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Films, the heroes of which are children, will be interesting to watch not only in childhood, but also in adults. Many of them reveal the psychology of the child, the main motives of their actions. Most of these films awaken warm feelings in the soul, a desire to take care of. They are recommended for viewing by the whole 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, based on the work of the same name by Charles Dickens.
The main character of the film is a boy named Oliver Twist, he is an orphan who grew up in an orphanage. One day he gets tired of this way of life and mockery from the guards and runs away from there.
Once in London, the boy falls into a bad company of thieves who begin to teach him their craft. But Oliver could not steal anything when he went on another sortie with his comrades.
Mr. Brownlow caught the boy, but did not hand him over to the police, but took him to his home. The misadventures of Oliver Twist do not end there, but the denouement of the film is successful, the boy remains to live with his benefactor.
9. Full Moon Kingdom | 2012
The film was released in 2012. The film is set in the 60s. last century.
The main characters are two teenagers – the boy Sam and the girl Susie. Sam has a complex character, which is why he is an outcast among his peers. Susie is very withdrawn, perhaps because her family is in trouble.
Children run away from home in search of a place where they can be happy. Boy scouts and local police are sent to search for them.
The scout troop, which Sam once belonged to, finds teenagers. A fight breaks out between them, during which Susie injures one of the attackers. Having found the children, the adults decided to send the boy to a boarding school and forbid him to communicate with Sue.
But the scouts reconsidered 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 prevents them from being friends with Susie.
8. Puzzle | 2015
The cartoon was filmed by Pixar in 2015. The main character’s name is Riley and she is 11 years old. The behavior of the girl is made up of five basic emotions (joy, fear, sadness, disgust and anger), they live in her mind and help to solve various problems.
But everything changes when the Riley family makes the move. Emotions come into conflict with each other, confusion is going on in the girl’s head. They will have to learn how to work together so that Riley can return to her normal life.
7. Adventures Korazhki | 2009
The film was released in 2009. The main character of this children’s comedy film is a boy named Baby.
His family moved to the countryside. The child has not yet found friends here, and a snag that looks like a little man becomes his friend. They meet when the boy’s father is cutting down a tree. The kid tells his parents about it, but they do not believe him.
6. Childhood | 2014
The film-drama was filmed for 11 years from 2002 to 2013. The film was released in 2014. The plot of the picture revolves 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 stays with his mother. He likes Star Wars, Harry Potter, he is fond of music. Throughout the film, the viewer can watch how Mason grows up, tastes booze, smokes weed, begins to get involved in girls.
The motion picture ends with a walk, a young man who entered college with his new acquaintance. Young people walk through the park and talk about being and its transience.
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, and filmmakers from different countries showed interest in the plot.
The 2011 film adaptation tells the viewer about the adventures of two hooligan boys named Tom and Huck.
They spend most of their time stealing neighbors’ apples, playing pirates, and playing pranks on adults. But one day the guys get into something more serious, as they are witnesses of the crime, walking around the cemetery at night.
4. August Rush 2007
The film was shown to the audience in 2007. Its plot was based on the story of 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, he hears music everywhere. This is not surprising, since his parents were musicians. After escaping from an orphanage, 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 did not die in childbirth, as she was told in the hospital, immediately goes to look for him. Despite the ups and downs in the way of the main characters, the end of the film looks happy, and Evan’s family is reunited.
3. Book Thief | 2013
The film premiered in 2013. The main character, a girl named Liesel Meminger, ends up with foster parents who live in Munich. In the same city, she begins to attend a school with a program that is difficult for her to cope with.
Then her love of books and reading wakes up, so she is struck by the Nazi book-burning ritual that originated during World War II.
The girl began to steal books, trying to understand from them why the war began, the persecution of Jews, the fascists and similar things from the world of adults appeared.
2. Choristers | 2004
The film was released in 2004. Its plot takes place in 1949 in France in one of the orphanages.
One day, a music teacher named Clément Mathieu comes to work at this orphanage, he is amazed by the angry teenagers and the methods of working with them by other teachers.
To correct this atmosphere in the orphanage, he creates a choir, although the director of the institution is against it. Many boys discover a talent in themselves. But the teacher has to quit, one of the pupils leaves with him.
1. Dead Poets Society | 1989
The film was released in 1989. The plot tells about several teenagers studying at a prestigious school.
They end up on a lesson with a teacher named John Keating, whose methods of working with children are very different from those of other teachers. He managed to awaken in schoolchildren an interest and love for poetry. 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 begin to accuse him of putting masterful thoughts in the young man’s head and thereby pushing him to suicide.
John Keating has to quit, many children are upset by this and see him off standing and reading his favorite poem “Oh, captain, my captain!”.