The Girl Next Door (2007)
Based on Jack Ketchum’s novel with the same title, which is based on the true story of Sylvia Likens, who was tortured and killed in 1965 in Indiana. The movie…
The Painted Bird (2019)
Based on the acclaimed Jerzy Kozinski novel, The Painted Bird is a meticulous 35mm black and white evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War…
Daddy’s War (1977)
Quico is a very naughty child of three belonging to a wealthy middle-class family. Since Cristina’s birth, he feels he has lost the privileged position of “prince” of the house…
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Jojo Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) is a ten-year-old boy in Nazi Germany during the second world war. He is extremely patriotic and loves his country and loves the fuhrer –…
Lord of the Flies (1963)
A group of well-mannered English schoolboys are evacuated from London at the outbreak of war. Their plane crashes en route to the South Pacific, on the shore of an uninhabited…
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the…
Room (2015)
The film begins with a young boy with really long hair named Jack (Jacob Tremblay) telling us how he came into the possession of his mother, who we only know…
The Jungle Book (2016)
The panther Bagheera opens the film by saying that there are many stories in the jungle, but none quite like that of the man-cub Mowgli. Mowgli is seen running through…
My Life as a Dog (1985)
Mischievous 12-year-old Ingemar (Anton Glanzelius) gets into all sorts of trouble, which drives his mother (Anki Lidén) crazy; Ingemar does not know that his mother is in fact terminally ill.…
Standing Up (2013)
Late one night at a summer camp, a young adolescent boy is tricked into being stripped naked by other boys, who leave him on an island in a lake. He…
The Kite Runner (2007)
The two main characters of the story are Amir, a well-to-do Afghan boy from the dominant Pushtun ethnic group, and Hassan, the son of Amir’s father’s servant Ali, who belongs…
Wonder (2017)
August “Auggie” Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) sees himself as an ordinary kid. He loves science, is a big fan of “Star Wars”, and Halloween is his favorite holiday. He lives in…