Cinema Directory

Summary: Fourteen year old Polish boy Stas Tarkowski and eight year old Nel Rawlison from England are kidnapped as the hostages by Arabic fanatics and taken to their religion leader. Then they manage to escape and try to return to their fathers. Children have a lot of dangerous adventures, meet two Black kids; Kali and Mea, who also help them, make a friendship with an elephant and help one Black's tribe. Finally they manage to return. Based on great novel, the same title by Nobel receiver (for all his literary output) Henryk Sienkiewicz.

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

Summary: When 15 year old Stas Tarkowski and 9 year old Nel Rawlinson are kidnapped by rebels fighting for the great Arab leader - the Mahdi - their fathers desperately organize a search party. But the Mahdi uprising is spreading rapidly across North Africa and the chances of finding the children seem remote. Forced to rely on themselves, Stas and Nel, together with two young African slaves, Mea and Kali, escape their captors and head south across desolate country. In their search for a way home, they must battle wild animals, thunderstorms, hunger and malaria. Their journey to freedom brings them into contact with some colorful adult mentors: Kaliopoli, a displaced Greek, guides Stas through a critical encounter with the great Mahdi and Linde, an eccentric Polish cartographer, himself lost in the jungle, offers hope when Nel comes down with malaria and all hope for her survival seems lost.

Summary: Also known as "Where Is Winky's Horse?" this sequel to "Het Paard van Sinterklaas" follows up on the story of the first film. Winky is allowed to groom the horse of Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas, who celebrates his birthday on December 5th by giving children presents, more or less known as Santa Claus in other countries). She does it with a lot of love and is quite happy with the task. When her parents tell her she'll be getting horse riding lessons for her next birthday she's thrilled and assuming it'll be on that specific horse. As events roll by the title of the film is explained - the horse disappears and trouble arises.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1

Summary: Summer, 1969: men on the moon, and Woodstock happening near the cabin where the Kantrowitz family stays every summer. The camp's a Jewish fish-bowl. Marty's there weekends; he repairs TVs in Brooklyn. He's square and decent. His wife Pearl and his mother camp with Alison (she's 14) and their younger son. Pearl got pregnant at 17 and feels she missed her youth. While Alison experiences her first date, first kiss, first period, and stealing off to Woodstock with the lifeguard, Pearl has her own sexual awakening with "the blouse man," a peddler who sells at the camp. They too go to Woodstock. Marty confronts Pearl about the affair; she and he have to decide what to do next.

Languages: English,

Comments: A boy and girl face the challenge of the world's last frontier. Dangers they had never known before... A people they had never seen before...

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Summary: Romantic drama following the fortunes of a drifter named Beaudray Demerille (Peter Fonda) who wins a young orphan named Wanda (14 year old Brooke Shields) in a poker game and takes her gold prospecting in the Grand Canyon.

Comments: Most wars last years. This one has to be over by dinner.

Summary: The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, throwing stones and cutting off their opponents buttons etc. And sometimes they go to battle completely naked and exposed. In one such scene about 30 boys return from a battle to celebrate victory at a barn-house only to find some girls waiting for them and they get very embarrassed at losing their privacy.

Comments: What School Girls Don't Tell

Summary: Another Ernst Hofbauer schoolgirl exploiter in the same vein as his Schoolgirl Report films, but for this one he raised the sleaze level to new heights with non-pornographic scenes of rape, pedophilia, satanic rituals, virgin sacrifice and golden showers. Despite how it sounds, these acts are played for silly comedy rather than any harsh deptictons.

Languages: English

Comments: Scared of going into the woods? You should be ...

Summary: When an American family moves into a beautiful old English house in a wooded area, strange, paranormal things happen. One daughter sees, and the other daughter hears, the voice of a teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared during a total solar eclipse decades before.

Summary: This children's fantasy tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who discovers a complex underwater world where young children are held prisoner by an evil shark and an eel.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.0; French, Dolby Digital 5.0; Spanish, Dolby Digital 5.0

Comments: Beyond the horizon lies the secret to a new beginning.

Summary: The polar ice caps have melted, and the earth is covered by water. The remaining people travel the seas, in search of survival. Several different societies exist. The Mariner falls from his customary and solitary existence into having to care for a woman and a young girl while being pursued by the evil forces of the Deacon.

Summary: Summer 1967 in Poland. For 12-year-olds Pawel, Piotr, Szymek and Elka, this will prove the most extraordinary summer of their lives. They meet a mysterious Jewish boy called Dawid Weiser. Dawid, a highly imaginative child, has discovered an old munitions camp. Dawid is planning something rather special. Using the old munitions, he treats his friends to a series of demonstrations of explosions. However, during the preparations for one particularly spectacular explosion, Dawid suddenly disappears without trace. The four children never discover what happened to Dawid; in fact, the affair will remain a mystery to them their whole lives long. 30 years after the events of that day, Pawel makes the trip back home. He still cannot forget Weiser's mysterious disappearance. Who was this boy? A cunning trickster? A clever magician? Or is there something more to this? He looks up his old friends and, in discussions, tries to get to the bottom of what really happened that fateful day.

Summary: Hannes would love to be with Carolin all of the time. But why does Carolin suddenly take an interest in Benno? Hannes, for the first time in his life, becomes jealous, and thinks up a daring plan. True, honest portrayal of first love.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

Comments: Not all girls want to play with dolls.

Summary: Insightful look at an unattractive 7th grader as she struggles to cope with un-attentive parents, snobbish classmates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister, and her own insecurities.

Summary: 11-year-old Sebastian Schneider (Markus Krojer) lives in a small Bavarian village with his older brother and his widowed father Lorenz (Fritz Karl) who runs the local tavern. Sebastian is a real scullywag, and after accidentally killing the rabbits of the family, his brother Franz tells him that their mother died when Sebastian was born, and that Sebastian is responsible for her death.
Sebastian fears that together with his more than 2000 other unatoned sins, this is surely enough to condemn him into purgatory. And there are just two ways to avoid purgatory: to atone for his sins, or to achieve immortality.

Summary: A boy and girl of roughly thirteen years fall in love. During a round of sexual experimentation, our heroine's father bursts into the room and quickly banishes his daughter's boyfriend. The kids then struggle to furtively maintain the relationship and in the process find themselves posing for a photographer who wishes to capture their youthful, innocent passion. Yet further complications develop for them when the boy's little brother, roughly eight years of age, stumbles upon the photos.

Summary: In April, 1975, civil war breaks out; Beirut is partitioned along a Moslem-Christian line. Tarek is in high school, making Super 8 movies with his friend, Omar. At first the war is a lark: school has closed, the violence is fascinating, getting from West to East is a game. His mother wants to leave; his father refuses. Tarek spends time with May, a Christian, orphaned and living in his building. By accident, Tarek goes to an infamous brothel in the war-torn Olive Quarter, meeting its legendary madam, Oum Walid. He then takes Omar and May there using her underwear as a white flag for safe passage. Family tensions rise. As he comes of age, the war moves inexorably from adventure to tragedy.

Languages: English,

Comments: One young girl dared to confront the past, change the present and determine the future

Summary: On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs have always been the first-born and male. Many generations later, the contemporary tale revolves around a young mother whose male newborn twin dies in childbirth. Her young husband flees New Zealand in grief, leaving grandparents Koro and Nanny Flowers to raise the sole survivor, a feisty little girl named Pai, who radiates with life and energy. It’s no wonder that her grandmother and the entire community love her, but alas, the grandfather she worships is too busy mourning the loss of the baby boy he expected would lead the tribe to better days.

Summary: From the Afterschool Specials Series. There's a new girl in town named Amy and she's moving into an apartment with Mom who just recently split up with Dad. Amy has decided to give Dad the cold shoulder, hide away his picture in cold storage and refuse his phone calls and such. She meets Michelle Mudd (Dana Hill), a girl her age whose parents are also divorced. Because they both children of divorce -- a point that is driven home to be so out of the ordinary that these two girls are a rare breed shunned by the rest of the kids. This was the '80s. People weren't as divorce happy as we are now -- Michelle tells Amy they have to be friends. But not just friends. Best friends bound by a voodoo pact,an exchange of jewelry and an oath of loyalty. So now whenever Michelle sees Amy talking to other kids she freaks out screaming "Loyalty" this and "Loyalty" that.

Michelle gets weirder as the show goes on. She starts out meditating and chanting and lighting candles and such. Then one day Amy walks in unannounced and catches Michelle doing a weird voodoo ritual in her bathroom dressed in a voodoo priestess cape and kabuki style goth make-up. It seems that when Michelle doesn't like someone (Like Dad's new girlfriend!) she does voodoo to try to wish them away.

As weird an After School Special as your likely to ever see: Watching Dana tiptoe down a corridor and sneak into Amy's apartment in goth gear with a mysterious bundle of newspaper in her hands freaked me out a little, and my daughter was glued to the TV set!

Summary: A thirteen year old girl seems to be more than her widowed father can handle at times, even with the aid of her aunt, until a tragic accident changes the young girl's outlook on life.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: It's what you watch.

Summary: Leila and Charly Hunter are in Rome to participate in a Summer Intern Program. After they begin their jobs, they are immediately fired due to careless mishaps. But Derek Hammond, who owns the company, decides to re-instate Leila and Charly. But while in Rome, Leila and Charly find true romance that will take them joyriding to see the sights throughout the city of Rome.

Languages: English, French

Comments: Laughter is harder... Friendship is stronger... Trust is deeper... When it comes from the heart.

Summary: A pregnant 17-year-old rebuilds her life after being abandoned by her boyfriend at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma.

Summary: Four Appalachian children carry on by themselves when their father dies - and keep the news of his death a secret, so they won't be taken away by the state. They eventually come to realize that with their devotion to each other, they can overcome any obstacle.

Comments: Lost Gold, Lost Love, Last Hope

Summary: Sam Dalton is determined to save the only home she has ever known, the faded, dusty Romanian Princess ranch. Sam writes to a distant relative of her Aunt Christine hoping he can prevent the ranch from being repossessed. But it's J. T. Swinton, a teen-age boy who shows up. In desperation they turn to a seemingly futile hope, the treasure of Whisper Island. But does the Civil War treasure really exist? The answer seems to be trapped somewhere in the wishful delusions of Aunt Christine. As the teens search for treasure in a race against time, they must also search Christine's past and unravel a web of romance, intrigue and betrayal that spans a lifetime and beyond. What they find, changes their lives forever.

Summary: Set in a grim Lancashire farm community, three impressionable kids (Hayley Mills, Diane Holgate, and Alan Barnes) find an injured fugitive from justice named Arthur Blakey (Alan Bates) sleeping in their barn. Upon awakening the bearded criminal, he takes one look at the children and exclaims: "Jesus Christ!" In their innocence, they assume he is Jesus due to their been sturdy religious upbringing and try to help him. In truth, he is an escaped killer on the run. News that Christ is living in the barn travels quickly to the other children in the village, they bring Blakey food and wine to earn his approval. The kids try to keep the secret from their parents, but when the authorities come around looking for him, the children, remembering Christ's persecution, do their best to protect their undeserving new friend. When Blakey is betrayed by accident, the police move in to arrest him, by this time his attitude has softened and he surrenders peaceably rather than endanger the lives of any of the children.

Summary: Like fish out of water, mother Debbie (Anna Maxwell Martin), 11-year-old daughter Leah (a brilliant performance by Holly Kenny) and her two siblings, struggle to cope. They simply don't understand - and refuse to accept - the culture of their new community. At school, the children find that they are the only white pupils. They feel totally isolated in assembly, in class and in the playground.

But, surprisingly, Leah - who has been the most vociferous protestor of them all, desperate to return to their old flat in Leeds - gradually begins to accept her new surroundings, finding refuge within the calm and safety of the Muslim community. Her mother can't believe what's happening, and goes ballistic when she finds that Leah has taken to wearing a hijab and is attending prayers at the local mosque. And all hell breaks loose when her stepdad Stevie (Daniel Mays) discovers what's going on.

Summary: In this children's comedy, three young sleuths try to keep robbers from getting to the bank by using their clever contraptions and a helpful carnival magician.

Summary: In this children's adventure, a 13-year-old brainiac invents an ingenious listening device, which he uses to bring a crooked city official and his pals to justice

Comments: A true story of incredible Love and courage... [UK theatrical]

Summary: Based on a true story of Iowa farm wife Lucile Fray, Ann-Margret plays a dying mother of ten who's last wish is to find loving families for her children.

Comments: The hand that rocks the cradle has no flesh on it!

Summary: Rosie Forrest, an eccentric but kindly widow [who keeps the mummified corpse of her daughter in her attic] regularly invites ten young children from the local orphanage for a Christmas dinner. Brother and sister Christopher and Katy gatecrash the party and Rosie becomes obsessed with Katy who resembles her dead child. As their relationship develops, Christopher's jealousy leads him to suspect that Rosie is a witch and when he tries to lure Katy away from her, she reveals her true colours...

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

Comments: Evil Never Looked So Good.

Summary: After the mysterious death of an upper class housewife, her oldest daughter literally takes her place, dressing in her mother's clothes and seducing the father. A quirky detective investigates the crime and finds that there are many suspects, each with something to hide.

Summary: Recently widowed Karen Tunny and her two daughters, Sarah and Emma, move to a remote mountain home which Karen has inherited from the family of her late husband. However, she is unaware that the home is situated near an old mine, the site of an early 20th century tragedy in which many children were buried alive...

Summary: A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.

Summary: Familiar in feel but lifted by its execution, Wild Child finds Emma Roberts--she of Nancy Drew fame--in the lead role as Poppy. Poppy is, as the title of the film hints, not the most well behaved of young ladies, and this leads her father (played by Aidan Quinn) to promptly send her across the water to boarding school in England. Thus, the stage is set for lots of culture clash comedy, and a genial little movie aimed at teenage girls. The strengths of Wild Child lie firmly in its cast, who happily make the most of the generally slight material. Roberts, who has to make the transformation from selfish brat to more rounded and generally pleasant human being, is on fine form, while Georgia King offers good support too. There are notable turns too from Alex Pettyfer (remember him from Stormbreaker?), Daisy Donovan and Natasha Richardson. Wild Child’s plot inevitably injects a romance angle, and treads heavily on clichés as it attempts to wring out what laughs and entertainment it can from the material. But for its target audience, you suspect it pretty much hits the bullseye. It might not be a film with much edge to it, but there is a solid hour and a half’s entertainment here. --Jon Foster

Languages: English

Summary: Logan is a soft spoken and lonely 13 year old boy with a crush. Unlike his equally lonely friend Joey, who obsesses over the sexual exploits of the popular boys, Logan is fixated on the boys themselves, particularly Rodeo Walker. Logan's infatuation with Rodeo inspires him to create a new persona named Leah. Leah and Rodeo grow close through whispered late night phone calls, and when Leah agrees to meet Rodeo face to face it is Logan who must finally prove that he can ask for what he so achingly wants.

Summary: It was a case of 'never change a winning team' when producer Uschi Reich decided to follow up the success of her first feature film based on Cornelia Funke's bestselling Wild Chicks series with another adaptation, Die wilden Huehner und die Liebe (translation: "Wild Chicks In Love").

In the new film, Sprotte, Melanie, Frieda, Wilma and Trude each have their own ways of experiencing these new feelings and then suffering from the pangs of first love. Moreover, there is a love triangle between Sprotte's mother (played by Veronica Ferres), father and a new suitor. But the Wild Chicks come through together in spite of all their emotional turmoil...

Summary: Every girl needs a best girlfriend. And Sprotte has no less than three! Together, they're the "Wild Chicks," the coolest girl gang of the pre-teen set. Though they're as different as can be, they're inseparable when the going gets tough. Melanie raves about Robbie Williams, Trude loves Italian food, Frieda is socially mega-committed and Sprotte herself secretly finds her teacher Frau Rose really cool. And then there's Wilma, who still has to prove herself before being inducted into the gang. The biggest problem facing the girls is the rival boy gang, the "Pygmies." Next to its leader Fred, there's the insatiable Torte, fortune-teller Steve and the aggressive Willi. Then something incredible happens: Sprotte sounds the fox alarm! Grandma Slaettberg wants to slaughter her hens – even though Daphne, Kokoschka and the other feathered damsels are the gang's mascots. Only the Pygmies can help now...

Languages: Deutsch

Summary: School’s out and, for a motley crew of carefree six-to-ten-year olds, soccer ‘rules’! These kids are convinced they’re the local dream team and there’s nothing they love more than kicking it up a notch. ‘If you want to be cool, you got to be wild’.

But this vacation brings them more than their fair share of bad luck. There’s the relentless rain which turns their field into a sea of mud. They have to deal with parents who simply don’t appreciate their love of the game. And when the sun finally does come out, their pitch has been taken over by a gang of boys who are older, bigger, rougher and just plain mean. Even though they don’t stand a chance, the boys challenge them to a match to settle the matter. Now all they have to do is win.

They talk Willy, a down-on-his-luck ex-soccer pro, into being their trainer and he works wonders with them. But just when it looks as if they might actually pull it off, egos flare and the boys start fighting among themselves. When you’re hot, you’re hot and when you’re not, you’re not. Everything that could possibly go wrong, does. They fire Willy and things get even worse. And then there’s the girl – a girl – who’s determined to play on their side.

But are they going to let it all get them down? No way. Win or lose, they’re going to give it their best shot. ‘If you want to be cool, you got to be wild’.

Languages: Deutsch

Summary: When the soccer match between the national team and the Wild Soccer Bunch ends up rock bottom 25 : 1, the dejected Wild Soccer Bunch splits up.

All of a sudden Fabi comes up with a new team: the Beastly Beasts. And they contest the Bunch as the world’s wildest soccer team ever. The Wild Soccer Bunch is up against their greatest challenge so far, an opponent more devious, more dangerous, more diabolical, more than even they had ever imagined – girls!!! And if it weren’t for Nerv, their greatest fan, the wildest of all showdowns would not be happening. But watch out Beastly Beasts, “The Wild Soccer Bunch” is back and you’d better believe it: they’re wild, wild, wild!

Summary: After the victory over the Beastly Beasts, the Wild Soccer Bunch was in top form and won all of their following matches. But they need one more victory to get the "Pott", the freestyle soccer trophy. And to get it, they have to beat Ragnarok Wolves. But the Wolves are no ordinary opponents. They have a dark secret - and in the background lurks a certain power that is stronger than all of them: a clever girl named Horizon and the silver lights in mist. Marlon falls hopelessly for Horizon. She, however, has one simple goal: to pull Marlon and Leon apart. A bitter struggle breaks out and threatens to break up the Wild Soccer Bunch. Will they be able survive one of the greatest challenges of their lives?

Languages: Deutsch

Summary: Nach ihrem Sieg über die Silberlichten brechen die Wilden Kerle mit waghalsigen Stunts im Freestyle-Soccer alle Rekorde. Doch ihr actionreiches Training im Wald ist nicht ganz ungefährlich: Die Kerle werden insgeheim von den mysteriösen Schattensuchern beobachtet. Als plötzlich Leon spurlos im Wald verschwindet, obwohl er Vanessa in der Nacht zuvor ewige Liebe geschworen hat, nehmen die Wilden Kerle den Kampf auf. Auf der Suche nach Leon gelangen sie hinter den Horizont ins Reich der Schattensucher – Vampire, deren übermächtiger Anführer Darkside sie zu einem spektakulären 3D-Soccer-Match auf Leben und Tod herausfordert. Die Wilden Kerle müssen gewinnen, sonst ist nicht nur Leon für immer verloren. Auch ihr eigenes Leben steht auf dem Spiel.
Das sensationelle Ergebnis des vierten Teils konnten "Die wilden Kerle 5" in ihrem vermutlich letzten Abenteuer nicht mehr toppen. Aber 1,7 Millionen Kinobesucher sind immer noch eine reife Leistung für eine der erfolgreichsten deutschen Filmreihen. Deutschland ist ganz sicher die 'Wilde-Kerle-Nation': "Dass die Wilden Kerle geil sind, weiß doch jedes Kind!" Als Erwachsener dürfte man allerdings so seine Schwierigkeiten mit diesem Film haben: Die Dialoge sind – ebenso wie die Darsteller – reichlich hölzern, die Story arg dünn und mit dem naiven Charme und überschäumenden Elan der ersten beiden Filme hat das alles nichts mehr zu tun. Aber das sollte die junge Zielgruppe ab ca. acht Jahren nicht weiter stören: Die Wilden Kerle spielen immer noch den besten Fußball der Welt und sind in ihrer schwarzen Kluft auf ihren fetzigen Motorcross-Rädern nur noch cool. Mit rasanten Action-Szenen wird dementsprechend nicht gegeizt. Und auch die Liebe hat endgültig Einzug in die Wilde-Kerle-Welt gehalten, denn schließlich bringen die Jungs außerhalb der Kinosäle längst unzählige Mädchenherzen zum Schmelzen. Zum Schluss darf es mit den Bananafishbones sogar noch ein wenig nostalgisch werden. Aber die Hauptsache ist: "Alles ist gut, solange Du wild bist!"
Das umfangreiche Bonusmaterial lässt jedes Fanherz höher schlagen: Ob Backstage oder auf Kinotour mit den Wilden Kerlen, ob zusätzliche Szenen oder Outtakes, ob peppiges Making of oder informative Trickboxx – hier gibt es hautnah Einblick in das Leben der Wilden Kerle und noch dazu vieles Wissenswertes über die Entstehung des Films. "-- Birgit Schwenger "

Languages: Deutsch

Summary: Clear the pitch! Lock up the referee! The most daring team of junior soccer players to take to the hallowed green turf, The Wild Soccer Bunch, is back!

This time they not only have to defend the trophy of trophies, the Teufelstopf, and their command of the town against the dreaded skater gang, the Flammenmuetzen, but also - shock, horror, gasp - fight for Vanessa (a girl of all things!) who’s fallen in love with their leader!

The motto still applies: ‘If you want to be cool, you got to be wild’.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

Summary: An abused and partially deaf girl is helped back into society by two resourceful children.

Summary: Dutch satirical television series, about four posh and spoiled kids, growing up in upperclass "Old South -" Amsterdam. There's so much stress involved for the kids when their access isn't limited to shiploads of Prada, Adidas, Private Education, Tennis lessons and filthy rich parents. Life can be a drag...

Comments: You have to lose your way to find it.

Summary: A group of strangers form a unique relationship with each other after surviving a random shooting at a Los Angeles diner.

Languages: English, Spanish

Summary: When Chloe and Riley Lawrence are invited to London to participate in the international Model U.N. competition, they enjoy seeing the sights and head over heals romance with cute british boys of course.

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

Comments: A passion so strong it kills.

Summary: A shy sensitive widowed clock maker, Wayland Jackson, played by Kurt Russell on his way through the mountains with his only daughter becomes stuck in a creek and ends up sticking around for longer than he bargained. There he meets the elusive Collie Wright (Kelly McGillis's character) who with her only son seems to be living alone off from the small town. Immediately you sense a spark between the two but as the story progresses you realize there is a dark looming secret which threatens both lives. It appears Ellie's family has an ancient hatred that runs deep for their neighbors and would shootem' just as look at'em. Enter dark loomy character which is the babe's father and he's from the other side of the mountain. He is the exact opposite of our shy clock maker and Ellie knows this. Perhaps when some see the performances as cheesy or over acted they've never actually met any mountain folk, and thusly are insistent that the histrionics are over played. If you have been to the mountains and can feel the spirit of them then I think you will love this picture. It is about the give and take, the act of forgiveness and of course true love.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: Some people march to the beat of a different drummer. Lynda's got her own brass band.

Summary: In a staid English seaside town after the Second World War, young Lynda grows up with her widowed father and younger sister. Rebellious Lynda has been swearing constantly from an early age. At sixteen, she becomes more exhibitionist and seeks out sexual encounters challenging the prevailing lower-middle class attitudes to sex. She eventually becomes pregnant by an acquaintance of her father.

Summary: Thirteen year old Ben Wagner is caught between friends and family when his father, a contractor, wants to develop the lakeside area where Ben's new friend Regina and her grandmother live. When strange things start to happen at the lake, Ben has a hard time not believing the rumors that Regina and her grandmother are witches.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

Comments: It's more than a game... It's the chance of a lifetime.

Summary: Corey and Jimmy Woods are two brothers who are being separated due to their parents divorcing. Jimmy is a mentally unstable kid that has had problems ever since his sister died at a young age. One day, Corey discovers that Jimmy has a natural talent for playing video games. He is one of the best around, and the two journey to the West Coast to compete in a video game championship, but along the way, they must avoid the adults, who are trying to take Jimmy away.

Summary: Madiba (Junior Singo) and Sipho (Innocent Msimango), two 13-year-olds from the Kayelitsha township outside Capetown, are playing near the tracks when a dead man falls from a train. In his satchel are a gun and a video camera. Madiba takes the camera, Sipho the gun -- and their destinies are sealed.

While Sipho uses the gun to join a gang in Capetown, Madiba becomes a filmmaker. To protect his treasure, he hides the camera inside a homemade wooden case. Walking around like a pint-size Dziga Vertov, he films the shantytown where he lives, then the rich city nearby. There, he meets an independent white teenager, Estelle (Dana de Agrella). Bucking her father's hysterical racism, she befriends the boy and introduces him to her cello teacher, the wise Mr. Shawn (Jean-Pierre Cassel), who encourages his vocation as a filmmaker.

Comments: What's the worst thing you ever did?

Summary: After twelve years in prison, Walter arrives in an unnamed city, moves into a small apartment across the street from an elementary school, gets a job at a lumberyard, and mostly keeps to himself. A quiet, guarded man, Walter finds unexpected solace from Vickie, a tough-talking woman who promises not to judge him for his history. But Walter cannot escape his past. A convicted sex offender, Walter is warily eyed by his brother-in-law, shunned by his sister, lives in fear of being discovered at work, and is hounded by a suspicious local police officer, Detective Lucas. After befriending a young girl in a neighborhood park, Walter must also grapple with the terrible prospect of his own reawakened demons.

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

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Comments: Things never go right for Mildred Hubble...

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Languages: English

Comments: To rescue their father, they must save the universe.

Summary: Katie Stuart plays Meg Murry, the introverted, intelligent oldest child of Dr. Jack Murry, an astrophysicist who has suddenly disappeared without a trace. As Meg struggles with her father's absence and her own coming-of-age awkwardness, she tightens her bond with Charles Wallace (David Dorfman), her brilliant, eccentric 6-year-old brother. When a trio of celestial beings summons them to find their father, the children are joined by neighbor Calvin O'Keefe (Gregory Smith) to embark on a dangerous journey of time travel. They "tesseract" onto the planet Camazotz where Dr. Murry is being held prisoner by an evil force. The film retains the essence of the novel, and deftly employs its 128-minute running time to build viewer affinity for the heroic children. The special effects will not disappoint, though the climatic last battle should have held closer to the book. Stuart is exemplary as the understated and deeply reflective Meg, while Dorfman dazzles as conflicted Charles Wallace. (Ages 8 and older) "--Lynn Gibson"

Summary: This remarkable Polish drama follows a misfit girl as she wanders about her home city in the company of a lost toddler. Known only as the Crow, she is taunted by her peers and ignored by her constantly at-work mother, but the little girl seems too lost in her own dream world to care. One day the Crow is out for a walk when she finds a lost baby. Telling the little child that she is her mother, the Crow and the toddler spend the day sauntering around the river Vistula. At the day's end, the Crow returns the babe to her parents, goes to her own apartment and falls asleep on the floor. A stunningly brilliant piece of art.