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Film · 8 connectionsThe delicate story of the impossible love between an older married man and a fourteen-year old schoolgirl.
Directed byNouchka van Brakel
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1980 · 87 min · Drama
A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker.
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1988 · 80 min · Drama · Romance
A lonely 40-year old woman finds herself shattering taboos by falling in love with the 14-year old Julien – but is it romance, or a desperate attempt to turn back time in the face of middle age?
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1985 · 85 min · Drama · Family
16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from. The sensitive Mari finds it hard to adapt to the coarse manners and brutal games amongst the children. Only gradually does she develop a sense for the similarly difficult fates of her fellow sufferers, who have long forgotten how to cry. She even falls in love for the first time, not with her self-appointed “protector” Tauri, but with the rough-mannered Robi.
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1991 · 95 min · Drama · Romance
Love between a man and a woman that endures the ravages of time.
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1987 · 90 min · Drama
A film about the laborious and lengthy process of becoming old; the deterioration, dementia and eventual death of elderly parents. This is seen and experienced through the eyes of their daughter, the writer Inez Dullemen.
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1997 · 99 min · Drama · Romance
A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
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2016 · 100 min · Drama · Romance
Seven years after their first infatuated encounter, Abril and Manuel meet again. Despite the fact that they are both married, it is soon apparent that their attraction has only grown.
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2014 · 106 min · Drama · Romance
With his marriage to Audrey almost at an end, Ben begins a torrid affair with Mercedes, a young French student in his writing class. The affair soon spins out of control, their emotions and Ben and Audrey's family hanging in the balance.
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