Drama
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Dense on the Sea
Off the Road
Shellfish
How I Learned to Fly
Wake Up Sid
City of Life and Death
Can't Be Heaven
Goddess of the Fireflies
Priyamaana Thozhi
The Elementary School
Tokyo Story
All the Right Moves
The Butcher Boy
Whip It
A Room for Romeo Brass
Jude
BUtterfield 8
The Blue Butterfly
95
The Deep End
SIMILAR MOVIES
Dense on the Sea
IMDB 4.8 | Mar , 2000
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!Off the Road
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2013
Paul, fourteen, neglects his studies to spend all his time on his moped, to the consternation of his parents.Shellfish
IMDB 10 | Sep , 2022
A stop motion animator has a week to make a film with his dumbstruck brother and the girl of his dreams without his parents finding out. As their shoot unravels, he must decide which is more important, his filmmaking or close relationships, in this coming-of-age comedy with a twist of stop motion animation.How I Learned to Fly
IMDB 3.5 | Nov , 2023
Two African-American teenage boys are suddenly and mysteriously abandoned by their parents. The two have to learn how to survive on their own. From this desertion, comes an experience of beauty, meaning and enduring love.Wake Up Sid
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2009
Wake Up Sid! is the story of a lazy Mumbai college student who does absolutely nothing, with a turn of events will Sid realize his potential in this world and become a success in the fast-paced life of Mumbai.City of Life and Death
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 2009
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.Can't Be Heaven
IMDB 5.3 | Dec , 2000
Everyone eventually meets the love of their lives. Sometimes, like Danny and Julia, that person comes along when you are 13 years old. Other times, like Hubbie and his sweetheart, star-crossed love makes getting together a life-long adventure. This heartwarming story will make you feel like falling in love all over again.Goddess of the Fireflies
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 2020
Catherine is a teenager going through adolescence just as her parents are getting a divorce. Her social life is no better as bullies and boys add to the pressure of growing up in the chaotic '90s.Priyamaana Thozhi
IMDB 6.4 | Jul , 2003
Two childhood best friends, who does not share any love interest, get married to two other people. But, problem arises when his wife doubts their friendship and his friend's husband's father asks him break their friendship.The Elementary School
IMDB 7.3 | Aug , 1991
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict – but also very fair. His weakness though, is his interest in young women.Tokyo Story
IMDB 8.2 | Nov , 1953
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.All the Right Moves
IMDB 5.8 | Oct , 1983
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.The Butcher Boy
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 1998
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.Whip It
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 2009
In Bodeen, Texas, Land Of The Dragon, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.A Room for Romeo Brass
IMDB 7 | Aug , 1999
Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.Jude
IMDB 6.3 | Feb , 1996
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.BUtterfield 8
IMDB 6.3 | Nov , 1960
Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money.The Blue Butterfly
IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 2004
Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take them on a trip to the jungle to search for the butterfly, leading to an adventure that will transform their lives95
IMDB 4.5 | Dec , 2017
Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.The Deep End
IMDB 6.2 | Jan , 2001
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?