Movies online (68)
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Angela's Ashes
(1999) Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink. - IMDb Rating: /10 Votes: 10  USA  Ireland
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War of the Buttons
(1994) The children of Ballydowse & Carrickdowse engage in battles in which they cut off the buttons, shoe-laces, belts and braces of their captured opponents. This gets their opponents in trouble with parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, wielding sticks & slingshots. It's a battle of strategic skills for the opposing leaders, Including one scene in which the principal gang uses an ancient war trick to overcome their opponents with successful and itchy results. - IMDb Rating: /10 Votes: 14  United Kingdom  France  Japan
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Walkabout
(1971) A privileged British family consisting of a mother, a geologist father and an adolescent daughter and son, live in Sydney, Australia. Out of circumstance, the siblings, not knowing exactly where they are, get stranded in the Outback by themselves while on a picnic. They only have with them the clothes on their backs - their school uniforms - some meagre rations of nonperishable food, a battery-powered transistor radio, the son's satchel primarily containing his toys, and a small piece of cloth they used as their picnic drop-cloth. While they walk through the Outback, sometimes looking as though near death, they come across an Australian boy who is on his walkabout, a rite of passage into manhood where he spends months on end on his own living off the land. Their largest problem is not being able to verbally communicate. The boy does help them to survive, but doesn't understand their need to return to civilization, which may or may not happen based on what the Australian boy ends up doing. - IMDb Rating: /10 Votes: 27 United Kingdom  Australia
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I Am Dina
(2002) As a child, Dina is traumatized after accidentally causing the death of her mother, who was burned to death by a vat of boiling lye. Her father is resentful, giving her little love, and Dina grows into a fierce, strange woman who is haunted by her mothers ghost. The only person who shows her any compassion is her music teacher, who gives her outlet to express her feelings through playing the cello. As she reaches adulthood, her father marries her off to a business partner, Jacob, and eventually the older man cannot control her passion for sex and impetuous nature to do as she pleases. Following his death, she has an affair with a stable boy and life long friend, wrestles for control of Jacob's business with his children, and falls for Leo, a dedicated Russian anarchist. But, she is a woman haunted by the ghosts of those she has loved, and it seems everyone she loves dies and is destined to haunt her. - John Wallis Rating: /10 Votes: 6  Norway  Sweden France  Germany  Denmark
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Lord of the Flies
(1990) After a plane crash in the ocean, a group of military students reach an island. Ralph organizes the boys, assigning responsibilities for each one. When the rebel Jack Merridew neglects the fire camp and they lose the chance to be seen by a helicopter, the group split under the leadership of Jack. While Ralph rationalizes the procedures, Jack returns to the primitivism, using the fear for the unknown (in a metaphor to the religion) to control the other boys, and hunting and chasing pigs, stealing the possession of Ralph's group and even killing people. - IMDb Rating: /10 Votes: 19 USA
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Joe the King
(1999) A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works. Although Joe uses the money to pay off some of his father's debts and to replace his mother's records that his father smashed in a fit of temper, Joe gets no thanks. - IMDb Rating: /10 Votes: 10 USA
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Blood Diamond
(2006) A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth. Upon meeting Solomon, and the beautiful Maddy, Archer's life changes forever as he is given a chance to make peace with the war around him. - IMDb Rating: /10 Votes: 3 Germany USA
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Shadrach
(1998) In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law. - IMDb Rating: /10 Votes: 25 USA
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Creation
(2009) What happens when a world-renowned scientist, crushed by the loss of his eldest daughter, formulates a theory in conflict with religious dogma? This is the story of Charles Darwin and his master-work "The Origin of Species". It tells of a global revolution played out within the confines of a small English village; a passionate marriage torn apart by the most dangerous idea in history; and a theory saved from extinction by the logic of a child. - IMDb Rating: /10 Votes: 5 United Kingdom
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Yankee Zulu
(1993) Twisting and turning full throttle, 'YANKEE ZULU' is an irreverant mix of slapstick and exciting visual gags - mostly politically incorrect! The story begins on a remote farm in apartheid torn South Africa, where a special childhood bond has been made between a young black boy Zulu, and a young white boy Rhino - until betrayal and humiliation sours their relationship. 25 years later, Zulu and Rhino are reunited by chance. As fate would have it, Zulu is forced to masquerade as a white man and Rhino is transformed into a Black South African. This role reversal and irrepresible humour leads them from one hilarious disaster to another until finally they rediscover the friendship of their youth. With relentless torture to the funny bone, 'YANKEE ZULU' grasps the absurd side of life in the new South Africa. - sendit.com Rating: /10 Votes: 10  South Africa
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