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, 1h16Directed by Jay Oliva
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Animation
Themes Films about children, Batman films, Superman films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, Political films, Dystopian films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Peter Weller, Michael McKean, Ariel Winter, David Selby, Wade Williams, Michael Emerson
After the death of his protégé Jason Todd, billionaire industrialist Bruce Wayne was forced to retire from his Batman persona. Ten years later, Gotham City is overrun with crime and terrorized by a gang known as the Mutants. The 55-year-old Wayne maintains a friendship with 70-year-old retiring Police Commissioner James Gordon, while the Joker (Batman's archenemy) has been catatonic in Arkham Asylum since Wayne's retirement. Arkham inmate and former district attorney Harvey Dent undergoes plastic surgery to repair his disfigured face. Although he is declared sane, he quickly goes into hiding following his release. Dent's disappearance, news stories of the crime epidemic throughout the city and the memory of his parents' deaths drive Wayne to become Batman once more. He combats serious crimes, rescuing 13-year-old Carrie Kelley, but now struggles with the physical limitations of age.
Darius Goes West (2007)
, 1h32Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about children, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities
Actors Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy
Wolf Children (2012)
, 1h57Directed by Mamoru Hosoda
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes L'adolescence, Films about animals, Films about children, Films about families, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Kumiko Asō, Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Ōsawa, Megumi Hayashibara, Haru Kuroki, Shota Sometani
College student Hana falls in love with a werewolf and has two half-werewolf children with him: a daughter, Yuki, and a year later a son, Ame. Soon after Ame's birth, their father is killed while hunting food for the children.
Persona (1966)
, 1h20Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Origin Suede
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about films, Films about children, Pregnancy films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, La sexualité des mineurs, Films about pedophilia, Vampires in film, Films about psychiatry, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Gunnar Björnstrand, Margaretha Krook
Persona begins with images of camera equipment and projectors lighting up and projecting dozens of brief cinematic glimpses, including a crucifixion, an erect penis, a tarantula spider, clips from a comedic silent-film reel first seen in Bergman's Prison (depicting a man trapped in a room, being chased by Death and Satan), and the slaughter of a lamb. The last, and longest, glimpse features a boy who wakes up in a hospital next to several corpses, reading Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time ("Vår Tids Hjälte" in the film), and caressing a blurry, transient image that shifts between Elisabet and/or Alma's faces.
, 2h10Directed by David Yates
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman
Lord Voldemort retrieves the Elder Wand from Albus Dumbledore's grave. After burying Dobby, Harry Potter asks the help of goblin Griphook, Ron, and Hermione to break into Bellatrix Lestrange's vault at Gringotts bank, suspecting a Horcrux may be there. Griphook agrees, in exchange for the Sword of Gryffindor. Wandmaker Ollivander tells Harry that two wands taken from Malfoy Manor belonged to Bellatrix and to Draco Malfoy, but Malfoy's has changed its allegiance to Harry.
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
, 1h26Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Origin Japon
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about children, Feminist films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Chika Sakamoto, Noriko Hidaka, Hitoshi Takagi, Shigesato Itoi, Sumi Shimamoto, Hiroko Maruyama
In 1958 Japan, university professor Tatsuo Kusakabe and his two daughters, Satsuki and Mei, move into an old house to be closer to the hospital where their mother Yasuko is recovering from a long-term illness. Satsuki and Mei find that the house is inhabited by tiny animated dust creatures called susuwatari – small, dark, dust-like house spirits seen when moving from light to dark places. When the girls become comfortable in their new house and laugh with their father, the soot spirits leave the house to drift away on the wind. It is implied that they are going to find another empty house – their natural habitat.
The 400 Blows (1959)
, 1h39Directed by François Truffaut, Robert Bober, Philippe de Broca
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Georges Flamant, Pierre Repp, Luc Andrieux
Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a young boy growing up in Paris during the early 1950s. Misunderstood at home by his parents and tormented in school by his insensitive teacher (Guy Decomble), Antoine frequently runs away from both places. The boy finally quits school after being caught plagiarizing Balzac by his teacher. He steals a typewriter from his stepfather's (Albert Remy) work place to finance his plans to leave home, but is apprehended while trying to return it.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
, 2h9Directed by Frank Capra, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Politique, Scoutisme, Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold, Charles Lane, Thomas Mitchell
The governor of an unnamed western state, Hubert "Happy" Hopper (Guy Kibbee), has to pick a replacement for recently deceased U.S. Senator Sam Foley. His corrupt political boss, Jim Taylor (Edward Arnold), pressures Hopper to choose his handpicked stooge, while popular committees want a reformer, Henry Hill. The governor's children want him to select Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), the head of the Boy Rangers. Unable to make up his mind between Taylor's stooge and the reformer, Hopper decides to flip a coin. When it lands on edge – and next to a newspaper story on one of Smith's accomplishments – he chooses Smith, calculating that his wholesome image will please the people while his naïveté will make him easy to manipulate.
Mary and Max (2009)
, 1h30Directed by Adam Elliot
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Animation
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Transport films, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism, Films about school violence
Actors Bethany Whitmore, Toni Collette, Barry Humphries, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, John Flaus
In 1976, eight-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle (Bethany Whitmore) lives a lonely life in Mount Waverley, Australia. At school, she is teased by her classmates because of an unfortunate birthmark on her forehead; while at home, her distant father, Noel, and alcoholic, kleptomaniac mother, Vera, provide little support. Her only comforts are her pet rooster, Ethel; her favourite food, sweetened condensed milk; and a Smurfs-like cartoon show called The Noblets. One day, while at the post office with her mother, Mary spots a New York City telephone book and, becoming curious about Americans, decides to write to one. She randomly chooses Max Jerry Horowitz's name from the phone book and writes him a letter telling him about herself, sending it off in the hope that he will become her pen friend.
Stand by Me (1986)
, 1h29Directed by Rob Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about children, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss
In 1985, after reading a newspaper article about the death of his childhood friend Chris Chambers, author Gordie Lachance (Richard Dreyfuss) recalls a childhood journey to view the body of a missing boy near the (fictional) town of Castle Rock, Oregon (Maine in the novella), over Labor Day weekend in 1959. Young Gordie (Wil Wheaton) was a quiet, bookish boy with a penchant for writing and telling stories. He was rejected by his father (Marshall Bell) after the death of his football-star older brother Denny (John Cusack), who had paid more attention to Gordie than their parents did.
Farewell My Concubine (1993)
, 2h50Directed by Chen Kaige
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, La sexualité des mineurs, Transgender in film, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Jiang Wenli
Farewell My Concubine spans 53 years, presenting the lives of two men against the historical backdrop of a country in upheaval. It is about the story of Dieyi and Xiaolou and how their lives are affected by the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s and the victory of the Communists in 1949.
Paper Moon (1973)
, 1h40Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about children, Transport films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, Randy Quaid, Noble Willingham
Con man Moses Pray (Ryan O'Neal) meets 9-year-old Addie Loggins (Tatum O'Neal) at Addie's mother's graveside service, where the neighbors suspect he is Addie's father. He denies this, but agrees to deliver the orphaned Addie to her aunt's home in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Udaan (2010)
, 2h18Directed by Vikramaditya Motwane
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Rajat Barmecha, Ronit Roy, Ram Kapoor, Manjot Singh, Anand Tiwari
17-year-old Rohan is expelled from the reputed Bishop Cotton School, Shimla boarding school along with three friends Vikram, Benoy and Maninder when they are caught by their warden watching an adult movie off campus.
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
, 3h8Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Christmas films, Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Börje Ahlstedt, Anna Bergman, Lena Olin, Harriet Andersson, Gunn Wållgren, Bertil Guve
The story is set during 1907–09 (with an epilogue in 1910), in the Swedish town of Uppsala where Alexander (Bertil Guve), his sister Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and their well-to-do family, the Ekdahls, live. The siblings' parents are both involved in theater and are happily married until their father, Oscar (Allan Edwall), suddenly dies from a stroke. Shortly thereafter, their mother, Emilie (Ewa Fröling), marries Edvard Vergérus (Jan Malmsjö), the local bishop and a widower, and moves into his ascetic home where he lives with his mother, sister, aunt and maids.
Spotlight (2015)
, 2h8Directed by Tom McCarthy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical
Themes Films about writers, Films about children, Films about journalists, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Films about child abuse
Actors Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Stanley Tucci, Brian d'Arcy James, Michael Keaton
En 1976, le prêtre John Geoghan est arrêté pour viol sur mineur à Boston. Dans la nuit, un prêtre de haut rang se rend au commissariat pour négocier avec la mère de l'enfant et laisse Geoghan ressortir libre alors que l'avocat général demande aux agents présents de ne pas ébruiter l'affaire.