Movies: Children S Film Unit
- 1983
A Swarm in May (1983)
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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...
- 1988
Infantile Disorders (1988)
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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!...
- 1986
School for Vandals (1986)
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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...
- 1989
Doombeach (1989)
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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...
- 1992
Emily's Ghost (1992)
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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....
- 1988
Hard Road (1988)
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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...
- 1985
Daemon (1985)
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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...
- 1994
Willie's War (1994)
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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....
- 1990
Survivors (1990)
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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....
- 1984
Dark Enemy (1984)
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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....
- 1985
Mister Skeeter (1985)
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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....
- 1991
How's Business (1991)
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During World War II a young city boy is evacuated to the country....
- 1979
The Custard Boys (1979)
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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...
- 1993
The Higher Mortals (1993)
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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....
- 1996
The Gingerbread House (1996)
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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...
- 1995
Nightshade (1995)
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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....
- 1982
Captain Stirrick (1982)
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The adventures of a group of nineteenth century homeless children who operate as pickpockets in the Smithfield area of London...
- 1988
Under the Bed (1988)
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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....
- 1997
Awayday (1997)
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Two boys take an awayday in August, to Brighton to catch the last summer girls....