Tag: childhood
Potato Dreams of America 2021 | Boys in movies [BiM]
Potato Dreams of America (2021) – Potato Dreams of America 2021 – 1h 35 min. | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 16 March 2021 (USA) Storyline: An autobiographical dark comedy about a gay boy growing up in the Soviet Union, his mail-order bride mother and their adventurous escape to America. User… Continue reading
Los Olvidados 1950 | Boys in movies [BiM]
Los Olvidados (1950) – Los Olvidados 1950 – 1h 20 min. | Crime, Drama | 9 November 1950 (Mexico) Storyline: Hell-bent on revenge, cocky reform-school runaway El Jaibo returns to his old neighborhood in post-World-War-II Mexico City’s poor and squalid slums, to reunite with his faithful gang of juvenile delinquents… Continue reading
Kill the Day 2000 | Boys in movies [BiM]
Kill the Day (2000) – Kill the Day 2000 – 19 min. | Short, Drama | 7 October 2000 (Hungary) Storyline: Life through the eyes of an addict. Continue reading
The Plane 2005 | Boys in movies [BiM]
The Plane (2005) – The Plane 2005 – L’avion (original title) – 1h 40 min. | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 20 July 2005 (France) Storyline: Charlie is waiting for his Christmas gift, a new bicycle. Instead his father gives him a small toy-aeroplane which he had constructed. After his death… Continue reading
A Wake 2019 | Boys in movies [BiM]
A Wake (2019) – A Wake 2019 – 1h 37 min. | Drama | 31 August 2021 (USA) Storyline: The children in a religious family clash with their parents as they prepare for the wake of their brother, Mitchel. Teenage Mason desperately tries to reach his lost identical twin through… Continue reading
La Jaula 2018 | Boys in movies [BiM]
La Jaula (2018) – La Jaula 2018 – 1h 16 min. | Drama | 19 October 2018 (Mexico) Storyline: Facing an emotional crisis, Gerardo decides to escape to the mountains. There, he develops an obsession with hunting a rabbit. Plagued by failure, he is haunted by childhood memories, which cause… Continue reading
The Search 1948 | Boys in movies [BiM]
The Search (1948) – The Search 1948 – 1h 44 min. | Drama, War | 26 March 1948 (USA) Storyline: A silent nine-year-old Czech boy, a survivor of Auschwitz, flees a refugee center in postwar Germany and is found by an American G.I. At the same time, the boy’s mother,… Continue reading
Hadashi no Gen 2007 | Boys in movies [BiM]
Hadashi no Gen (2007) – Hadashi no Gen 2007 – 1h 35 min. | Biography, Drama, History | 10 August 2007 (Japan) Storyline: The trials and travails of the Nakaoka family as they endure the horrific atom bomb of Hiroshima. Review: Hadashi no Gen is a Japanese television special drama…. Continue reading
The Gate of Youth 1981 | Boys in movies [BiM]
The Gate of Youth (1981) – The Gate of Youth 1981 – Seishun no mon (original title) 2h 25 min. | Drama | 15 January 1981 (Japan) Storyline: The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Continue reading