Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons (1937)
comedy film, compilation film, family film
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comedy film, compilation film, family film
Drama, Komödie
musical film
Following their concert for world peace in outer space, Barbie and her band the Rockers are going back home. During the trip back to Earth, the band's space shuttle inadvertently enters a time warp. Upon landing at an airport, they meet Dr.
Adventure, adventure film, coming-of-age film, drama film, family film, survival film
Luke Mercier, a local teenager, defies nature to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub Nanuk with its mother in the ice fields of Northern Canada.
Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Political Drama, drama film, mystery film, spy film
Eyal is an agent in Mossad, the Israeli security service. He is a hitman who targets enemies of Israel. His wife has recently committed suicide, and the agency decides that he needs to take on a less challenging assignment: to find an aging Nazi war criminal.
comedy drama
The film starts with the understanding that the makers of the Benji films are going to various towns in the U.S. looking for the next dog to play Benji. In a small Mississippi town, a freelance, abusive dog breeder named Hatchett keeps a backyard kennel under poor conditions behind his home.
adventure film, drama film, family film
Robin McAllister (Devon Sawa) and his family win the lottery and they end up moving from Kansas City to Seattle where Robin attends Locksley Academy, a wealthy private school. While there Robin comes up with a plan to help one of his friends who was hurt and needs money for an operation by robbing from John Prince Sr., the head of a very wealthy corporation. Robin becomes friends with a couple of misfits at school named Will Scarlett (Billy O'Sullivan) and Little John (Tyler Labine) and also falls for a girl named Marian (Sarah Chalke) who helps train the horses that Robin's family has.
drama film, family film
Teenaged sisters Madeline and Daisy, living on Cape Cod, deal with the implications of their widower father Harry coming out in 1973.
In the kingdom of Russia, its ruler Tsar Nicolai finds his daughter, Princess Alexeya, is unwilling to marry any suitors presented to her, despite their gifts to her father. One day, to his surprise, she declares she will only marry a man if they can bring her father a ship that can fly, which the Czar joyfully agrees to. Word of this proposal is spread across the kingdom, which presents an opportunity to two young men - Sergei and Boris - to convince their father, a poor woodsman, and their mother, to finance their journey to honor this request.
drama film, family film
Jacob McKay, a young boy, travels with his parents (John and Emma) and younger brother Toby in a covered wagon en route to California. They become separated from the wagon train and end up stranded in the Rocky Mountains. While they are sleeping, a bear rummages through the wagon, scares off their mules and livestock and scatters their possessions.
fantasy film
Alice is sitting by the riverbank all alone, reading her book entitled The Principles of Logical Calculus when she decides she simply could not stand to read any further. She's bored and she despises being stuck in that "horrible place", as she refers to her beautiful outdoor garden. Suddenly out of nowhere, a talking white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and a pocket watch appears, and Alice sees that he is in a big hurry.
adventure film, drama film, family film, historical film, war film
The film takes place primarily in German South-West Africa (now Namibia) in 1914 during World War I. An Arabian mare gives birth to a beautiful chestnut foal during a voyage to Swakopmund for work in the copper mines. The foal is separated from his mother upon arrival at a German colonial mining town and nearly expires from dehydration.
Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Drama, Political Drama
The film portrays the early life of the director in his home city, Alexandria.
comedy drama
A father, Robert Micelli (Joe Mantegna), has become a stranger to his family and thinks only of his lawn and job. After decades of no contact, Robert's Uncle Nino (Pierrino Mascarino) flies to the United States for an unexpected visit, with a suitcase full of homemade Italian wine. Nino helps the family realize the true value of family.
independent film
Based on the children's novel by South Australian author Colin Thiele, this is a father and son story about tuna fishing of southern bluefin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident-prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile his past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.
Family Drama, Political Drama, independent film
Kelli, returning from her military tour of duty in the Middle East, has high hopes for resuming her old life in her midwestern hometown. Her hopes are gradually dashed as her relationships with her family and friends suffer; they have moved on, and she cannot adjust. She is unable to provide the attention her children need, she quits her dull factory job, she discovers her husband Mike's (Shannon) infidelity, drinks with her friends, then is stopped by the police while driving under the influence.
Horror, Thriller, erotic film, horror film
Nora and Jim are an alcoholic couple. After a night of drinking, Nora experiences a flashback and falls down the stairs of their New York apartment building. Though all right, she complains of headaches, and her doctor orders her to give up alcohol.
One night in the Evergreen Forest, Schaeffer the sheepdog is playing with his human owners, Tommy and Julie, when their father, Ranger Dan has a surprise for them. As Schaeffer takes a brief nap, he is awoken by a glowing red plane that lands in front of the cabin. Schaeffer goes to investigate, but the pilot gets a call from his commanding officer to return to his base.
comedy drama
Kanin Crosby, an 11-year-old boy who longs to play baseball for his local Little League team, is surprised when he and a group of other boys who, like him, are not all that talented, make the team. The team is led by experienced coach Bobby Geiser. The team soon finds out, however, that Geiser was obliged to take the less-than-stellar players on in order to win a bet, provoking anger in Kanin, his friends and his mother Diane.
sport film
Luc Vu is a young Vietnamese Australian man who lives in the western Sydney suburb of Yagoona with an obsession about rugby league football. He is unemployed, having lost his job at a factory which closed down, and is also the sole carer of his 11-year-old sister Anne after their mother died two years before. After arriving home following an unsuccessful job interview as a Holden car salesman, Luc is met by Department of Community Services case worker Alison Berry, who informs him that Anne's primary school has lodged an official complaint against Luc over Anne's truancy and unpaid school fees, and that he must attend court to defend himself.
Family Drama
comedy film
Jared Phelps returns home from his mission in Wyoming to find a world very different from the one he left only two years previously. This movie opens with a send-off at the airport full of family and friends of Elder Phelps. He serves a two-year mission in the Wyoming Evanston South Mission.
Drama, drama film
Sally Cambridge is the divorced mother of two sons, 16-year-old Jack and 9-year-old Leo. As the film opens, she is arrested on suspicion of child abuse, and during questioning, she reveals the story of what actually happened, told via flashback. One evening, a call to Jack's basketball coach reveals that he has been given a two-week suspension from the team due to poor grades, which Jack did not tell her.
children's film, fantasy film
The story begins at the house on Number 14, in London. Every night before going to sleep, Mrs. Darling tells her three children, Wendy, John, and Michael, stories of wonderful adventures in fantasy worlds.