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21) Proud
Language
Français
Description
In 1981, it was still illegal to be gay in France. PROUD tells the story of three generations of the same family who represent the seismic social changes that took place in just three decades. From the award-winning director of Fatima (the 2016 Cesar winner for Best Film), this three-part episodic cinema event is a chronology of tolerance and a portrait of one family through changing times.
Language
English
Description
The VCR-loving, mixtape-making, spandex-wearing Goldbergs are back! For geeky and movie-obsessed youngest child Adam, his wonder years were spent documenting the hilarious and awkward antics of his colorful family. This season finds the siblings fighting off huggies, snuggies, and nubbies as they navigate what it means to grow up as a Goldberg.
Language
English
Description
Adam Goldberg continues navigating high school while his mom, Beverly, continues bedazzling her way through life and his dad, Murray, parents from the comfort of his recliner in his underpants. Oldest sister Erica is finally breaking away from her family and going off to college. Then there's middle child Barry, as in touch with his emotions as he is with his rap skills, who commiserates with JTP member Geoff Schwartz as they deal with their older...
24) Revealer
Language
English
Description
Tensions rise when two foes -- a stripper and a religious protester of the venue -- are trapped together in a peep show booth and must come together to survive the apocalypse in 1980's Chicago.
25) Leto
Language
Russian
Description
Leningrad, one summer in the early '80s. The underground rock scene is boiling. Among the followers of Zeppelin and Bowie, young Viktor Tsoi is eager to make a name for himself. An encounter with his idol Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha will change his life forever. Together they will build Viktor's legend and make him immortal.
Language
Deutsch
Description
It is a sweeping family saga of conflicting loyalties, betrayal, love and hope, set in 1980s East Berlin. Uwe Kockisch Hans Kupfer, is a Stasi officer whose youngest son, Martin, falls in love with the daughter of a dissident singer. Their love affair sets events into motion which affect both families over a turbulent decade. The Kupfers and the Hausmanns could hardly be more different.
28) The call
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident brings them to the couple's door.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Autumn, 1989. The Iron Curtain is falling, and the changing political climate takes its toll on the Kupfer family. Martin Kupfer tries to get his daughter back, with the aid of a West German reporter. His brother Falk belongs to a group of hardcore Stasi officers who are prepared to do anything to preserve Communist power. His father, Hans, opposes any movement that has the potential for getting out of control.
30) Vicious fun
Language
English
Description
Joel, a caustic 1980's film critic for a national horror magazine, finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. With no other choice, Joel attempts to blend in with his homicidal surroundings or risk becoming the next victim.
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English
Description
Boy gets the girl? The conventional setup in plays has expectation associated with it. This play defies cultural expectation by exploding heterosexual myths and priorities. Race, age, and beauty are also exposed as cultural constructs, which can be constructed differently. Le Wow is a retelling of 1980s Montreal from a girl-culture vantage point. As a witness to certain places, Shiller is documentarian, and as a pop-culture analyst she weaves into...
Language
Swedish
Description
Benjamin is the eighteen-year-old son of devout Jehovah's Witnesses in rural Sweden, who is struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality. Moving to Stockholm in the ₁80s, Benjamin begins to find himself, discovering and embracing the city₂s vibrant gay culture. There he meets Rasmus, another recent arrival, and the two fall in love. But a terrible storm is brewing, and as the decade progresses the scourge of AIDS takes a horrific toll on...
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English
Description
Class (1983 ; 98 min.): "When wealthy prep-school senior Skip learns that his shy new roommate Jonathan is a total loser at romance, he sends the aspiring young Romeo to the city to learn the ropes before he ruins both their reputations. But when Jonathan is seduced by a sexy older woman named Ellen, he begins a zany, romantic mis-education that starts with a double major in lust and deception and ends with the uproarious discovery that not only is...
34) Hot tub time machine ; screenplay by Josh Heald, Sean Anders, John Morris ; directed by Steve Pink
Language
English
Description
When four men, all of them disillusioned with their lives, reunite at a ski resort, they are magically transported to the 1980s and decide to use the opportunity to change their lives.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful day in the neighborhood: Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about kindness, love, and forgiveness from America's most beloved neighbor.
Blinded by the light: Javed, a British teen of...
38) 200 cigarettes
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[A] wildly hip comedy about the quest for Mr. or Ms. Right or at least for Mr. or Ms. Right Now. It's New Year's Eve 1981, and a wild assortment of twentysomething characters are looking for romance in NYC's rollickingg East Village. Can a poser, a hunk, a teeny bopper, a gabby cabbie, a cute klutz, and a bevy of too-cool-to-cope artists find love before the stroke of midnight? The surprising, and delightful answers will be revealed in the clear...