A CHILD'S WORLD ON CELLULOID
A list of Movies that take you on a journey through the eyes of children and teenagers. I'm sure there are hundreds more out there but these are the films that I have seen and do recommend. In alphabetical order.
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- DirectorMacario De SouzaStarsRory PotterRasmus KingYasmin HoneychurchMaxie, Summer and James share a deep bond and love for music. When James receives a devastating diagnosis, the friends throw themselves into a whirlwind of festivals in an attempt to escape reality.Worth it for the performing Aussie music artists, with the main story a little clunky but still hits home on an emotional level as three teenagers chase their dreams of attending six music festivals within six months...
- DirectorMaurice MurphyStarsLisa HensleySteve BastoniDomenic GalatiPeace within war. An adult voice narrates a story of childhood during World War II.The memoirs of a teenager during wartime in Australia.
- DirectorMike MillsStarsAnnette BeningElle FanningGreta GerwigThe story of a teenage boy, his mother, and two other women who help raise him among the love and freedom of Southern California of 1979.Well thought out characters performed to perfection in this somewhat coming-of-age tale that captures the 1979 era with such intelligence...
- DirectorPaul GreengrassStarsAnders Danielsen LieJonas Strand GravliJon ØigardenA three-part story of Norway's worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed. 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norway's political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case.Greengrass takes a step back to show the coldness of the killings and the painful aftermath for the child victims by not being melodramatic or shoving any political ideology down your throat...
- DirectorKyle RideoutStarsJudy GreerDaniel DohenySiobhan WilliamsA socially awkward home-schooled kid forces his way into public-school against his suffocating but loving mother's wishes.Nice effort with some interesting and creative direction...
- DirectorCharlotte WellsStarsPaul MescalFrankie CorioCelia Rowlson-HallSophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't...Slowly creeps up on your emotions as you observe a child's fragmented memory of holidaying with her father, and the ending sure does hit you hard...
- DirectorCraig JohnsonStarsMichael AbelaDaniel DohenyBrendan ArcherAlex, high school class president, nerd and a straight A student, has been dating Claire a long time. They decide to sleep together but then he meets a gay guy and he's confused.An intelligent teenage sexual discovery film which at times seems clunky but still engages and amuses...
- DirectorWim WendersStarsYella RottländerRüdiger VoglerLisa KreuzerA German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.For me the interest picked up when the child was introduced after 30 minutes in, and then in a clunky sort of way it produced some wonderful moments, but not enough to sustain its duration...
- DirectorNadia TassStarsAlana De RomaRachel GriffithsBen MendelsohnAmy is a story of a young girl who witnesses her dad's death on stage at a rock concert. She becomes mentally mute/deaf after this, and 4 years later discovers she can communicate only by singing.Communicating to a child through song.
- DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsMilo CoyJack BlackLee EddyA coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, centered around the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.Linklater captures perfectly the joys of growing-up in a Houston suburb during the lead up to the Apollo 11 take-off...
- DirectorJames FoleyStarsSean PennChristopher WalkenMary Stuart MastersonReunited with his career criminal father, tough teen Brad thinks he's found his ticket to an exciting life of crime, only to find out he's wrong.A drifting teenager gets caught up in the badness of life.
- DirectorLéa MysiusStarsNoée AbitaLaure CalamyJuan Cano13-year-old Ava learns that she will lose her sight sooner than expected, and she confronts the problem in her own way.A well crafted look into the life of a young teenager as she enters puberty while her eyesight begins to deteriorate towards blindness...
- DirectorChristian DuguayStarsDorian Le ClechBatyste FleurialPatrick BruelIn occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.Could have been darker for greater emotional depth, but still effective enough...
- DirectorCary Joji FukunagaStarsAbraham AttahEmmanuel AffadziRicky AdelayitorA drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.Brutal, unflinching, harrowing, powerful...
- DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsJude HillLewis McAskieCaitríona BalfeA young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.Branagh weaves a humorous and heartfelt semi-autobiographical story about growing up in Belfast during the '69 upheaval - filled with family love and heartbreak, religious political division, and the joys of Hollywood movies...
- DirectorIvan SenStarsDannielle HallDamian PittJenna Lee ConnorsLena is the daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn is a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no transport.Two teenagers hit the road in remote Australia.
- DirectorGurinder ChadhaStarsParminder NagraKeira KnightleyJonathan Rhys MeyersTwo ambitious girls, despite their parents' wishes, have their hearts set on careers in professional football.A little treat.
- DirectorLaís BodanzkyStarsFrancisco MiguezDenise FragaFiukMano has to deal with adolescence dilemmas and his family destruction, after his father leaves their house.Growing up in modern day Brazil...
- DirectorEmanuel Hoss-DesmaraisStarsMatthew GoodeToni ColletteAndreas ApergisTwo scientists raise 3 children contrarily to their genetic tendencies to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.Adored the zany characters thanks to the tremendous performances in this little quirky sleeper even if it sometimes didn't fulfill the fascinating idea it had to offer...
- DirectorÉtienne FaureStarsPierre PrieurAdrian JamesRaquel NaveA French teenager gets a job at the burlesque club Bizarre in New York.The outrageous acts at Bar Bizarre is worth the watch, and the story of mysterious French boy has some merit as well...
- DirectorCarroll BallardStarsKelly RenoMickey RooneyTeri GarrAfter being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue.A masterpiece about a boy and a beast.
- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsWhoopi GoldbergGérard DepardieuHaley Joel OsmentRecently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.creating a make-believe world to get through the tough times.
- DirectorOle BornedalStarsBertram Bisgaard EnevoldsenEster BirchElla Josephine Lund NilssonThe fates of several Copenhagen residents collide when a WWII bombing mission accidentally targets a school full of children.Another harrowing chapter in men's stupidity of wars, and this one from WWII in Copenhagen, Denmark, where the British air force screw-up big time and destroy a school with children present. An emotional cinematic depiction of this heart wrenching incident...
- DirectorBrian PercivalStarsSophie NélisseGeoffrey RushEmily WatsonWhile subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.Growing up in War time Nazi can be a little problematic...
- DirectorMartin DuffyStarsRita TushinghamTom CourtenayHugh O'ConorHarry is an eight-year-old boy growing up in Ireland with his dis-spirited widowed mother May and older brother Paul. He is bullied in school, and his only real friend is his dog Max. His great joy and obsession are the Flash Gordon episodes he watches on television, and he believes that he and his dog are really from the planet Mercury. Over time, Harry learns to appreciate the value of his family, but he never ceases to think of himself as the boy from Mercury.Irish boy Cronin and his fantasy world.