Difficult Childhood Movies

A bitter coming-of-age story about boy who grows up in a remote Bosnian village shortly after World War II.

A temporary house for abandoned children near the front line in eastern Ukraine is run by a small group of social workers determined to provide...

Heta ysyryre gueteri jahasata. Translating from guaraní: Many ways to go! Olga inhabits this world. Just like every day, Olga gets up to have...

When his father runs off and his mother hooks up with a mustachioed new beau, eleven-year-old Mark becomes convinced that an uninvited talkative...

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...

Past/present story of a young man who lives in a fantasy world of aeronautics to escape a more challenging reality.

As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both...

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

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive,...

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

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...

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....

Seven year old Amy whose recently separated parents hold differing views on her social development is enthralled in her world of make believe. One...

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

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

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...

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...

Set in the pastoral mountains of northern Iran, eight-year-old Sahand has been rendered mute by the loss of his mother during the war. He is taken...

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...