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Children Adrift (1959)
, 26minutesDirected by Édouard Luntz
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes La banlieue française, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
La vie d'enfants d'un bidonville aux portes de Paris, situé à La Plaine Saint-Denis.
10½ (2010)
, 1h48Directed by Podz
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Claude Legault, Robert Naylor, Maxime Desjardins-Tremblay, Martin Dubreuil, Norman Helms, Richard Fréchette
Le film relate l'histoire de Tommy, un enfant de 10 ans bien connu des services sociaux québécois. Mis dans un centre éducatif fermé après une agression sexuelle commise sur un de ses camarades, cet enfant, perturbé par une vie familiale perverse, rebelle à l'autorité comme à l'affection, est jugé irrécupérable par la plupart des éducateurs. Tommy se déchaîne régulièrement lors de crises d'une violence absolue et pour le personnel du centre, il constitue un danger pour la vie du groupe. Seul Gilles, son nouvel éducateur, entrevoit une lueur d'espoir dans le regard de cet enfant qui ne communique que par la violence.
15 (2003)
, 1h30Directed by Royston Tan
Origin Singapore
Genres Drama, Comedy, Documentary, Crime
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, La sexualité des mineurs, L'enfance marginalisée
The film stars three real-life juvenile gangsters, all aged 15, giving an accurate depiction of Chinese teenage gang-life in the Singapore suburbs. The 2003 film features two more gangsters as characters as well as a fight sequence with more affluent English-educated Singapore youths. Rather than scripting the movie or employing professional actors, Tan attempted to capture the troubled lives of his characters in realistic fashion, apparently without much prior scripting.
4:30 (2005)
, 1h33Directed by Royston Tan
Origin Singapore
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Zhang Xiao Wu est un jeune garçon d'une dizaine d'années vivant à Singapour. Il est livré à lui-même, entre une mère partie à l'étranger et ne le contactant que par téléphone et un père invisible dont on ne sait rien. Un jour, Jung, un coréen de trente ans dépressif emménage en colocation dans l'appartement. Il travaille la nuit et se couche chaque matin à quatre heures trente en prenant de puissants somnifères. C'est à ce moment que le jeune garçon vient l'observer. Il consigne ses découvertes dans un cahier. Il mène ainsi une vie monotone et solitaire, cohabitant avec un étranger qui semble ne pas le remarquer. Il n'arrive même pas à vivre normalement à l'école où il rattrape ses nuits sans sommeil. Peu à peu, le jeune garçon, malgré la barrière de la langue, va tenter de lier connaissance avec le jeune homme et s'ingénier à construire une impossible amitié dans une ambiance qui flirte avec le surréalisme.
On the Sly (2011)
, 1h17Directed by Olivier Ringer
Origin France
Genres Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Olivier Ringer, Yves Ringer
Dans un monde pas si lointain, à une époque pas si éloignée, vivait une petite fille comme les autres. Pourtant, elle était pratiquement certaine d’être invisible aux yeux de ses parents. Pour en être sûre, elle décida de disparaître. Et, ce qui aurait pu mal se terminer se transforma en une aventure extraordinaire.
Achilles and the Tortoise (2008)
, 1h59Directed by Takeshi Kitano
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Peinture, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Takeshi Kitano, Kanako Higuchi, Ren Osugi, Kumiko Asō, Akira Nakao, Nao Ōmori
Kitano plays Machisu, who is born into a wealthy family, but loses both his parents as a child. When his father (Akira Nakao) commits suicide after the collapse of his business, Machisu's stepmother (Mariko Tsutsui) sends him to live with an aunt and uncle who mistreat him and finally send him to an orphanage. As a young man, Machisu (Yurei Yanagi) attends art school and finds his style of painting challenged by the more experimental and conceptual work turned in by his classmates. Machisu takes a job in order to pay for art school, and strikes up a friendship with a fellow co-worker, Sachiko (Kumiko Aso), who seems to grasp his artistic vision. They get married and have a daughter. As he grows older, Mashisu's obsession with contemporary art controls his whole life, leaving him insensitive of everything around him, including the death of his own daughter (Eri Tokunaga) and his wife's desertion. He tries to please the art critics, remaining penniless. He is caught up in a fire and almost dies. Losing all his previous works, he is left with a single half-burnt soda can, which he assesses at 200,000 yen and tries to sell. This ends up kicked carelessly away when his wife picks him up from the street. They walk away together, seemingly finally rid of his artistic obsession.
Alfie, the Little Werewolf (2011)
, 1h35Directed by Joram Lürsen
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Fantastic, Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, L'enfance marginalisée, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Films about school violence
Actors Maas Bronkhuyzen, Kim van Kooten, Trudy Labij, Nick Geest, Barbara Pouwels, Bianca Krijgsman
Alfie, un petit garçon adopté âgé 6 ans, est solitaire et timide. Il compte pour seul compagnon Timmie, son frère adoptif. Lors de la nuit de son septième anniversaire, Alfie se change en loup-garou et craint que ses parents adoptifs le rejettent. Grâce à son pouvoir, il compte se venger de Nico, son principal bourreaux, mais aussi se renseigner sur ses vrais parents. C'est alors qu'il rencontre son grand-père qui est aussi un loup-garou.
, 1h40Directed by Nabil Ayouch
Origin Maroc
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Saïd Taghmaoui, Amal Ayouch
Against a background of dockside poverty in Casablanca, populated by a loose gang of over 20 homeless and uneducated male youths under 15, Kwita (Maunim Kbab), Omar (Mustapha Hansali), Boubker (Hicham Moussaune) and Ali Zaoua (Abdelhak Zhayra) leave the group becoming 4 independents. Ali, with plans of becoming a cabin boy on a ship, leads this exodus from the gang — led by Dib (Saïd Taghmaoui). Early in the film and almost accidentally, Ali is killed by members of the gang. His 3 outsider friends decide to give him a proper funeral. Kwita is treated badly by military, by police and by well-off children because he is "not devout", cannot pray, is unclean, smells like dead meat and is a glue sniffer, and Omar attempts to return to Dib's gang. Boubker, the smallest and most irrepressibly buoyant of the boys, temporarily despairs, but recovers. Against all odds, the three boys manage to arrange Ali's funeral to pay respect to their friend in the main story of the film.
Bagnes d'enfants (1933)
, 1h9Directed by Georges Gauthier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education, Films about children, Théâtre, L'enfance marginalisée, Films based on plays
Actors Germaine Dermoz, Fernand Rauzena, Émile Vardannes, Paul Marthès
Beethoven (1992)
, 1h27Directed by Brian Levant
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about animals, Films about education, Films about children, Films about families, Films about dogs, L'enfance marginalisée, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Films about school violence
Actors Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Nicholle Tom, Dean Jones, Christopher Castile, Oliver Platt
When the film opens, a St. Bernard puppy and a large group of others are stolen from a pet store by two thieves, Harvey (Oliver Platt) and Vernon (Stanley Tucci). After meeting a dog during his escape from the thieves, the St. Bernard sneaks into the home of the Newton family. The workaholic father, George Newton (Charles Grodin), doesn't want the responsibility of owning a dog, but his wife, Alice (Bonnie Hunt), and their children, Ryce, Ted and Emily, convince him otherwise. While trying to name him, Emily (Sarah Rose Karr), plays a portion of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and he barks along: thus they name him "Beethoven."
Ben X (2007)
, 1h33Directed by Nic Balthazar
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about computing, Jeu, Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism, Films about school violence
Actors Greg Timmermans, Marijke Pinoy, Pol Goossen, Laura Verlinden, Gilles de Schrijver, Titus De Voogdt
Teenage Ben is frequently bullied at school. To escape his harsh reality, he turns to a virtual world by playing an online game, ArchLord. In the game, he is a confident and brave hero. Moreover, he collaborates his adventures with another online user known in-game as Scarlite.
Blackbird (2012)
, 1h43Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about school violence
Actors Connor Jessup, Alexia Fast, Bill Carr
Sean Randall (Connor Jessup), a goth teenager, is a friend of classmate Deanna (Alexia Fast), with whom he rides the bus every day. Her boyfriend plays in an ice hockey team and she is friends with the team's other members. Sean's father has a gun collection, and Sean sometimes joins him when he goes hunting. Sean films his father shooting a deer and show the footage to his schoolmates, which (when combined with his goth fashion sense) makes them think that he is creepy. The members of the hockey team bully Sean for being weird and for being friends with Deanna, which angers Sean.
Freeze, Die, Come to Life (1990)
, 1h45Directed by Vitali Kanevski
Origin Russie
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Dinara Droukarova
En 1947, les amours tâtonnants de deux jeunes adolescents, une fille, Galia et Valerka un garçon. Ils vivent à Soutchan, petite ville minière d'Extrême-Orient à côté de laquelle se trouve un camp de prisonniers où il y a des détenus japonais. La vie y est dure et violente. Après avoir fait dérailler un train, Valerka part pour Vladivostok.
Capernaum (2018)
, 2hDirected by Nadine Labaki
Origin Liban
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Zain al-Rafeea, Nadine Labaki
L'histoire raconte la vie d'un « enfant des rues », le jeune Zain, qui vit d'expédients dans un quartier misérable de Beyrouth avec sa famille. Le garçon livre les commandes de ses voisins, essaie de soutirer quelques pièces aux automobilistes, aide sa mère à trafiquer des médicaments stupéfiants. Au cours d'une fugue, il rencontre Rahil, une immigrée éthiopienne sans papiers et son bébé Yonas ; en l'absence de Rahil, le préadolescent s'occupe comme un frère du tout jeune Éthiopien qui, autrement, serait mort de faim.
Carrie (2002)
, 2h12Directed by David Carson, David Carson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about religion, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about school violence
Actors Angela Bettis, Patricia Clarkson, Jodelle Ferland, Rena Sofer, Kandyse McClure, Emilie de Ravin
Several people are being interviewed in a police station, including high school senior Sue Snell (Kandyse McClure) and gym teacher Miss Desjardin (Rena Sofer). Detective John Mulchaey is investigating the disappearance of high school senior Carrie White (Angela Bettis).