RECOMMENDED FILMS ABOUT CHILDREN

By: Kenji

Aniki Bobo (Portuguese classic, 1942)

Spirit of the Beehive

Missing from this site:

Eldra (Lyn)
Heroine (Guy-Blaché)
Sredni Vashtar (Birkin)
The Kid and the Kite (Foroughi)

I’m really looking forward to seeing Scorsese’s Hugo.

Kes

• 01
  Alice in the Cities
  Wim Wenders
• 02
  The Mirror
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 03
  The Spirit of the Beehive
  Víctor Erice
• 04
  Pather Panchali
  Satyajit Ray
• 05
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 06
  My Childhood
  Bill Douglas
• 07
  Aniki Bóbó
  Manoel de Oliveira
• 08
  Hugo
  Martin Scorsese
• 09
  Berta's Motives
  José Luis Guerín
• 10
  My Neighbor Totoro
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 11
  The White Balloon
  Jafar Panahi
• 12
  The South
  Víctor Erice
• 13
  Tale of Tales
  Yuriy Norshteyn
• 14
  Blood
  Pedro Costa
• 15
  Cría cuervos...
  Carlos Saura
• 16
  Innocence
  Lucile Hadzihalilovic
• 17
  Au revoir les enfants
  Louis Malle
• 18
  The 400 Blows
  François Truffaut
• 19
  Times and Winds
  Reha Erdem
• 20
  Bashu, the Little Stranger
  Bahram Beizai
• 21
  L'enfance nue
  Maurice Pialat
• 22
  Mädchen in Uniform
  Leontine Sagan
• 23
  White Mane
  Albert Lamorisse
• 24
  Landscape in the Mist
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 25
  The Return
  Andrei Zvyagintsev
• 26
  Mouchette
  Robert Bresson
• 27
  Kes
  Ken Loach
• 28
  Ivan's Childhood
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 29
  Come and See
  Elem Klimov
• 30
  Paper Moon
  Peter Bogdanovich
• 31
  Fanny and Alexander — The Theatrical Version
  Ingmar Bergman
• 32
  Eternity and a Day
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 33
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 34
  Freeze, Die, Come to Life
  Vitali Kanevsky
• 35
  Central Station
  Walter Salles
• 36
  Ponette
  Jacques Doillon
• 37
  The Apple
  Samira Makhmalbaf
• 38
  Where Is the Friend's Home?
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 39
  Ma vie en rose
  Alain Berliner
• 40
  My Life as a Dog
  Lasse Hallström
• 41
  Good Morning
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 42
  Heavenly Creatures
  Peter Jackson
• 43
  The Kid
  Charlie Chaplin
• 44
  Stars in My Crown
  Jacques Tourneur
• 45
  Murmur of the Heart
  Louis Malle
• 46
  Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
  Jaromil Jireš
• 47
  Show Me Love
  Lukas Moodysson
• 48
  Grave of the Fireflies
  Isao Takahata
• 49
  The Fallen Idol
  Carol Reed
• 50
  The Ritual
  Girish Kasaravalli
• 51
  XXY
  Lucía Puenzo
• 52
  Fish Tank
  Andrea Arnold
• 53
  Pixote, the Law of the Weakest
  Héctor Babenco
• 54
  A Tale of Two Sisters
  Kim Ji-woon
• 55
  The Young One
  Luis Buñuel
• 56
  The River
  Jean Renoir
• 57
  Celia
  Ann Turner
• 58
  Oliver Twist
  David Lean
• 59
  Forbidden Games
  René Clément
• 60
  Broken Wings
  Nir Bergman
• 61
  Kikujiro
  Takeshi Kitano
• 62
  The Wizard of Oz
  Victor Fleming
• 63
  A Christmas Story
  Bob Clark
• 64
  The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun
  Djibril Diop Mambéty
• 65
  Machuca
  Andrés Wood
• 66
  The Color of Paradise
  Majid Majidi
• 67
  The Secret of Roan Inish
  John Sayles
• 68
  A Summer at Grandpa's
  Hou Hsiao-hsien
• 69
  Nobody Knows
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 70
  The Thief
  Pavel Chukhraj
• 71
  Children of Heaven
  Majid Majidi
• 72
  Toto le héros
  Jaco van Dormael
• 73
  Coraline
  Henry Selick
• 74
  When Father Was Away on Business
  Emir Kusturica
• 75
  Los olvidados
  Luis Buñuel
• 76
  The Cement Garden
  Andrew Birkin
• 77
  The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
  Mark Donskoy
• 78
  Children in the Wind
  Hiroshi Shimizu
• 79
  My Ain Folk
  Bill Douglas
• 80
  Zazie dans le métro
  Louis Malle
• 81
  The White Dove
  František Vláčil
• 82
  The Holy Girl
  Lucrecia Martel
• 83
  A Little Princess
  Alfonso Cuarón
• 84
  Not One Less
  Zhang Yimou
• 85
  The Curse of the Cat People
  Robert Wise
• 86
  No One Will Play With Me
  Werner Herzog
• 87
  James and the Giant Peach
  Henry Selick
• 88
  Flirting
  John Duigan
• 89
  Her Children
  Hysen Hakani
• 90
  Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
  Hana Makhmalbaf
• 91
  The Bridge
  Bernhard Wicki
• 92
  The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey
  Vincent Ward
• 93
  I Was Born, But...
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 94
  Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
  Emir Kusturica
• 95
  Walkabout
  Nicolas Roeg
• 96
  Whisper of the Heart
  Yoshifumi Kondô
• 97
  Adoption
  Márta Mészáros
• 98
  The Railway Children
  Lionel Jeffries
• 99
  Whistle Down the Wind
  Bryan Forbes
• 100
  The Land Beyond the Sunset
  Harold M. Shaw
• 101
  July
  Darezhan Omirbaev
• 102
  The Brickmakers
  Marta Rodríguez
• 103
  The Blind Child
  Johan van der Keuken
• 104
  Ten Minutes Older
  Herz Frank
• 105
  Kara: Daughter of the Tree
  Edwin
• 106
  The Biggest Flower in the World
  Juan Pablo Etcheverry
• 107
  West Beirut
  Ziad Doueiri
• 108
  Submarine
  Richard Ayoade
• 109
  Treeless Mountain
  So Yong Kim
• 110
  Rekava
  Lester James Peries
• 111
  The Tree of Life
  Terrence Malick
• 112
  A Separation
  Asghar Farhadi
• 113
  Sundays and Cybele
  Serge Bourguignon