Cinema Directory

Summary: Clement is a nine year old boy, with a camera, furrows the streets of his small provincial town, follows the grown-ups, studies them. He is curious, Clément, detective of happiness. Which adventure awaits him on the corner of the street? How is one happy? Who has the answer? He does not know! He will find answers, but not quite what he'd expected.

Summary: Young Winky Wong has emigrated from China with her parents and lives in the Netherlands where the family runs a restaurant. The language difference creates a barrier to her making friends but things improve when she becomes very attached to Sara, an old pony kept at a local stable. Despite her parents warning about the dangers of riding, the pony means everything to Winky and she takes all opportunities to spend time with it. She is heartbroken when Sara becomes ill and the owners are forced to make a tough decision concerning her future. Knowing that her parents could never afford to buy her a pony of her own, when Winky learns about Santa Claus in school she becomes obsessed with the hope that he might bring her an equine gift of her own.

Summary: Told from a child's point of view, the story follows 10-year-old Manu who arrives in southern Spain, sent by his parents who are trying to sort out a marital separation. The plan is that Manu will spend a week with a different uncle on a rotating basis. The ecentric collection of family members includes a heartsick, bisexual uncle whose lover has just ended their affair, a sharp-as-nails grandfather, and a young cousin Fuensanta who gives Manu his first taste of love.

Summary: A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a 'mom'. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.

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

Comments: It was supposed to be the safest room in the house

Summary: Three men search for a missing fortune in a big mansion while a woman hides in one of its rooms.

Summary: A devout Catholic peasant girl is corrupted by two new friends when her family moves to the city. An allegory of traditional Polish values under threat from materialism and decadence in the post-Communist era.

Summary: Young Laurette (Sophie Aubry) is mature beyond her years. Certainly, compared with her feuding parents, she's a pillar of responsible behavior. It's a good thing, too, as she has three younger siblings who would come to no good end if she weren't there to look after them. Particularly after both parents have run off screaming into the night (in different directions) after an argument. In this comedy, Laurette is left in charge on that occasion for almost two weeks. Little boss that she is, she insists that her parents come back together, but receives her comeuppance when that happy result comes about through no act of hers. Meanwhile, during her parent's absence she had had a brief fling of her own, and, pregnant, is headed off to New York city to join her boyfriend. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Summary: Kids copy their parents..

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Commentary by Director/Producer Peter Bogdanovich, Unknown

Comments: As P.T. Barnum put it, "There's a sucker born every minute."

Summary: The year is 1936. Orphaned Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal, in her film debut) is left in the care of unethical travelling Bible salesman Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal, Tatum's dad), who may or may not be her father. En route to Addie's relatives, Moses learns that the 9-year-old is quite a handful: she smokes, cusses, and is almost as devious and manipulative as he is. They join forces as swindlers, working together so well that Addie is averse to breaking up the team -- which is one reason that she sabotages the romance between Moses and good-time gal Trixie Delight (Madeline Kahn). Later, while attempting to square a $200 debt that Addie claims he owes her, Moses runs afoul of of a bootlegger (John Hillerman) and is nearly beaten to death by the criminal's twin-brother sheriff. Painfully pulling himself together, Moses gets Addie to her relatives, whereupon she adamantly refuses to leave his side.

Languages: English

Comments: A drawing that became a dream. A dream that became reality.

Summary: Eleven-year-old Anna (Charlotte Burke), the neglected daughter of Ben Cross and Glenne Headley, passes out on the school playground and dreams of visiting a house she'd previously drawn in her composition book. She imagines another visit to her "paper house" while playing hide-and-seek. Experimenting, Burke draws a figure in the window of the house; the next time she dreams, she meets a young boy, as lonely as she. Convinced that she wields a large degree of power in her pencil, Burke draws a picture of her father, Cross, hoping that in doing so he will return home. But Burke is dissatisfied with the picture, and crosses it out--whereupon Cross shows up in her dreams as a murderous stalker. What happens next is a maelstrom of psychological horror, told completely from the child's point of view.

Summary: The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train that was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of his parents and the sexual heat of his virgin girlfriend Jennifer, Alex writes his last experiences in Paranoid Park with his new acquaintances and how the guard was killed, trying to relieve his feeling of guilty from his conscience.

Summary: Rolled in Argentina, it practically happened unnoticed. And it is not to be strange. Argument: The children take identical pendants in whose interior there is a valuable material that the inventive evildoer persecutes. He kidnaps to them in half of a performance in a circus in order to make them disappear. But they free themselves and with tartazos in a kitchen they gain the crossed one.[translated online from Spanish]

Summary: This one's about soccer. A famous called soccer player Cardona (clone of pibe Argentine) is kidnapped. Of course, the police is an incompetent one next to Parchís that, now, counts a van and everything in plan Equipment A. After a trepidante street persecution at full speed, they rescue the star and they finish its last film to date (everything can happen) with a song in which they teach to us to make sport. "it does not matter to win... because the important thing... is to be able to participate".[translated online, from Spanish]

Languages: English

Comments: It's Strictly a Laugh Affair

Summary: Hayley Mills stars as Susan and Sharon, identical twins separated at birth. Neither twin knows the other exists until a simple twist of fate finds them at the same summer camp. Then, realizing who they are, they plan a little twist of their own. They switch places with high hopes of getting their parents back together.

Languages: English, French

Comments: Twice the Fun, Double the Trouble.

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Summary: Mary and Nicki are best friends and they want their unsuspecting single parent's to marry. Nicki's mother Sharon (the twin of Susan) wants to move to New York City though. With the help of Susan, they try to get the two together.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0

Comments: It could happen to you.

Summary: The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.

Comments: He lived to find beauty. He killed to possess it.

Summary: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with no smell, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.

Languages: French, Dolby Digital 5.1

Summary: After 15 years of married life, Justine and Richard agree to separate. Justine has grown tired of her husband’s drinking bouts and petty jealousies; Richard cannot forgive her for her marital infidelities. Whilst Richard buries himself in his work as a screenwriter, Justine is fully occupied with their three young children. Visiting her mother, Justine reflects on her own past – her parents’ bitter separation and her meeting with Richard…

Summary: Fun french romp about two musicians who need someone to make a recording. Christopher Lambert (very young here) falls for a studio rep. Catherine and things get a little complicated but its all in the game. Good movie to practice your french. It's like a beach read romance but with talent and chemistry.

Summary: AKA The Case of the Witch Who Wasn't
Melanie gets a surprise when she invites her pen-pal to visit; Florence is black. She brings Melanie a gift, Saint-Exupery's Little Prince, which inspires Melanie in an unexpected manner. The girls decide to brighten up their summer holiday by deciding to help an eccentric old lady who locks herself away, and who the villagers have labelled as a witch. They eventually succeed in making friends with the old woman. However, the girls become detectives when burglars break in and steal the old woman's jewels and pet pig.

Summary: A young 13-year-old girl is befriended by a boy who becomes her confidant in this sentimental children's story from Lithuania. When she is harassed by bullies, she is disappointed because her young friend did not come to her rescue. The boy does his best to rectify the situation but he is unsuccessful. Nearly 6 million people saw the feature at the time of the initial release. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Summary: Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Beatrice (Julie Delpy) is impatient to see her father (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance will be the most hateful person who will submit her and her family to abuse and humiliation.

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

Summary: Sent to Paris to visit their grandfather, the twins fall in love with France, not to mention two French boys.

Summary: Past Tense is about a girl name Sara Shay and she has these nightmares about a lady name Penny Romig when shes getting killed. As she has the nightmares she gets cuts somehow. So her mom tries to figure out who killed Penny so Sara stops having those nightmares and thinks she Penny. But little did Sara know for a couple days her dad was murdered the same day for doing his job. Her dad was a detective and he was trying to get the story about Penny and then he got shot by a gun. So who killed Penny? Who killed Sara's dad? Who was the murderer?

Summary: Sometime in the early years of the century, a boy, Apu, is born to a poor Brahmin family in a village in Bengal. The father, a poet and priest, cannot earn enough to keep his family going. Apu's sister, Durga, is forever stealing guavas from the neighbour's orchards. All these add to the daily struggles of the mother's life, notwithstanding her constant bickering with old aunt who lives with the family.

Summary: Paula (Thelma Heintzelmann) is a serious-minded 11-year-old whose well-off, well-intentioned parents have little time for her. She retreats into diary confessions to an imaginary prince-lover like in Harlequin romance-style fantasies. When two Romanian emigre boys forced into a Dickensian thievery ring slash her backpack on the subway, she is profoundly disturbed by the loss of the diary. Chubby classmate Tobi (Paul Vincent de Wall), hiding a crush, offers to help get the diary back. Both will have to pull off major parental fibs -- delightfully including passing off Tobi's bratty little sis Jenny (Constanze Spranger) as Paula at a luxury holiday camp for children of rich parents. Outfoxing violent adult criminals is another matter. Kids' ingenious success is worked out in a crisp combo of credible preadolescent behavior, suspense and class-conflict comedy. Perfs, pacing, tech and design aspects are smart.

Languages: English

Summary: In the end of the summer vacation, the fifteen year old Pauline (Amanda Langlet) travel with her older divorced cousin Marion (Arielle Dombasle) to her seaside house in Granville. While on the beach, Marion meets her old friend Pierre (Pascal Greggory), who has a crush on her, and his new acquaintance Henri (Féodor Atkine), who lives in Oceania and is spending vacation with his young daughter in the resort. In the night, they go to a casino and Marion has one night stand with Henri, feeling a great passion for him. However, Henri is a wolf and has no interest in having any commitment with Marion. Meanwhile Pauline listens and observes the behavior of the older people while she has a little but disappointing romance with a boy of her own age.

Summary: Winnie is ten. Winnie is in trouble at school. Winnie can get violent but only when the other kids disrespect her. Winnie is sensitive but she is unable to express her emotions. Winnie is a little traveler girl. She lives in a trailer in the docks area of Dublin with her mother and a few of her nine brothers and sisters. Her father is away, dead or gone. Everyday life is hard, all the more as the council authorities are intent on evicting them. But Winnie is resilient. Just like her combative mother she survives day after day, holds on, keeps hoping without even being aware of it...

Summary: A pair of young girls play at being soldiers.

Summary: Twelve sequences in the life of singer/musician Philippe Katerine.

Summary: The lonely Estrella is an intelligent teenager and good student but is outcast in school. She spends most of her time alone in school or at home, reading horror books or watching horror movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a hospital. Her favorite author is Stephen King and her only friends are Leatherface and Vampire. Angela has an unresolved trauma and has kink sex with strangers in the hospital or with the gatekeeper of her building. When a detective meets Angela and tells her that a man that raped her had not died as she thought, the frightening Angela gets Estrella at the bus stop and once at home she prepares a pizza for them. However, Estrella invites her friend Vampire to join them, and when Angela sees her daughter's friend, she feels scary, haunted by her past.

Summary: Set in the early 80s (pop culture references abound in the story), Cuento de Navidad tells the story of a group of early teenagers that find a wounded woman in the woods, dressed up as Santa. Rather than helping her, they start abusing her, and as soon as they learn she's the suspect of a bank robbery they increase the abuse in order to obtain the robbed money themselves.

Summary: When the single mother nurse Gloria has financial difficulties, her colleague and friend Dr. Ana Torres invites her to move with her six year-old daughter Vicky to her old big house where she runs a gynecologic clinic. In return, Gloria would assist Ana in her clinic in the afternoons. Sooner Gloria finds that Ana dedicates to abortion in her clinic, and also that she is lesbian and has a crush on her. When Ana gets pregnant of her lover Javier, Ana proposes an abortion, and after more than three months, the reluctant Gloria accepts her offer with tragic consequences.

Summary: An album of photographs, even those of a family we don't know, makes us remember our own situations and the experiences that affected out entire life. It is not necessarily the most important events. Very often the first scenes that come to mind are simple images, moments, sounds and smells from the years of our childhood and adolescence. So we can all recognize and remember our own images and our own feelings. Stefanos pulled out his first tooth by tying it to the door knob with a piece of string. His mother told him that if he threw it on the roof tiles a raven would bring him a ring.But he didn't wait. He stole it from his aunt Venetia's jewelry case and promised it to Marina, his first cousin. Kiss-kiss the grownups told them, but the cousins kissed on the mouth. Only during their adolescence things went too far. They had to break up. They went their own ways only to meet again at the death of Stefano's mother, 20 years later. They'll certainly have a lot to say to each other.

Summary: Sarah Daniels (Rebecca Budig) has thrown her life into her career in public relations and has survived some bad relationships. But when she meets Paul Jacobs (Lochlyn Munroe) through business, it looks like she's met her soul match. Paul has an adorable though shy twelve-year-old daughter, Lily, with whom Sarah seems to connect. But the promising situation turns menacingly bad: crises in Paul's business, Lily's illness, and humiliating circumstances for Sarah. Some evidence seems to lead back to Paul's jealous ex-girlfriend, but when a dark chapter of Sarah's life comes to light, Sarah herself considers her own sanity and possible responsibility. But the real truth won't come to the surface until Lily and Sarah are left alone and almost die in a horrible "accident."

Languages: English, French

Comments: Let the fight begin

Summary: Wendy Darling receives a visit from Peter Pan, who takes her and her brothers to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place.

Summary: A small boy is set on going on a children's summer camp holiday, a small girl is not. They get together to sort out each other's problem.

Summary: Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale "Le petit poucet" by Charles Perrault.

Summary: La petite Allumeuse roughly translates to "the little smart thing". The title refers to the main character of the film, 14 year old Camille. The film is a surprisingly good mix of comedy and drama with a little bit of social realism thrown in.

Camille is at the same time a vulnerable young teenager and a strong-willed seductress, who makes her camp counsellor Jean-Louis fall for her. Jean-Louis, who by the way also is a friend and a colleague of her teacher-father, experiences his second youth when starting dating Camille after their return to the city. Good acting by both Roland Giraud as Jean-Louis and Alice Papiersky as Camille helps make this part of the film rather sweet. Theirs is a dangerous, but romantic love. They don't go "all the way". This is actually more of a family film with "real people" in it than well the kind of film you might think it was. The film can be seen by (older) teens as well as adults.

It is a growing-up film as well with Camille not only spending time dating Jean-Louis but also having the time to live a normal teenage life and having not only the normal conflicts, a teenager has with her parents, but also the conflicts coming from living with her divorcee-mother, who isn't very mentally stabile.

The different relationships between the characters in the film are complex. It is a comedy-drama, but it is a very French comedy-drama. This film could make the lives of Woody Allen-New Yorkers seem rather normal and straightforward. The social circles are rather small too. A good example is that Jean-Louis at a point in the film loses Camille to a former pupil of his, Samuel.

The relationship with her new and much younger love is actually much more adult than Camilles relationship with Jean-Louis. Not only has Camille her sexual debut with Samuel but she also has a seemingly normal relationship with him. This relationship helps Camille, now 15, to grow up more, sadly for her in more than one way, but the rest of the plot shall remain unrevealed by me.

Camille and her life make up a big part of the film, but we also get to learn a lot about the different adults around her and their lives. If some of the things she does isn't that normal well then she isn't that different from her family and their circles of friends. As said before this is a very French film with some complex people. It's a good film though. Sometimes good directing and acting can save even a very strange plot. In this case it does.

[~IMDb]

Summary: Eight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When the mother forgets to fetch Eva at school in her car, Eva does not know the way home. Panicking and crying she just runs and is overrun by a car. The driver is obviously innocent. He is a second-hand bookseller (Etienne) and a mountain climber and has a phenomenal memory. The hospital cannot tell whether Eva will ever wake up from her coma, or will speak or move. But it is important that she is much spoken to while she is in coma. The bookseller takes upon himself the task the mother cannot do. He visits the child for hours every day and tells her Jack London's snow stories, which he knows by heart. Eventually Eva wakes up. She is still mute and will go only if Etienne holds her hands and actively walks her. She is bored by all kinds of child play but fascinated by the snowy mountains that can be seen from the hospital. Suddenly Eva deteriorates seriously and might die. Desperately, Etienne takes her on mountain climbing in snowstorm. He himself dies from frost. But when a helicopter finds the couple, Eva moves on her own for the first time since the accident.

Comments: A Deliciously Sexy Tale Of Love And Larceny.

Summary: In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel Davenne, a married lover; Raoul, a fellow thief; Mauricette Dargelos, a photographer and fellow prisoner) help her learn from her mistakes.

Languages: Français

Summary: Talia, a thirteen year old girl from a white neighborhood, has a dangerous stepfather, so she takes to the streets & tries to track down a friend in the projects so she can stay at his apartment. She ends up in a crowded apartment with a lot of French African kids & teens, where she is relatively safe, but awfully worried about her younger sister who is her stepfather's real daughter, though Talia is sure he cannot be trusted even with his own blood child.

She takes her dog Kim with her when she runs away. Kim's a friendly pitbull that is promptly stolen. So Talia gets a handgun for protection & spends the next week trying to find her beloved Kim, assisted by Ilies, a moslem boy who is courting her & protecting her & would seem a pretty nice friend, except that he conspired with other boys to steal Kim in the first place.

Belatedly touched by guilt, Ilies tries to get the pitbull back from the older kids who are using the dog in dog fights. But they have no intention of letting go of the dog until it has been too badly injured to put in more fights.

Summary: Directed by Fred Louf, this unique short film examines innocence and sexuality converging in a harmless escapade by a 10-year-old boy and his precocious girl cousin in his room, and the comical aftermath. At the beginning of this droll look at childhood’s pastimes and growing pains, we find ourselves in the middle of a big family party with all its dynamics. On the fringe of the festivities are cousins Alex and Julie. He is curious. She is bored. And they are left to their own silly devices. Very well acted - too bad we haven't heard of these talents anymore...

Summary: Set in a school where a group of five boys take the lead in the class. They like their teacher and get him into some tricky situations, culminating in an attempt to marry him off.

Summary: The story plays in the countryside of north east Germany. Irka, a young girl lives with her father on a farm when they decide to buy a mare called Raya. She used to be a great show horse but now was old and almost blind. Nevertheless Irka rides out with Raya every day, describing her the way. But then she gives birth to a stallion which they name Mischka and Irka convinces her father to keep the foal forever. Her father though realizes that it's financially not possible to keep both horses and he wants to give Mischka to a stud where it would be cheaper to raise him. Irka has to decide if she wants to keep the old mare or the foal.

Summary: This 70's wild west adventure has all kids cast. Similar to the all-kid cast film Bugsy Malone where Scott Baio and Jodie Foster starred as gangsters. Here the kids are cowboys and outlaws in the old west. They're the smallest hired guns in the west. Two vigilantes named Adam and Harmony are on a secret mission to bust a band of ruthless train robbers. Danger and suspense lurk everywhere in the town of Yellow-Wood, where the courageous young cowboys go undercover. There, a pretty saloon girl tips them off about a deadly conspiracy behind the railway heists. Trailing the bandits, Adam learns of their villainous plan to blow the railroad to smithereens.

A mysterious folk hero known only as "The Phantom Kid" rides to the rescue, but he and Adam are temporarily sidetracked. Armed only with a magical harmonica and a high-spirited horse names Dynamite, Harmony must single handedly round up the bad guys, before its too late.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; Commentary by director

Comments: Jennifer Has A Few Million Close Friends. She's Going To Need Them _All_.

Summary: Jennifer Corvino, the daughter of a famous actor, has had trouble with sleepwalking for some time. Her doctor said that it can develop a split personality. She discovers her alternate personality when she stays at a boarding school that was once the home a Richard Wagner. But someone has been killing the students, and it relates only indirectly to the criminal sanitorium nearby. So it's up to "the two greatest detectives the world has ever known, or should I say, unknown"

Comments: Dare to dream your life.

Summary: The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher, even as her brilliant but anguished mother looks to Phoebe herself for inspiration. "Phoebe in Wonderland" explores a young girl's self-discovery and her journey to find acceptance of her individuality.

Summary: Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets where he becomes drawn into a web of passion, romance and violence..

Languages: English

Summary: A woman who refuses to speak, her piano, and her daughter are sent to New Zealand for an arranged marriage.

Summary: A writer returns home from World War I. He has developed a very bad case of post traumatic stress disorder. His genitalia was also blown away during the war. He contemplates suicide, but becomes interested in the 12 year old niece(Katya Berger) of the innkeeper at the place where he is recuperating. He doesn't seem to mind that he is spending so much time with her. He becomes deeply infatuated with her, but can't physically consummate any kind of relationship with her. She brightens his day, but her sexuality is just beginning to bud. When she begins to prefer a male closer to her age than the writer, the finality of the plot is set.

Languages: English

Comments: On St. Valentine's Day in 1900 a party of schoolgirls set out to picnic at Hanging Rock. ...Some were never to return.

Summary: "Picnic at Hanging Rock" is a story about the disappearance of several Appleyard College students, and a teacher, from Hanging Rock.

Summary: After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill. Hollis is a talented artist and her life stories unfold through her pictures. One revealing picture is the "W" picture Hollis drew for a first grade class assignment on the letter "w". Hollis drew her Wish, her Want. She drew a picture of a family. Hollis had that family in the Regan's, but fear of attachment and motional turmoil caused her to run away. As Josie's forgetfulness grows worse, Hollis is forced into the role of caretaker. Through her artwork and her care of Josie, Hollis Woods finds her family. Based on the Newberry Honor award winning book with the same name.

Languages: English

Comments: Come children of the universe, let Donovan take you away, far far away.

Summary: In Germany during the summer of 1349, the plague (aka Black Death ) is sweeping the countryside and claiming many victims as a disease spread by rats. A young gypsy (Keith Buckley, Dr. Phibes Rises Again) is traveling by wagon to the town of Hamelin with his family of actors. Along the way, they run into a friendly Pied Piper (Donovan) who joins their group, and ultimately earns them entrance into the town when he sooths the ill Burgomaster s daughter Lisa (Cathryn Harrison) with his music. Lisa (who is 11 years old) is about to marry power-hungry Franz (John Hurt), whose father, the Baron (Donald Pleasence), is mainly concerned with financing the building of a cathedral. While the wedding is being prepared, black rats carrying the plague have invaded Hamelin, and even though wise old Alchemist Melius (Michael Hordern) is trying to use a scientific approach to the problem, he is thrown into a dungeon cell. Is the mystical Pied Piper the only soul capable of freeing the town of its rat infestation?

Languages: German

Summary: Trying to raise cash to save her grandma's house, a 13-year-old girl stumbles onto a corrupt cop and takes off on a wild adventure in which she befriends a young pianist, fakes a kidnapping and lays a trap for the police.

With her easy smile, big heart and boundless energy, 13-year-old Pik is the apple of her grandma's eye. Pik also adores her grandma and all the animals she tends to in her big house. But since grandma can't pay her debts, the idyll is about to end. Unless Pik finds a solution. Instead, she's hauled into the police station, where she accidentally sees Officer Kowatsch stowing drugs away big time. And he sees her... The chase is on! Quick of mind and of feet, Pik soon lands in an upper-class household pretending to be an exchange student. Amadeus, the family's only child and a budding pianist, sees through her but goes along for the ride - literally, since Pik drives off with him in a stolen car to escape from the evil Kowatsch. In hiding, they cook up a daring scheme: they pretend that Amadeus has been kidnapped and demand that the ransom money be flown to them via Grandma's homing pigeons. While this should help Pik save grandma's house, there's still the problem of the corrupt cop to be solved. But here too, Pik comes up with a brilliant - and risky - idea...

Enchanting "Bibi Blocksberg" star Sidonie von Krosigk in a turbulent, upbeat family comedy.

Languages: English

Summary: Set in the 1950s, 7-year-old Marushka's mother has departed to pursue an acting career, so Marushka is left to live with her grandparents. The young girl is confronted by their conflicting religious values and the Czech political system taught at school, which in turn is what her uncle fights so desperately against. What is young Marushka to believe?

Eventually her uncle's dissident behaviour begins to threaten the family. Secretly Uncle decides he has to escape and get out of the country. However, unknown to all, Marushka is well aware of his plan and is determined to go with him.

Summary: Every day, 5-year-old-Sara is picked up from Kindergarten by her mother. While she waits, she passes the time imagining herself flying amongst stars, bubbles and feathers. One day she starts to fly for real, much to the bafflement of first her mother and then the scientific world. But she is not interested in the plans of doctors. She would rather cheer up a sick little boy.

Summary: An absurdist farce centering around a school in post-Soviet Latvia. After a rather disgusting prank (someone defecates in the school attic), the tyrannical headmistress deems that no one can leave until the culprit is caught. When the photographer's pet python escapes, havok breaks loose.

Summary: The Best Day of My Life is the story of a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of young Chiara (Maria Luisa De Crescenzo) who is about to receive her first communion. The family includes matriarch Irene (Virna Lisi) and her three grown up children.

Comments: Lost in time...Can she ever return home?

Summary: Abigail Kirk was an ordinary enough sixteen-year-old growing up in today's Sydney. Full of energy and love-for-life, her only source of unhappiness was the resentment she felt for her father - he broke up her home, leaving her mother for another woman. So when her mother told her he was coming home, she couldn't understand and couldn't forgive either of them.

It was "the furry little girl: who started it all. Only Abigail noticed her watching the children playing the scary game they called "Beatie Bow", a game about some long dead ogre. When Abigail tried to speak to her she ran off.

Intrigued, Abigail followed.into the back streets of that part of Sydney known as The Rocks. At least it looked like The Rocks, but was it? Horrified, Abigail realised that somehow, through some eerie time shift, she had arrived in The Rocks of one hundred years ago.And "the furry little girl" was Beatie Bow.

Confused and lost, all Abigail knew for sure was that Beatie Bow's family wouldn't let her go home again. Why not? Why did they call her "The Stranger" - and what was "the Gift" they were all talking about in whispers?

But there were compensations for being unable to get back into her own time: like meeting the handsome Judah Bow.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Detective Jerry Black has made a promise he can't break, to catch a killer he can't find.

Summary: The night he retires as a Nevada sheriff, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. Jerry doesn't believe the police arrested the right man; he discovers this is the third incident in the area in the recent past with victims young, blond, pretty, and small for their age. So he buys an old gas station in the mountains near the crimes in order to search for a tall man who drives a black station wagon, gives toy porcupines as gifts, and calls himself the wizard: clues from a drawing by the dead girl. Jerry's solitary life gives way to friendship with a woman and her small, blond daughter. Has Jerry neglected something that may prove fatal?

Summary: In a Brussels suburb on a hot summer night, Gilles Bedard and his Spanish wife Germaine are packing the family belongings onto a trailer. Together, with their four children, they are moving to a new home in the Spanish Pyrenees. Their eldest daughter Rolande was recently found dead under an overpass. Out of work and convinced that his daughter was murdered, Gilles is embittered by what he sees as a callous and unjust society. Germaine has long wanted to move back to the mountains where she grew up, where people look out for each other. Gilles has always resisted, but now it seems that his daughter’s presumed murderer has fled to the Pyrenees...Its not an easy trip, either physically or emotionally. Gilles starts out consumed with resentment but his wife’s patience and love eventually persuade him that revenge may not be the answer to their problems.

Summary: Annie (Annie Colé) is in her mid-teens and of a physical ripeness so strong it seems to create an invisible force around her, like a magnetic field. Annie is aware of this and she enjoys it, but she is too sweet-spirited to turn that force into a weapon. Annie inhabits an idealized provincial landscape where everything is in bloom, and where the only aggressions are of natural origin — and over and done with as quickly and as harmlessly as a summer thunderstorm.

Summary: A film comedy. Various funny, serious and dangerous things happen to a 5-year-old girl Natasha who alone takes a walk along Moscow streets. Many people happened to be compassionate towards her destiny.

Also, a candid and historic document of the 1930s Moscow.

Summary: Bullied by his matriarchal mother, abused by his siblings, ignored by his father, Poil de Carotte’s childhood is as miserable as it could be. An illegitimate child, he is the main reason for the enmity which exists between his parents, who continue to live together just to keep up appearances. In the end, Poil de Carotte's suffering becomes more than he can bear...

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

Comments: What Ivy wants, Ivy gets.

Summary: A sexy teen (Barrymore) who lives with her aunt moves in with a reclusive teen (Gilbert) and slowly works her way into the lives of her adopted family. The mother (Ladd) is sickly and can't sexually satisfy her husband (Skerritt) any more, and to the daughter's horror, begins seducing her father.

Summary: In the City of Great Workers, a powerful king enslaves the inhabitants with black magic. Might a schoolgirl named Masha and some male peers of hers help bring an end to this evil?

Summary: "The Admirer" - Lebedev's second work in the big cinema. The picture has received some prizes on film festival "Film-shock" in 1999, and the performer of a leading role Marina Cherepukhina was announced by Russian magazine "Premiere" the best debutant of 1999 in domestic cinema.

Parents of 13-years Lena have divorced. Wishing to show mum and the world that she can live independently, Lena is arranged to work on mail, having started the ingenuity. In the post office there are rumors, that a serial murderer holds the entire area in fear. Once in the evening the stranger which person(face) she has not had time to make out, protects Lena from hooligans and as Lena thinks, continues inkognito to protect her. Lena is ready to believe and to convince the others, that she is spoiled and supported by that "awful maniac". The relation with the strange admirer, ready to follow all her instructions, firstly seem to Lena a fascinating game. But soon she is discovers, that this game becomes fatally dangerous...

[translated from Russian by ALIPTES]

Summary: It's story is simple but well made and it tells us about the adventures of a teenage boy in his summer vacation at the coast of the Adriatic sea, and the experience of his first real love!

Summary: The second part of the film is quite different from the first. Everything revolves around dance and dance schools. Tom grew a little bit and moves to New York, where searches for his friend Milena, who also acted in the first part, and now has become a dancer!

Summary: Polleke is an ordinary 11 year old girl raised by her single mom and always defending her drug-addicted dad. She wants to be a poet and is in love with Mimoun, a Moroccan boy in her class, with Africa eyes.

Summary: A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt. By the time she must leave, she has transformed the community with her indominatable will to see the good side of even the worst situations and bring it out for the betterment of all.

Languages: French

Summary: Jacques Doillon (réalisateur de ce chef d'oeuvre) a fait preuve de talent pour mettre en scène un sujet aussi tabou qu'est la mort vue par les enfants. Un film magnifiquement écrit et interprété. La petite Victoire Thivisol est tout simplement magnifique. C'est un heureux évenement que ce film soit aujourd'hui édité en DVD. Les possésseurs de systèmes DD5.1/DTS seront peut-être déçu, mais ce chef d'oeuvre est à posséder absolument même s'il n'est disponible qu'en DD 2.0.
Un auditeur de Nantes (France).

Summary: It is wartime - 1944, and Europe is brutalized by the horror of Nazi aggression and inhumanity. In the tiny Czech village of Terezin, the Nazis plan a propaganda coup to reshape the international opinion. In a master scheme to show a caring face of Nazism, Hitler has given the village to Jewish settlers as a place where they can live in freedom, reassuring a Red Cross delegation - and the world - of their peaceful intentions towards Jews. To provide a convincing "show," the Nazis have plucked the great French mime, Antoine Moreau (Tom Courtenay), from his waning career and ordered him to put on the greatest show of his life. The Reich spares no expense in providing the finest sets, orchestra and costumes. In return he will receive a generous fee and guaranteed return to Paris. But Antoine becomes driven with the need to tell the world the truth, regardless of personal risk. Although in mime he knows his lips must be sealed, now, as never before, his voice must be heard.

Summary: A little red bottle is the vortex of the film, playing in 17th century Bohemia. That one has to be sold by anyone who has it, at half the price of purchase. If you keep it, or sell it at too high a price, you will make a little journey -- to Hell!

A little girl, Magdalena (Michaela Kudlackova) comes to travel with a troubadour -- An officer is after the bottle.

The girl and the troubadour are fleeing. Magdalena happens to be the one to buy the bottle at TWO hellers. The officer wants to buy it from her at ONE heller -- the lowest monetary unit of the place and time! She cautions him of the spell. But he takes it from her, and gives her the heller. -- The end is not very clear to see, but I think, the officer gets killed by an enemy.

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Summary: Lesha Potapow is a real rascal. He always invents new tricks to annoy his schoolmates and teachers. And his best friend helps him although he is usually the victim . But also artistically, Potapow gets something off the ground. Inspired by an art exhibition he creates his own works of art. All his actions aim at just one goal: he is in love with the most beautiful girl of the school and wants to win her heart. Of course, he therefore has to be in a good position. But girls have minds of their own.

Summary: The story takes place in St. Petersburg, Russia. Two Russian schoolgirls suffer crash in natural love. Once they've met each other and fall in love. But once they've found that they are sisters...

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

Comments: There's a little witch in every woman.

Summary: Sally and Gilian Owens have always known they were different. Raised by their aunts after their parents' death, the sisters grew up in a 'special' household. Attempting to pass on the unique and powerful psychic heritage of the Owens women, Aunt Jet and Aunt Frances hope to give their nieces the strength that comes from practical magic. But the invocation of the Owens' socery also carries a price--some call it a curse: the men they fall in love with are doomed to an untimely death. Trying to distance herself from her foremothers, the quieter Sally denies her powers and strives to build herself a 'normal' magic-free life. The more fiery Gillian, reckless and restless and thrilled by her pull over men. When Gillian meets Jimmy, a malevolent drifter, she unwittingly sets off a chain of explosive events that brings police officer Gary Hallet onto the family porch and into Sally's heart, while releasing a swarm of supernatural forces that threatens the lives of all the Owen women.

Summary: On June 22, 1941, a family is celebrating the daughter’s birthday. It is a beautiful sunny day, full of joy and merriment. For the girl, it is filled with important events and adventure – her birthday is celebrated by the whole village, not just by her family. And no one yet knows that tomorrow her father will leave for his work in a district center and come back a few hours later in a home guard uniform only to say goodbye to his family. And that at the moment of their leave-taking the Germans already will be entering the village. And that they will be shot by the river, on the same bank where only yesterday the carefree, happy family was sunbathing and having fun...

Comments: Holiday for the dog

Summary: Petr takes his dog to stay at his grandparents' farm to spend the holidays. Lots of slapstick-like situations occur. The boy connects with local kids and a girl who shares his friendship with the dog.

Summary: Quelque part entre "Diabolo Menthe" de Diane Kurys et le monde factice d' "Emmanuelle",un film commercial sans grand relief . Ici debuta gentimment,en short moulant, Emmanuelle Beart,admirable Muse du cinema francais... Ce film-ci vaut uniquement pour la tres jolie photo de quelques courts passages du film ,quand Hamilton reussit a capturer,comme un peintre tel un Renoir ou un Matisse ,des instants de fraicheur et de sensualité ,dans un charmant fondu de couleurs tendres et pastels (qui a fait son succes) propice a la Reverie..Encore faudrait-il un scenario de Rohmer a son apogée et une plus grande application d'Hamilton sur tout le long du film (et non 10 minutes),pour obtenir une oeuvre "artistique" veritable ,ce qui est loin d'etre le cas ici ..

Languages: English

Comments: Reality is only a nightmare away

Summary: Linda Hanson has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she receives the devastating news that her husband Jim has died in a car accident. When she wakes up the next morning to find him alive and well, she assumes it was all a dream, but is shaken by how vivid it felt. She soon realizes it wasn't a dream, and her world is turned upside down as the surreal circumstances lead her to discover that her perfect life may not have been all that it appeared. Desperate to save her family, Linda begins a furious race against time and fate to try and preserve everything that she and Jim have built together.

Summary: A young nanny travels from England to Mallorca to care for two orphaned English children. At first enchanted by the children and their estate, she is then alarmed by their strange behavior and the mysterious events that occur. She doggedly follows her instincts and the truth that slowly, painfully emerges results in everyone's undoing, including her own.

Summary: Sergio's great pal is Cena (Davide Torsello), a couple of years older, who is the leader of their gang of boys. They live in the small town of Vicenza in Northern Italy in the peaceful days of the 1930s. Though they know they are not wealthy, it is doubtful that they realize that they are poor, for their lives are full of so many adventures. When Don Gastone (Roberto Citran), a handsome, artistic new priest comes into town, he persuades Sergio (Massimo Santelia) to take part in a poetry recital. One benefit of this is that Immacolata (Adriana Asti), one of the parishioners (who is smitten with the priest), gives Sergio a new suit for the occasion. Up the street, the hooker Fedora (Jessica Forde) has just come into town from Venice, and has established her place of business not far from where Immacolata lives. So it doesn't escape Immacolata's attention that Don Gastone is passing through the neighborhood just a bit too often.

Languages: English, French

Comments: In 1917, in the red-light district of New Orleans, they called her "Pretty Baby"

Summary: For his first truly American project, Malle decided to make a film inspired by the figure of E.J. Bellocq, a legendary photographer of prostitutes and the New Orleans demi-monde whose richly detailed glass slides had only recently been discovered. Keith Carradine plays Bellocq, whose frequent visits to houses of ill repute just to take photographs make him an intriguing figure to 12-year-old Violet (Brooke Shields). Violet lives with her prostitute mother Hattie (Susan Sarandon) in Storyville, the still-legal red-light district. Hattie meets a rich client, marries him and moves to St. Louis, leaving Violet to fend for herself now as a full-time professional. There's little comfort for the still teen-aged anywhere in Storyville, however, and soon Violet must turn to Bellocq for support and eventually love. While capturing her youthful beauty and sensuality, Malle doesn't shy away from showing the brutality of this world. The gorgeous cinematography is by Sven Nykvist. Directed by Louis Malle, U.S.A., 1978, 110 mins.

Languages: English

Comments: Evil comes in a school uniform.

Summary: 15 year old Kimberly Joyce, an insanely intelligent, wildly funny, shockingly cruel and sexy-beyond-her-years Beverly Hills teenager will stop at nothing to become famous. Believing the world is an orchestra and she is the conductor, Kimberly masterfully manipulates all those around her. She convinces her two best friends to join her in a campaign against their befuddled teacher, Mr. Anderson. Kimberly entangles the entire Beverly Hills community in her carefully woven web of seduction and deceit.