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15 films tagged childhood
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Little-known
2006 · Adventure
A stuntman laid up in a 1920s Los Angeles hospital tells a wandering adventure story to a little girl with a broken arm, partly to get something from her. The story is shot in real places all over the world.
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2021 · Drama
A nine-year-old boy's street in 1969 Belfast turns overnight into a place with barricades, and his parents have to decide whether to stay. Black and white, shot at kid height, and mostly family talk.
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Little-known
2018 · Drama
A twelve-year-old boy living rough in Beirut takes his parents to court for having him. Most of it follows him around the city day to day, shot hand-held with people who had not acted before.
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2009 · Animation
A bored girl moves into an old house and finds a small door into a version of her home where her parents pay attention and everything is better. Stop-motion, made for children, and properly creepy.
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2015 · Animation
The feelings inside an eleven-year-old girl run her from a control room in her head, and two of them get lost the week her family moves across the country. Bright and fast, with a lot underneath.
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2017 · Horror
In a small Maine town where children keep going missing, a group of misfit kids works out that something lives under the streets and wears a clown's face. As much a summer-holiday adventure as a horror film, with the scares on a schedule.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2019 · Comedy
A ten-year-old in the Hitler Youth, whose imaginary friend is a clownish Adolf Hitler, finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the attic. Broad silly jokes sitting right next to the worst thing in the room.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2008 · Horror
A bullied twelve-year-old in a snowed-in Stockholm suburb makes friends with the girl who has moved in next door and only comes out at night. It is very quiet and very cold, and it takes its time.
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2015 · Drama
A five-year-old falls asleep on a train and wakes thousands of miles across India, and grows up adopted in Australia. The first half is a small boy alone in a huge country; the second is a man at a computer.
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2020 · Drama
A Korean family move to a patch of Arkansas farmland in the 1980s so the father can grow vegetables to sell, and the grandmother comes over to help. Gentle and slow, seen largely through the youngest boy.
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2006 · Fantasy
A girl moves with her pregnant mother to the forest post of her new stepfather, an army captain hunting rebels in 1944 Spain, and finds something living in an old maze. Fairy tale and war run side by side, and both turn violent.
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Little-known
2021 · Drama
An eight-year-old helps clear out her grandmother's house in the woods and meets another girl her age building a hut nearby. Just over an hour, very quiet, and almost entirely the two children.
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2008 · Animation
A goldfish with a human face escapes her father's underwater kingdom, washes up in a jar, and decides she wants to be a little girl and stay with the boy who found her. Made for small children, hand-drawn, and full of water.
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2015 · Drama
A woman and her five-year-old son live in a single locked room, which is the only world he has ever known. Told from the boy's side of it, in a small space with two people.
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2012 · Drama
A kindergarten teacher in a small Danish town is accused by one child of something he did not do, and the town makes up its mind fast. Plain, tense, and it keeps you a step ahead of everyone in it.
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