Boy of the Streets (1938)

Sobrevivente do Holocausto e dona de uma creche caseira, ela abre suas portas para o garoto muçulmano que a roubou na rua.

Nova York, anos 70. Era o tempo dos Jackson 5, da família Dó-Ré-Mi e do Black Power. Neste cenário musical efervescente, Spike Lee nos traz a vibrante história da professora Carolyn Carmichael (Alfre Woodard), uma mãe carinhosa e preocupada, seu marido Woody (Delroy Lindo), músico de Jazz, e seus cinco filhos vivendo no agitado bairro do Brooklyn. Quando Woody, que já foi bem sucedido com a música, perde seu emprego uma crise começa a envolver sua família e seu casamento. E agora todos terão de confiar uns nos outros - e também no senso de humor de cada um - para enfrentar as grandes alegrias e inevitáveis tristezas do dia-dia.

O filme retrata um dos episódios mais marcantes da violência urbana brasileira: o sequestro do ônibus da linha 174, que culminou nas mortes de uma refém e do sequestrador.

Sherry viaja pela Europa enquanto procura por um lugar onde finalmente se sinta a vontade. Nessa viagem, ela encontra um grupo de jovens que parecem ter os mesmos objetivos que ela e é com eles que ela passa a conviver nessa busca por um sentido para sua vida.

Um respeitado psicólogo infantil tem sua vida virada de cabeça para baixo quando é acusado de molestar um garoto sob seus cuidados.

Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?

O filme conta a história de Kimball O´Hara - Kim -, um jovem órfão, nascido e educado na Índia, quando essa ainda era uma colônia britânica. Vagando pelas ruas de Lahore, encontra um velho lama (sacerdote) tibetano, a quem passa a seguir como chela (discípulo). Num ambiente ora hostil, ora sedutor, Kim o "amiguinho de todo mundo", vê-se envolvido em empolgantes aventuras. Carrega dentro de si os contrates da cultura ocidental e da oriental. Repleto de provérbios orientais, o romance apresenta um quadro detalhado da vida na Índia.

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

Karesz has been raised in an institution, his mother has a new family, and her husband does not tolerate that she meets her first-born son. Karesz tramps, joining up with his casual pals he washes the windscreens of cars, sells newspapers; sometimes they steal, or break into houses if hired.

Vinte cinco anos depois do polêmico filme Christiene F., o mesmo roteirista, Kai Herman, assina essa produção que segue um linha parecida e se passa no cenário underground da Alemanha dos dias de hoje, habitada por punks e drogados. O filme foca a ação em um jovem punk que está sempre com problemas com drogas. Certo dia ele conhece uma garota que tem vários problemas familiares. Ela decide sair de casa e viver nas ruas ao lado de seu jovem amigo. A relação entre os dois vai ganhando importância e a sobrevivência vai se tornando cada vez mais difícil já que é marcada por brigas, traições, tragédias e diversos excessos. Em meio a todos essas dificuldades, nasce uma criança que vai modificar para sempre o futuro desses dois jovens.

BIRD IN THE SKY is a gritty, poetic tale of a young man’s spiritual struggle on the streets of New York City. Rob has been given a second chance to right the wrongs of his street-wise past; he must perform a miracle to be saved. His fate lies in his love for a young woman, Kay, who is coping with the loss of her child.

Four lads find themselves in a situation where they have to take on a powerful man (and his innumerable henchmen) to reclaim their identity.

Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.

For the summer, troublemaker Freddie Egan is being sent to a camp-style juvenile detention center, while spoiled rich-kid Frederick Egan III is going to a luxurious getaway for kids of the elite. Until a name mix-up at the bus-boarding area sends the boys to each other's destinations, and while Eddie gets a taste of the good life, Frederick has to deal with being without all his usual comforts. Eventually, they both learn some valuable life-lessons.

A case of juvenile violence called "Horrible Tortures" shocks the city. The highest sentencing is life in prison. However, one of the most important criminal in the case, Beep, is only sentenced to seven-year imprisonment. The verdict has the other story behind.

Grace is a homeless teenager. She befriends an unemployed carpenter and he invites her to share his flat. She moves in and to her surprise a delicate relationship develops. He helps her repair her shattered self-esteem and she begins to feel loved and secure. But then she discovers his secret - he tells her he is Jesus Christ.

Dambarey is a street kid, who in a dendrite induced trance, turns invincible to outfox Kathmandu with his gang of five. Little does he know that his altered mind is playing wicked tricks to lead him and his friends to a place of no return.

According to the story, the heroes of the backyard are "Impression from the moment when a child realizes that childhood is transient". The scriptwriters combined episodes in the film on Merima's two works and placed events in an unspecified town after the wars. Costumes and sculptures refer to the wooden houses of the 1940s and 1950s. The venues included Suomenlinna and the Ruiskumestari House in Helsinki Kruununhaa. The backyard heroes were filmed for 16mm film originally as a television movie , but also taken to theatrical release.