Mom and Dad (2017)
The film opens with a mother putting on soothing music for her child as she sets her car on railroad tracks and leaves the child in the car to die.…
Goodbye, Father (1996)
For a 13-year-old boy like Filipe, the prospect of a summer vacation in the Azores with his father is like a dream come true. But dreams are sometimes just a…
Mysterious Skin (2004)
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…
Capernaum (2018)
While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect. Capernaüm (“Chaos”) tells the story of Zain (Zain al-Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who…
Happiness (1998)
Happiness is an ensemble drama that skips around between multiple storylines. The protagonist, Joy, is the youngest of three sisters. The film opens with her breaking up with a man.…
The Road (2009)
The movie opens in a flashback where we see the Man (Viggo Mortensen) in bed with his wife (Charlize Theron). The man wakes up to a sound and a glow…
We Need to Talk about Kevin (2011)
Kevin’s mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final…
Alabama Moon (2009)
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)
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…
The Holy Mountain (1973)
A man (who is later identified as the thief) representing The Fool tarot card, lies in the desert with flies covering his face. A horde of nude children, with green…
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)
Two years after the events in the previous film, the Baker family begins to undergo many changes, beginning with Lorraine (Hilary Duff) and her desire to study in New York.…