Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that nothing in life is permanent, and his increasingly erratic actions reflect this knowledge.
Casts Michel Terrazon, Raoul Billerey, Pierrette Deplanque, Marie-Louise Thierry, René Thierry, Linda Gutenberg, Henri Puff, Marie Marc, Maurice Coussonneau
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Hearts in Atlantis
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IMDB 7 | May , 2014
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IMDB 0 | Jul , 2009
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IMDB 10 | Mar , 2021
In deep introspection, a Black actor sought for some answer when he found his childhood computer, he explores a video game he started creating when he was 11, when he didn't see himself as being black, but as orange.The Foster Family
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2022
Julia always said that her upbringing as a biological child in a foster family was a happy time. But something is wrong. In The Foster Family, we follow director Julia's journey back in time, where she, together with her parents Ewa and Lennart and the foster child Patrik, recollect the shocking events that changed their lives over thirty years ago. The children are at the center of this strong, touching and warm documentary about a system where you can love, but not too much.Monster
IMDB 7.9 | Jun , 2023
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IMDB 8 | Oct , 2017
In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight and he risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his army base and out of harm’s way.Eunuch
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2021
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IMDB 0 | Sep , 2017
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IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1966
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and romances that gradually shape his future.Perfectionist
IMDB 6.2 | Nov , 1951
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IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 2001
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IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2001
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.White Oleander
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 2002
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IMDB 0 | Nov , 1999
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 2024
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IMDB 0 | Sep , 2015
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 2020
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IMDB 7 | Sep , 2016
Olappeeppi portrays the story of an ordinary Malayali family and the changes in the socio-economic scene in Kerala from 1970's to the 2000's . As the name suggests, its about colours of the past, taking us to that era along with a boy named Unni and his grandmother.Rift
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2024
A girl disappears without a trace while playing hide and seek with her friend. The friend is asked to explain how it happened, but the adults around him find it hard to believe his story. With visual originality, the limits of existence are allowed to be stretched in a film that depicts the incomprehensible from a child’s perspective.Fia og klovnene
IMDB 5.4 | Oct , 2003
Fia is a wise and somewhat tough 8-year-old girl. Perhaps a cousin of Pippi Longstocking, only a little more vulnerable. Like Pippi, and all other children, she wants to be big and strong, with the power and opportunity to make the world the way she wants it to be. Fia has a difficult role as a kind of "mother" to her mother, a mother who is unable to cope with everyday life. But in the yard opposite lives the magician Bustric, and he becomes Fia's anchor in life. Bustric is a little grown up, but very much a child, and he saves Fia from being seen as a liar and a dreamer in the new class she has to start in.