Tasio (1984)

Tino Ponce operates Circo Mexico, which journeys across the Mexican countryside in search of paying customers. Wanting to please his father and continue the family business, Ponce has recruited his young children as performers while laboring night and day to maintain the circus's faltering financial fortunes. But a growing resentment brewing within his wife about their hardscrabble existence suggests troubles on the horizon. While documenting the brutal regimen of circus life, Circo also peels back the curtain on the Ponce family's inner dynamics, revealing generational divides and money worries that threaten to tear apart a marriage. Buttressed by indie-rock band Calexico's evocative score, Schock's film observes this family drama with a sympathetic but clear-eyed view of a vanishing way of life. And because Circo refuses to be sentimental in its handling of the material, the story's twists become all the more poignant

A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.

Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.

A divorced policeman loses custody of his young son, only to kidnap his boy and retreat to a remote cottage, where his plan soon turns into a nightmare.

The life of a spanish couple gets complicated when the Civil War begins and a strange green light appears in the woods, opening the door to the world of the Bream Lords.

A portrait of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of Mexico City's Periferico freeway.

Living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a young man is preparing to become a bus conductor. One day, in between wandering the city streets, and going to the movies, he makes the acquaintance of a female student.

Homeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless gangsters in this somber drama. The kids survive by shining shoes, stealing, and cutting the strings of the kites to sell them later to others. Tired of life on the streets, one boy turns himself over to the police in hopes he will be sent to reform school in a last desperate attempt to survive. This feature from acclaimed Swedish director Arne Sucksdorff appeared at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival.

During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old Republican exile, returns to his home in the Castilian village of Trescabañas and befriends Aurora, a young and very attractive teacher, with whom Juan, one of her teenage students, falls in love.

Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.

A Chilean family deals with the new values in a quickly changing world.

An upper grade school class with its inter-relations, scheming and sniffing around for the scent of adult pleasures, all caught in near-cinema verité style.

1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal decrepitude of a dying class is reflected in the social interactions and hypocrisy of its members, only world weary Sir Randolph seems to realise that the sun is setting.

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? And how far should he go with his girl friend, who happens to be the murderer's daughter?

A boy, as seen through three ages and episodes of his life: as a small boy having a boy cousin as his house guest, as a high-school boy in abject love, and as a young stud trying to bed down a nurse.

In rural Russia, children convicted of theft, murder and rape are sent to a home for delinquents. Without the outside world's pressures, they're finally allowed to act as children, but for some of them, this new life proves to be a challenge. This documentary tells the stories of several of these adolescents, who must endure separation from their families and who, upon release, are unlikely to be forgiven for their crimes.

The fictional town of Villa Romero is the set upon which the events of Spain's civil war play out. Villa Romero is home to Vandale (Mariangela Melato) a witch, count Cerralbo (Bento Urago) a powerless land baron, and his four sons. Three of Cerralbo's sons are ruthless sadists who pillage the countryside, but the fourth, Goya (Ron Faber), is an artist challenging authority and the church.

Шунка Вакан, бывший лорд Джон, помогает своему сыну Дакоте защищать свое племя от золотоискателей.

Действие картины разворачивается на неведомом острове, где местные жители живут идиллической жизнью. В то время как все мужчины деревни находятся в море, с гор спускается группа чужаков (пастухов), и юный пастушок пленяется красотой местной девушки. Не зная, как привлечь её внимание, он приносит ей свою добычу — мёртвого пеликана. Девушка заинтригована, но не уверена в чувствах мальчика. Случайно дети становятся свидетелями запретных любовных игр более старшей пары. Тем временем и за юными героями наблюдает мальчик постарше, грубо вмешиваясь в ход событий, что приводит к драматической развязке.

Жульен готовится вступить во взрослую жизнь, но любящая мать зорко следит затем, чтобы этого не произошло. Она даже готова поиграть с сыном в футбол, только чтобы он не делал этого с друзьями. С родной бабушкой внуку видеться тоже нежелательно – ведь она может подарить ему уродливую рубашку или свитер не той расцветки. Папа усиленно профессорствует в университете, сестра хоть и понимает больше других,скоро уедет в колледж. Просвета никакого. На свою беду Жульен обзаводится подружкой и даже бреется ради нее первый раз в жизни.Узнав, что бритву дала все та же бабушка, мама ненадолго лишается дара речи. А когда выясняется, что сын вместо тренировок бегает на свидания,ее ярость взмывает до небес. Сын робко пытается бунтовать, но только распаляет материнскую страсть.