Topic: Childhood

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Bertil Guve · Pernilla Allwin · Gunn Wållgren · Ewa Fröling

Plot TV Miniseries. 4 Episodes. The story is set in 1907 Uppsala, Sweden, and deals with a young boy named Alexander, his sister Fanny, and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls. The...

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Gregory Peck · Mary Badham · Brock Peters · Phillip Alford

Plot The lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), decides to defend a black man (Brock Peters) undeservedly charged with raping a poor white woman. The bigoted townspeople would rather lynch the accused...

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Alfonso Mejía · Roberto Cobo · Estela Inda · Miguel Inclán

Plot El Jaibo is a teenager who escapes from a reformatory institution and joins his friends in the neighborhood. After a couple of days, el Jaibo kills, with the presence of...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Pinaki Sengupta · Smaran Ghosal

Plot The second chapter in director Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy ('Pather Panchali', 'Aparajito', 'The World of Apu'). Following Apu and his family to the city, Ray explores the crowded streets and...

Direction Émilie Tronche

Cast Émilie Tronche

Plot An emotional portrayal of adolescence follows Samuel and his friends, blending introspection, humor and nostalgic songs.

Direction Govindan Aravindan

Cast Master Ashokan · Sivasankaran Divakaran · Kothara Gopalkrishnan · Ramunni

Plot The eponymous Kummatty is a part of Kerala’s rich devotional folklore: A flamboyant mythical figure who wanders the villages during the season of Onam, the harvest festival.

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Uma Das Gupta · Subir Bannerjee

Plot Tells the story of a Bengali family driven by bad fortune. The father, Harihara, is a secular clerk, healer, dreamer and poet. Sabajaya, the mother, works to feed the family...

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Spencer Tracy · Freddie Bartholomew · Lionel Barrymore · Melvyn Douglas

Plot Harvey Cheyne (Freddie Bartholomew) is a wealthy, spoiled 12-year-old who falls overboard on his way to Europe. When he regains consciousness on a Gloucester fishing boat, the ship’s captain (Lionel...

Direction Charles Laughton

Cast Robert Mitchum · Billy Chapin · Sally Ann Bruce · Shelley Winters

Plot A schizophrenic preacher (Robert Mitchum) - possibly the devil himself - relentlessly hunts two small children (Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce) across the Depression-era Bible Belt to get at...

Direction Isao Takahata

Plot A Japanese boy of 14 and his 4 year old sister, attempt to seek refuge from the atrocities of World War II in the small city of Kobe. In post-World...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Edmund Moeschke · Ernst Pittschau · Barbara Hintz · Franz-Otto Krüger

Plot Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War has to do all kinds of work and tricks to help his family in getting food...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Franco Interlenghi · Rinaldo Smordoni · Annielo Mele · Bruno Ortenzi

Plot Rome, after WWII. At a track near the italian city, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding....

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Tomoko Tabata · Shinobu Chihara · Kiichi Nakai · Junko Sakurada

Plot Renko is a youngster whose parents have just divorced. Her father moves out and she has to adapt to a new way of life.

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Hideo Sugawara · Takeshi Sakamoto

Plot In the 30s, a low middle-class family composed of the father (Tatsuo Saito), the mother (Mitsuko Yoshikawa) and two little sons (Hideo Sugawara and Tomio Aoki) has just moved to...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Gosho Shoichi · Shinichiro Kubota · Natuski Masako · Yoshikatsu Chiba

Plot The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan. With nowhere to go, they scavenge around train stations, scratching out an existence by...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Bertil Guve · Pernilla Allwin · Gunn Wållgren · Ewa Fröling

Plot The story is set in 1907 Uppsala, Sweden, and deals with a young boy named Alexander, his sister Fanny, and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls. The siblings' parents are both...

Direction Justine Shapiro · B.Z. Goldberg · Carlos Bolado

Plot Several Jewish and Palestinian children are followed for three years and put in touch with each other, in this alternative look at the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. The three filmmakers followed a...

Direction René Clément

Cast Georges Poujouly · Brigitte Fossey · Amédée · Laurence Badie

Plot The story focuses on Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a five-year-old refugee from Paris taken in by a peasant family after her parents are killed during a bombardment of a civilian convoy....

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Margarita Terekhova · Philip Yankovsky · Ignat Daniltsev · Oleg Yankovskiy

Plot Tarkovsky mixes flash-backs, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family....

Direction Nadine Labaki

Cast Zain Al Rafeea · Yordanos Shiferaw · Boluwatife Treasure Bankole · Kawthar Al Haddad

Plot A political and contemporary fable, “Capernaum” centers around a child who rebels against the life he’s been imposed and launches a lawsuit.