The Kid with a Bike 2011
Le gamin au vélo (original title)
1h 27m | Drama | 18 May 2011 (Belgium)
Storyline:
At about 11, the stubborn and impulsive Cyril seems on his way to delinquency: he has no mother, his father wants a new life without him, so he’s in a foster institution. He searches for his father, wanting him and his bike. Through the intersession of Samantha, a hairdresser Cyril happens upon, he gets his bike back, and she offers to take him into her home on weekends. He remains aloof from her and gets involved with a young crook. Is Cyril intent on driving Samantha away – and what then?
The Runner 1984
Davandeh (original title)
1h 34m | Drama | 1984 (Iran)
Storyline:
Amiro is a young boy who has lost his home during the war. He spends his days by working odd jobs, until he realizes that the only way that he can realize his dreams is by enrolling in school. In school, he has conflict with other students. Finally there is a competition to see who can say the whole alphabet in one breath.
Daddy’s War 1977
La guerra de papá (original title)
1h 31m | Comedy | 19 September 1977 (Spain)
Storyline:
Spain, March 1964: Quico is a very naughty child of three belonging to a wealthy middle-class family. Since Cristina’s birth, he feels he has lost the privileged position of “prince” of the house for his eight months old sister. So, with his brother Juan, who is eight years old and is quite disobedient, spend their time committing prank after prank, causing the resulting anger of his mother, the nanny and the old housemaid. The rest of the family members are two much older brothers, his resigned mother and a retrograde father of authoritarian ideas. But many years have passed, and the civil war that won the despot Don Pablo is simply for their children “Dad’s war”.
C’est la vie 1990
La Baule-les-Pins (original title)
1h 50m | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 14 February 1990 (France)
Storyline:
Summer 1958. Frédérique and Sophie go on vacation as they do every year to La Baule, where they find their uncle, Léon, nice and loud mouth, their aunt Bella, pregnant, and their little cousins. Like every year? Not quite. This year, Léna, their mother, is still staying in Lyon for mysterious reasons. If Sophie’s six-year-old’s don’t pay attention any more, Frédérique’s thirteen-year-old noticed a discomfort between Mom and Dad. In fact, nothing is going well. Léna can no longer support life with Michel, her husband, and is in love with a young artist, Jean-Claude. He comes to join Léna as soon as she arrives and finds her every evening on the beach, in her tent. The smoldering crisis does not prevent children from doing stupid things (setting fire to the Mickey Club, poisoning goldfish with suppositories), nor from experiencing their first emotional emotions. One day, Michel arrives. Things are going very badly, and Frédérique is forced to intervene to separate him from his mother. Lena then announces her decision to divorce the children. Michel will try to convince her one last time, but in vain. At the end of the holidays, Léna and the two little girls do not return to Lyon.
Venner for livet 2005
1h 29m | Adventure, Drama, Family | 18 February 2005 (Norway)
Storyline:
A real city boy has to move to the country with his family. He befriends a refugee girl, a dog and an ox in an adventuresome fight against some racist hillbilly thieves.
Summer Rebels 2020
1h 33m | Family | 13 August 2020 (Slovakia)
Storyline:
Slovakian school boy Jonas (11) won’t take no for an answer from his widow mother to spend the Summer holiday with his cool paternal grandfather, widower Bernard. The old man isn’t amused to find out being tricked, but still enjoys his company, only won’t let him have the rowing boat the kid knows was around and wants to take to the river. Jonas also finds a local friend his age, Alex, to play and prank and plot to get the/a boat, until Jonas learns Berard’s true trauma with it.
Boys Soccer Club 2009
Meninos de Kichute (original title)
1h 38m | Adventure, Drama, Family | 2009
Storyline:
In the nineteen seventies, right after Brazil became three times world champion, the best outfit for kids to play soccer was to wear a pair of Kichute, a simple soccer tennis shoes made with cleats on the sole. Every kid in the village who wants to be part of the boys soccer club had to wear them. And that throws Beto into a right of passage test. He has to prove he’s ready to face his own problems at his school’s bulling attacks, his soccer games rematch against kids from other villages, and most important, he has to deal with his father’s demand, who wants him to go to work after school instead of playing soccer. Beto’s passion for his dreams drives him through a teen adventure to become a boy growing up with an unforgettable life experience.
Maximus is twelve and captain of the National Ukrainian Karate Full-Contact Youth Team. They are the underdog favorites as they prepare and go into the ring against the much more experienced Russian team in the Europe Karate Finals. With his father as coach played by real life Dad, Victor, he fights his own fears of defeat and leads his team into an impossible win. All new-comers to the screen will delight you with their talent in Martial arts. You will be cheering for Maximus in the final bout. Viewer discretion is advised for fighting scenes and language.
