Kalippaattakkaaran: Toy Maker

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast

Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

François Truffaut

Cast

Jean-François Stévenin, Virginie Thévenet, Chantal Mercier

Four childhood friends reunite for a hunting trip in the Maine woods, bound by a psychic force born from a childhood friend's dreamcatcher. They find themselves caught in a grotesque alien invasion that twists memory, sanity and reality into something far more sinister.

Runtime

2h 14m

Director

Lawrence Kasdan

Cast

Thomas Jane, Damian Lewis, Jason Lee

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy exi...

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Ken Loach

Cast

David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie

Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle. While out on the road one day, Jack notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But when a local newspaper unearths h...

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

John Crowley

Cast

Andrew Garfield, Katie Lyons, Peter Mullan