Movies: Difficult childhood

  • 2007
    The Imaginary Girl

    The Imaginary Girl (2007)

    The Imaginary Girl

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    Seven year old Amy whose recently separated parents hold differing views on her social development is enthralled in her world of make believe. One afternoon when her father comes to visit this situation comes to a head, with disturbing consequences ...

    The Imaginary Girl
  • 2000
    Otto - The Disaster Movie

    Otto - The Disaster Movie (2000)

    Otto - The Disaster Movie

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    A man from Ostfriesland travels to Hamburg and sets course for America on a steamship to conquer this New World as well. What he leaves behind is a swath of devastation, a breach of confusion, a Milky Way full of music, a dead end full of mad jokes a...

    Otto - The Disaster Movie
  • 2022
    A Day, That Year

    A Day, That Year (2022)

    A Day, That Year

    102022HD

    5 years old Yang spends an afternoon with his mother on a shopping trip. When he throws a tantrum after feeling neglected, she decides to punish him by walking away. A seemingly harmless punishment eventually becomes a pivotal childhood experience fo...

    A Day, That Year
  • 2012
    Almost 18

    Almost 18 (2012)

    Almost 18

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    Karri, Pete, André, Akseli and Joni dream, party, love and boast like only teenage males can. They're dealing with the same issues as every other young man — fears and hopes for future, disillusions and problems with parents....

    Almost 18
  • 2019
    Monster

    Monster (2019)

    Monster

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    After losing his innocence, his best friend, and the love of his adolescence, this coming-of-age gangster drama follows Harman in an hour of his night within a new life of violence....

    Monster
  • 2004
    My Friend Henry

    My Friend Henry (2004)

    My Friend Henry

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    When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi meets Henr...

    My Friend Henry
  • 2017
    Balun

    Balun (2017)

    Balun

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    Hassan's parents passed away when he was young. Now all grown up, he returns from overseas and heads back home to his village in Taiping to handle matters regarding his late father's estate, especially his father's debt to Mr. Seman. As he returns to...

    Balun
  • 2018
    Broken Places

    Broken Places (2018)

    Broken Places

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    An exploration into why some children are severely damaged by early adversity while others are able to thrive. By revisiting childhood trauma victims profiled decades ago, we learn how their experiences shaped their lives as adults....

    Broken Places
  • 2019
    Sister

    Sister (2019)

    Sister

    7.82019HD

    How many Yamil remembers himself, war has always been. He is very much waiting for it to end - after all, then the father will return, whom the boy knows only from photographs and letters. One day, Mom leaves for a distant city and brings the silent ...

    Sister
  • 1987
    The Second Attempt of Viktor Krokhin

    The Second Attempt of Viktor Krokhin (1987)

    The Second Attempt of Viktor Krokhin

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    During the flight, the hero of the film, the boxing champion, recalls his life's journey. The hero’s childhood was in the first post-war years. He grew up without a father, his mother was busy with work, his older brother was in prison, the relations...

    The Second Attempt of Viktor Krokhin
  • 1976
    I Want to Be Famous

    I Want to Be Famous (1976)

    I Want to Be Famous

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    Eleven-year-old Steve is the smallest boy in class. He thinks girls are soppy, detests football and prefers painting. To alleviate his loneliness, he occasionally escapes into an excitingly violent fantasy realm of his own creation. His best mate Stu...

    I Want to Be Famous
  • 2022
    Somehow

    Somehow (2022)

    Somehow

    4.82022HD

    Two people on a road-trip through Europe and Morocco to find inner freedom....

    Somehow
  • 2017
    Cotton Wool

    Cotton Wool (2017)

    Cotton Wool

    62017HD

    A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold things together as their roles are reversed....

    Cotton Wool
  • 1997
    Die drei Mädels von der Tankstelle

    Die drei Mädels von der Tankstelle (1997)

    Die drei Mädels von der Tankstelle

    3.91997HD

    Wigald, a spoiled offspring, is no good with women. He finds solace with a psychiatrist and love with his poodle. When his mother dies, he is only allowed to claim his inheritance if he manages to get a run-down petrol station back on its feet. Howev...

    Die drei Mädels von der Tankstelle
  • 2019
    Yo soy Arturo Fernández

    Yo soy Arturo Fernández (2019)

    Yo soy Arturo Fernández

    62019HD

    A gentle portrait of the mythical Spanish actor Arturo Fernández (1929-2019) in the hour of his passing, in his own words, through his latest interviews, not previously broadcast, and the words of those who knew him thorough decades of charming and g...

    Yo soy Arturo Fernández
  • 1996
    Champagne

    Champagne (1996)

    Champagne

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    The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she provides poignant commentary about her mother, her own situation and her outlook for the future....

    Champagne
  • 2009
    Happiness of Kati

    Happiness of Kati (2009)

    Happiness of Kati

    82009HD

    Kati, a nine-year-old girl whose mother is suffering from an incurable illness. She must go through steps of happiness and sorrow, bonding and separation, having her hopes fulfilled and losing something she loves....

    Happiness of Kati
  • 2024
    The Selfish Girl

    The Selfish Girl (2024)

    The Selfish Girl

    102024HD

    Lily has saved up a large sum of money to fulfill her dream of studying acting at an American university. On the day she receives confirmation that she has been accepted, her dysfunctional mother returns to Lily's life and tells her that she has a hu...

    The Selfish Girl
  • 1969
    Stigma: Raised in Hollywood

    Stigma: Raised in Hollywood (1969)

    Stigma: Raised in Hollywood

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    When former child star Aaron Schwartz (Mighty Ducks, Heavyweights) returned to the acting world as an adult, he found himself always being asked this recurring question: 'how is he still normal having been a child star?' After seeing one too many sen...

    Stigma: Raised in Hollywood
  • 2022
    Bolle

    Bolle (2022)

    Bolle

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    Bolle