Movies and TvShows featuring "schoolchild" theme.

Drug War is a gripping action-packed movie set in China. It follows the story of a man who becomes entangled in a dangerous drug war and must fight against a powerful drug cartel. As the tension escalates, he must make choices that will determine his fate.

The Snail and the Whale is an animated adventure movie based on the picture book by Julia Donaldson. It tells the story of a tiny snail who hitches a ride on the tail of a huge humpback whale and goes on a wonderful journey around the world. Together, they explore the ocean, encounter sharks, and even save a beached whale. This heartwarming tale teaches the importance of friendship and adventure.

Small Change is a heartwarming and humorous coming-of-age story set in Central France. The movie follows a group of mischievous children as they navigate school, community, and the challenges of growing up. Through a series of vignettes, the film explores themes of childhood, friendship, and the resilience of children in the face of adversity.

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City is an experimental film that showcases various aspects of life in Berlin, including its streets, public transportation, city life, and class differences. Through a series of montages and poetic visuals, the film captures the essence of the city during the Weimar Republic era.

La Orca (1976) is a gripping crime drama that revolves around the kidnapping of a young woman named Alice. She is taken captive by a man named Michele, who demands a ransom for her release. As the days pass, Alice finds herself developing a complex relationship with her captor, leading to unexpected twists and turns. This intense film explores themes of power, control, and the human psyche.

Tony, a macho school bus driver, suffers a heart attack and decides to reconnect with his daughter by secretly joining the dance class she teaches in Paris.

Follow Michael Palin as he explores the fascinating and secretive country of North Korea, uncovering its rich history, strict government control, and the ordinary lives of its citizens.

John Baxter is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimpanzee and one dream: to save enough money to buy a gas station in Detroit.

Auschwitz (2011) is a drama and historical war film that delves into the dark history of the Holocaust, portraying the horrifying conditions and atrocities committed in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. The movie explores the experiences of the victims, the cruelty of the Nazi regime, and the struggle for survival in an inhumane environment.

A young boy can transfer his body energy into ESP and heal sick people. While the subject of scientists' studies, he runs away to try to find out about his past and why he is the way he is.

American documentarian James Longley delivers a sweeping, profoundly compassionate group portrait of Afghan students and teachers still weathering national turbulence.

Teacher Jake Downey has relocated to a small town in Wyoming hoping to escape the urban problems of his last assignment. His myth of rural bliss is shattered when a former police officer comes unglued, builds a bomb and takes Jake's class hostage. The heroism of his true story unfolds as the hostage drama takes many surprising turns towards the phenomenal conclusion.

In a small town, a teacher is found dead and the community is left in shock. As the investigation unfolds, dark secrets and hidden motives come to light.

The Big Animal is a comedy-drama film set in a small town in Poland. When a circus animal, a camel, enters the town, it causes chaos and disrupts the everyday lives of the residents. The film explores themes of bureaucracy, intolerance, and opportunism, as the camel's presence exposes the flaws of the town's inhabitants. A photographer becomes fascinated with the animal and tries to capture its essence through his camera lens. As tension escalates, the town grapples with issues of pet ownership, ostracism, and the importance of community. The Big Animal is a heartwarming story that humorously delves into human nature and the complexities of small-town life.

In the dark days of Nazi Germany, Jewish schools were shut down one by one as the students and their families were herded into ghettos or sent to concentration camps. But amid the countless stories of tragedy and death are the miraculous stories of those who survived. This documentary, produced by Steven Spielberg and the Shoah Foundation and narrated by Anthony Hopkins, tells one of these stories -- that of the last Jewish school in Berlin to be shut down in 1942 and the 50 students who survived the war to meet again at a 1996 reunion in the newly reopened Grosse Hamburgerstrasse School.

After a boy's parents decide to divorce, he creates a "support group" for all the kids from failed marriages in his school. When kids who's parents aren't divorced start to pick on them, they agree to cause their parents to divorce as well.

“Ciske de Rat” belongs to the Dickensean “little man’s hard life” model and tells a deceptively simple story about a boy in modern Netherlands. Persecution, loneliness, adults’ hostility, fear, mixture of obstinacy and tenderness, and even an imprisonment. Excellent camera movement and delicate portraying of Ciske’s fragile soul put this film out of merely historical context and ensure its place in the history of great cinema.

Set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where Koppel's parents - both refugees - found a home. This is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out. Much influenced by his conversations with the writer Peter Handke, the film maker leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire.

Concert of Requests is a short drama film that revolves around a group of schoolchildren who embark on a bus trip to a camping site in the forest. Along the way, they encounter various challenges and experiences that test their friendships and reveal hidden desires.

On one very fine sunny day, a fourth-grader Thomas, as always, is out of the house in the morning to get to school by subway. But on this day he has a too good mood and that, along with the good weather, prevents him get to the lessons. He decides to skip his station, and take a walk through Berlin.