Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot 2000

7.60

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

2000

Crooklyn

Crooklyn 1994

6.80

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.

1994

Perro callejero

Perro callejero 1980

7.90

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

1980

The Life Ahead

The Life Ahead 2020

6.70

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.

2020

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets 2000

6.56

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

2000

Boys on the Outside

Boys on the Outside 1990

6.80

Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?

1990

Kim

Kim 1950

6.20

During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.

1950

Return to Innocence

Return to Innocence 2001

6.80

A searing legal drama that centers on a highly credentialed child psychologist whose life is shattered when he's accused of sexually assaulting a young boy he's been treating.

2001

Bus 174

Bus 174 2002

7.40

Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.

2002

The Unvarnished Boy

The Unvarnished Boy 2010

5.00

A young boy struggles with life on the streets of Vancouver's dangerous and soul-consuming lower East side.

2010

Mouth to Mouth

Mouth to Mouth 2005

5.50

An aimless adolescent joins several itinerant misfits who live on the fringe of society and welcome at-risk youths into their fold.

2005

Engel & Joe

Engel & Joe 2001

6.10

A love story of a 17 year old punk-rocker and a 15 year old runaway girl.

2001

Goli Soda

Goli Soda 2014

6.50

Four lads find themselves in a situation where they have to take on a powerful man (and his innumerable henchmen) to reclaim their identity.

2014

Street Kids Violence

Street Kids Violence 1999

6.80

A case of juvenile violence called "Horrible Tortures" shocks the city. The highest sentencing is life in prison. However, one of the most important criminal in the case, Beep, is only sentenced to seven-year imprisonment. The verdict has the other story behind.

1999

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Let No Man Write My Epitaph 1960

6.14

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.

1960

Boy of the Streets

Boy of the Streets 1938

5.00

Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.

1938

The Devil Is a Sissy

The Devil Is a Sissy 1936

6.90

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

1936

Summertime Switch

Summertime Switch 1994

7.30

For the summer, troublemaker Freddie Egan is being sent to a camp-style juvenile detention center, while spoiled rich-kid Frederick Egan III is going to a luxurious getaway for kids of the elite. Until a name mix-up at the bus-boarding area sends the boys to each other's destinations, and while Eddie gets a taste of the good life, Frederick has to deal with being without all his usual comforts. Eventually, they both learn some valuable life-lessons.

1994

Vagabond

Vagabond 2003

1

Karesz has been raised in an institution, his mother has a new family, and her husband does not tolerate that she meets her first-born son. Karesz tramps, joining up with his casual pals he washes the windscreens of cars, sells newspapers; sometimes they steal, or break into houses if hired.

2003

Osomatsu-kun

Osomatsu-kun 1988

8.30

The adventures of con-artist Iyami and his sidekick Chibita as they constantly get foiled by a group of trouble-making sextuplets. The series also focuses on the similarly comical and bizarre members of the town, and the far-out situations they get into.

1988

Soldier and Me

Soldier and Me 1974

7.00

Two teenage boys witness the murder of an old man, only for the old man to turn up alive after the boys notify the police.

1974