Léolo (1992)

Comedy, Drama
Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds – the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits with his severely dysfunctional (and largely insane) family, and the imaginative world that he…

Boyhood (2014)

Drama
The film was shot over the course of twelve years, so the actors age, along with the time-line. 2002 – In the opening scene, six-year-old Mason Evans, Jr. (Ellar Coltrane)…

For a Lost Soldier (1992)

Drama, Romance, War
The story of a romantic relationship between a grown-up and a child. Set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII, the film is a flashback recalling an adolescent relationship…

Mysterious Skin (2004)

Drama
The beginning of the movie is told from the main characters’ point of view, i.e. Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Brian (Brady Corbet), so for the beginning this will be told…

Alabama Moon (2009)

Drama, Family
Moon Blake is raised by his loving but government-paranoid father Oliver in a hidden cave in the Alabama forests. Oliver dies from a leg wound he refuses to have medically…

Billy Elliot (2000)

Drama, Music
The film is set during the 19841985 UK miners’ strike, and centres on the character of 11-year-old Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell), his love of dance and his hope to become…