Films whose heroes are children will be interesting to watch not only in childhood, but also in adulthood. They are recommended for viewing as a family.
Further in the article you can find a list of ten films that will allow parents to better understand their children.
10. Oliver Twist | 2005
The film was released in 2005, filmed based on the eponymous work of Charles Dickens.
The protagonist of the film is a boy named Oliver Twist, he is an orphan who grew up in a shelter. Once he gets tired of such a way of life and mockery from the overseers and escapes from there.
Once in London, the boy finds himself in a bad company of thieves who begin to teach him his craft. But Oliver could not steal anything when, together with his comrades, he went on another outing.
Mr. Brownlow caught the boy, but did not take him to the police, but took him home. This misfortune of Oliver Twist does not end there, but the denouement of the film is safe, the boy remains to live with his benefactor.
9. Kingdom of the full moon | 2012
The film was released in 2012. The action of the film takes place in the 60s. last century.
The main characters are two teenagers - a boy Sam and a girl Susie. Sam has a complex character, so he is an outcast among his peers. Susie is very withdrawn, perhaps because her family has problems.
Children run away from home in search of a place where they can be happy. Boy scouts and the local police set off in search of them.
A scout squad that Sam once belonged to finds teenagers. A fight ensues between them, during which Susie wounds one of the attackers. After finding the children, the adults decided to send the boy to the boarding colony and forbid him to communicate with Sue.
But the scouts revised their attitude towards Sam, became his friends, the denouement of the film tells that the boy was adopted by the sheriff and no one else bothers them from making friends with Susie.
8. The puzzle | 2015
The cartoon was shot by Pixar in 2015. The main character is Riley and she is 11 years old. The girl’s behavior consists of five basic emotions (joy, fear, sadness, disgust and anger), they live in her mind and help solve various problems.
But everything changes when the Riley family makes the move. Emotions come into conflict with each other, a mess is going on in the girl’s head. They have to learn how to work together so that Riley can return to her usual life.
7. The Adventures of Kryazh | 2009
The movie was released in 2009. The protagonist of this children's comedy film is a boy nicknamed Kid.
His family moved to the village. The child has not yet found friends, and his friend becomes a scum, similar to a man. They meet when the boy’s father cuts a tree. The kid tells about it to his parents, but they do not believe him.
6. Adolescence | 2014
The drama film was shot for 11 years from 2002 to 2013. The film was released in 2014. The plot of the picture unfolds around the life of a boy named Mason.
Before his eyes, the parents divorce, then the second marriage of the mother and again the divorce. With his sister Samantha, the boy remains to live with his mother. He likes Star Wars, Harry Potter, he enjoys music. Throughout the film, the viewer can watch how Mason grows, tries to drink, smokes weed, begins to get involved in girls.
The motion picture ends with a walk that entered the college of a young man with his new acquaintance. Young people walk through the park and talk about being and its fleetingness.
5. Tom Sawyer | 2011
Many of us are familiar with Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Based on this novel, several films were shot; filmmakers from different countries showed interest in the plot.
A 2011 film adaptation tells the viewer about the adventures of two hooligan boys named Tom and Huck.
They spend most of their time stealing apples from their neighbors, playing pirates and poking fun at adults. But once the guys plunge into the matter more seriously, as they are witnesses of the crime, walking at night in the cemetery.
4. August Rush | 2007
The film was shown to viewers in 2007. The plot of the story is based on a story about a boy named Evan Taylor, who grows up in an orphanage, believes that his parents are alive and wants to find them.
The child is very talented, hears music everywhere. This is not surprising since his parents were musicians. After escaping from the shelter, Evan becomes a street musician and performs under the pseudonym August Rush.
The boy’s mother Laila (formerly a talented cellist) learns that her son is alive and not dead during childbirth, as she was told in the hospital, immediately sent to look for him. Despite the ups and downs that appear on the way of the main characters, the end of the film looks prosperous, and the Evan family reunites.
3. The thief of books | 2013
The premiere of the film took place in 2013. The protagonist of a girl named Liesel Meminger gets to foster parents who live in Munich. In the same city, she begins to attend school, the program of which is difficult for her to cope with.
Then her love for books and reading wakes up, so she is struck by the Nazi book-burning ritual that arose during World War II.
The girl began to steal books, trying to understand from them why the war began, the persecution of Jews, fascists and the like from the world of adults appeared.
2. Chorists | 2004
The film was released in 2004. Its plot unfolds in 1949 in France in one of the children's shelters.
Once, a music teacher named Clement Mathieu comes to work in this orphanage, he is struck by embittered teenagers and other teachers' methods of working with them.
To fix this atmosphere in the shelter, he creates a choir, although the director of the institution is against it. Many boys discover talent in themselves. But the teacher has to quit; one of the pupils leaves with him.
1. The Society of Dead Poets | 1989
The film was released in 1989. The plot tells about several teenagers studying at a prestigious school.
They fall into a lesson from a teacher named John Keating, whose methods of working with children are very different from the methods of other teachers. He managed to arouse interest and love for poetry in schoolchildren. To recreate with them the literary club "Society of Dead Poets."
One of the students of the school dreams of becoming an actor, but the stern father does not allow this, the boy commits suicide. Teachers are beginning to blame for the fact that he put masterful thoughts into the young man’s head and thereby prompted suicide.
John Keating has to quit, many children are saddened by this and escort him while standing and reading his favorite poem "Oh, captain, my captain!".