Childrens Film Unit Movies

  • 1990
    Survivors

    Survivors

    Survivors

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    A group of teenage boys are tricked into accompanying their teacher on a survival holiday to a deserted island. But when the teacher suffers a nervous...

    Survivors
  • 1993
    The Higher Mortals

    The Higher Mortals

    The Higher Mortals

    01993HD

    This movie deals with the problems suffered by many smaller girls' boarding schools during the early 1990s recession, and makes use of metaphor and an...

    The Higher Mortals
  • 1985
    Daemon

    Daemon

    Daemon

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    11-year-old Nick moves into a large old house with his sisters Jennie and Clare, left in the care of Helga the Swedish au pair while their parents are...

    Daemon
  • 1994
    Willie's War

    Willie's War

    Willie's War

    01994HD

    When 10-year-old Willie is evacuated from the East End of London, he is chosen by Zander, 13-year-old son of an army captain, to be his companion in a...

    Willie's War
  • 1992
    Emily's Ghost

    Emily's Ghost

    Emily's Ghost

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    Emily, a young Edwardian girl stifled by the constraints put on the women of her time, moves with her family to the ancestral home in the country, and...

    Emily's Ghost
  • 1983
    A Swarm in May

    A Swarm in May

    A Swarm in May

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    John Owen returns to the Choir School at the start of term to find that he is the youngest Singing Boy in the school. This means he must also be Beeke...

    A Swarm in May
  • 1984
    Dark Enemy

    Dark Enemy

    Dark Enemy

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    After a nuclear war, a group of children at an isolated farmhouse debate what the outside world might be like. Soon one of them leaves the house to in...

    Dark Enemy
  • 1988
    Hard Road

    Hard Road

    Hard Road

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    When Kelly and Max, two 13-year olds from widely different social backgrounds, form an unlikely alliance and take off in Max's father's Ferrari for an...

    Hard Road
  • 1988
    Under the Bed

    Under the Bed

    Under the Bed

    01988HD

    A young girl kicks all of her rubbish under her bed creating a monster which she and her brother must fight.

    Under the Bed
  • 1991
    How's Business

    How's Business

    How's Business

    01991HD

    During World War II a young city boy is evacuated to the country.

    How's Business
  • 1979
    The Custard Boys

    The Custard Boys

    The Custard Boys

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    An Indian summer, 1942: "When I was thirteen, all I wanted to be was a hero." A young evacuee's response to the surrounding war-obsessed adult world s...

    The Custard Boys
  • 1989
    Doombeach

    Doombeach

    Doombeach

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    A young boy dies after swimming at a seaside resort, and the local children, led by Gavin, investigate and are led to suspect that contamination from...

    Doombeach
  • 1996
    The Gingerbread House

    The Gingerbread House

    The Gingerbread House

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    A 10-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother are dumped by their abusive mother and her boyfriend to spend a few days at the rambling country house o...

    The Gingerbread House
  • 1986
    School for Vandals

    School for Vandals

    School for Vandals

    01986HD

    Middle-class parents have bought a run-down school in the country. Their two children, plus an assortment of friends, are staying there over the summe...

    School for Vandals
  • 1988
    Infantile Disorders

    Infantile Disorders

    Infantile Disorders

    01988HD

    A gang of boys who run their money raising 'business' - on strictly free market lines - is threatened by the arrival of another group. - A socialistic...

    Infantile Disorders
  • 1982
    Captain Stirrick

    Captain Stirrick

    Captain Stirrick

    01982HD

    The adventures of a group of nineteenth century homeless children who operate as pickpockets in the Smithfield area of London

    Captain Stirrick
  • 1995
    Nightshade

    Nightshade

    Nightshade

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    After his wife is murdered and his house torched, a judge becomes the vigilante title character and seeks revenge on the criminals who destroyed his l...

    Nightshade
  • 1985
    Mister Skeeter

    Mister Skeeter

    Mister Skeeter

    01985HD

    Lisa and Jamie, residents of the Alton House Children's Home, learn that the home is to close because of government cuts. They decide to run away, and...

    Mister Skeeter
  • 1997
    Awayday

    Awayday

    Awayday

    01997HD

    Two boys take an awayday in August, to Brighton to catch the last summer girls.

    Awayday