Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14.
Casts Nicholas Hoult, Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, Julie Walters, Miranda Richardson, Celia Imrie, Zac Fox, Julian Wadham, Fenella Woolgar, John Matshikiza
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SIMILAR MOVIES
The Holdovers
Scandal
Shakes the Clown
The Saviour
Fish Tank
Escape from East Berlin
The Rum Diary
We Don't Live Here Anymore
The Flamingo Kid
The Four Seasons
The Sun Also Rises
Crazy Heart
Back to Black
Wondrous Oblivion
Matinee
The Skeleton Twins
Amsterdam
The Shape of Water
Happy End
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Holdovers
IMDB 7.7 | Oct , 2023
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.Scandal
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2000
The play revolves around a man who came to work as a presenter of a programs, where he notices the high rate of divorce in his society, so he is decides to talk about this issue through his television program entitled (Scandal).Shakes the Clown
IMDB 5.4 | Aug , 1991
Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control.The Saviour
IMDB 5.2 | Jun , 2005
A young Church elder struggles with his faith when the married woman he has been seeing breaks off their relationship.Fish Tank
IMDB 6.9 | Sep , 2009
Fifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is amazed to find he returns her attention, and believes he might help her start to make sense of her life.Escape from East Berlin
IMDB 5.9 | Oct , 1962
East Berlin, shortly after the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kurt Schröder and his family dig a tunnel to escape to West Berlin as they struggle to overcome the obstacles blocking their underground path to freedom.The Rum Diary
IMDB 5.9 | Oct , 2011
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s 'The Lost Generation', Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman and her fiancée, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.We Don't Live Here Anymore
IMDB 5.7 | Aug , 2004
Married couple Jack and Terry Linden are experiencing a difficult period in their relationship. When Jack decides to step outside the marriage, he becomes involved with Edith, who happens to be the wife of his best friend and colleague, Hank Evans. Learning of their partners' infidelity, Terry and Hank engage in their own extramarital affair together. Now, both marriages and friendships are on the brink of collapse.The Flamingo Kid
IMDB 6 | Dec , 1984
Brooklyn teenager Jeffrey Willis, thoroughly unhappy with his modest homestead, embraces the other-world aspects of his summer job at the posh Flamingo Club. He spurns his father in favor of the patronage of smooth-talking Phil Brody and is seduced by the ample bikini charms of club member Carla Samson. But thanks to a couple of late-summer hard lessons, the teen eventually realizes that family should always come first.The Four Seasons
IMDB 6.3 | May , 1981
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.The Sun Also Rises
IMDB 5.9 | Aug , 1957
A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.Crazy Heart
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 2009
When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her young son.Back to Black
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 2024
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.Wondrous Oblivion
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 2004
David Wiseman is eleven years old and mad about cricket. He has all the kit but none of the skill. When a Jamaican family moves in next door the father starts giving cricket lessons to David, and becomes close to David's mother. But this is 1960's London, and when the locals start making life difficult for the new arrivals, David has to choose between fitting and and standing up for his new friendsMatinee
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 1993
A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalizes on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the B-movie.The Skeleton Twins
IMDB 6.6 | Jun , 2014
Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.Amsterdam
IMDB 4.2 | May , 2009
A rich American couple, a family of Dutch criminals, a French gay couple, a working class family from Germany and an illegal Moroccan youth and his kid brother, are all in Amsterdam, each with their own story. Different reasons make their paths intertwine, leading to a dramatic climax that changes their lives for ever.The Shape of Water
IMDB 7.2 | Dec , 2017
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.Happy End
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 1999
When a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her life.The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2005
A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies, while dealing with abuse from her alcoholic husband. Based on a true story.