Constant Wegman (Benja Bruijning), a 14 year old boy, raised by his grandmother (Carry Tefsen) in Zeedijk, Amsterdam. She is the owner of a cafe-hotel “De Rode Laars” (“The Red Boots”). The dreaming Constant runs away from this world of drunkards, gamblers, fighters by writing poems. His grandmother wants him to take control of the cafe. Then Constant secretly subscribes to a national poem writing competition: a new Vondel is born!

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his...

After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although...

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the ...

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is live...

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four Oregon...

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old F...

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...

Matti and Niila, growing up in the mid-sixties in the harsh and conservative environment of a Finnis...

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery o...

A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a bru...

In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...

On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wa...

Eleven-year-old Monica Shah is a brainy schoolgirl whose science fair project about growing raspberr...

Four best friends (Tibby, Lena, Carmen & Bridget) who buy a mysterious pair of pants that fits e...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Ma...

The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student R...

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writ...