Movies: Children S Film Unit

  • 1983
    A Swarm in May

    A Swarm in May (1983)

    A Swarm in May

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    John Owen returns to the Choir School at the start of term to find that he is the youngest Singing Boy in the school. This means he must also be Beekeeper - a traditional role. One of the traditional duties of the Beekeeper is to sing a solo in the C...

    A Swarm in May
  • 1988
    Infantile Disorders

    Infantile Disorders (1988)

    Infantile Disorders

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    A gang of boys who run their money raising 'business' - on strictly free market lines - is threatened by the arrival of another group. - A socialistic group, headed by a black girl!...

    Infantile Disorders
  • 1986
    School for Vandals

    School for Vandals (1986)

    School for Vandals

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    Middle-class parents have bought a run-down school in the country. Their two children, plus an assortment of friends, are staying there over the summer. One day an old lady is found in the school, claiming she used to work there. The children hold he...

    School for Vandals
  • 1989
    Doombeach

    Doombeach (1989)

    Doombeach

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    A young boy dies after swimming at a seaside resort, and the local children, led by Gavin, investigate and are led to suspect that contamination from a nearby nuclear plant is to blame. Their teacher is sympathetic, but has broken into her house, per...

    Doombeach
  • 1992
    Emily's Ghost

    Emily's Ghost (1992)

    Emily's Ghost

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    Emily, a young Edwardian girl stifled by the constraints put on the women of her time, moves with her family to the ancestral home in the country, and begins to see the ghost of another girl....

    Emily's Ghost
  • 1988
    Hard Road

    Hard Road (1988)

    Hard Road

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    When Kelly and Max, two 13-year olds from widely different social backgrounds, form an unlikely alliance and take off in Max's father's Ferrari for an illegal trip to Brighton. On the way they discover more about life and each other than they had bar...

    Hard Road
  • 1985
    Daemon

    Daemon (1985)

    Daemon

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    11-year-old Nick moves into a large old house with his sisters Jennie and Clare, left in the care of Helga the Swedish au pair while their parents are away in America. Nick is unhappy at his new school, where he is befriended by a boy named Sam and i...

    Daemon
  • 1994
    Willie's War

    Willie's War (1994)

    Willie's War

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    When 10-year-old Willie is evacuated from the East End of London, he is chosen by Zander, 13-year-old son of an army captain, to be his companion in a rambling country house....

    Willie's War
  • 1990
    Survivors

    Survivors (1990)

    Survivors

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    A group of teenage boys are tricked into accompanying their teacher on a survival holiday to a deserted island. But when the teacher suffers a nervous breakdown and turns hostile, the boys are forced to fend for themselves....

    Survivors
  • 1984
    Dark Enemy

    Dark Enemy (1984)

    Dark Enemy

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    After a nuclear war, a group of children at an isolated farmhouse debate what the outside world might be like. Soon one of them leaves the house to investigate, and finds out that things aren't the way they thought....

    Dark Enemy
  • 1985
    Mister Skeeter

    Mister Skeeter (1985)

    Mister Skeeter

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    Lisa and Jamie, residents of the Alton House Children's Home, learn that the home is to close because of government cuts. They decide to run away, and meet up with Mr. Skeeter who brings them food but steals their emergency money....

    Mister Skeeter
  • 1991
    How's Business

    How's Business (1991)

    How's Business

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    During World War II a young city boy is evacuated to the country....

    How's Business
  • 1979
    The Custard Boys

    The Custard Boys (1979)

    The Custard Boys

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    An Indian summer, 1942: "When I was thirteen, all I wanted to be was a hero." A young evacuee's response to the surrounding war-obsessed adult world seems the only one available to him, until he forms 'a particular friendship' with another boy, a Jew...

    The Custard Boys
  • 1993
    The Higher Mortals

    The Higher Mortals (1993)

    The Higher Mortals

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    This movie deals with the problems suffered by many smaller girls' boarding schools during the early 1990s recession, and makes use of metaphor and analogy in its critique of the John Major government of the day....

    The Higher Mortals
  • 1996
    The Gingerbread House

    The Gingerbread House (1996)

    The Gingerbread House

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    A 10-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother are dumped by their abusive mother and her boyfriend to spend a few days at the rambling country house of their grandfather, who has been estranged from the family for the past ten years. The girl discove...

    The Gingerbread House
  • 1995
    Nightshade

    Nightshade (1995)

    Nightshade

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    After his wife is murdered and his house torched, a judge becomes the vigilante title character and seeks revenge on the criminals who destroyed his life....

    Nightshade
  • 1982
    Captain Stirrick

    Captain Stirrick (1982)

    Captain Stirrick

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    The adventures of a group of nineteenth century homeless children who operate as pickpockets in the Smithfield area of London...

    Captain Stirrick
  • 1988
    Under the Bed

    Under the Bed (1988)

    Under the Bed

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    A young girl kicks all of her rubbish under her bed creating a monster which she and her brother must fight....

    Under the Bed
  • 1997
    Awayday

    Awayday (1997)

    Awayday

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    Two boys take an awayday in August, to Brighton to catch the last summer girls....

    Awayday