As the saying goes, happy people mostly have similar lives, and unfortunate people suffer differently. The 8 movies I recommend below are about orphanages, correctional homes, boarding schools... and other stories of unfortunate children. For most people, life is like an adventure, you have to go through the bittersweet and bittersweet, meet the good and the evil, in order to get to where you want to go. And these children in the movie experienced all this prematurely because they did not have a good family, and the cold, heartless, cruel, and insensitive adults made people shudder.
I hope that if you have seen these movies, if you are in happiness, you will be more grateful for life, if you are in misfortune, you will try harder to change everything.
NO.8 Correctional Institutions
IMDB score: 7.1/10
【Douban score】8.4/10
【One Sentence Film Review】
There are too many hateful people in the movie to hate.
【Title】 Freistatt
【Year】 2015
【Country】 Germany
【Category】 Plot
【Language】 German
【Length】 104 Mins
[Director] Mark Brammund
[Starring] Louis Hoffman
【Introduction】
In 1968, Germany as a whole was entering a new era of freedom. Wolfgang, a rebellious 14-year-old boy, was sent to Freistadt, a shelter dedicated to the children in question. This school, which is named after the Catholic Church, is actually like a juvenile prison place, what kind of life awaits him? Based on a true story, the film tells the story of how a young boy rebels in a repressive society and saves his last bit of dignity.
NO.7 King of Alcatraz
【IMDB score】7.5/10
Douban score: 7.4/10
It's a relatively light-hearted movie where kids pull back a round.
【片名】 King of Devil’s island
【Year】 2010
【Country】 Norway
【Language】 Norwegian
【Length】 116 Mins
[Director] Maris Horst
[Starring] Benjamin Herstad
In the early 20th century, on a small island called Bastoy near the Oslo Fjord in Norway, a group of boys aged 11 to 18 lived, who were not the aborigines here, but the criminals who served their sentences here. Under the rule of the prison guards, the boys had to work hard every day in exchange for food for food only. Moreover, the prison guards treated these children very cruelly, physically and psychologically abusing them both physically and psychologically. Over time, these child criminals gave up their struggles and became obedient cheap laborers.
One day, a new prisoner came to the prison, seventeen-year-old Erling. When he arrived at the island, he was desperate to escape. After a tragic incident, the oppressed Erling finally stepped forward and led the other prisoners to fight violently against the prison guards who had ravaged them. When they gained the leadership of the prison, the Norwegian government sent an army to retake the prison and restore order...
NO.6 August fog
[IMDB score] 7.3/10
【Douban score】8.0/10
Germany photographed the black history of its own country and deeply reflected on history.
Nebel im August
【Year】 2016
126 Mins
[Director] Kay Wesso
[Starring] Avo Pittsk, Sebastian Koch
In Germany during World War II, Ellers, a 13-year-old boy who was left unattended, was admitted to a hospital, but there he discovered shocking things (the Nazi euthanasia program of the Nazis) and united with his friends in an attempt to sabotage the plan, the film shows a shocking history from the perspective of a child, as well as the good and evil of human nature, where more than 5,000 children died in the Nazi euthanasia program during World War II.
NO.5 Furnaces
[IMDB score] 8.0/10
Douban score: 8.8/10
Really saw the devil.
Silenced/The Crucible
【Year】 2011
【Country】 South Korea
【Language】 Korean
【Length】 124 Mins
【Director】 Huang Donghe
【Starring】 Kong You, Jung You-mi, Kim Ji-young, Kim Hyun-so
Despite the disbelief, it all happened. The intolerable truth of an auditory school is revealed. For five years, beginning in 2000, the school's principals and teachers have inflicted varying degrees of sexual violence and abuse on students. The new art teacher found that the school was moderately depressing and oppressive, and frequently heard the screams of women coming from the bathroom. As the school's dark curtain unfolds, art teachers and human rights activists seek to uncover the violence hidden in ivory towers and stop the further spread of school tragedy.
NO.4 Evil Dog Gang
[IMDB score] 7.2 /10
Douban score: 7.6/10
Fans who like the ending of the brutal ending will love this movie.
Dog Pound
【Country】 France
【Language】 English
【Length】 91 Mins
【Director】 Kim Chapirong
Starring Adam Butcher and Sean Chipper
Three petty juvenile offenders, Ingres, Davis and Butch, are locked up in a correctional center, headed by a strong administrator, and soon the three teenagers will have to decide between victims and abusers.
NO.3 The life of zucchini
[IMDB score] 7.9 /10
Sad story, said gently.
【片名】 My zucchini life
【Category】 Animation/Drama
【Language】 French
【Duration】 66 Mins
[Director] Claude Barras
【Starring】 Zucchini
The boy Zucchini was abandoned by his father at an early age and lived a life of dependence with his mother. The unhappy marriage made his mother dependent on alcohol to survive, and often scolded the zucchini, but even so, in the heart of the zucchini, the mother was still his most trusted person. In an accident, his mother fell from the stairs and unfortunately died, zucchini became an orphan, and he was also burdened with the "crime" of killing his mother, and he was sent to the correctional institution with nowhere to go. There, Zucchini meets Simon, Alice and other children, who, although they have very different personalities, have the same tragic experiences...
NO.2 Four hundred hits
IMDB score 8.1/10
Douban score: 8.7/10
The switching of the camera after a few minutes of running is really a shot of the world
The 400 Blows
【Year】 1959
【Duration】 100 Mins
【Director】 Francois Truffaut
[Starring] Jean Pierre Lyod
Antoine was in a rebellious period of growth, but did not get a good soil for growth. Faced with a rigid and conservative schooling system, a fragmented family situation, and a cruel and cold social outlook, he could not find a way out in any case. He skipped class, saw his mother and others cheating, lied to the teacher about his mother's death, and after the lie was exposed, he ran away from home, stayed up all night, and was caught by the police on the spot in order to return the stolen printer, and took to the juvenile detention center, but he still escaped when everyone was not paying attention. Antoine ran out desperately, the sirens behind him sounded, and the confused Antoine ran towards the sea...
NO.1 Someday
[IMDB score] 7.7/10
Fly over boarding school in Shawshank
¡片名¡ A day will come
【Country】 Denmark
【Language】 Danish
【Duration】 110 Mins
【Director】 Jesper W. Nelson
Starring Russ Mickelson, Sophie Graber, Harald Kaiser Herman
Her mother was seriously ill, and the brothers Irma and Eric were left unattended and sent to boarding school run by The Principal, Heck. Heck was a violent man who firmly believed that only by force could the children in school be truly convinced and that they could be guided on the right path.
The two brothers are tormented in a cage called a school prison, and the promise that their mother will come to pick them up at Christmas becomes the only motivation for them to survive, but the two wait, wait, wait, wait for the news of their mother's death. Lillian, the school's new teacher of literature, is acutely aware of the inhumane atrocities that are taking place in the school, but she can do nothing about it.