Cinema Directory

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

Comments: If You Want to be Understood...Listen

Summary: 4 interlocking stories all connected by a single gun all converge at the end and reveal a complex and tragic story of the lives of humanity around the world and how we truly aren't all that different. In Morocco, a troubled married couple are on vacation trying to work out their differences. Meanwhile, a Moroccan herder buys a rifle for his sons so they can keep the jackals away from his herd. A girl in Japan dealing with rejection, the death of her mother, the emotional distance of her father, her own self-consciousness, and a disability among many other issues, deals with modern life in the enormous metropolis of Tokyo, Japan that is literally the size of the state of California. Then, on the opposite side of the world the married couple's Mexican nanny takes the couple's 2 children with her to her son's wedding in Mexico, only to come into trouble on the return trip. Combined, it provides a powerful story and an equally powerful looking glass into the lives of seemingly random people around the world and it shows just how connected we really are.

Comments: ask yourself .. or your son .. or your husband!

Summary: Now 15 years old, Luci grew up alone with her slutty mother in a poor district of London. After her mother's suicide, Robert, her mother's former high-school boyfriend, brings Luci to his home where she meets his rich wife Aimee and their teenage son. However, Robert is not the boy's biological father. Luci makes Robert think that he's guilty of her mother's death, because he left her after he finished university. Nevertheless, she wants to stay with his family in their beautiful home. It seems to them that she wants revenge. The whole family is confused by her strange behavior toward each of them, which is interpreted as sexual advances...

Summary: A movie about the corruption in all levels of society. A baby is born from a supposed-to-be virgin woman, so a chain of hysteria about divine intervention in the birth takes place.

Languages: English, French

Comments: Friends 4 Ever

Summary: A group of girls in junior high decide to start a summer camp for the kids they babysit. However, their plans are constantly changed by complaining neighbors, school rivals, and the ususual growing pains - from passing summer school to dating to reconnecting a relationship with an absentee father.

Comments: Growing up is hard. Covering up is impossible.

Summary: This provocative, coming of age comedy is about one night in the lives of two lonely kids who for one moment, take off their masks and share a secret that will change their lives forever. Jimmy is still a virgin. Tonight, he agreed to babysit his neighbor Sara, to avoid telling his friends the truth about himself. All he wants to do is have a quiet and calm night and maybe make a few bucks. Sara has other plans… Starring: Jeremy Lelliott and Tierra Abbott.

Summary: Back to the Secret Garden, the sequel inspired by the classic children's tale, The Secret Garden, leads us into a magical world of hope and friendship on a grand adventure for the entire family.

It's been 30 years and the Secret Garden is in trouble again. The once vibrant and\ beautiful garden is dying and nobody knows why. The enchanted door to the garden can't be found and the magic has disappeared.

When a special girl named Lizzie is chosen to live in the castle, she discovers the garden and is determined to save it. She sneaks away from the watchful eye of her guardian Miss Sowerby (Academy Award® nominee, Joan Plowright) and runs off with the key to the garden door. Once inside, even with the help of a few friendly animals, she still can't solve the garden's mystery. She realizes that she must break all the rules and follow her heart to bring life and magic back to the Secret Garden.

It's never too late to return to the Garden. Relive the magic. Discover the mystery. And unravel all its secrets.

Features:
Full Screen Version
2.0 Dolby Surround
Digitally Mastered
Scene Index
Interactive Menus


System Requirements:
Run Time: 100 Min


Format: DVD MOVIE

Comments: The Wilby place is haunted... by a ghost who isn't dead!

Summary: A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Commentary by actor Patty McCormack and historian Charles Busch, Unknown

Comments: "The Bad Seed" is the big shocker!

Summary: Christine Penmark seems to have it all: a lovely home, a loving husband and the most "perfect" daughter in the world. But since childhood, Christine has suffered from the most terrible recurring nightmare. And her "perfect" daughter's accomplishments include lying, theft and possibly much, much worse. Only Christine knows the truth about her daughter and only Christine's father knows the truth about her nightmare.

Summary: Short story about a boy, who has just moved to a place. He meets a group of young girls and joins them swimming and relaxing in the sun. At some point they discover a couple that enters the bathinghouse on the molo. They find out that they should blackmail the couple, so that they have sex while the kids watch. A tensing psychological drama, both between the couple and the kids and between the four kids....

Summary: A drunken Madrid transient plans to sabotage his brother's wedding, only to have second thoughts after striking up an unusual friendship with the bride-to-be's borderline autistic child. Benito lives on the streets of Madrid, never staying in one place for longer than it takes to find another bottle and be on his way. Obliged to return to his hometown of Estella at the behest of his benevolent brother Lalo, Benito is disturbed to discover that his sibling is engaged to a singe mother with a troubled history. At first Benito vows to torpedo the wedding plans by any means possible, but a remarkable friendship soon leads the meddling drunk to reconsider his stance on the marriage.

Languages: Dutch

Summary: Documentary about the life of an 11-year-old girl. She spends a lot of time on her hobby, synchronised swimming. The rest of her time she spends on school, shopping and playing with friends.

Comments: Magic still exists ...

Summary: Besides the stray dog Mingus, 11 year old Sophia has no real friends. She is pushed around by the "Beastie boys", a gang of street kids who have built an entire camp in the trees of a junk yard. One day Sophia hears that the yard is ordered to be cut down by Carlow, the mayor. Mingus, who lives in the yard, will be taken away and put to sleep. Sophia is shocked but just then she meets a gypsy, who lends her an old leather ball. For five days only. The ball is alive and may just be able to help her saving the yard. And indeed the ball proves being an amazing character. It makes objects fly and communicates with Sophia through whistling, and successfully attacks Carlow's bodyguard "Sweetlove". Sophia is accepted in the gang. She realises that the ball might chase the mayor's men off the yard. Yet, Sophia discovers that even great magic sometimes has dark sides: when Sophia's new friend Romeo tries to kiss her, the ball grows jealous and turns vicious...

Summary: French:

Le père est danseur, la mère donne des cours de danse dans un club car depuis la naissance de Macha elle ne peut plus danser sur scène. Les parents de Macha se sont séparés et Macha le vit très mal. Elle voudrait beaucoup que ses parents s’aiment et recommencent à vivre ensemble. Le héros de son ballet préféré, Casse-noisette l’aide beaucoup et elle veut aussi devenir ballerine…

English:

Story of a young girl who aspires to be a great balerina in the midst of much family trouble. She is helped in her efforts by the star of the "Nutcracker" and great ballet hero of her country.

Languages: Lithuanian

Summary: Soviet eighties. A little town in a periphery. In the neighbourhood of eleven year old Emilija after the divorcement of his parents comes to live Rolanas and his dad. A connection sets up between two kids. They are shy and are afraid to open up, so they communicate through the wall or sitting in their own balconies or through the rosette that connects their flats. It appears that Emilijas parents are about to divorce as well. Kids find common topics, but almost a tragic event closes Emilijas way to the balcony. This encourages kids to go for a "real" date.

Summary: Set in Thirties London, Ballet Shoes tells the exhilarating tale of orphans Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil, who are adopted by an eccentric explorer, Gum, and raised as sisters by his selfless niece. The timeless and uplifting story revolves around each girl's struggle to fulfil her dreams: Pauline longs to be an actress, Petrova yearns to be an aviator, and Posy seems born to be a ballerina. But when Gum disappears, the money runs out - and the girls have a fight on their hands. Their struggle to balance personal ambition with the need to survive physically, emotionally, and financially, proves moving and comic by turns.

Summary: Brute feigns love for a young Gypsy girl who has a heart
valve condition that will likely kill her. In order
to save her, he and Babits and Mara have to please
Sincai in every way in order to get the right
medical supplies and medicines to do the operation
that will save her life. In order to raise money
for this operation, however, he will sell her
younger 'brother' Jorgu. He is ALL she really has.

Summary: Bea is 16 and nine months, and the only one left in her crowd who yet hasn't debuted sexually. This seems to be a problem for her when she falls in love with the most popular guy at school. Her friends tell her that the first time always sucks, and help her get some experience first because you don't want to waste the first time with your boyfriend.

Summary: Eleven year old Maria has lost her little brother to cancer. Having disappeared into herself, her mother is no longer there for Maria and her father struggles to keep the family together. Maria meets Jacob, who is the same age as she, but with a completely different attitude. Jacob is outgoing, exciting, funny and has wisdom way beyond his tender years. He gradually pulls Maria out of her shell and enables her to come to decisions which will affect her entire life.

Summary: Nice Swedish (eight part) TV Series about a group of children whose parents are killed in a plane crash.
Because they are afraid ending up in an orphanage or a foster home, the children take the boat (Luna) belonging to the older child and set sail to start a new life.

Comments: efter P.C. Jersilds succé-roman.

Summary: Reine is supposed to go to a summercamp called 'Childrens island' but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hotel. She thinks he is at the camp and he tells her he his. We then follow him around Stockholm that summer and see what he encounter on the path of life.

Comments: Vi två mot hela världen... ...i alla fall mot idioterna

Summary: (Zwei Kleine Helden) Two kids - about 11 years old - Marcello and Fatima, meet and like each other very much. Both have dreams and problems. Marcello wants to fly but feels like an absolutely useless human being, Fatima wants to play soccer - which is not acceptable for her muslim family. But then they start to support each other in a very delicate and subtle manner...

Summary: The summer of '58, the year Sweden almost won the world championship in soccer over Brazil, Yngve Johansson accepts two children to live with him during the summer, as told through the eyes of a young boy. His name is Mårten, and the other child's name is Annika. She is a rough girl, with many problems. The three of them do not get along, and Yngve is a true dictator to the children's eyes. However, when the children discover that their new guardian has a crush on their teacher (Cecilia Nilsson), they do what they can to bring the two together. Soon enough, the three will discover that they have a lot more in common than they previously imagined, and together they can make their lives worth living again. This is a sweet story about life in Sweden in the mid 1900's. It is about family, love, hate, innocent friendship that we all can relate to, and much, much more. The movie invites laughter as well as tears, and the actors, both the young and the old, are very talented and the best Sweden can offer. One will never forget the scene when Yngve believes the children enjoy speed bumps!

Languages: English

Summary: This fine but shocking drama (which Ted Turner paid for and then refused to show on his cable outfits), based on the novel by Dorothy Allison, concerns extensive abuse endured by a girl (Jena Malone) at the hands of her stepfather (Ron Eldard), while her mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) looks the other way. Anjelica Huston made her directorial debut with this film and demonstrates that talent also runs in the family when behind the camera. Difficult to watch but mitigated by Huston's intelligent approach and sense of balance--as well as outstanding performances--this is a significant film best left to the most mature audiences. "--Tom Keogh"

Summary: The Villa Fiorita is on the banks of an Italian lake. The battle is for the mother of 3 children who has just been divorced and has gone to the Villa with her lover. Her children follow her there to try & get their mother back.

Languages: French

Summary: Remy is a lounge pianist who loses his wife in a car accident. His fourteen-year-old step-daughter, Charlotte, wants to continue to live with him, but her biological father, a drunken clubowner, doesn't feel that this is right. She tries living with her father, but misses the comfort of Remy and eventually runs back to him. Her father relents and accepts her wish to live with her step-father. What begins as a simple reunion of father and daughter quickly takes on a whole new meaning when Charlotte confesses her love for Remy one night.

Languages: English,

Comments: Sometimes you have to give up the life of your dreams, to discover the dream of your life.

Summary: Mona sacrifices everything, including family, in pursuit of a beauty pageant victory. Her friend Ruby helps her to an amazing degree.

Languages: English

Comments: good times never seemed so good

Summary: During a snowy winter in the small fictional town of Knight's Ridge, Massachusetts, a group of lifelong buddies hang out, drink and struggle to connect with the women who affect their decisions, dreams and desires. Tommy "Birdman" Rowland and Kev, his sidekick, plow snow for a living. A former campus stud, Tommy continues to harbor feelings for his ex-girlfriend Darian, complicating his relationship with current lover Sharon. Paul Kirkwood lives with Birdman and also plows snow. Inexorably drawn to supermodels and the "ideal" woman, he refuses to commit to Jan, his girlfriend of seven years. Traveling from New York where he works the piano bar circuit, Willie Conway is at a crossroads in his life. Although he lives with sharp attorney Tracy Stover, Willie cannot commit to the relationship. In Knight's Ridge, he meets Marty, a 13 year-old "heartbreaker in training" and Andera, Stinky's cousin from Chicago, who compel Willie to reassess the value of his life and his relationship with Tracy.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Commentary by Jeff Daniels and producer Trevor Albert, Unknown

Comments: Discover what happens when you go looking for a miracle and a miracle comes looking for you.

Summary: Some people think "family entertainment" is an oxymoron, but even they might enjoy "Because of Winn-Dixie". This straightforward story of a girl and her dog is simple without being simplistic, heartfelt without being sappy, and thoughtful without being ponderous. Opal (Annasophia Robb, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", who manages the near-impossible feat of being cute without being cutesy) can't make any friends in the small town of Naomi until she hooks up with a dog that's running loose in a supermarket. She spontaneously names him after the store and soon the dog is leading her into unexpected places--a pet store, where she meets an awkward musician (Dave Matthews); a library, where she meets a librarian with as many stories as books (Eva Marie Saint); and into a house shrouded with underbrush, where she meets a blind old woman who sees with her heart (Cicely Tyson). This could have been sentimental glop, but director Wayne Wang ("Smoke", "The Joy Luck Club") and a restrained script draw honest emotions from the actors and an eerie beauty from the Florida landscape; this one of the few family movies that captures the childhood sense that everyday life can be mystical. Also starring Jeff Daniels ("The Purple Rose of Cairo", "Something Wild") as Opal's minister father. "--Bret Fetzer"

Languages: Spanish, French,

Summary: Bedhead is a short story of a young girl who is always picked on by her older brother David. David is one of those people who walks around all day with his hair looking like he just got out of bed. One day when he is picking on her she falls and hits her head. When she wakes up she discovers that she has telekinetic powers (the ability to move objects with her mind). She thinks about all of the great things that she could do with these powers, but decides that before starting any of these things she is going to get even with her brother, and get rid of that damn bedhead of his. After a series of slapstick bits of revenge she takes things too far and almost kills the both of them. She wakes up in a hospital and in voice over says that she will never abuse her powers again, but the will never let David know that.

Languages: English, German

Comments: You'll beWITCHED! You'll beDAZZLED! You'll be swept into a world of enchantment BEYOND ANYTHING BEFORE!

Summary: During WWII in England, Charlie, Carrie, and Paul Rawlins are sent to live with Eglantine Price, an apprentice witch. Charlie blackmails Miss Price that if he is to keep her practices a secret, she must give him something, so she takes a bedknob from her late father's bed and places the "famous magic traveling spell" on it, and only Paul can activate it. Their first journey is to a street in London where they meet Emelius Browne, headmaster of Miss Price's witchcraft training correspondence school. Miss Price tells him of a plan to find the magic words for a spell known as Substitutiary Locomotion, which brings inanimate objects to life. This spell will be her work for the war effort.

Languages: English, French, Spanish

Comments: Whatever they dream up... he has to survive.

Summary: A fantastical tale about a man who makes up bedtime stories for his niece and nephew only to find that they magically come true the next day, Bedtime Stories is a funny and enjoyable film about finding happiness in unexpected places. Skeeter (Adam Sandler) grew up with his sister Wendy (Courteney Cox) in a small hotel run by his father Marty (Jonathan Pryce) which was eventually sold to Barry Nottingham (Richard Griffiths) with the caveat that Skeeter would someday assume a leadership role in the business.

Expansion transformed the small hotel into the luxury Nottingham Hotel, but Skeeter is just a handyman with little hope of advancement. When his sister needs to leave the state for a job interview, Skeeter ends up sharing the responsibility of watching her two elementary-age children Bobbi (Laura Ann Kessling) and Patrick (Jonathan Morgan Heit), whom he hasn't seen for years, with Wendy's friend Jill (Keri Russell).

Initially an awkward situation, Skeeter and the kids bond over bedtime stories which Skeeter and the children make up. When events in the story start coming true, Skeeter tries to spin the stories to benefit his life, but events take some unexpected turns thanks to the kids' wild imaginations and some strange translations between fiction and reality.

New relationships flourish and in the end, Skeeter, Wendy, Mr. Nottingham, Bobbi, Patrick, and Jill each find happiness in a most unexpected place and discover what's really important in their own life. Also worth mentioning is the character Bugsy, a guinea pig with enormous eyes that's sure to have every child begging for their own pet guinea pig.

Comments: Words may define us, but it's love that connects us.

Summary: A wife and mother begins a downward emotional spiral, as her husband avoids their collapsing marriage by immersing himself in his 11 year-old daughter's quest to become a spelling bee champion.

Summary: Set in 1940s' Norway, this film follows a seven year old girl (Linda Pedersen) as she and her two brothers, roughly five and twelve years old, explore and interact with the small fishing community on an island they are vacationing on before heading back to school. A pleasant, slice-of-life portrait. [synopsis provided by www.CVMC.net]

Summary: Since birth, Kyle and Evie Preston have been told stories by their grandmother about battling giants who trapped the last of the world's fairies underground many thousands of years ago. When their Grandmother dies, Kyle and Evie inherit an old gold mine and family house that they didn't even know existed. Little do they know the mine is actually keeping fairies trapped and if not set free, they will be lost forever. It's a race against time as the trapped fairies hold the cure to a terminal disease which has befallen the kids' father (Corbin Bersen).

Summary: Set during the Summer of 1914 in the rural French countryside, this film follows two couples and their children. Pretty and nicely done but will be hard to follow unless you are familiar with the film's language. One of the major plots seems to focus on a first love affair between a boy (Robinson Stevenin) of about thirteen and a female peer.

Summary: As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible--Earth. This family-oriented French sci-fi comedy chronicles her adventures on the chaotic planet. Mila is 150 years old and has five children; encoded in her brain are two telepathic programs designed to restructure the thinking of destructive humans. The first is a fairly mild program designed to inspire the humans to rethink their world and begin asking some difficult questions. The other is far stronger and rapidly indoctrinates subjects with lofty utopian ideals and makes them deeply aware of themselves. Mila lands in Paris and is unnoticed but for the sudden, inexplicable power surges and outages that occur whenever she sends a telepathic message to her alien cohorts. Instead of eating, Mila draws energy from holding newborn babies. It is while holding an orphan infant in an obstetrics ward that her Earthly troubles begin. Feeling deeply for the baby's plight, she confronts the ward's head doctor and when logic fails, looses her programs upon him. Instantly the unsympathetic brute sees the light and begins helping her save the babe from wicked welfare workers.

Summary: Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daugther to Cinecittà, hoping she'll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria, even if her husband would prefer they save their little money for the rent, instead of paying teachers, hairdressers or bribes for her illusions.

Summary: 10-year-old Aya, the only daughter of two doctors doctors from Tel Aviv who are leaving on a trip to help Thai refugees, is placed in a kibutz where she must deal with the challenges of living with dozens of other children in a dormitory-style setting, four children per room, and placed without regard to gender.

Summary: Several children from a block of flats cause an accident with the moped belonging to Erik's big brother. The moped is impounded. To get money to reclaim the moped, they organise a music contest. To do so they 'borrow' all kinds of things from their parents. The parents blame the local 'travellers'.

Summary: Lena is a fair-skinned girl of mixed race, who lives with her Aboriginal mother and brother in a small, isolated country town. She longs for the Irish father she never really knew and one day when her home life feels set to implode, she ups and leaves, hitting the road with little money, a backpack and a photo of her dad.
Vaughn is in a minimum-security prison in country western NSW. He is a teenage indigenous boy who spends all his time in the plantation pine forest in the prison. Like many young aboriginal men, he is hardened by his anger at the world. He is disconnected from his family, but news of his mothers illness prompts him to break out of prison in the hope of reaching her before it is too late.
Vaughn meets Lena at a truck stop on the road to Sydney. Initially both are suspicious and wary of each other, but their journey, mostly by foot and the odd bit of hitch hiking, brings each of them closer to their search for purpose, identity and love.

Summary: In a modern winter sport resort, a pastor tells a family from the city about the Christmas legend of the magical “rock crystal”: despite a centuries old feud between the villages Gschaid and Millsdorf, the shoemaker Sebastian and Susanne, the daughter of the local dyer, fall in love. However, the people of Gschaid consider Susanne to be an arrogant Millsdorfer and subject her to their prejudices and hate. Heartbroken and leaving behind her children, the 13-year-old Konrad and the 11-year-old Sanna, she leaves Gschaid and returns to her parents. The siblings desperately hope that the magic of the rock crystal, which is said to reunite loved ones, will help bring their parents back together again. When the children get lost in the snowy mountains after visiting their mother on Christmas Eve, the two rival villages come together again.

Summary: The film tells the story of a strange friendship between an adult, already on the return of his path of life, and a Chinese girl who just begins her path. Nikos is the radio operator of a merchant ship and has just arrived in Hong-Kong. He is tired and wants to forget his problems by smoking opium. Innocence and hope turns to him in the person of Li, a Chinese girl who lives in a Sampan (a houseboat) and has to clean boats and empty trash-cans to survive.

Summary: Celebrations in Neustadt: young Bibi Blocksberg's spontaneous outburst of witchcraft caused a sudden rainstorm and saved two children from a fiery death. Mother Barbara, a witch to the very core, is as proud of her daughter as any mother could be. But overworked, and stressed out, father Bernhard is less than impressed by his offspring's supernatural escapades.

Bibi then receives news from Chief Witch Walpurgia that for her services above and beyond the call of duty she's been awarded the Crystal Ball, which will make her a full-fledged witch. Proudly, Bibi flies on her broomstick to the Blocksberg mountain. But Rabia, a particularly mean and nasty witch, is unwilling to see Bibi gain the honors and swears not to rest until she has relieved Bibi of the precious jewel...

Summary: Bibi Blocksberg has spent far too much time on wizardry – and far too little on her studies. Since her math notes are abysmal, she is forced to spend summer vacation in the all-work-no-play boarding school of Altenberg Castle. The school principal is an oddball who is trying to solve the mystery of Altenberg, and Bibi's roommate Carina, a Britney Spears clone, is a total pain. Luckily, Bibi soon makes friends with her classmate Elea, who has been in a wheelchair since an accident. Of course, Bibi wouldn't be Bibi if she didn't try to help Elea walk again – even though her witch's codex expressly forbids her to intervene in human lives. But when she hears the tale of a miraculous owl power, she sets out to find some in the caves of Altenberg. But someone else also knows about the magical powers of the blue powder: Bibi's archenemy Rabia von Katzenstein. In a dramatic escape, the wicked witch flees from the Dread-Marsh, where she was serving a five-year sentence with her cat Maribor. Silently, maliciously, she sneaks up on the Blocksbergs, the family she hates with a passion...

Summary: The story unfurls in the American Old West of the 1880s, where the town of the title strives for wealth and prosperity. When a number of adult immigrants are attacked by bellicose Indians, the children of the community find themselves alone (save one remaining grown-up) and promptly decide to take over the town.

Summary: When nine-year-old Josephine (Samantha Weinstein) meets her mother's new boyfriend Gerry, she immediately wants him out of the picture and agrees to enter into a playful competition with him over her Mom. The stakes are high -- if she wins, Gerry agrees to stop seeing her mother, but if he wins, she must be nice to him. But as the competition progresses, Josephine begins to learn the big lesson that life doesn't always deliver in the way she wants it.

Summary: A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.

Languages: English, Spanish, French

Comments: Two sisters advertise to get their dad a date...and get a whole lot more.

Summary:
In this straight-to-video feature, the Olsen twins star as Emily and Tess, sisters determined to find their single father a new love. The two sisters team up to paint a personals ad on a giant billboard in the heart of Hollywood. After a few disastrous dates, their Dad meets Brooke and it's love at first sight. There's only one problem: Brooke's unruly son is the girls' arch rival. To make matters worse, their father's agent is devising a plan to steal his money and break up this newfound relationship. Now, with the twins plotting every step of the way, they've got to find out if love really does conquer all.

Languages: English

Comments: Inside every one of us is a special talent waiting to come out. The trick is finding it.

Summary: A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

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

Comments: Just a person who protects children and other living things.

Summary: Wandering Christlike through the Southwest, Native American Vietnam veteran Billy Jack -- soft-spoken, but well-versed in martial arts -- champions the cause of a progressive school run by Jean Roberts (Delores Taylor, Laughlin's real-life wife). The bigoted white townsfolk don't cotton to Jean's minority-group students, so they do everything they can to humiliate and physically abuse the kids. When one of her charges is cruelly coated with white flour, Billy Jack goes berserk. Thus begins an orgy of self-righteous violence, culminating with our hero being hunted down on a murder charge.

Languages: English

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Media Type: DVD
Artist: BINDI KID FITNESS
Title: BINDI KID FITNESS WITH STEVE IRWIN & THE CROCMEN
Street Release Date: 02/20/2007
Import
Genre: CHILDREN'S VIDEO

Summary: A young girl packs up for a visit with her small-town grandparents by her urban Mother. Her grandfather's household includes his mentally ill son, his son's wife, and their son with whom the girl has a close relationship. Her uncle, is a quiet gentle man who can't handle the absurdities of life. He fixes watches for a living and embarrasses the family by his unorthodox/childish reactions to things that bother him. His son and niece idolize the purity of his world, his sensitivity, and his kindness. The resent his treatment by his wife, and the niece suspects his wife is having an affair with a neighbor.

Among the issues addressed are forcing a local Amish population to send their children to public school, the life of an embittered old woman who provides witch spells to the girl's young cousin, and the betrayal of confidence that destroys two relationships over the course of the film. No relief is given to adults or children in the way of clear answers other than the fragility of friendship and trust, and the imprecise definition of right and wrong in human affairs.

Summary: At christmas time, a family gathers around the christmas tree to sing songs and share stories about the birth of baby Jesus.

Summary: Dorine is a frumpy working mother complete with pink foam curlers in her hair. Extremely pregnant, she struggles as a concierge to support the four children she already has. Right before her fifth one is born, her husband leaves her. Mainly because of her kids, who are young but play a substantial part in the film, she gets involved in an unexpected romance with her selfish neighbor Louis Le Bison (Edouard Baer), who turns out to be a nice guy when she goes into labor.

Summary: After enjoying two of his greatest critical and commercial successes - Murmur of the Heart and Lacombe, Lucien, - Malle decided to go for something completely different, something much more experimental and free-form. Always a great fan of myth and fantasy, and especially of the work of Lewis Carroll, Malle in Black Moon tries to create the special, charged atmosphere of a world in which actions, objects and creatures are never quite what they seem. The film begins as the teenaged Lily (Cathryn Harrison) has a road accident and discovers she's landed smack in the middle of some kind of civil war. Fleeing into some nearby fields, she comes upon a lonely mansion inhabited by an old lady (Therese Giehse) who knows how to talk to animals. There's also a brother and sister (Joe Dallessandro and Alexandra Stewart) and soon more and more children, as the surrounding battles seem to draw ever nearer. Shot by the great Sven Nykvist, Black Moon offers a distinctively different approach to the theme of adolescent self-realization that has been such a constant preoccupation in Malle's work. Directed by Louis Malle, France/Italy, 1975, 35mm, 100 mins. In French with English subtitles.

Comments: Intelligent. Deadly. And Out To Destroy Us. Meet The Ultimate Buzz-Kill.

Summary: When deadly wasps infiltrate a small town, it’'s up to an exterminator, a professor of entomology, and the town’s deputy to solve the problem before more people die. Robert Englund stars in this creepy-crawly thriller.

Languages: German,

Summary: Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on...

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Commentary by director Chuck Russell and visual effects supervisor Joel Hynek, Unknown

Comments: Fear the Darkness. Fight the Evil. Bless the Child.

Summary: When Maggie comes home to her apartment building one night, she discovers her estranged, drug-addict sister Jenna huddling in the doorway. Jenna promptly abandons her newborn baby with Maggie, who proceeds to raise the child as her own, despite evidence of autism. But as the little girl, Cody, gets older, what seemed to be autism starts to manifest itself in more startling ways. At the same time, a series of child murders are sweeping the city--murders conducted by a mysterious cult with supernatural matters on their mind...

Comments: Der aussergewöhnlichste Kinderfilm des Jahres 2004 (The most extraordinary children's film of the year 2004)

Summary: Marie and Inga, both 13, have been best friends for a long time. Like all girls their age, they share the same problems: boys, their looks, the teachers. They do not differ from other teenagers except in one way: they are blind. They live in a boarding school for the blind and they love music. When they hear that a school band is recruiting extras for a TV contest, they get carried away. The others agree at the audition that the girls are talented but their blindness is not a media asset.

Then Marie's life suddenly takes a new turn when she helps a young Russian émigré to hide from the police. Herbert wants to return to his homeland, against his father's wish, but needs money for his ticket. Inga comes up with the idea that the three play music on the streets: The Blind Flyers are a success and make money but their luck is short-lived.

Summary: Childhood is never easy, but when you're broke, bullied and have just destroyed your dad's new camera you don't need the added stress of your friend's dog going AWOL... But wait, you have a plan!

In this variation on the familiar Famous Five format the kids, but with an edge, the parents get to play around like mad and the baddies get to ham it up menacingly. The film is primarily focused on young Blinker (parents can be so cruel!) and his various adventures over the course of a summer... including young love.

Surrounded by a very credible family set-up Joren Seldeslachts does extremely well in making Blinker interesting, bright and sensitive without ever descending into saccharine cliche. There are darker elements to the plot that are clever and a touch scary right up until near the end.

The ingenuity and design skills of Blinker, his best friend and their slightly backward pal are put to the test with their efforts to defeat the bullies and win a competition for new inventions - during which they show off some impressive building skills, although one gets a wee bit worried when they're tinkering with power tools!

Summary: Blinker can't stop trying to solve the village mysteries. This time he in search of jewelry, stolen family jewels of the deceased baroness and their robbers. He's a little bit too reckless and unwantedly drags his girlfriend Nelle and his deaf niece Sara into precarious and dangerous adventures.

Summary: When a young girl has her love of skating taken away from her, she is cheered up by Blizzard, Santa's most magical reindeer.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Martin is a little too small for his age. Too thin and too quiet, as his mother is unfortunately always reminding him. He and his blue baseball cap are joined at the hip, or rather, at the head. Martin and his parents have just moved to the quiet little town of Bellbach. A new home, a new school, but no new friends. Even on his first day, there's trouble. Whilst out shopping Martin unwittingly blows the whistle on a boy stealing cigarettes and, from this moment on, Oliver is bent on getting his revenge from 'stupid hat'! The second day isn't much better because Martin winds up of all places in Oliver's class. And what's more, this great girl with translucent eyes and a lovely smile turns out to be none other than Oliver's girlfriend. With great ingenuity Martin somehow manages to get to know Silke. She even invites him out to 'Riverpool', an old, disused swimming pool in a river that was supposed to be Silke and Oliver's secret meeting place. Martin lies down next to Silke, gazing lovingly into her face when suddenly, Oliver appears on the scene. All at once, their idyllic tryst is over. A day that began so well for Martin ends badly with a fight with Oliver and a row with Silke. Nevertheless, Martin slowly begins to understand Oliver. The more he gets to know him, the more he learns of the problems with which Oliver has to contend at home. Silke has a hard time at home too. In the end, Martin may not have any idea what will become of his love life, but he can be sure of one thing at least: now he's found two friends for whom he's prepared to go through thick and thin.

Comments: The myth is alive!

Summary: Set on a mysterious Greek island somewhere in the Aegean, "Blood Tide" opens with a bizarre ritual. A young girl with a Greek letter painted on her forehead drifts into an alcove, also marked with the same Greek letter, where a hideous creature lies in wait. Flash forward a thousand or so years to the present day as Neil (Martin Kove) and his pretty wife Sherry (Mary-Louise Weller) arrive at the same Greek island in search of Neil's missing sister Madeleine (Deborah Shelton). The isle seems abandoned at first, oddly enough, but it isn't too long before our two victims...er, I mean main characters run into a cranky old salt named Frye (James Earl Jones) and his vivacious blonde girlfriend Barbara (Lydia Cornell). Then we meet the locals, a cantankerous bunch of kooks led by the sullen Nereus (Jose Ferrer). These are weird people with weird customs, and they quickly claim they don't have a clue about anything that goes on around the island. Obviously they are hiding something.

Summary: An intimate portrait of the photographer and the complex, enigmatic pictures she takes of her children

Comments: A cavalcade of magic. A carnival of fun. The Blue Bird is magic for everyone.

Summary: AKA L'oiseau Bleu, Il Giardino Della Felicita
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities.

Languages: English, French,

Comments: Ready or not... the future comes just the same.

Summary: A troubled girl is encouraged by a teacher to enter a poetry contest. Before she knows it, the two will have fallen in love with eachother.

Comments: If you want to feel the rush you have to take the risk.

Summary: Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates including her rebellious younger sister, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters surf competition. Having transplanted herself to Hawaii with no one's blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene ... until pro quarterback Matt Tollman comes along. Like it or not, Anne Marie starts losing her balance - and finding it - as she falls for Matt.

Languages: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish,

Comments: A sensuous story of natural love.

Summary: A story of natural love. Two children shipwrecked alone on a tropical island. Nature is kind. They thrive on the bounty of jungle and lagoon. The boy grows tall. The girl beautiful. They swim naked over coral reefs. They run in a cathedral of trees. And the warm winds, the tropic moon, the silk sand conspire to enchant them. When their love happens, it is natural as the sea, and as powerful. Love as nature intended to be.

Summary: In most junior high classes, there is the scapegoat. You know, the kid who gets called names, has her backpack stolen, and gets beat up after school. In Bluebird, that girl is Merel (Elske Rotteveel). She's 12 years old, devoted to her handicapped little brother, Kasper (Kees Scholten), and she's smart and bookish, which is why the kids at school hate her. She takes the train to school everyday, reading Roald Dahl and, eventually, Anna Karenina, both out of a love for books, and in an attempt to escape her hostile world. Her bookishness ultimately endears her to a fellow passenger, who, after telling her that her name means "blackbird," calls her "Bluebird" instead, after the bluebird of happiness.

It's refreshing to see an honest portrayal of female adolescence. Not just the teasing aspect, but the all-encompassing self-consciousness girls tend to feel about their changing bodies. In one scene, Merel buys her first lipstick (in a shade that's too dark for her), and in another she gets her ears pierced. In yet another scene, she stuffs socks in her shirt to see what she would look like with breasts (hasn't every girl/woman does this at some point?). She also uses masking tape to flatten the ears that she thinks stick out too much. (One of the things she's teased about.)

Elske Rotteveel is the best thing about Bluebird. This is her first movie, and if there is any justice in the world, it won't be her last. She's silent for much of the film, but her face reveals how hurt and lonely she is. It's a magnificent performance. The other kids in the movie are great too, and the best part of all is they seem like real kids, as if the director went into a Rotterdam junior high and just filmed what he saw. Unfortunately, the ending feels like a copout, which keeps Bluebird, an Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film, from being great.

— BRIE BEAZLEY

Summary: The film begins with Adam, Evchen, and Manni looking at the moon through their home-made telescope. Evchen isn't interested, and dismisses the moon as a lump of cheese. Manni, who is a big fan of technology, sees satellites and a car driving over the moon's surface. But Adam hears the moon speak, and hears it ask for flowers to cover its surface. From then on, Adam is determined to breed a kind of flower that can grow on the moon. Although he is made fun of at school and is yelled at by his father, who develops extra-nutritious vegetables for Professor Vitamin, Adam keeps trying.

Eventually things take a positive turn. Kondensmaxe, in his airplane, finds Professor Vitamin's old magic greenhouse. It turns out the Professor was herself concerned with developing such a flower, before the war, and is willing to assist Adam in his research. Manni and Evchen support him every step of the way, and so does Adam's grandfather. Eventually Adam's mother even convinces her husband to assist the children as well, although he believes that flowers are something "for poets and women." Even he is finally persuaded to abandon the purely useful for the extraordinarily beautiful.

What is particularly charming about this movie is the magic found in the every-day. The clips of growing flowers seem just as magical as the idea of a flower on the moon. The university seen from the perspective of a child is just as impressive as the bewitched greenhouse in the middle of the woods. Suddenly anything is possible. The happy message of the film is to fight for what you believe in, as Adam does. That Adam convinces skeptics to help him is almost more important than the successful development of the moon flower.

Blumen für den Mann im Mond celebrates the "poetry of the everyday," as Ingelore König, Dieter Wiedemann, and Lothar Wolf wrote in Zwischen Marx und Muck: DEFA-Filme für Kinder. Upon the film's release, critics praised not only the children for their natural acting (and director Rolf Losansky for his excellent directing of children), but also the filmmakers for their seamless integration of fantasy into reality.

Comments: The family will never be the same.

Summary: Bob Tree is an extremely clumsy and accident-prone guy, incapable of holding down a job. Bob has the best intentions with the worst luck, but he will not accept this as his destiny and decides to enroll in Butler School in an effort to refine his inept ways. Anne Smythe, a single mom with two kids, is spinning out of control trying to balance a high maintenance French boyfriend, a stressful job and unruly, bratty, pre-pubescent kids. A desperate Anne, in dire need of assistance, stumbles across one of Bob's old babysitting flyers and calls. Much to their delight, the kids find Bob to be a real pushover and convince their Mom to hire him fulltime. Anne is pleased when she learns Bob has attended Butler School and assumes she has found a trained professional to look after the kids, cook and clean. After fooling Anne into believing Bob is the calm, collected individual she's needed, hi-jinks ensue. One catastrophe after another, finally gets Bob fired, but not before ! he helps the kids through multiple crises! Ultimately realizing this, Anne begs Bob to rejoin the family and quickly their romance blossoms.

Summary: Bølle-Bob is one one Denmark's most famous stage musicals for kids, telling a meagre storyline of kids fighting against a real estate developer, who wants to build a shopping mall in the rural village. The kids, led by streetwise scoundrel Bølle Bob, fight back through song and dance. The succesful musical was a hit in Denmark, resulting in a movie (2005), a tv series and this low budget made-for-video adaptation, which looks rather silly and inadequate if you haven't seen the stage show. Many of Denmark's youth talents star, and as a vehicle of songs and morality, it's a funny and historical documentation.

Languages: Russian

Summary: Pioneers Vasja, Oleg, Igor, Yana, Tanja and most younger of them Vovochka with the pupil, cock Fedej, send to a campaign on native edge. Many adventures drop out on their share. It is necessary to show sharpness, boldness, diligence. For a long time will remain in memory of children of a meeting with different people...

Summary: Two sisters, one a prostitute who has written a book of poetry and the other suffering from mental illness, live in a fantasy world created in the aftermath of their parents' death. Soon, this world is upended by some outsiders, including a prisoner who writes letters to one of the girls.

Languages: English

Comments: A Young Girl Behind Bars... The Pain. The Abuse. The Revenge.

Summary: Linda Blair, immediately following her triumph in ''The Exorcist'' was cast in this then controversial TV movie. Christine Parker is a young runaway from an abusive home whose parents hand her over to the state. She finds herself in a detention home, where she discovers the even harsher realities of the young girls who reside there - unloved, troubled, and angry, who have the tendency to vent all their aggression onto newcomers. She finds herself as the target of their rage on evening in the shower room, where five of her fellow inmates gang up on her and violate her with a toilet plunger handle. Considered overly graphic at the time of its original airing in 1974, the scene was cut for later airings, but has been restored on DVD. Blair's nipple can be briefly seen for a few moments and that may explain why the scene was cut in subsequent TV broadcasts. As disturbing as it is, the rape is essential to the film's plot and adds to the anguish that Chris and her peers experience. When she has the chance to go home for a brief stay, her abusive father (Richard Jaeckel, magnificent) slaps her and her mother, leading the teen to run away again, taking her right back to where she started. Kim Hunter is effective as the passive, meek mother who endures her husband's insensitivity and mistreatment. Blair went on to give some more great performances in the late 70s, such as another TV movie, "Sarah T: Portrait Of A Teenage Alcoholic" and the theatrical releases "Sweet Hostage", "Summer Of Fear" and "Hell Night". Not long after, she found herself in exploitation flick hell. She is an outstanding actress, giving her all to every project, and it would have been nice if she had found some more mainstream material.

The portrayals of the other adolescents are right on target, a diverse group who all share the same pain, so much so that they become bonded in a hardened, indifferent way. Chris becomes one of the gang, and in a sadly realistic conclusion, has lost sight of any goals or aspirations she may have had to change her life.

"Sarah T: Portrait Of A Teenage Alcoholic" and "Sweet Hostage" are long overdue for DVD releases.

Worth viewing, still relevant today.

Summary: Kathleen's a hard-working single mother, who's saving to buy a house for herself and her daughter, Zoe. Sam's a businessman who has to pretend he has a family in order to close a deal with the mysterious Javier Del Campo. Sam owns the company that Kathleen works for, and as her boss, manages to convince her to help him out. But Del Campo is more than he seems, and it just might be Zoe who's making the real deal to get a new home for herself, her mother, and Sam.

Summary: Sycheva is a 45 year old restorer of art. When he gets 13 artifacts stolen from his car, he is threatened to be outed as the thief. Now he must retrieve these precious works with the help of a 13 year old girl who has a motive all her own.

Comments: Discover a place that will never leave you, and a friendship that will change you forever.

Summary: Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and she's a city girl, he's a country boy, the two become fast friends. Together, they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants and rule as king and queen. This friendship helps Jess cope with the tragedy that makes him realize what Leslie taught him.

Summary: Thiuri is nearly a knight. He only has to complete one test and he will be knighted. He only has to wake one night in the chapel without talking and without opening the door. Then someone knocks at the door of the chapel and asks for help. Risking his knighthood Tiuri opens the door and helps the guy asking for help. Tiuri has to deliver a letter to a knight in the forest which contains an important message for a befriended king. When Tiuri finds the knight, the knight is deadly wounded and asks Tiuri to deliver the letter. Tiuri hesitates, but accepts the mission. The adventure begins.... Will Tiuri deliver the letter on time? And what does the letter say?

Summary: Claire (Nymark), an unmarried pregnant teenager, finds an odd relation in Madame Mélikian (Ascaride), an older woman grieving over the death of her son.

Summary: Every single day, the bosom friends Merel and Kiki hang around at the same spot on their mopeds, making their usual comments on each other and the world around them. Kiki could stick to this little routine forever, but Merel slowly starts to realize that there must be more to life somewhere.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

Comments: The Ultimate Experience Of Inner Terror

Summary: A man's wife is under the care of an eccentric psychiatrist who uses innovative and theatrical techniques to breach the psychological blocks in his patients. When their daughter comes back from a visit with mom and she's covered with bruises and welts, the father attempts to bar his wife from seeing the daughter, but faces resistance from the secretive psychiatrist. Meanwhile, the wife's mother and father are attacked by deformed children, and the husband begins to suspect a connection with the psychiatrist's methods.

Comments: Quite simply there has never ever been a movie like it

Summary: Bugsy centres around an ongoing gang battle between Fat Sam, named because of his physique, and Dandy Dan. The conflict is set in 1920's America gripped by Prohibition. Bugsy Malone, the main character, begins the film as a bystander but later becomes involved with Fat Sam. Bugsy's love interest in the film is Blousey Brown, a shy but ambitious girl desperate to be a film star in Hollywood. However, Bugsy is easily distracted and is seen by Blousey flirting with Tallulah, the main attraction at Fat Sam's Grand Slam. During the film the characters are seemingly killed whenever they are 'splurged' (shot with a splurge gun or hit with a custard pie in the face). However, after the final shootout where everyone gets splurged, no one dies but instead everyone starts singing the final song.

Summary: This is a fairly successful attempt of making a Hitchcock for children. Black and white images, extensive use of close ups and audio effects, makes this short exiting even for adults. This film is versatile like a Ravensburger board game, from 6-99, although I suggest you keep one finger on the volume button if young children are present.

Summary: Bulle lives in the same apartment building as Tona, but is different from the others at school. He just doesn't fit in. The rules are strict as to what is cool and what is not, and make little room for variation or individuality. At least that is what Tona believes. After a while she feels that she has to drop Bulle as a friend in order to be accepted by the in-group. When forced to take sides she betrays Bulle. This is a film about how difficult things can be when you want to be liked, but don't have the strength of character to say what you mean.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: It's 4 a.m... do you know where your kids are?

Summary: Based on a true story. Naive teenagers plot to murder one of their own, who has been too much of a bully to them.

Comments: What took place in that town in 1948 should have been a love story.

Summary: Buster rules the school with his pack of friends and dates the prettiest girl in town, Margie Hooks (Pamela Sue Martin). Buster and Margie are engaged to be married right after graduation, and everything is going Buster's way, except one thing: Margie refuses to have sex until they are married. Full of adolescent desire, Buster begins to secretly visit Billie (Joan Goodfellow), a painfully shy and reclusive hillbilly girl who lets herself be used for sex with all the local boys in an effort to be accepted. What begins as a secret quest for sexual gratification blossoms into a serious love affair when Buster realizes that he is falling in love with Billie. Despite the disapproval of the local townspeople and his friends and family, Buster breaks his engagement with Margie and begins to seriously date Billie. The two young lovers are blissfully happy, discovering the joys of first love--until their relationship is forced to an end in a violent and tragic encounter. Vincent and Goodfellow are excellent as the star-crossed lovers, bringing youthful exuberance and heartfelt desire to the screen.