Charlie Brown and a few of his friends attend a camp, and there they meet Joe Agate, a lying bully who offers to teach kids the game of Marbles without telling them it's for keep. Then he takes their marbles for good. When Rerun is tricked and gets his marbles taken, Charlie Brown must use his own marbles to help get the other kids their marbles back. The only problem is, Charlie Brown doesn't know how to play.
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
In a world where lives are measured by a jar of marbles and our days are literally numbered, Lisa is coming to terms with and preparing for her final days with her family. As she reminisces the time she’s had with her family, her daughter has yet to realize her mom will be gone soon until it’s almost too late.
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.
Game of marbles between four or five boys.
Jeanet, an insecure middle-aged woman, discovers one day that rabbit ears are growing out of her head. Shocked and confused, she rushes to the doctor to get rid of her ailment. But the doctor turns out to be a poor listener. Jeanets relatives seem to have attention for her. Jeanet thinks she is on her own until she knocks on her husband's door.
Encounters is a multi-genre anthology film interweaving stories of chance meetings leading to a rollercoaster ride of reflections on life, loss and love. Eight emerging New Zealand directors and a diverse group of local cast and crew tell tales ranging from delightful to disturbing, romantic to rebellious.
Nasser, a 15 year old mute youth, lives with his parents and onlty sister. Because of his disability, his family fails to satisfy his needs and his fellows don't show him any kindness. ...
Haris and Alysa, lovers who are also YouTubers, are successful by selling their romantic relationship content. Life suddenly changes when Haris almost loses his mother to a stroke. Haris decided to move and cut his relationship with Alysa. How is the continuation of Haris's intention to move?
Bita Hokmi, the daughter of a conservative and deeply religious family, gets accepted as a graphic design major and leaves Isfahan, her hometown for Tehran and moves in with a relative of hers, a divorced woman named Sima. Bita meets Farhad, an architecture student, in the university and although Sima warns her not to date Farhad, she does so anyway ...
A romantic comedy of a young man and woman that is told in the background of hotel 'Emross'. It has stories of people who met each other at Hotel Emross during the New Year holidays. Each one has his own memory to relate and create relationships or just going nostalgic.
An old-school painter who consciously resists anything modern unexpectedly creates a groundbreaking work of art.
After years Reza Shayesteh returns to Iran from abroad to die peacefully and buried in his hometown. But his only problem is that after his death he has nobody to mourn him and participate ...
Larry, a former big-city filmmaker, is employed by a self-indulgent redneck, “The Colonel,” to document the exploits of his misfit ghost hunting team in the quiet rural town of Stagrassle, Mississippi.
Inagaki Goro plays a freelance writer married to his editor wife (Nakamura Yuri), who he discovers is having an affair with the popular novelist she is responsible for at work. Although troubled, he can’t bring himself to confront his wife. He later meets a high school novelist at a literary award ceremony, and–drawn to the award-winning book–he inquires about the model it’s based on, thinking he’d like to meet that person…
Shirasaki is a physical education teacher who is also popular with female students. However, Shirasaki also had worries that he could not tell anyone about. It was his fiancé Kuniko's cleanliness. Still, Shirasaki tries not to disappoint her expectations for him. Even when Yuki, a female student who has a crush on Shirasaki, suddenly approaches Shirasaki in an attempt to attract his attention, he never crosses the line. However, one night, as he walks in the same direction as a woman who got off the bus, he is mistaken for another man and Shirasaki's life begins to take a turn for the worse.
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