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Other great kids movies?

posted 18 years ago by LuciaJoyce
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What other movies like "Nobody Knows" can you name, that are focussed primarily (or exclusively) on kids, that have stories and actors of such similarly great quality? I can only think of maybe four or five, and only one of those has a cast that's primarily of kids (see below):

Jeux Interdits (Forbidden Games)
Les Quatre-Cents Coups (The 400 Blows)
Ponnette
E.T.
Lilya 4-ever

...and that's it!

I would include Disney movies, like Return To Witch Mountain and The Cat From Outer Space, and maybe Truffaut's L'argent de poche, except that I haven't seen those movies since I was like two years old, and I don't know if they'll hold up still. =)

Can you name any others?

[–] mnoe 12 years ago

I think people who like Nobody Knows and Turtles Can Fly would also like A Time for Drunken Horses (Zamani baraye' masti asbha). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259072/

I remember seeing it in one of Martin Scorsese's recommendation lists somewhere, and he went on to produce in case that helps persuade you to see it.

I guess Scorsese's putting his influence behind the filmmaker, too. I couldn't find that list I'd seen, but this news item came up while I was searching online. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/busan-2012-martin-scorsese-retea ms-376875

last 2 dvds: Ten (2002) & La ragazza che sapeva troppo (1963)