Difficult Childhood Movies

The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed...

Božidarka Frajt (playing herself) is an actress who is unsuccessfully looking for a job in Zagreb. The film follows her everyday life: she...

Faced with an unpleasant and exhausting argument between his parents, Leonardo, a 9-year-old boy, finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of fear for...

Set against the backdrop of the 2011 UK summer riots, Jamie, a young female offender who possesses a remarkable voice, meets a determined social...

The family breaks up. The boy Jonukas feels very lonely. He wants to find his mother himself. The search is long and difficult.

In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce....

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most...

When suspicious bruising is found on Lisa's son, Bobby, she is forced to confront her own childhood trauma to prevent him from being taken by a...

Rapper and breakdancer Teekay from Eindhoven is known for his somersaults and vlogs that are causing a stir. During the corona riots in 2021, he not...

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...

An exploration into why some children are severely damaged by early adversity while others are able to thrive. By revisiting childhood trauma victims...

A look at the trials and tribulations of school and childhood.

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...

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...

Maya is Ayaibex's daughter, an addict in recovery that feels a blame for damages that caused her daughter, Maya decides to remember her mother's...

In a world left behind, 12-year old Clara Is forced to take care of her dying father

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...

A lonely twelve-year-old boy with problem parents experiments with drugs and enters an idealised fantasy world.

A red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him, but this weak man is under the shrew's thumb....

Gum is a child born and raised at Gamboa island. He admires his older brother, who works as baggage carrier for tourists. Gum wants to be like him.