Jens Jørn Spottag

Jens Jørn Spottag

Born: December 13, 1957
in Odder, Denmark

Movies for Jens Jørn Spottag...

Knight of Fortune
Title: Knight of Fortune
Character: Torben
Released: February 16, 2024
Type: Movie
The loss of a loved one, the grief, the risk of yellow skin, and a coffin, that is too much for Karl to face. Then it's much easier to fix a broken lamp. Karl meets Torben, a destined brother. An absurd, humorous, and melodic meeting between two old men captured by grief.
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Title: Anker
Character: Thomas Nielsen
Released: December 30, 2023
Type: TV
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Better Times
Title: Better Times
Released: December 21, 2023
Type: Movie
After their mother's death, Oskar leans on brother Karl. But Karl's bakery faces court due to their father's debt. United, can they save it?
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Liberation
Title: Liberation
Character: Pastor Eriksen
Released: August 24, 2023
Type: Movie
When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees — or stand firm in the Danish resistance against the Germans?
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The Land of Short Sentences
Title: The Land of Short Sentences
Character: Vagn
Released: February 2, 2023
Type: Movie
Marie's life gets turned upside down when the love of her life, Rasmus, takes on a teaching job at a local school in West Jutland, Denmark. Rather unwillingly, Marie joins Rasmus in moving their roots from Copenhagen to the windy town, Velling. While Rasmus is an immediate match to the local ways, it becomes a culture chock for Marie, who time and time again proves herself a misfit to the locals. However, as she gradually learns to listen more and talk less, she realizes that she might need Velling as much as Velling needs her – and her advice column for the local newspaper.
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Familien Jul og nissehotellet
Title: Familien Jul og nissehotellet
Released: November 11, 2021
Type: Movie
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Persona Non Grata
Title: Persona Non Grata
Character: Iver
Released: July 22, 2021
Type: Movie
The film is a comedy drama about a young woman, Laura, who has distanced herself from her family in the country to settle in Copenhagen as an author and live the artistic bohemian life she has always dreamed of. When she, with much reluctance, goes back home for her brother’s wedding, she realises that he is about to marry her childhood enemy, Catrine. At the same time, Laura finds out that Catrine has in fact taken over her place in the family – and what if Laura wants it back … A film about how we, no matter how hard we try, cannot escape from our past, nor from our roots.
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Title: Chemo Brain
Released: October 21, 2019
Type: TV
When Oliver is diagnosed with testicular cancer, his life is turned upside down. This lighthearted drama-series depicts the derailment of a young man that is doing everything he can to not lose his friends, his girlfriend, himself, and ultimately his life.
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Held for Ransom
Title: Held for Ransom
Character: Kjeld
Released: August 29, 2019
Type: Movie
HELD FOR RANSOM tells the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye who was held hostage for 398 days in Syria by the terror organization ISIS along with several other foreign nationals including the American journalist, James Foley. The film follows Daniel’s struggle to survive in captivity, his friendship with James, and the nightmare of the Rye family back home in Denmark as they try to do everything in their power to save their son. At the center of this crisis, we find hostage negotiator, Arthur, who plays a pivotal role in securing Daniel’s release.
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Title: The New Nurses
Character: Bent Neergaard
Released: October 21, 2018
Type: TV
The lives of Erik and Anna, students at a nursing school in 1950s Denmark, a time and place where it was not normal for a man to become a nurse.
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Title: Hos Hans
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: Sæt pris på Danmark
Released: October 23, 2017
Type: TV
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Ravens
Title: Ravens
Character: Carsten
Released: October 13, 2017
Type: Movie
A hard-working farmer, despairing by the harsh reality of his daily struggle, is determined to have his son taking over the farm and continue his legacy. The mother tries her best to keep the family together. Yet, with increasing horror, the son witnesses his father's psychotic behavior escalate.
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Title: Nærkontakt
Released: February 14, 2017
Type: TV
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One-Two-Three Now!
Title: One-Two-Three Now!
Character: Søren
Released: May 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Jeppe falls for a mysterious girl from school, but their relationship is on borrowed time.
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The Day Will Come
Title: The Day Will Come
Character: Inspektøren
Released: April 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres on two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys engage in the frightening battle against Headmaster Heck and his lethal tyranny. The film is based on actual events.
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Høstfest
Title: Høstfest
Character: Knud
Released: October 5, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Krejlerkongen
Character: Sig selv
Released: August 3, 2015
Type: TV
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1864: Brødre i krig
Title: 1864: Brødre i krig
Character: Du Plat
Released: October 12, 2014
Type: Movie
When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.
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Title: 1864
Character: Du Plat
Released: October 12, 2014
Type: TV
When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.
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Krummerne - alt på spil
Title: Krummerne - alt på spil
Character: Advokat
Released: October 2, 2014
Type: Movie
Mads "Crumb" Krumborg need a new bike so he can take part in an important race against a neighboring school. But it will be difficult to afford to buy a new printer, since the boy's father suddenly decides to terminate his job to invent a machine that according to him will change the world. At the same time a couple of crooks wind of his father's invention, and when the family Krum Borg's future is in problems, Crumb and his siblings to the occasion and save the day.
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Lulu
Title: Lulu
Character: Henrik
Released: September 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Henrik and his younger lover Lulu go on an intimate trip to France. Unexpectedly, Henrik's son, David, arrives.
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Speed Walking
Title: Speed Walking
Character: Sten Koch
Released: August 28, 2014
Type: Movie
In a quirky, small town, situated in the outskirts of everything, 14-year-old Martin is getting ready for one of the most formal transitions from boy to man; the communion. It's 1976, music's in the air and hormones are blossoming. But in the midst of it all Martin's mother suddenly passes away and her tragic death trickers a series of events that not only changes Martin's life forever, but also affects everyone else in the local community. Overwhelmed with grief neither Martin's dad, nor his older brother, is capable to comfort Martin. He enters adulthood in a mixture of drunken happiness and immense sadness over the loss of his mother, and his relationship to both his friend Kim and girlfriend Kristine comes to its natural conclusion.
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The Hour of the Lynx
Title: The Hour of the Lynx
Character: Overlægen
Released: September 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Helen, a priest, is approached by scientist Lisbeth with a desperate plea for help. A young man, who has been sent to a high security psychiatric ward after having killed an old couple, has attempted suicide while rambling about God. Having been part of an experiment attempting to humanize inmates by assigning them pets, the young man has suddenly gone ballistic. Fearing that he will attempt suicide again priest and scientist must now confront their mutual animosities while trying to grasp the truth. In a race against time the two women begin a shocking journey deeper and deeper into the sick mind of a young man's soul.
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Player
Title: Player
Character: Winter-Schmidt
Released: June 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Player follows a righteous, self-controlled and rather boring lawyer (Bjerg), who is sent to Nice on a divorce case. As he arrives, everything starts go wrong – he is cheated out of $2 million company money and the future looks bleak, when he meets his old buddy, a gambler of easy virtue (Christensen).
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Hvor lyset kommer ind
Title: Hvor lyset kommer ind
Character: Stefan's Father
Released: April 9, 2013
Type: Movie
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The Shooter
Title: The Shooter
Character: Martin Felding
Released: February 27, 2013
Type: Movie
The five days when Copenhagen was held in a panic grip by an intelligent activist and former elite shooter, who takes to arms when a woman journalist writes about the government’s broken promises in an environmental question.
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Hearts and Minds
Title: Hearts and Minds
Character: Oberst
Released: April 4, 2012
Type: Movie
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This Life
Title: This Life
Character: Marius Fiil
Released: March 1, 2012
Type: Movie
The true story of the Fiils: a family of innkeepers who, during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark, took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.
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ID:A
Title: ID:A
Character: HP
Released: November 24, 2011
Type: Movie
A woman wakes up in a river. Wounded and without memory, then races to elude mysterious followers and recover from amnesia.
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Room 304
Title: Room 304
Released: October 20, 2011
Type: Movie
In a Copenhagen hotel, disparate lives intersect through accident or fate: A stewardess desperate for intimacy. An immigrant obsessed with revenge. A hotel manager lost in despair. A wife abandoned by her husband. A receptionist with blood on his hands. People meet in the intimacy of hotel rooms, secrets are revealed and unexpected events merge into a dramatic tale of love and longing.
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Med lukkede øjne
Title: Med lukkede øjne
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Tom is a renowned author who is about to suffocate from the shame of not having written a new, good book for over 20 years. But then he meets Renee, a young female admirer who gives him a renewed lust for life. Soon, they move together and settle on the country, away from both Tom's ex-wife and his demanding editor. But life in the countryside does not only offer tranquility for the couple in love. Some local people begin to harass the two with a threatening behavior, and their lives are soon turned into a nightmare ...
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The Wild Swans
Title: The Wild Swans
Character: The King
Released: September 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Elise, a princess, lives happily together with her eleven brothers. When her father, the king, marries again, he banishes Elisa. Hereafter his new wife turns Elise's eleven brothers into swans. But fortunately Elise finds her brothers, who are swans during daylight and human beings at night time. In a dream, the fairy Fatamorgana tells the story of the unhappy princess and how she rescues her brothers, the eleven princes.
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Tick Tick Boom
Title: Tick Tick Boom
Character: Bjarne
Released: June 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Pelle is in love with Dagmar and really wants to reveal this to her, but his drunken dad keeps getting in the way. Rasmus can't accept that his newborn son is seriously ill and ends up distancing himself from his wife in order to try to hold on to the hope. Aksel wants to get back together with his ex-wife and is using his daughter as a go-between until the day when his ex-wife suddenly brings home a new boyfriend.
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Little Soldier
Title: Little Soldier
Character: Fischer
Released: November 14, 2008
Type: Movie
A soldier returning from war is hired by her own father to drive his prostitutes around town. She calls upon herself to help one of them.
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Take the Trash
Title: Take the Trash
Character: Steiner
Released: August 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Jesper Jensen is a successful IT salesman who stops at nothing, even if it means backstabbing his best friend. Being number one in the company and having a beautiful wife and a lovely home, Jesper seems to lead a perfect life, but one day his arrogance and self confidence hits him in the face like a boomerang and he loses everything overnight. Jesper is sentenced to do community service at a recycling center with the odd and funny characters Dion, Theodor, and Lotte. At first he looks down on these people and doesn't want to be associated with them. When he begins to loosen up, however, he discovers that he can learn a lot from their straight forward and honest approach to life.
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Terribly Happy
Title: Terribly Happy
Character: Chief of Police
Released: July 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Robert Hansen, 34, a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. The transfer is Robert’s chance to start over. Whether he is allowed to return to his job in Copenhagen, all depends on how well he performs in this frontier town.
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Worlds Apart
Title: Worlds Apart
Character: Andreas
Released: February 22, 2008
Type: Movie
17-year-old Sara leads a sheltered existence with her family, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, when she meets the outsider Teis and falls in love. Sara, herself a believer, now faces an important turning point in her life as she is forced to choose between religion and love.
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Title: Lysets nøgle
Character: Benjamins far
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: TV
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Matador Musical
Title: Matador Musical
Released: June 12, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Black Madonna
Title: The Black Madonna
Released: March 9, 2007
Type: Movie
The Black Madonna is a 2007 action comedy film written by Nikolaj Peyk and Lasse Spang Olsen and directed by Lasse Spang Olsen.
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Anja & Viktor - Flaming Love
Title: Anja & Viktor - Flaming Love
Character: Tobias
Released: January 19, 2007
Type: Movie
Finally, Viktor becomes a fireman, while Anja still do not have the great success of the advertising agency. Fortunately, they have each other and everything is bright as Anja gets a great opportunity at the office while being pregnant. Then Viktor just figure out how to be soft father, understanding man and tough firefighter at once. But how hard can it be?
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Maria's Men
Title: Maria's Men
Character: Fredrik
Released: September 28, 2006
Type: Movie
Maria, an unconventional single mother, finds herself torn between two men, the successful shrink Fredrik and the 22-year-old paraglider Jonas. This all gets very complicated when her ex-husband Lasse returns, demanding full custody of the children.
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We Shall Overcome
Title: We Shall Overcome
Character: Peder, Frits' far
Released: March 24, 2006
Type: Movie
A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.
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The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Title: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Character: Knud Rasmussen
Released: March 11, 2006
Type: Movie
Based on the journal of Knud Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922 across arctic Canada. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. It tells the story of the last great Inuit shaman and his beautiful and headstrong daughter; the shaman must decide whether to accept the Christian religion that is converting the Inuit across Greenland.
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The Collector
Title: The Collector
Character: Søren Andersen
Released: October 22, 2004
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy set in the world of gambling, debt collecting and professional boxing. Laura is an unlucky gambler with a huge debt, she crosses paths with Claus, a former boxer who now makes a living as a debt collector. Laura is cheating, scamming, and lying and eventually life catches up with her. Claus is trying to regain his self respect and start anew. Together, they make an awkward but very charming couple on the verge of love. It is a story about trust, friendship, new beginnings, getting a second chance and doing the right thing.
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Title: The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
Character: Søren Stræde
Released: October 10, 2004
Type: TV
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for best non-American television drama series in 2005. There were three seasons; the second season premiered in Denmark on 9 October 2005 and the third on 8 October 2006. The last episode originally aired in Denmark on 26 November 2006. The series was filmed on location in various parts of northern Europe, from Berlin and Copenhagen to Oslo and other locations including Iceland. The series has enjoyed particular success in Australia, where it airs on SBS and is available on DVD with English subtitles.
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Silk Road
Title: Silk Road
Character: Thomas
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Christine - a picture restorer - is terminally ill. While lying in her sick bed she delves into memories of her life and imagines the reunion with her late husband in the afterworld.
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King's Game
Title: King's Game
Character: Per Vestgaard
Released: August 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Starting a new job as a political journalist at a leading newspaper, Ulrik Torp witnesses a brutal struggle for power in the Midparty's ranks -- a struggle that coincides with the charismatic party leader's involvement in a near fatal car accident. A flurry of lies and media speculation surrounds the incident. Gradually, Ulrik unearths a ruthless conspiracy involving the incumbent prime minister.
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The River
Title: The River
Released: August 12, 2003
Type: Movie
A stream of associative patterns is woven into the many ambiguous meanings of the river image. There are cracks to blind areas of loss and oblivion, world fires and floods - and to an oasis of dreams, fantasies and myths. Images materialize in the borderline between mind and world.
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Title: Dybt vand
Character: Niels Bern-Jensen
Released: March 31, 1999
Type: TV
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The Major
Title: The Major
Character: Nielsen
Released: November 26, 1998
Type: Movie
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Afmagt
Title: Afmagt
Character: Poul
Released: May 22, 1998
Type: Movie
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The Idiots
Title: The Idiots
Character: Boss at Advertising Agency
Released: April 28, 1998
Type: Movie
With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
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Title: Karrusel
Character: Sten Nordvolt
Released: January 7, 1998
Type: TV
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Election Night
Title: Election Night
Character: Carl
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
On election night we meet Peter, an idealistic young man, who suddenly discovers he has forgotten to vote. On his way to the polls he encounters a variety of taxi drivers, all racist in their way and Peter has to decide whether to stand up for his convictions or getting to the polls on time. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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The Kingdom II
Title: The Kingdom II
Character: Advokat Bisgaard
Released: November 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "the kingdom" and leads one to think of "dødsriget", the realm of the dead.
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Title: Bryggeren
Character: J.C. Jacobsen
Released: December 29, 1996
Type: TV
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Ernst & the Light
Title: Ernst & the Light
Character: Ernst
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The businessman Ernst has just landed in the airport and is on his way home to his wife. Its raining heavy outside and therefore he takes a hitchhiker with him. They start a conversation about the value of life and soon it becomes evident to the spectators that the hitchhiker is Jesus Christ, but Ernst is in too much of a rush to go back to his wife to notice.
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Elsker elsker ikke...
Title: Elsker elsker ikke...
Character: Jørgen
Released: March 17, 1995
Type: Movie
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Carmen & Babyface
Title: Carmen & Babyface
Character: Præst
Released: January 20, 1995
Type: Movie
Set in 1962 during the Berlin crisis, the contented lifestyle of Carmen and her kid brother, whom she's nicknamed Babyface, comes to an abrupt end when their parents acrimoniously separate.
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Black Harvest
Title: Black Harvest
Character: Forvalter Larsen
Released: November 5, 1993
Type: Movie
Family drama set in the Danish countryside in the turn of the century. A wealthy landowner is an evil and corrupt womaniser with several illegitimate offspring in addition to his beautiful family. Nobody stands up to him except his feisty 17-year-old daughter.
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Lykken er en underlig fisk
Title: Lykken er en underlig fisk
Released: September 8, 1989
Type: Movie
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The Hidden Reality
Title: The Hidden Reality
Character: Narrator
Released: February 12, 1988
Type: Movie
Documentary about people with a new religious conscience, often originating in a disease, accident, or inexplicable occurrences. Concepts such as aura, chakra, karma, and reincarnation are central.
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B.O.Y. - Bruises of Yesterday
Title: B.O.Y. - Bruises of Yesterday
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A 16-year-old boy who spend summer with his grandparents falls in love with an older young man but when tragedy strikes, he falls into a dark hole of self-harm, lust, and loneliness.