Movies About Children And Childhood
There are plenty of coming-of-age movies about teenagers (often played by 20-year-olds), but live-action films about real children are more rare. I've been keeping a list of the ones I liked. Of course, some of these are more realistic than others:
Name | Director | Country | Year | |
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I Was Born, But... | Yasujirô Ozu | Japan | 1932 | IMDB |
Good Morning | Yasujirô Ozu | Japan | 1959 | IMDB |
Pather Panchali | Satyajit Ray | India | 1955 | IMDB |
Alamar | Pedro González-Rubio | Mexico | 2009 | IMDB |
Fan Chan* | Vitcha Gojiew, Songyos Sugmakanan | Thailand | 2003 | IMDB |
Treeless Mountain | So Yong Kim | Korea | 2008 | IMDB |
Which Way Home | Rebecca Cammisa | USA | 2009 | IMDB |
Owl and the Sparrow | Stephane Gauger | Vietnam | 2009 | IMDB |
Please Vote For Me (documentary) | Weijun Chen | China | 2007 | IMDB |
The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | France | 1959 | IMDB |
Au Revoir Les Enfants | Louis Malle | France | 1987 | IMDB |
My Life As A Dog | Lasse Hallström | Sweden | 1985 | IMDB |
Muddy River | Kôhei Oguri | Japan | 1981 | IMDB |
The Chorus | Christophe Barratier | France | 2004 | IMDB |
Nobody Knows | Hirokazu Koreeda | Japan | 2004 | IMDB |
I Wish | Hirokazu Koreeda | Japan | 2011 | IMDB |
Lessons From A Calf (documentary) | Hirokazu Koreeda | Japan | 1991 | IMDB |
Boy | Taika Waititi | New Zealand | 2010 | IMDB |
Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Taika Waititi | New Zealand | 2016 | IMDB |
The Florida Project | Sean Baker | USA | 2017 | IMDB |
The Night I Swam (Takara - La nuit où j'ai nagé) | Kohei Igarashi, Damien Manivel | Japan | 2017 | IMDB |
The Spirit Of The Beehive | Víctor Erice | Spain | 1973 | IMDB |
Summer 1993 | Carla Simón | Spain | 2017 | IMDB |
The Fits | Anna Rose Holmer | USA | 2015 | IMDB |
White Sun | Deepak Rauniyar | Nepal | 2016 | IMDB |
Celia | Ann Turner | Australia | 1989 | IMDB |
Sivas | Kaan Müjdeci | Turkey | 2014 | IMDB |
A Summer At Grandpa's | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan | 1984 | IMDB |
Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma | France | 2021 | IMDB |
Where Is the Friend's House? | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | 1987 | IMDB |
The Traveler | Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | 1974 | IMDB |
* "Fan Chan" was streaming under the poor translation of "My Girl" for a while but now it's gone.
The following long list on mubi.com includes a great many I haven't yet seen (and some I wouldn't put in my list since they are animated and/or too far on the side of fantasy):
MUBI: Recommended Films About Children
If there's a movie about children you especially recommend, let me know.