Me and You 2012
Me and You 2012
Io e te (original title)
1h 43m | Drama | Release date: October 25, 2012 (Italy)
Storyline:
A 14-year-old pretends to go on a ski trip, but actually spends the week in isolation in his basement, escaping society’s pressure. When his 25-year-old half-sister enters the basement, a few emotional and confronting days and nights ensue.
Bad Boys 1961
Bad Boys 1961
Furyô shônen (original title)
1h 29m | Drama | Release date: March 29, 1961 (Japan)
Storyline:
Directed in documentary style about a number of delinquent boys in a reformatory, who were not given scripts and asked to simply be themselves, this movie focuses on the young men and their natural day-to-day. When the protagonist is released he has an opinion regarding the institution, which moulded him. The film is considered one of the first of the new wave movement of Japan and the winner of the Kinema Junpo Award.
My Family and Other Animals 2005
My Family and Other Animals 2005
1h 30m | Comedy, Drama | Release date: December 27, 2005 (United Kingdom)
Storyline:
Feeling the depressing effects of a gloomy English summer, the Durrell family decides to pack up and move to the Greek island of Corfu in 1935. Lead by their widowed mother, 13-year old future naturalist Gerald Durrell, his two older brothers and older sister move into a series of villas. Gerald indulges his passion for nature by filling his room with local fauna, while his brothers fill their time with writing or hunting and his sister sunbathes and flirts.
Storm Boy 1976
Storm Boy 1976
1h 28m | Drama, Family | Release date: November 18, 1976 (Australia)
Storyline:
Storm Boy tells the story of a 10-year-old boy, called Mick by his father Tom, and Storm Boy by the Aboriginal loner Fingerbone he befriends. This boy is growing up in an isolated corrugated iron shed next to a wildlife sanctuary. He lives with his father, who supports them by fishing alone. He is not attending school; he is illiterate and ignorant. Mick’s father resents any intrusion of their secluded life, be it a washed-up radio or a mob of idiot bird shooters who kill a number of birds before they are scared off by Fingerbone. Amongst the dead are some pelicans whose chicks are still in the nest. The boy brings them home to care for. His father isn’t keen, but permits it. Three pelicans become a lot to feed when they reach maturity, so his father insists on releasing them. Two are never seen again, but one, Mr Percival, keeps coming back. Another intruder is the new primary school teacher, brought by the park ranger. She is concerned about the boy’s education, and pushes hard for him to be sent to school, or at least to do schoolwork by correspondence. She means well, but she is resented by the father – he doesn’t want anything to change in their reclusive life.
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A 2006
46-okunen no koi (original title)
1h 25m | Drama, Fantasy | Release date: August 26, 2006 (Japan)
Storyline:
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than storytelling, the story follows two detectives trying to uncover the case. Homosexual tension and explosive violence drives the story which delivers some weird and fascinating visuals.
The Eight Mountains 2022
The Eight Mountains 2022
Le otto montagne (original title)
2h 27m | Drama | Release date: December 14, 2022 (Belgium)
Storyline:
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984
2h 23m | Adventure, Drama | Release date: March 30, 1984 (United States)
Storyline:
A shipping disaster in the nineteenth century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. The mother dies soon afterwards. An ape enters the house and kills the father, and a female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D’Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Puika 1977
Puika 1977
1h 37m | Family | Release date: 1977 (Soviet Union)
Storyline:
World for the boy is revealed gradually – in all its diversity, beauty and sustainability.
Skellig: The Owl Man 2009
Skellig: The Owl Man 2009
1h 42m | Drama, Family, Fantasy | Release date: April 12, 2009 (United Kingdom)
Storyline:
Unatheletic pre-teen schoolboy Michael is dragged to a new home in the countryside by his father Dave. Fitting in with new classmates is hard, but Michael bonds with protective jock Leakey and a fellow nerd nature lover. In a garden shed he discovers a strange, weak man with owl wings, who becomes a friend whom he helps regain strength and evacuates him to a tree house when father burns down the shed. Learning the ‘owl man’ is a rundown force of nature, Michael hopes he can help his baby sister’s probably fatal medical condition.
