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Adventure, Christmas film, drama film, family film
Sean Bean stars as the caring single adoptive father of one of a set of identical twins — played by Aaron Johnson — separated years earlier. The film follows the two boys as they meet, and having come to the attention of a corrupt orphanage manager are instrumental in smashing a child smuggling ring. After the two boys meet they have fun until Thomas is kidnapped by the child smugglers.
Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, family drama film
Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Short-tempered bartender Jacques has a heart attack. Young homeless man Lucas fails in a suicide attempt. They share a room in the hospital.
Drama, comedy drama, family film
The film revolves around a poor Hispanic family with a son named Sailboat. Sailboat's friend, Peeti, is obsessed with soccer, but has a disability that prevents him from playing the game. Sailboat finds a "little guitar" (actually a ukulele) in a pile of junk.
Drama, Sport, adventure film, drama film
Down-on-his-luck Louisiana horse trainer Lloyd Bourdelle dreams of winning the All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico. He has three sons: Buddy, Randy and young Casey. Buddy helps his father train horses, and Randy is a jockey.
musical film
Professor Owl instructs his class of birds on how to find melody around them. Professor Owl demonstrates how melodies are assembled by playing a tune on a small piano. Following this, the class flies off to discover the many melodic sounds of nature.
drama film
Widow Mary Bassett (Helene Joy) and her three children have hit difficult times on their farm; it is especially apparent when they cannot even afford a turkey for their Thanksgiving dinner. Oldest daughter Tilly (Tatiana Maslany) writes to Mary's wealthy and estranged mother Isabella (Jacqueline Bisset), exaggerating their situation in a lengthy letter. Isabella comes to the farm to offer her help and finds a kindred spirit in Tilly.
Family Comedy, comedy film
Morris Applebaum, an eccentric, celebrated stage actor of Jewish origin summons by letters his three adult children to his Manhattan apartment for the celebration of his 90th birthday and a special event they'll never forget; when the party's over, Morris plans to take his "final exit". He is healthy and not unduly depressed although he's missing his wife, but he just wants to go out the way he's lived, on his own terms and as a performance. Now it's up to his hilarious offspring – Flo, Ted, Barry and his daughter-in-law and her teen son and daughter – to put aside their own excessive baggage from childhood and convince Morris that he…
adventure film
After his plane goes down, an American boy is rescued from the sea by a Japanese fisherman and his family. When police arrive in the village, the fisherman's son fears that they have done something wrong. He and the American boy go on the run.
Komödie, comedy film, musical film, pirate film
On their way to their jobs at the Death's Head Tavern, Oliver "Puddin' Head" Johnson and Rocky Stonebridge encounter Lady Jane, who asks them to bring a love note to the tavern singer, Bruce Martingale. At the tavern, the notorious Captain Kidd dines with Captain Anne Bonney, a female pirate. She complains that Kidd raided ships in her territory and demands her share of the treasure.
drama film
Poh Huat, the father of the Loh family, works as a lawyer's clerk. He is married to Siew Luan, a housewife who likes to brew herbal tea for the family. Poh Huat has a habit of buying lottery tickets in hope of winning and enjoying a better life.
LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama
This allegorical tale concerns the gap that exists between East and West Los Angeles as Latino kids try to pursue the American Dream. After five years of living in Mexico, an 18-year-old youth returns to Los Angeles with aspirations of becoming a movie star. At the urging of his father, a pimp who sells maps to stars' homes as a cover, the young man turns to hustling as a way to meet Hollywood insiders.
children's film
The film celebrates the relationship between a small girl named Emily (voiced by Emily Osborne), and her kindly but ailing grandfather (voiced by Peter Ustinov), along with a dog. Emily's playful innocence is contrasted with Granpa's increasing frailty. Aware that he will not be around for much longer, he shares his memories of adventures and days gone by.
Mandy (Ciara O'Hanlon) tells the story of her friend Billy Owens (Dalton Mugridge), an average boy who has just turned 11. She notes the strangeness of him being born at the stroke of 11 on November 11, which is later discovered to be a number of great power. Billy, along with Mandy and their cowardly but loyal best friend Devon (Christopher Fazio) discover that Billy's family has magical origins, and upon a chance encounter with a mysterious shopkeeper (Roddy Piper) who Billy buys a wand from for $11, they find out that he can use the wand to cast magic spells, and together they embark on a journey to save their town of Spirit River from…
Komödie, Musical, Western, Western film, comedy film
The author of best-selling Western novels, Bronco Bob Mitchell, has never set foot in the West. A newspaper article has exposed this fact to his fans, and his image is suffering because of it. He decides to make an appearance at a Long Island charity rodeo to bolster his image.
science fiction film, teen film
Twelve-year-old Anna Hart of Flemington, New Jersey, a student at a school for gifted children, is a genius and a kleptomaniac who insults her teachers, has perfectly parted hair, gets headaches when she stares at fires and flickering lights, and suffers from strange, prophetic dreams. Michaela Dupont, a piano teacher who has been watching Anna and has kept photos of her and a similar-looking girl taken in 1970, moves in next door. Then Anna sees her exact double on local TV news when a commuter plane makes a forced landing nearby, and she learns that her double, Anna Smithson, has the same family setting as hers — the child of a…
Komödie, association football film, children's film, romantic comedy
High school freshman Sara Davis, a teenage soccer prodigy, joins her school's varsity team as a sophomore. Preened by her father Gil since she was small, he hopes he can get her on the U.S. National Soccer Team as their youngest recruit ever.
Crime, Drama, Thriller, drama film
The movie is based on Tim McLoughlin's novel Heart of the Old Country, which has Mike Manadoro (Kevin Zegers) as a 19-year-old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds. When Mike's photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to New York University, he must figure out how to balance his tight-knit Italian neighborhood roots in Bay Ridge with the opportunity to blend into the expansive, sophisticated world on the other side of the East River. Since his job at a local car service doesn't earn him enough to make up for the rest of the tuition, and his father, a retired sanitation worker on disability, refuses out of pride to…
Destiny, Drama, Family Drama, drama film
Eleven-year-old Deirdre Striden (Jodie Foster) has an incurable heart condition, despite consultations with heart specialists at the behest of her parents Eugene (Richard Harris) and Ruth (Lois Nettleton). The Striden family has since moved to Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia to ensure that her last days are as pleasant as possible. The nine-year-old neighbour boy Phillip (Brad Savage) is the only one who brings a little happiness into the home, since Deirdre knows exactly what is wrong with her.
biographical film, drama film, family film, historical film, war film
It is 1943 and Colette Cohen, a beautiful young Belgian-Jewish woman, is imprisoned in Auschwitz -Birkenau where she meets a fellow prisoner, Vili Feld, a Slovak-Jew, and they fall in love. They both experience the daily torture and slave labour in the camp, and one day Colette is selected for the gas chambers but is luckily saved by Vili, who tells her what to say so that she can avoid the sentence. An SS official, Weisacker, who is captivated by her beauty, sends her to work as a seamstress at his manufactory, where she is granted a slight amount of protection in comparison to some other prisoners in the concentration camp.
Sci-Fi, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Two brothers Josh and Max attempt to invent a fully mobile robot with advanced artificial intelligence to help their mother, Sarah, with household chores. However, after a playfully performed séance on Halloween, the ghost of their late father, Matthew, possesses the robot. The boys are overjoyed at the return of their father, but it soon becomes apparent that the people who stole their father's work are after their robot, Newman.
Drama, drama film, war film
The protagonist, named Jerry, is a veteran from the Iraq War living somewhere on the Great Plains, presumably South Dakota. He then goes on a killing spree after discovering that his wife has been withholding money from him.
adventure film, drama film, family film
A young, impoverished 12-year-old boy named Jody Baxter (Wil Horneff), the lone surviving child of four, lives on a farm in 1870s in an area that is now part of the Ocala National Forest, near Silver Glen Springs, shortly after the American Civil War. Jody develops a lasting bond with an orphaned deer named Flag.
family film, fantasy film
This humorous children's story recounts the adventure of a young boy who strives to be heard. As Toronto Globe and Mail writer James Bradshaw writes, Jacob Two-Two is "two plus two plus two years old, has two brothers and two sisters, and has to say everything twice just to be heard; odd numbers aren't his thing." This quirk gives rise to his nickname "Two-Two". Two-Two's odd habit results in a misunderstanding that lands him in prison.