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- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsJeni CourtneyEileen ColganMick LallyYoung Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.Young girl moves in with her grandparents.
Remote fishing village.
1940s, Ireland - DirectorGabriela YepesStarsHellen Sly SanchezFrank AroniLiliana TrujilloNina is a ten-year-old girl whose life dramatically changes when her father, a master Scissor Dancer, asks her to fulfill his last wish.10 year old, living in the Peruvian Andes.
- DirectorJoan ChenStarsXiaolu LiLopsangZheng QianYoung teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.15 year old, sent to remote China for manual labor, 1975.
- DirectorLee Jong EonOunie LecomteStarsKim Sae-ronKo Ah-sungSol Kyung-guYoung Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her.9 year old, abandoned by her father at an orphanage. 1970s Seoul, South Korea.
- DirectorNobuhiro YamashitaStarsKahoMasaki OkadaElisa YanagiWhen eighth grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.A group of kids living in rural Japan.
- DirectorShin TogashiStarsKokone HamadaAya UetoKayoko KishimotoA young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family because of her family's financial situation.7 year old, 1907 Japan. Leaving home to work.
- StarsMegan FollowsColleen DewhurstRichard FarnsworthAn orphan girl, sent to an elderly brother and sister by mistake, charms her new home and community with her fiery spirit and imagination.Young girl in Canada
- DirectorByambasuren DavaaStarsBatchuluun UrjindorjBuyandulam DaramdadiNansal BatchuluunThe little Nansal finds a baby dog in the Mongolian veld, who becomes her best friend against all rejections of her parents.A 6 year old, oldest of 3 children.
Inner Mongolian herds-people. Nansal finds a dog and wants to keep it. - DirectorStephane GaugerStarsCat LyThe Lu LeHan Thi PhamIn modern-day Saigon, three lonely strangers form a unique family as a ten-year old orphan plays matchmaker to a zookeeper and a beautiful flight attendant.10 year old orphan, Saigon.
Living on the streets. - DirectorJonathan MillerStarsAnne-Marie MallikFreda DowieJo Maxwell MullerA girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange Wonderland.Young girl in Victorian England countryside.
- DirectorJulie GavrasStarsNina Kervel-BeyJulie DepardieuStefano AccorsiA 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.10 year old in 1970 Paris.
- DirectorÉléonore FaucherStarsAriane AscarideLola NaymarkJackie BerroyerClaire (Nymark), an unmarried pregnant teenager, finds an odd relation in Madame Mélikian (Ascaride), an older woman grieving over the death of her son.17 year old farm girl who likes embroidery moves in with Armenian embroiderer who works for haute couture Parisian designers.
France. - DirectorJiang XiaoStarsYu XiaHaibin LiYijing ZhangTwo childhood friends escape reality through cinema against the backdrop of China's raging cultural revolution.A teenager.
China - DirectorShunji IwaiStarsAnne SuzukiYû AoiTomohiro KakuWhen two best friends develop a crush on the same boy, they develop a plan to trick him into dating them.Best friends since little, the time from junior high to high school.
Japan. - DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsHeinrich GretlerElsbeth SigmundThomas KlamethWhen Heidi, a little girl who leads an idyllic life with her grandfather in the Alps, is cruelly taken from the mountain retreat by a stern aunt, she adapts to life in the village below by bringing humor and goodwill to every situation.Young girl living with grandfather.
Filmed in Kanton Graubunden, Switzerland - DirectorMohammad Ali TalebiStarsMasume EskandariJairan AbadzadeShirin BinaA small child and her elderly neighbor are having all kinds of small adventures in the streets of Tehran to get a sack of rice.A Bag of Rice.
A 6 year old in Iran buying a bag of rice at the market, not a simple thing to do. - DirectorNobuhiro YamashitaStarsBae DoonaAki MaedaYû KashiiA music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival.Four Japanese high school girls form a rock and roll band to play at a festival. The lead singer is Korean, a foreign exchange student that can barely speak Japanese. 80s hits.
- DirectorTizza CoviRainer FrimmelStarsPatrizia GerardiTairo CaroliWalter SaabelA circus woman and her husband find a two year old girl in the trailer park where they are living. With the help of another child, they search for her mother.A 2 year old found alone in a park in Rome. A woman looking for her dog takes the little girl home with her.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsLiesel MatthewsEleanor BronLiam CunninghamSara is sent to a strict boarding school after her father enlists in WWI. When he is presumed dead, the headmistress, knowing she will not receive any more money, forces the girl to become a servant.Growing up in India, then moving to New York when 10 years old. Being placed in a boarding school while her dad fights for Britain in WWI.
India, New York, 1914. - DirectorRobert MulliganStarsSam WaterstonTess HarperGail StricklandA coming of age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.14 year old.
1957 rural Louisiana, summertime. - DirectorTom DavenportStarsStephanie Astalos-JonesRobbie SamsSet deep in the Appalachian mountains around 1920, Mutzmag is a live-action adaptation of an American trickster tale about a plucky young girl named Mutzmag who sets out on a journey with her two half-sisters and winds up at the cabin of two backwoods ogres. Using only a ball of string and a pocketknife, Mutzmag outwits the villains, rescues a white horse, and wins a cash reward. Mutzmag is one of only a hand full of traditional trickster tales that feature a resourceful female in the leading role.Young girl growing up in the Appalachian Mountains, 1920s.
- DirectorDiane KurysStarsEléonore KlarweinOdile MichelAnouk FerjacA year in the life of two adolescent sisters at an all-girls school in France as they experience a rapid-fire onslaught of 'firsts' during a time of political protest and social change.13 and 15 year old sisters in early 60s Paris.
- DirectorJacques DoillonStarsVictoire ThivisolDelphine SchiltzMatiaz Bureau CatonA four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.France.
A four year old after her mother dies. - 1997–20231h 34mTV-G7.1 (592)TV EpisodeDirectorCharles BurnettStarsMackenzie AstinJurnee SmollettClifton PowellIn 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl (Jurnee Smollett) is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Clifton Powell) and becomes a devout follower. But her resolution is tested when she joins others in the famed march from Selma to Montgomery.1965, Alabama. 11 year old girl
- DirectorVíctor EriceStarsFernando Fernán GómezTeresa GimperaAna TorrentIn 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.2 young girls in 1940s small Castilian village.
Spain - DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsNu Yên-Khê TranMan San LuThi Loc TruongA Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.10 year old servant in Vietnam household.
1950s - DirectorSteve MinerStarsGabrielle AnwarMichael SchoefflingCliff RobertsonThrilled by a performance she sees at a fair, Sonora Webster tries to land a spot as a daredevil who rides horses off of high dives.Teenager, 1930s, works with horses.
Runs away from home in Texas, joins the circus.
Filmed around Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. - DirectorJafar PanahiStarsAida MohammadkhaniMohsen KafiliFereshteh Sadre OrafaiySeveral people try to help a little girl to find the money her mom gave her to buy a goldfish with.Iran.
A little girl gets money to buy a goldfish for the Iranian New Year. On her walk to the fish store, events happen. - DirectorJeanne MoreauStarsEdith CleverFrancis HusterJacques WeberIn 1939, a 13-year-old girl develops a crush on the town's Jewish doctor while visiting her grandmother. Her parents have an affair with the doctor. When her father returns, tensions arise regarding the relationships and the impending war.13 year old, Provence countryside, summer 1939.
- DirectorPhil JoanouStarsAlexisAshtynBrandonUS take on the classic UK documentary series "Up". This first US entry follows a group of economically, racially and socially diverse 7-year-olds. The idea was to make followup films on them every 7 years but the project ended in 2006.
- DirectorDoug AtchisonStarsAngela BassettLaurence FishburneKeke PalmerAkeelah, a young gifted girl, comes from a dysfunctional family and is on the verge of quitting school. She discovers that she has a high aptitude for spellings and enters a spelling bee contest.11 year old living in Los Angeles wins a spelling bee, and trains for the nationals.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsKristýna KohoutováCamilla PowerA surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.Alice becomes her own doll
- DirectorJane CampionStarsKerry FoxAlexia KeoghKaren FergussonJanet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.Growing up with misdiagnosed condition, and overcoming the odds to become a great writer.
1920s-1930s, New Zealand - DirectorMamoru OshiiStarsMako HyôdôJinpachi NezuKeiichi NodaA mysterious young girl wanders a desolate, otherworldly landscape, carrying a large egg.A young girl and an egg in an otherworldly landscape.
- DirectorCaroline LinkStarsElea GeisslerMax FelderJuliane KöhlerPünktchen and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend (as nobody else would anyway) and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.10 year old, daughter of wealthy surgeon.
Germany. - StarsMegan FollowsColleen DewhurstMarilyn LightstoneAnne Shirley accepts a teaching position at a girls boarding school in a town dominated by a rich and belligerant family determined to make her life miserable.Young girl in Canada
- DirectorWim WendersStarsYella RottländerRüdiger VoglerLisa KreuzerA German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.9 year old Dutch-German girl traveling with writer in Europe, 1973.
- DirectorOrna Ben-Dor NivStarsEtti AnkriLouise AsherGedalia BesserA brother and sister arrive alone in the new country of Israel after World War II where they hope to find their lost mother. The complexities of life with colorful characters in the refugee transit camp and nearby kibbutz makes it hard to reconcile their real lives with their deeper dream of still finding the Newland.Young girl and her brother looking for their mom in the State of Israel after the Holocaust.
- DirectorJoe WrightStarsKeira KnightleyJames McAvoyBrenda BlethynThirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.13 year old writer.
1930s, England.
A few filming locations - Stokesay Court, Onibury, Shropshire.
Nene Washes Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire. - DirectorRobert MulliganStarsLee RemickSteve McQueenDon MurrayIn Texas, a woman and her young daughter head down to another town where the girl's irresponsible, hotheaded and immature father has just been released from prison on parole.A young girl growing up without her father until he is released from jail. Before Vietnam War south.
Filmed in Texas, -Columbus, Wharton, Bay City. - DirectorWilhelm ThieleStarsVirginia WeidlerGene ReynoldsGuy KibbeeA Bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.11 year old Victorian orphan. When her caregiver dies, Patsy travels to the small town of Egypt, New Jersey, because of what she read in the bible.
Early 1900s. - DirectorMichael PatreiStarsMarion Barry Jr.Chuck BrownLewis FranklinBallou , a documentary film, follows the talented Washington, DC, Ballou Senior High School Marching Band, as they overcome their negative environment filled with guns, drugs, and violence, and uplift the community with music, dedication, and personal sacrifice. This Washington, DC, High School Marching Band--from an impoverished community just 3 miles away from the US Capitol building--is on its way to the national band competition. They are a family with heart and soul that use hard work, discipline, and compassion to overcome all obstacles. Political leaders and celebrities including Rev. Jesse Jackson, Gen (ret) Colin Powell, Congressman John Lewis, Marion Barry, Denyce Graves, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and Chuck Brown are featured in the film to show the importance of a small marching band in the lives the band members and in the community.High school girls in a marching band.
Washington D. C. - DirectorBenh ZeitlinStarsQuvenzhané WallisDwight HenryLevy EasterlyFaced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.6 year old,living in rural Louisiana bayou country.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsAlastair SimJoyce GrenfellGeorge ColeThe schoolgirls of St. Trinian's are more interested in racing forms than books; as they try to get rich quick, they are abetted by the headmistress' brother.School for Young Ladies.
Hertfordshire, England. - DirectorIvan SenStarsDannielle HallDamian PittJenna Lee ConnorsLena is the daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn is a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no transport.A girl leaves her home and mother in remote New South Wales, and journeys to Sydney to live with her father.
Australia - DirectorJoan Micklin SilverStarsShelley DuvallVeronica CartwrightBud CortBernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Bernice gives her much more than she bargained for.Rich finishing school girls.
Summer, 1919. Connecticut.
A shy cousin visiting her outgoing cousin. - DirectorCaroline LinkStarsSylvie TestudTatjana TriebHowie SeagoSince the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature she becomes interested in music and starts to play clarinet very successfully. However her parents are deaf, they cannot share Lara's musical career. The day comes when Lara has to decide between her parents and her own ambitions.A girl when 8 and 18 years old. Interpreter for her parents, who are deaf. Learns the clarinet. Germany.
- DirectorVishal BhardwajStarsPankaj KapurShreya SharmaDeepak DobriyalIn a small village when a little girl's prescious umbrella is stolen, things goes wrong for a greedy tea seller who was very much interested in buying that umbrella from her.Young girl in remote Himalayan village.
- DirectorAhmet UluçayStarsFizuli CaferofGülayse ErkocHasbiye GünayIn his award-winning debut feature film, director Ahmet Ulucay portrays the innocence of childhood and the lure of the cinema for two teens in a small Turkish village. Working for a watermelon seller by day, Remet spends his evenings trying to rebuild a film projector with his friend Mehmet. Both have big dreams to be famous film directors one day.2 sisters in small village in Turkey.
- DirectorKatie DellamaggioreStarsRochelle BallantyneOghenakpobo EfekoroPatrick JohnstonAmidst financial crises and unprecedented public school budget cuts, Brooklyn Castle takes an intimate look at the challenges and triumphs facing members of a junior high school's champion chess team.Winning a full 4 year scholarship from excellence in chess. Rochelle, from junior high to high school.
Brooklyn, New York. - DirectorRalph SmartStarsChips RaffertyJohn FernsideStan TolhurstIn Australia, five children pursue horse thieves through the mountains.Australia. Helen keeps up with the boys in the Australian bush. Mountainous country with trees.
- DirectorPhilippe MuylStarsMichel SerraultClaire BouanichNade DieuThis is the story of a young girl named Elsa who was raised by a single mother (Isabelle) in the city. Isabelle and Elsa begin the film moving in next door to an elderly man who collects butterflies (Julien). Isabelle who "spends a lot of time with her friends" does not pay much attention to her daughter who walks home because her mother forgot to pick her up from school. After meeting her new neighbor, Elsa finds out about the butterflies and in short annoys Julien for a while. Julien receives a mystery package from a fellow entomologist. Julien sets out on his annual attempt to find a rare species of butterfly that he had once promised his son he would find (son dead) in the French country side, specifically a region known as Vercors. Elsa stows away in his car. After being discovered she convinces him to let her come to Vercors with him. They bond while hiking and camping until Julien, who is initially annoyed by Elsa, near the end of the film seems to have a grandfather-granddaughter relationship with her. Elsa falls in a well. The police arrest Julien. Elsa tells everyone it is cool. Isabelle starts paying attention to her child. Julien and Elsa are friends. The mystery package contained a caterpillar which turned out to become the rare species of butterfly Julien set out to find. The species is called Isabelle. So Elsa finds her mother (Isabelle) and Julien finds the butterfly (Isabelle). Surprisingly happy feel for a french film.8 year old Elsa hiking in the Alps with her neighbor, looking for a butterfly.
- DirectorVenkat KrishnanStarsBasheera BanuGanapathy MurugesanP.T. Arasu KalathilvenrarA nine-year-old girl in rural India, exploited by child labor, must find a way to pursue her dream - how to read and write. She has one last chance when an educated man comes to town.9 year old, living in rural India.
- DirectorJean-Loup FelicioliAlain GagnolStarsDominique BlancBernadette LafontBruno SalomoneIn Paris, a cat who lives a secret life as a cat burglar's aide must come to the rescue of Zoe, the little girl he lives with, after she falls into a gangster's clutches.A little girl in Paris and her cat.
- DirectorBrett WagnerStarsDiane AkoAnaluKalani ApuakehauSemu Fatutoa drives a taxi in Honolulu, Hawaii, slowly forgetting his old life as a tribal Chief in Samoa. Little does he know, his old life is looking for him.A young girl in Hawaii loses her mother and meets a chief.
- DirectorMajid MajidiStarsMohammad Amir NajiAmir Farrokh HashemianBahare SeddiqiAfter a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair.A sister and brother share one pair of shoes.
Iran - DirectorMark MedoffStarsSheryl LeeChristopher McDonaldTom Arnold12 year old Lily Bobbit moves to Medda, Ala, and immediately makes an impression on the residents when she and her friends team up to outsmart a con man, the town is changed forever.12 year old. 1947, summertime in Alabama.
- DirectorClaire DenisStarsIsaach De BankoléGiulia BoschiFrançois CluzetA French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.A young girl in a remote French Colony, Cameroons, West Africa, 1950s.
- DirectorMaruani LandaStarsJuliana BaoA 12-year-old girl suffers mockery because of her big breasts. Her physical changes surpasses her, and she finds herself flooding everything around her.12 year old. Mexico.
- DirectorDeborah PrattStarsRegina TaylorCherry JonesEllen MuthSet in the 1930's Iowa, where the Cora's family live as the community's only African-Americans. and supported only by Cora's being a housekeeper to the Studevants. When tragedy strikes, will Cora's speak the truth...with consequences?Growing up in Iowa with a black housekeeper.
1916-1930s. - DirectorHenry SelickStarsDakota FanningTeri HatcherJohn HodgmanWandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, an 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.An 11 year old girl who's family moves to an old house in remote Oregon. There Coraline discovers an alternated version of her life.
- DirectorCarlos SauraStarsAna TorrentConchita PérezMayte SanchezIn the twilight of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, an 8-year-old orphan and her two sisters find shelter in the house of their stern aunt and try their best to acclimatize to a new reality. Can they summon up the courage to grow up?Sisters in Spain.
- DirectorGunther von FritschRobert WiseStarsSimone SimonKent SmithJane RandolphThe young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father's dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.6 year old living in a dream world in small town America.
- DirectorGene FeldmanStarsPage FeldmanRebecca PageJanet ZarishA young girl's special love for a horse helps them both.12 year old, takes care of horses.
1970s, New Jersey. - CreatorGlenn EichlerSusie LewisStarsTracy GrandstaffWendy HoopesJulian RebolledoA smart and cynical girl goes through teenage life as a proud outsider in a world of mainly idiotic adolescents and condescending adults.Daria, a high school girl coping with the family moving and adjusting to a new school.
- DirectorDavid HemmingsStarsEd Begley Jr.Mimi RogersAri MeyersA troubled girl, sentenced to community service on a ranch, bonds with a horse there. Her folks suggest that she enters the championship, but both she and the horse get seriously injured in a car accident.A young girl adjusts to moving to a new town in Idaho, and starts working in the stables.
- DirectorSimon HeseraStarsMark BurnsBeatie EdneyFiona LewisBernie, a self-destructive alcoholic, is given watch over his niece Winnie. He tests the patience of the various people he knows and Winnie is often left on her own.6 year old at a rainy British seaport with her Uncle.
Filmed in Denmark. - DirectorMarzieh MakhmalbafStarsFatemeh Cherag AkharHassan NebhanShahr Banou SisizadehA film comprised of three interconnected vignettes that depict women at three stages of life in Iran. The first part centers on a young girl on her ninth birthday who is told that she can no longer play with the boys she had been playing with only the day before because she is now a woman. Told from the perspective of a 9-year-old girl who does not feel like or know what the word "woman" refers to, we see how devastatingly this affects both the girl and the boy with whom she had been friends. The second part is about a young woman who decides to enter a bicycle race against her husband's wishes. As first, the husband and then increasing numbers of men from her village ride beside her on horseback to convince her to return home. The race begins to symbolize a freedom that she desperately wants from the limitations that have been placed on her. Finally, the third part shows us an old woman who has come into some money and is now free to do what she wants. The way she chooses to use this freedom, however, makes one wonder just how free she is.8 year old becomes a woman on her 9th birthday. She starts wearing a chadon, and can no longer play with her best friend, who is a boy.
Iran. - DirectorTimothy HuttonStarsEvan Rachel WoodKevin BaconMary Stuart Masterson10 y.o. Harriet's divorced mom owns and runs a motel. Harriet's an outsider and wants to leave. A woman stays there with her adult, disabled son who befriends Harriet.10 year old in North Carolina
- DirectorTroy NixeyStarsKatie HolmesGuy PearceBailee MadisonA young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend believes that she has released creatures from a sealed ash pit in the basement of her new home.10 year old moves into a mansion.
Australia. - DirectorJohn ErmanStarsJulie HarrisJena MaloneTed LevineAfter her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.11 year old trying to find a home.
Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. - DirectorKunal KohliStarsAamir KhanKajolRishi KapoorA sweet blind girl Zooni meets a flirty Rehan. She ignores her friends' warnings. It's her time to discover life. Is she making the right love choice?Girl leaves home and meets someone special.
India - DirectorHenk PretoriusStarsEduan van JaarsveldtZethu Dlomo-MphahleleJerry MofokengThe story of the complications that ensue when an Afrikaans man and Zulu girl fall in love, especially when the traditional custom of "lobola", or dowry, makes things even more difficult for them.A girl in South Africa who speaks Zulu, and her Afrikaner friend.
- DirectorMikael SalomonStarsReese WitherspoonEthan EmbryJack ThompsonWhen a gang of African poachers raid her family's farm, young Nonni, visiting American teenager Harry Winslow and a local bushman guide must escape into the Kalahari desert and reach the nearest town.A teenager who grew up on an African Game Reserve.
Filmed in Zimbabwe and Namibia.
I didn't like this film, and this list is mostly films I like. Unnecessary violence, racism, Hollywood formula destructive. - DirectorJohn WilliamsStarsMahoTsutomu NiwaEtsuko KimataNaomi (Maho Ukai), is a spoiled teenager from Nagoya whose parents send her off to the country for the summer to work at her aunt's inn. After being asked to care for Mrs. Koide (Yoshie Minami), an aging relative with Alzheimer's disease, Naomi developes an extraordinary friendship with the older woman that changes her perspective on life.Young teenager growing up in the city, on summer holiday in rural Japan, befriending an elderly woman.
- DirectorWilliam NicholsonStarsSophie MarceauStephen DillaneDominique BelcourtA governess agrees to bear a child to help her father.1840. English gentleman sheep farmer and his daughter and the governess.
Filmed in Calvados and Firle Place, West Firle, East Sussex. - StarsHayley MillsDavid RobbHolly AirdElspeth (Holly Aird) and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation. This is a time of discovery for Elspeth, as she encounters the incredible beauty and cruelty of nature, and new friendships with Africans and British expatriates. A side plot involves the beautiful and bored British Lettice Palmer (Sharon Maughan), who enters into an affair with a handsome safari guide. Eventually, however, the excitement of Elspeth's life is disrupted by the on-set of World War I, and the changes it brings.Growing up in Kenya, before WWI.
- DirectorCarroll BallardStarsJeff DanielsAnna PaquinDana DelanyA father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.13 year old rescues some goose eggs found in the woods.
Canada. - DirectorRené ClémentStarsGeorges PoujoulyBrigitte FosseyAmédéeA young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.A 6 year old alone after her parents are killed during WWII, befriended by a boy in a rural France farming community.
- DirectorEla ThierStarsNoa RotsteinDalena LeGuy SageeFrom different worlds, Ellie and Thuy form a powerful bond that helps Ellie cope with the hardships of adjusting to her new life in the states.A 12 year old moves with her parent's from Israel to the US, and makes friends with a girl from Vietnam who came to the US two years before.
- DirectorKiriô UrayamaStarsSayuri YoshinagaMitsuo HamadaEijirô TônoSet in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, the movie chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families; and one girl's dreams of self-improvement through going on to higher education.15 year old, 1962 Kawaguchi, outside Tokyo, Japan. Daughter of poor foundry worker.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsMaxine McNairWalter CronkiteChris McNairA documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.4 girls go to their Baptist church early for choir practice. The church is bombed while they are inside, 1963.
Addie Mae Collins, 14
Carole Robertson, 14
Cynthia Wesley, 14
Denise McNair, 11.
Birmingham, Alabama - DirectorDaniel GellerDayna GoldfineStarsCate BlanchettSebastian KochThomas KretschmannAbout a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1930s.Women interviewed who grew up on the Galapagos islands, 1930s on.
- DirectorGregg ChampionStarsRegina KingImani HakimSydney MikaylaThe story of the international gymnastics phenomenon who overcame overwhelming odds to become the first African American ever to be named Individual All-Around Champion in artistic gymnastics at the Olympic Games.First African American with Olympic excellence, gymnastics.
- DirectorAndrea MolaioliStarsToni ServilloDenis FasoloNello MasciaThe body of a young woman is found in a small and quiet town in North Italy. A detective from the nearby main city is called to solve the mystery.A girl in Northern Italy.
Filmed in Friuli-Venezia Guilia area, Italy. - DirectorAna Lily AmirpourStarsSheila VandArash MarandiMarshall ManeshIn the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.A girl at night.
Filmed in Taft, California - DirectorFrédéric FonteyneStarsEmmanuelle DevosClovis CornillacLaura SmetGilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in silence. She listens to her husband rave; she asks her priest; she breaks picture frames; she weeps. She decides on a strategy to keep him. Will she succeed?Young twins in rural France, 1930s.
- DirectorArne JohnsonShane KingA documentary about four girls who transform their lives at the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls.Girls 7-18 years old at a week long rock and roll summer camp in Oregon. The girls have a week to form a band, write a song, learn an instrument, and perform.
Oregon. - DirectorGeorge MillerStarsLouis Gossett Jr.Chris SarandonChantal ContouriThis movie is the inspiring true-life drama of seventeen-year-old Niki Janus. After fleeing persecution in Greece, Niki and her family immigrate to West Virginia and begin living the American Dream. Among their friends is Big John Creed, a wise and helpful handyman. But Niki's friendship with him and her belief in freedom unwittingly bring the wrath of the Ku Klux Klan to her doorstep. Full of courage and passion, Niki challenges the powerful Klan and, at the same time, must overcome her own fears to help the townspeople survive a horrible flu epidemic.17 year old, Immigrating from Greece to West Virginia, 1916.
Filmed in Tennessee. - DirectorFrancis MankiewiczStarsCharlotte LaurierMarie TifoGermain HoudeA woman is overwhelmed with having to deal with her emotionally unstable daughter, mentally-challenged brother and two suitors while simultaneously trying to run her small firewood business.Also known as "Good Riddance".
A 13 year old in a Quebec mountain village. - StarsGerardo MurguíaLaura FloresPilar MontenegroA six-year-old escapes from an orphanage in search of her father.Mexico, a 6 year old leaves an orphanage.
- DirectorJean-Loup HubertStarsAnémoneRichard BohringerAntoine HubertLouis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year-old girl next door, and learns from her about life.10 year old in rural French village. Filmed in Rouans, Loire-Atlantique, France.
- DirectorIsao TakahataStarsTsutomu TatsumiAyano ShiraishiAkemi YamaguchiA young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.Japan, a boy takes care of his little sister.
- CreatorDavid JacobsRobert PorterStarsLee HorsleyJenny BeckMatthew NewmarkIn 1890 in the town of Paradise, a professional gunfighter is forced to take custody of his sister's four children and retire to a farm and a quiet life. Nevertheless, he is often called upon by residents to defend them from lawlessness.4 siblings being raised by their uncle in the old west.
- DirectorLee Su-jinStarsChun Woo-heeJung In-sunKim So-youngHan Gong-Ju transfers to a new school to escape her past. It takes a long time for her troubled past to catch up with her but when it does, the revelation is devastating.High school girl.
South Korea. - DirectorJohn PaulStarsAnna RussellMildred DunnockFrank RogierAn "electronic puppet" version of the Humperdinck opera, adapted for children and using spoken dialogue as well as Humperdinck's music.
- DirectorAkihiko ShiotaStarsAoi MiyazakiSeiichi TanabeTetsu SawakiFollowing the divorce of her parents, her mother's suicide attempt, and the rumors of an affair with her teacher, a lonely 7th grader starts skipping school in an attempt to find herself.A 13 year old Japanese schoolgirl.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsMelanie LynskeyKate WinsletSarah PeirseTwo teenage girls share a unique bond; their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.Teenage girlfriends creating a powerful alternate world for themselves.
1950s New Zealand. - DirectorMona AchacheStarsJosiane BalaskoGarance Le GuillermicTogo IgawaThe life of a determined young girl is changed when she befriends her building's concierge, a solitary woman who is more than what she seems.11 year old and her Paris apartment building neighbors.
- DirectorGillies MacKinnonStarsKate WinsletBella RizaSaïd TaghmaouiUnsatisfied with her life in England, young mother Julia relocates to Morocco with her small daughters, Lucy and Bea. Although the family enjoys various adventures, they struggle to make ends meet.A mother and her two daughters in Morocco, early 1970s