À la mort de son grand-père, Jacob découvre l'existence d'un monde mystérieux. Plusieurs indices le mènent dans ce lieu magique : la Maison de Miss Peregrine pour Enfants Particuliers. Mais le mystère et le danger s'amplifient quand il apprend à connaître les résidents, leurs étranges pouvoirs... et leurs puissants ennemis. Finalement, Jacob découvre que seule sa propre « particularité » peut sauver ses nouveaux amis.
En 1966, dans la petite ville de Tulsa en Oklahoma. Ponyboy, Sodapop et Darrel appartiennent à la bande des Greasers, des jeunes délinquants issus des quartiers défavorisés. Leurs rivaux sont les Socs, des fils de bourgeois. Suite à une bagarre violente, Ponyboy et Johnny tentent d'échapper à la police.
Au XIXème siècle, en Angleterre, Oliver Twist, un orphelin de 9 ans, est chassé de son hospice pour avoir demandé une ration supplémentaire de gruau. Pris comme apprenti par un croque-mort, le gamin est cependant maltraité et décide de s'enfuir. Arrivant à Londres après une longue marche à pied, Oliver rencontre Artful Dodger, un jeune voleur à la tire qui travaille pour le compte du hideux Fagin. Ce dernier ne tarde pas à prendre l'orphelin sous sa coupe, l'entraînant à voler les bourgeois dans la rue. C'est ainsi qu'Oliver tombe sur M. Brownlow, un vieil homme riche qui décide de le recueillir. Aussitôt, le fourbe Bill Sikes, un associé de Fagin, s'arrange pour enlever le garçon. Mais la maîtresse de Bill, la jeune Nancy, révèle à Brownlow où Oliver est retenu captif.
Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the meantime, Francoise is picked up at a psychic department of a Berlin hospital by her husband, Pierre. After seeing Nina, Francoise believes that she has found her kidnapped daughter Marie, but neither Toni nor Pierre believe her. Nina is unsure about what to think...
Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow her struggle to cope with the system; her only saving being her self-belief and certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit.
Abandonnés à la naissance, Joseph et Chloé fuguent sans arrêt pour retrouver leur maison. Chloé ne parle pas et dessine toujours une maison jaune aux volets bleus. Joseph ne veut pas être séparé de sa sœur qui peut, croit-il, retrouver leur maison.Un superbe voyage dans le monde de l'enfance égarée avec des adultes qui cherchent mais ne trouvent pas de solutions.
Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.
Dans une institution spécialisée, une professeur de musique, en désaccord avec les méthodes du médecin, s'attache à un enfant attardé mental.
Eleven-year-old petty criminal Maroa lives with her violent grandmother Brigida in Caracas. After her boyfriend Carlos is involved in a shooting, Maroa is arrested and sent to a school where Joaquin conducts the youth orchestra, and he asks the naturally talented Maroa to join. Days now revolve around the classes that Joaquin, the shy and unconventional teacher, gives her. He is immediately interested in this talented young girl, who lacks all notion of discipline. Joaquin, the only person to offer hope in the midst of her rejection, finds that through Maroa, his world has also changed forever.
THE EXPERIMENT is the story of the nurse Gert, who is appointed as headmistress of a special children's home, owned by the Danish state in Greenland, 1951. The children's home is intended to accommodate 16 carefully selected Greenlandic children, who have just come home after a year of civilization in Denmark. Now they are to be introduced into the Greenlandic community as role models. Gert, who lives alone and has no family, accepts the assignment with pride. She is idealistic and ambitious and feels passionate about saving Greenland from destitution. The means to this end is to educate and civilize the 16 children in the Danish language and culture, so they can spearhead Greenland's transformation from being a poor hunter society to being an equal part of Denmark. Due to her blind faith in the experiment, Gert underestimates the obvious personal costs to the children. And when the children as well as the Danish state fail her...
Inspirée de faits réels, alors qu'elle visite un foyer pour enfants, une petite fille rencontre Joseph, un garçon dont le seul rêve est d'avoir un parapluie jaune. Cette rencontre inattendue réveille ses souvenirs du passé.
"The Children of the Third Reich" - College freshman Kari Berman and her twin brother Kyle are young, healthy, brilliant, and attractive. To genetic researcher Dr. Martin Speer they're breeding stock, part of his scheme to make create superior humans through modern genetics.
When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon shipped him off to one of the toughest youth welfare institutions in Freistatt. This was followed by a career as a bouncer in the city's most notorious music club and an attempt to start a family. Today, the 77-year-old from Bielefeld lives with his dog Lucky in a lonely house in the country. Despite adverse living conditions, he has survived in his own unique and inimitable way.
13 year-old David and nine year-old Danni live in a children's home, where despite the best of adult intentions, there is conflict and sudden tragedy. When the pair escape the home, they embark upon a daring adventure in search of the beach.
13 years after Bella, Martin and Lee were there, the manager of their children's home is retiring and the home being shutdown. As they meet up together at a reunion/retirement celebration it sparks old memories of their time together at the home.
Christine is a young farm worker in a small village in post-war Germany. Her attempts to improve her situation through further education are hampered by frequent pregnancies arising from ill-fated relationships.
The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she provides poignant commentary about her mother, her own situation and her outlook for the future.
Reform school teacher tries to carry his class to the right path by teaching them diving.
A child's play turns out to be a nightmare when they set out to challenge an urban legend.
A glimpse of life as seen through young people at a Zimbabwean children's home.