Bush Christmas (1947)
“I don’t expect you’ve ever heard of our valley,” says the narrator. “Mara Mara is its name, the name the Australian blacks gave it hundreds of years before we came…
The Devil’s Playground (1976)
The Devil’s Playground is an intimate portrait of Tom, a thirteen-year-old struggling in spirit and body with the constraints of living in a Catholic seminary. It is also the story…
North Sea Texas (2011)
Sensitive fatherless Pim, a shy closet gay, grows up as utterly neglected son of Yvette, a hedonistic nightclub waitress at the Flemish North Sea coast. Pim finds solace with the…
Sleepers (1996)
Told through the narration of a grown-up “Shakes”, four young boys: Lorenzo “Shakes”(Joseph Perrino), Michael (Brad Renfro), Tommy (Jonathan Tucker), and John (Geoffrey Wigdor) are the best of friends growing…
The Impossible (2012)
Maria Bennett (Naomi Watts), her husband Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons Lucas (Tom Holland), Tomas and Simon are on holiday over Christmas at a tropical paradise resort in…
Tomboy (2011)
A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old born Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mickäel to the neighborhood children. It is heavily implied that Mickäel is…
12 and Holding (2005)
After his twin brother is accidentally killed by vengeful bullies, a 12-year old boy and his friends face the harsh realities of death, teenage hormones, and family dysfunction. Three pre-adolescents…
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…
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…
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
In New York City, a TV news reporter recounts the details surrounding the mysterious disappearance of a documentary film crew who has gone missing in the jungles of South America…