot of strength to overcome conflicts with new environment, with the rhythm of big town, where he moved. However, only true values remain, and the boy finds his place under the sun. And, even the parents learn something from their children...

Summary: In A MAINS NUES (2005), Laeti is a 14 year old girl on holiday at the sea and experiences her first sexual experience with a man in his twenties.

Summary: What happens to 10-year-old Maya when she discovers that the world's best dad has a long-legged, dark-haired secret? If your Indian name is Maya Stoneface, you put on your war paint with your best friend Silvia and raise the war-cry. But Maya finds herself alone after Silvia moves away and Mom goes to the hospital to have her baby brother. It is then that Maya discovers her independence and that's when things begin to happen.

Maya meets Gloria who has determined that parents are best kept separately, but Maya, like most children, wants a mother and a father in the same place, and takes matters into her own hands. Even if Dad is blinded by love, he hadn't counted on Indians being able to see in the dark. As long as Maya gets to decide, the cowboys will never win.

Maya Stoneface is a fresh and humorous family film which at its core is firmly anchored in a warm and close father/daughter relationship.

Summary: The little mermaid rescues a prince from drowning and falls in love with him. To be with him, she makes a deal with the evil sorceress: her beautiful voice against a life on land. It seems to work at first, the prince is enchanted with her lovely appearance. But the memory of a foreign princess still haunts him: The one who found him on the beach where the mermaid had left him, and whom he (of course) believes to be his saviour. To resolve this mistake is too much for the mute little mermaid, and not even her father, king of all seas, can help her in the impending catastrophe.

Summary: When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man. When the pimp's wife and daughter are murdered in the course of the "manhunt", he swears revenge on everyone who had anything to do with it.

Summary: Malachi's Cove, adapted from the Trollope story of the same name, is set in nineteenth-century Cornwall, where Mally (Veronica Quilligan), a wild-haired girl, lives alone, earning a hard living collecting seaweed to sell for fertilizer. Competition for the resource comes from Barty (Dai Bradley), the farm lad who dares to venture out to the more dangerous rocks and pools. When his recklessness leads to a near-tragic accident it is Mally who puts aside her resentment to rescue him. Accused by his father of murdering the boy, Mally is defended by Barty's own silent admission of love for her. A charming film for All The Family...

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

Summary: A group of adventurous kids must take care of a lost African elephant and deliver it to safety, without their mom finding out. What they didn't expect was that they would fall in love with the big fella. A fun family adventure for all ages.

Summary: The film is set in 1890s London. Sarah lived happily in India with her father, but when he was drafted into military service he placed Sarah in a boarding school in London. Sarah was lonely, but she made some good friends at school. Suddenly her father was announced dead in a mine accident and Sarah became an orphan. Now she goes on a long and dangerous journey to find her father, who loved her and called her a "little princess".

Summary: Phase 4: feeling lonely and misunderstood. According to Mark's psychologist pal, this is the phase Mark will soon be entering if he continues living the way he does. Mark, a successful construction engineer, has hit a rough spot in his marriage. His wife Corinna has gone back to work much sooner than the couple had planned. An expert consultant, she is urgently needed by her former boss to help save his company and hundreds of jobs. The thing is, the couple's children are still very young and need constant attention. Mark agrees to spend more time with them, but then he, too, is needed for a very special and prestigious job in Dubai. As Corinna becomes more and more involved in her work, Mark grows increasingly exhausted, frustrated, lonely and misunderstood. It's Phase 4! His family obligations are now encroaching upon his own workday and impairing his concentration. And when he's passed up for the Dubai project, enough is enough. He moves in with his psychologist friend in a last-ditch effort to avoid Phase 5: separation.
Phase 4 : sentiment d'être seul et incompris. A en croire le copain psychologue de Mark, c'est la phase où ce dernier ne va pas tarder à entrer s'il ne change rien à sa vie. Mark, ingénieur en bâtiment, a un quotidien professionnel bien rempli. Un quotidien familial aussi, d'autant plus que tout ne va pas pour le mieux dans son couple. Sa femme Corinna a recommencé à travailler beaucoup plus tôt que le couple ne l'avait prévu. Expert consultant, elle a accepté à la demande de son ancien patron de réintégrer son poste pour sauver sa société et des centaines d'emploi. Reste que les enfants sont encore très jeunes et ont constamment besoin d'attention. Mark accepte de s'en occuper davantage, mais on lui fait miroiter, à lui aussi, un projet très intéressant et prestigieux à Dubai. Corinna, de son côté, est de plus en plus prise par son travail. Et Mark se sent désespérément fatigué, frustré, seul et incompris. Pas de doute, c'est la phase 4 ! Ses obligations familiales empiètent maintenant sur son travail quotidien et troublent sa concentration. Et lorsqu'il se fait doubler pour le projet de Dubai, la coupe est pleine. Il débarque avec armes et bagages chez son psy de copain dans l'ultime espoir d'éviter la phase 5 : la séparation.
Phase 4: Du fühlst dich einsam und unverstanden. Wenn es stimmt, was Marks Psychologenfreund sagt, wird Mark bald in diese Phase kommen - falls er weitermacht wie bisher. Mark, ein erfolgreicher Bauingenieur, steckt mit seiner Ehe in einer Zwickmühle. Seine Frau Corinna muss früher als geplant in den Job zurückkehren. Ihr Chef braucht sie dringend als Expertin und Consultant, um sein Unternehmen und damit hunderte von Arbeitsplätzen zu retten. Allerdings sind die Kinder von Mark und Corinna sind noch klein und benötigen ständige Aufmerksamkeit. Mark erklärt sich bereit, mehr Zeit mit ihnen zu verbringen. Doch dann wird auch er für einen speziellen, prestigeträchtigen und dringenden Auftrag aus Dubai gebraucht. Als Corinna immer mehr von ihrer Arbeit in Anspruch genommen wird, fühlt Mark sich zusehends erschöpft, frustriert, einsam und unverstanden. Phase 4! Seine familiären Verpflichtungen beeinträchtigen seine Arbeitsleistung und seine Konzentration. Und als das Dubai-Projekt ihm doch nicht anvertraut wird, ist das Maß voll. In einem allerletzten, verzweifelten Versuch zieht er zu seinem Psychologenfreund um Phase 5 zu verhindern: die Trennung.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0; French, Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0

Comments: Remember when you couldn't wait for your life to begin... and then, one day, it did?

Summary: Rural Louisiana, summer of 1957, Elvis is King. At 14, Dani is coming of age. Her older sister is beautiful, smart, and off to Duke in the fall; her mom's pregnant with number four (dad wants a son), and dad's pretty strict. Life gets sweeter when 17-year old Court Foster, his widowed mom, and little brothers move into the vacant farm next door. Court likes Dani's high spirits and direct way, and though he has a man's responsibilities on the farm, they go off swimming sometimes. The waters of adolescence are deeper than Dani realizes as hers and Court's feelings get jumbled. Then Mother Nature throws wrenching surprises at Dani, and she must come to terms with new emotions.

Comments: For an ex-CIA agent, the job of bodyguard for a twelve-year old girl should have been a breeze...

Summary: Set in Italy, a wealthy U.S. family hires a bodyguard to protect Sam (Jade Malle), their 12 year old girl from being kidnapped for ransom. The bodyguard is John Creasy (Scott Glenn), a burned-out and mentally broken ex-CIA agent, who is haunted by images of his past. Although Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a twelve year old, he reluctantly accepts the assignment after persuasion from his friend David (Joe Pesci). At first, Creasy barely tolerates Sam and her annoying questions about his past life and personal experiences. However, as he begins to genuinely care for Sam, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Sparked by her parents frequent absences, Creasy quickly becomes a friend and father figure to her. He offers her advice, guidance and help with her track and field running. Creasy's love for Sam begins to ease his trouble conscience.

When Creasy is car-jacked and Sam is kidnapped his new life is destroyed. Despite the serious injuries sustained during the kidnapping, Creasy vows Sam's safe return, and vengeance on her kidnappers. By systematically hunting down the individuals involved Creasy slowly gets closer and closer to finding Sam.

Languages: English, Spanish, French,

Comments: A Promise To Protect. A Vow To Avenge

Summary: In Mexico City, a former assassin swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect.

Languages: English, DTS; English, Dolby Digital 5.1; French, Dolby Digital 5.1

Summary: A Russian peasant emigrates to America, with a promise to send for his mother and young daughter when he is settled. His daughter follows shortly after, but she ends up on a ship bound for England, where she is renamed Suzie and raised by a British family. Many years later, Suzie's talent for singing and dancing sees her accepted into a Paris dance troupe where she befriends Lola, a fellow dancer from Moscow; Dante, an egotistical tenor and Cesar, a handsome brooding gypsy. All is well until the Nazis march into Paris, and Suzie's Russian Jewish background places her in danger. She must decide whether to leave Cezar and her friends and continue the search for her father in America.

Comments: While the flame burns her spirit lives.

Summary: Through lyrical images, Manganinnie journeys across mountains towards the coast with Joanna, a white girl, in search of Manganinnie's vanished tribe. The poignancy of this film derives from the Aboriginal woman's gradual realization that her people and the tribal way of life are forever gone. It is the story of the Black Drive of 1830, the near-genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

Comments: Little Susie is very young, very pretty, and very very evil!

Summary: Archaelogists open egyptian tomb and release evil spirit. Daughter of one of the professors gets possessed by freed enity and the gorey murders begin.

Languages: English

Summary: A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.

Summary: Florence, a young irresponsible mother and her precocious daughter, Eugenia, have an unusual relationship. The roles between the two are reversed. Florence is totally inept at caring for a daughter, whereas Eugenia, only 10 years old, shows maturity and responsibility far beyond what her age might lead you to suppose.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: Born in the magic of youth. Forged by the passions of war. Their love knew no boundaries.

Summary: In 1931, a chartist lands a plane in the Arctic to map unrecorded regions. He takes an Eskimo boy with tuberculosis back to civilisation where he is healed and indoctrinated in a Catholic foster home. The Eskimo meets a "half-breed" girl (father was French, mother was Indian) and they fall in love. They are separated and the Eskimo returns to the Arctic. Years later he encounters the chartist again and sends a message to his love via the chartist. He joins the air force to fight Hitler, and runs into her again, but there are obstacles that threaten his friendships and relationships.

Summary: A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood.

Summary: Julie, a 9 year old girl bumps into a marathon runner who loses his amulet. Julie then has to run across Amsterdam to return the amulet to the runner.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: One family. Infinite degrees of separation.

Summary: Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets.
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Summary: Fairytale-like youth film after Peter Gestel's book, loosely based upon the medieval miracle play Mariken van Nimwegen. Master Aesculaap is assigned by the countess to chase the eccentric quack Archibald from the city. Archibald withdraws to the Waanwoud, where he finds a baby one day: Mariken. He teaches her how to eat porridge and gives her some wise lessons. When a vagabond steals their goat, Mariken decides to get a new one in the city, where she gets involved in a great adventure. She meets the God-fearing Zwarte Weeuw, who is keeping her cousin prisoner and meets a pageant player who is dressed up as the devil and takes her to his company. When Mariken accompanies the pageant players to the castle of the chilly, childless countess, the latter is so enchanted with the upright little girl that she wants to adopt her.

Languages: Deutsch

Summary: A famous German author visits Torre di Venere, an Italian seaside resort, with his immediate family during the 1920s. While there, he encounters the rise of facism and the sad decline of liberal European values into a vulgar kind of barbarism.

Summary: This gentle, mildly satiric French comedy follows the romantic adventures of a group of men who have gone with their children to spend the summer in their vacation homes on the Atlantic coast. Some of the men are divorced, some still married, but all are open to meeting new women while their wives and girlfriends are back in Paris. Much of the humor derives from the reversal of the usual situation - - the men are off with the children while the women are back home tied to work and career. The film is loosely structured and episodic as it simultaneously follows the stories of a number of characters. Particularly engaging in the large cast are Michel Robin as an eccentric publisher with a avidly jealous wife and Helene Vincent as a frumpy divorcee constantly on the prowl for a new mate.

Summary: In this bittersweet tale of couplings and uncouplings, a group of friends hole up for their annual Christmas gathering in Chamonix.

Summary: Eleven-year-old petty criminal Maroa lives with her violent grandmother Brigida in Caracas. After her boyfriend Carlos is involved in a shooting, Maroa is arrested and sent to a school where Joaquin conducts the youth orchestra, and he asks the naturally talented Maroa to join. Days now revolve around the classes that Joaquin, the shy and unconventional teacher, gives her. He is immediately interested in this talented young girl, who lacks all notion of discipline. Joaquin, the only person to offer hope in the midst of her rejection, finds that through Maroa, his world has also changed forever.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

Comments: An erotic fantasy horror from the tortured pen of The Marquis de Sade.

Summary: A woman named Justine is (willingly) used and abused by all manner of perverts, freaks and sexual deviants.

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Summary: Very beautiful young girls play in gloomy woods as they hit a carriage dragged by charming boys. They step in and are brought to a house full of marzipan. Feeling bitter what they did in sweetness, someone has to pay for their songs of life.

Summary: During a bank holdup, an early teenaged boy and girl (Karl Wagner and Marianne Svendsen) are taken hostage by the robbers. After a very pleasant captivity, during which they play Monopoly with their captors, they escape into the countryside. The two consummate their first love and have a number of delightful adventures but eventually must return to their everyday lives, only to find that they are headline news.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0

Comments: A little magic goes a long way.

Summary: Story of a wonderful little girl, who happens to be a genius, and her wonderful teacher vs. the worst parents ever and the worst school principal imaginable.

Languages: French, Unknown

Comments: On peut tout faire par amour

Summary: Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.

Summary: When Nelly Sue (13) looks up at the sky, what she sees is a lot of questions, questions such as ‘what is dark matter’? She’s completely obsessed with the universe and she wants to become an astronaut. Just like Edouard, Prince of Luxembourg, with whom she is totally in love. With these two things on her mind Nelly Sue doesn’t need anything else, so at school she is the typical lonely soul who feels she is a little better than the rest. When she finds out that the school basketball team is going to a tournament of which Eduoard is the official guardian, she finally gets a chance to meet him. There is however one little problem: she can’t play basketball! Fortunately there is Max, the new kid in town, who is an excellent sportsman in need of some help with his homework. The two strike a deal, although they dislike each other. It goes without saying that this changes as they get to know each other better, and in the end Max even teaches Nelly Sue what’s important in life - which doesn’t involve princes. He even finds a beautiful quote from Einstein to illustrate his point: “You don’t have to understand the world. You just have to find your place in it.” Sub-plots in the film are the fascination of Nelly Sue’s father for Max’s mother, and Nelly Sue’s American mother who misses New York. Nelly Sue’s is also uneasy at a bar mitzvah: she believes in science, not in religion!

Languages: Hindi, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

Comments: A child's innocence shattered by tradition.

Summary: For 12 year-old Maya, life is very simple in her village in rural India. From innocent pranks to small adventures in the nearby forest, she spends most of her time with her 11 year-old cousin Sanjay. However, their fraternal love will be shattered when Sanjay will fail to save her from her fate: as a girl becomes a woman, she is the victim of an ancient and brutal ritual that leaves her scarred for life. This ceremony, although forbidden, is still practiced in parts of the country today.

Summary: A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.

Comments: From Sandra Goldbacher, writer/director of The Governess, comes a film about the agonies and ecstasies of friendship.

Summary: One long, hot summer in seventies London, Holly and Marina make a childhood pact to be friends forever. For the troubled, unpredictable Marina, with her seemingly glamorous father and her Valium-addicted mother, Holly stays the only constant in a life of divorcing parents, experimental drugs and fashionable self-destruction. Meanwhile, Holly buries herself in books out of feelings of frustration with her over-protective mother and a nagging insecurity around her beautiful and possessive best friend. She holds just one secret from Marina, her increasing passion for Marina's brother Nat. As the years roll by, the girls experience everything life has to offer, sex, love, loss and rock 'n roll. But eventually for Holly, a friendship which has never been equal gradually begins to feel like a trap.

Languages: English, French,

Comments: Welcome to Girl World.

Summary: Cady Heron (Lohan) is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels (Bennett), the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George (McAdams).

Comments: When Satan Goes Wild -- watch out for the... NIGHT CHILD.

Summary: The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child. Actually, it's worse than that: the deceased youngster was a murderess.

Comments: Love. Longing. Magic. (USA)

Summary: Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a young child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a young bride who breaks her leg in trying to escape from a locked toilet stall, which ruins her chance at a romantic honeymoon in the Caribbean. One of the guests is Joy, a Fillipio chore woman attending the event with her employer, and who doesn't speak any Hewbrew or English, and who is guilt-ridden after having left her young son behind in the Philippines.

Languages: English

Comments: A cast of favorites in the Charming . . . Romantic . . . Tuneful Love Story of the Early 1900s !

Summary: St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however, barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been transfered to a nice position in New York, which means that the family has to leave St. Louis and the St. Louis Fair.

Comments: Ein völlig verrücktes Familien-Abenteuer (A totally crazy adventure for the whole family)

Summary: Children have many wishes, and some of these are especially great ones. Marietta has just the one - she wants a dog. Her parents are not keen, especially as they have their four year old son Tobias to look after too. For years Marietta pestered her parents, but to no avail. But then, on her tenth birthday she gets a magic stone from the child the family is sponsoring in Africa. Allegedly it can fulfil a person’s greatest wish... One day, Marietta sits on her bed with the magic stone in her hand and wishes as hard for a dog as never before - she would give everything in exchange. A minute later the most amazing thing has happened: the sweetest dog in the world is sitting outside her door. Marietta is delighted and wants to show her brother the miracle, but he seems to have disappeared. After searching frantically without success Marietta suddenly discovers a mole on the dog’s stomach, just where Tobias has one. Tobias must have turned into a dog in accordance with Marietta’s greatest wish!

Comments: Die Welt ist voller Wunder. Und Sie werden sie sehen. Ab 8. Mai im Kino. (The world is full of wonders. And you will see them. On May 8th.)

Summary: When the strong friendship between a precocious eleven year old girl and a middle-aged family man is attacked for being unhealthy and immoral, the two run away together, but their care-free days are numbered.

Summary: An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

Summary: Two lonely boys from opposite backgrounds, Daniel Latimer (Mark Lester), and Ornshaw (Jack Wild), become firm friends at a south London comprehensive school. Things change when Daniel notices ten-year old Melody Perkins (Tracy Hyde) in dancing class and falls in love. At first Melody rebuffs his advances, but gradually she reciprocates and returns his feelings. Despite initially aiding his friend, Ornshaw becomes bitter at being shoved aside and the two friends fight. Daniel and Melody announce to their perplexed parents, in all seriousness, that they intend to get married. This marriage is not planned for the distant future, but as soon as possible. Ornshaw performs a mock ‘marriage’ ceremony under a derelict railroad viaduct, and their rampaging classmates collude in helping them evade pursuing teachers and parents. Ultimately, the young ‘newlyweds’ escape into the sunset on a railroad handcar.

Summary: A bored small-town tomboyish girl, comforted only by the presence of her understanding nanny, fantasizes that she'll get a ticket out of town when her older brother comes home for his wedding. The third screen adaptation of the eponymous novel by Carson McCullers. Made for television.

Summary: Take another trip back to the tiny village in the Swedish countryside where the children's imaginations lead them into a series of magical and exciting adventures, as Astrid Lindgren's wonderful characters return in this charming tale directed by Lasse Hallstrom.

Summary: A typical Wednesday in the busy French harbour town of Nantes. Whilst children enjoy their day off school, the adults carry on with their frantic and increasingly stressful lives. One such adult is Martin, a compulsive gambler who has agreed with his ex-wife to spend the day with his young daughter, Victoria. Having convinced his ex-wife that he is the last person to take charge of an infant, Martin takes Victoria home to meet his mistress, Sophie. Unfortunately for Martin, Sophie has just decided to end their relationship. Homeless and tired, Martin then realises he has to attend a court hearing for non-payment of maintenance money to his first wife. As things get increasingly fraught for Martin, it is Victoria who ends up keeping her father out of trouble...

Summary: Mérette is a pretty child, living within a patrician, strictly Calvinist family in the Switzerland of the 19th century. She is happy, until her mother dies, and Mérette blames God, and gives up her religion. Her family turns against her, the villagers reject her, and her priest drives her into isolation.

Languages: Français

Summary: Two divorced French guys, Mathias (Vincent Lindon) and Antoine (Pascal Elbé), become a modern day odd couple when they move in together in London, along with their two kids. But while establishing house rules is easy, handling relationships with the opposite sex is another matter! Domestic bliss is jeopardised when Mathias falls for the charms of Audrey (Virginie Ledoyen), another French ex-pat living in London.

Summary: A study of minor events in the adolescence of a boy growing up in small towns. Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after one year of high school, has to go to live with his mother in the south of France. She is a seamstress living in a tiny apartment with her lover Jose, a Spanish farm worker. Daniel would like to continue school, but his mother cannot afford it, so she sends him to work as an apprentice in a moped repair shop. Daniel wiles away his time in the shop, and learns about girls from the other boys in town. When he returns to visit his grandmother next year, it is obvious that he has grown up faster than his old friends.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; French, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: There is evidence to suggest that children are highly susceptible to paranormal phenomena. They see what adults cannot. They believe what adults deny. And they are trying to warn us.

Summary: It's been six years since the Rollins family just up and left and now the troubled Solomon family has come from Chicago, to rebuild their lives following their sons hospitalization due to their daughter's drunk driving accident. But as they start to settle in something odd and strange begins to occur to their son. Could something supernatural be at work, and did the previous family just leave...or are they still here? Trapped in the only place they've ever known? And what did cause their deaths? Most of all...is this 'killer' still very much alive?

Summary: As an ex-husband (Johnny Dorelli), his wife (Laura Antonelli), and their two children take a vacation on the ex's new yacht, the scene is set for disaster when it becomes clear that the ex-husband knows absolutely nothing about yachting. The crew quickly find out that the Mediterranean has its own challenges, and the wife discovers her particular nemesis in a thoroughly unlikeable playboy (Christian De Sica) who has his sights set a little too firmly on her alone. The interaction between the triad of wife, ex-husband, and playboy reaches a final resolution as the yacht moves closer to its own special fate.

Summary: When little Micaela, who loves to draw everything around her, discovers that the nefarious Dr. Black plans to change the world from glorious color to glum black and white, she takes it upon herself to...( read more read more... ) save the world from his evil plot! When Dr. Black and his accomplices make a move to test their secret "color-stealing" formula in the forest, Micaela finds the secret Wisdom Tree that turns her into an animated girl and gives her superpowers.

Summary: De 10-jarige Liesje (Wenneke) leeft samen met haar moeder (Geert de Jong), al jaren gescheiden van haar vader (Peter Faber), die in Rio de Janeiro woont. Tenminste, dat denkt ze. In werkelijkheid zit haar vader in een Nederlandse gevangenis. Door het recente overlijden van haar grootvader, aan wie zij zeer gehecht was, verlangt Liesje nog meer naar haar vader en de wens om haar vader te bezoeken wordt steeds sterker. Dan vindt Liesje een waardevol postzegelalbum dat haar opa haar heeft nagelaten. In het geheim besluit zij de postzegels te verkopen om op die manier het geld voor een reis naar Rio bij elkaar te krijgen....
Taal: Nederlands

Summary: Parallel stories of Eros set in 200 B.C. Nomadic shepherds, plagued by drought, happen on a fishing encampment with plentiful fresh water. The local men are away but will return when it rains; the shepherds stay to refresh their flock until the rain comes. A shepherd lad and a local girl, both on the verge of puberty, start a mating dance. Also, one of the shepherds approaches a beautiful local woman, inviting her to sleep with him. How will she respond? She's married, her husband at sea for the week. Is love forever or temporary? A subtext dramatizes the capture of fish, birds, foxes, and other animals: their fates seem arbitrary.

Summary: This is the story of Sylvia, who looses her stepchildren on a shopping trip in Poland. For fear of loosing her husband's love, too, she is unable to tell him what has happened and returns home, pretending anything is fine. When realising the missing of his children, the father starts a desperate retrieval. He is ready to give up anything in order to find them. Sylvia supports him in any way; she tries to comfort him and takes care of his hope's vulnerable flame. For the first time he really needs her. While the children are trying their best to get home, the police fails in detecting their whereabouts. When a very vague trace leads to Poland, the parents hit the road to find their children on their own.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

Comments: Capture the spirit of Christmas with this timeless classic!

Summary: Kris Kringle -- unbeknownst to cynical, market-minded adults, the real Santa Claus -- is hired to play himself at Macy's Department Store, New York City. His gentle, joyous spirit and magical powers soon transform those around him, including a little girl and her world-weary mother.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

Comments: An emotional earthquake!

Summary: Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate.

Summary: Desperate for the love of Karen Elise (and for some pubic hair too), Dennis P. calls heaven for some help and gets it.

Summary: Three young teens (Jakob Katz, Troels Asmussen, Lina Englund) find themselves in a time warp that takes them back to the middle ages. When our heroine is there captured by some nasty knights, the boys go back to their own time but then return with one of their little sisters (Amalie Ihle Alstrup) to rescue their friend.

Comments: An extraordinary dream quest to rescue a world out of balance.

Summary: In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.

Comments: There Is Evil........On The Other Side

Summary: In New York, the former NYPD detective Ben Carson is hired to work as night watch of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that was partially destroyed by fire many years ago. Ben became alcoholic and was retired from the police force after killing a man in a shooting. His marriage was also destroyed and now he is living in the apartment of his younger sister Angie. However he has not been drinking for three months and sees the employment as a chance to rebuild his life. When he goes to the rounds in his first night, he finds that the mirrors are impeccably clean and his colleague explains that the former night watch was obsessed by the mirrors. After a couple of nights, Ben sees weird images in the mirrors, but due to the lack of credibility of his past, his ex-wife Amy believes he has hallucinations as a side effect of his medication. When Angie is found brutally murdered in her bathtub, Ben discovers that there is an evil force in the mirror that is chasing him and jeopardizing his family.

Languages: Lithuanian

Summary: A glimpse at three children at play: a boy interested in war games and being in charge, a young girl who has tired of his domination and wants to fix him a pretend meal, and a newcomer, an older girl willing to cater to the boy but also mature enough to use her feminine attractions to gain her own control. The story ends with the young girl deserted by the boy and sadly returning home.

Summary: When her mother died, 10 year old girl Misa's world stopped. And when her father, along with her new girlfriend, wants to spend the summer in the Swedish province Skåne she refuses to come with them. Misa's father reluctantly agrees that Misa stays with her grandmother in Arjeplog over the summer instead. In the deep forest of northern Sweden Misa find more than she ever could imagine; she meets a wolf with cubs that Misa develop a deep and strange connection with. But the wolf spreads fear in the small village and someone has hired a poacher to kill it and her cubs...

Languages: English

Summary: Everyone has Halloween but in Yorkshire, we have Mischief Night - for one night of the year, madness and mayhem rule! In the course of one night, the barriers that separate two families (one white, one Asian) come tumbling down in a blaze of crime, clubbing, love and fireworks, changing all their lives forever.

Comments: The life of Beatrix Potter is the most enchanting tale of all.

Summary: Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne's first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents' way of life and London.

Summary: The film is a video diary by a fourteen-year-old girl. Initially, Rosan records everyday occurrences, but she soon finds that her webcam recordings are the only way to express her deeper emotions. What starts as an innocent diary becomes a desperate plea for attention.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost?

Summary: In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie's daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and estranged daughter to work together to get her back.

Comments: Gegen Pauline und Leon hat der Mistkerl keine Chance!

Summary: Pauline is a bright and energetic nine-year-old. And at times, incredibly stubborn. She and her mother, Anna, have been on their own since her father took off for America years ago. Pauline has never liked any of her mother's boyfriends, so when Anna becomes romantically involved with Pit, she keeps it a secret from her daughter. But Pauline finds out and Anna has to promise never to lie to her again.
Pit, it turns out, is a confirmed bachelor who loves his freedom and wants no part of family life. 'As much as it hurts him', he ends their affair. Anna is devastated and Pauline swears revenge. She is going to make this guy's life hell. And, at first, she succeeds. But when she finds out that her mother is still in love with Pit, Pauline makes another vow: Pit will learn to love her and live happily ever after with her mom. Reforming him is not easy, but by the time Pauline's done with him, Pit asks Anna to become his wife. But Pauline's troubles don't end there ...

Summary: Brutally candid depiction of the life of girl teen trying to make the best of a troubled home life, after moving to a new home and school.

Languages: Swedish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

Comments: Det kunde ha varit värre. Jag har faktiskt haft tur. Om man jämför...

Summary: This Oscar-nominated gem offers an honest depiction of the often-confusing nature of childhood. Shipped off to live with his uncle for the summer, 12-year-old Ingmar finds unexpected adventures with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. These experiences give him the strength to accept his life and eventually enjoy childhood.

Languages: English

Summary: On November 4, 1970 on The CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite reported on a true, horrific story that was about to rock the country. A 13-year-old girl was discovered in the small Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia who was still in diapers, barely able to walk and unable to speak. Kept in severe isolation by her parents with virtually no human contact for more than 10 years, she was confined to her bedroom, tied to her potty-chair and left to fend for herself. As Cronkite noted, it was one of the most horrendous cases of child abuse ever to surface. Much like an animal, the girl spat, sniffed and clawed. She had none of the traits or characteristics of conventional human behavior, nor could she comprehend such modern societal conveniences as silverware or bathroom etiquette. Her emotional development was practically non-existent, and she could not speak. With this heartbreaking story, the world was being introduced to a fragile, beautiful teenager who seemed and behaved like an infant, or Wild Child.

Summary: Twelve-year-old George is the new kid in the Apple Orchard housing complex. He and the other kids are terrorised by J.B. the evil superintendent. George starts out as an outsider, until he discovers he has a talent for leadership. Eventually, the other kids follow George in dreaming up a challenge to J.B.'s abuse. Surprising events bring in the police, but the cops mess up. That's when George's gang of nasty brats saves the day!

Languages: French, DTS; French, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Parents, autorité, amour, amis, rivalité, écolé, fugue, un p'tit peu gros

Summary: Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar and his friend Sarah decide to help their mutual friend, Morgan, find his father who supposedly lives in London. Each one tells their parents that they're staying with the other two, and together they sneak out to begin their search.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1

Summary: Based on several of the "Molly; An American Girl" books, this story is set in 1944 in the fictional town of Jefferson, Illinois during World War II. Molly McIntire and her family are learning to cope with the changes the war has brought to their close-knit family. Molly misses her father who went overseas to care for the wounded soldiers. As they try to keep things running smoothly, Molly enters a dance contest at school. She and her friends are lively, outgoing and always bursting with ideas. Also during this time a young girl named Emily comes from London England to live with the family and Molly learns the importance of getting along and pulling together.

Summary: In the ruins of an amphitheatre just outside an unnamed Italian city lives Momo, a little girl of mysterious origin. She is remarkable in the neighbourhood because she has the extraordinary ability to listen — really listen. By simply being with people and listening to them, she can help them find answers to their problems, make up with each other, and think of fun games.

This pleasant atmosphere is spoiled by the arrival of the Men in Grey. These strange individuals represent the Timesavings Bank and promote the idea of timesaving among the population, time which can be deposited to the Bank and returned to the client later with interest. In reality, the more time people save, the less they have. The time they save is actually lost to them, consumed by the Men in Grey. Momo, however, is a wrench in the plans of the Timesaving Bank thanks to her special personality.

Momo finds her way up to an elevated realm of a master time keeper who contrives to stop time long enough for Momo to sabotage a meeting of the gray men long enough to close their time vault when they need it, causing them to all disappear into their own cigar smoke, after which she can open the vault and release everyone's time which returns as a river of flower petals.