Drama
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
On Wheels
I matter
My Hometown
Your Caresses
Sandbag Dam
Queen for a Day
Tiny Death
Tsugaru
The Hanging Garden
Reconstruction
The Holcroft Covenant
Death in the Garden
Miss Sweden
Paradise Is Burning
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Lucid
On the Beach
New Waterford Girl
Marriage Story
SIMILAR MOVIES
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
IMDB 6.5 | Jan , 1994
After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.On Wheels
IMDB 9 | Apr , 2017
13-year-old Lucas makes a new friend in his classmate Lais, and joins her on an epic journey to find the father she has never known.I matter
IMDB 8 | Nov , 2025
In a seemingly easy theatre exercise, Rebeca, a young Roma woman, student at an elite acting school, is pushed to confront her biggest fear.My Hometown
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1976
After fourteen years in Japan a small-time crook returns to his hometown.Your Caresses
IMDB 3.9 | Nov , 1969
Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.Sandbag Dam
IMDB 7 | Mar , 2025
A story about a forbidden love set in a village threatened by swollen rivers. Upon his return home for his father’s funeral, Slaven revives his relationship with his childhood friend, a young sportsman named Marko, his teenage love, and the reason his father kicked him out of the house. Now tempted to reunite, they need to make peace with their own decisions and struggle against the family restraints.Queen for a Day
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2013
In Sara's class, the popular kids, also known as the kings and queens, are subjected to daily humiliations, which include having their pants pulled down or water thrown on them, but this is only a sign of their elevated status. Sara is the only blond and blue-eyed girl in her class, and she is completely overlooked by the kings and queens who do not have blond hair and blue eyes. She has a secret crush on one of the kings, who is way out of her league, and she doesn't have any friends either, but would like to become friends with Karen, also an outsider who aspires to a better status. One day, Sara eyes an opportunity to boost her popularity by humiliating herself and thereby become queen. Karen instantly becomes her friend, she seems to catch the eye of her kingly crush and popularity appears within her reach. However, her happiness is short-lived, and in the end she learns a far more valuable lesson than how to be queen for a day.Tiny Death
IMDB 3.3 | Aug , 2005
Christian (12) and his best friend have been invited over to an older boy from school. There, he enters a mysterious world. It becomes an overwhelming experience - an essential step towards puberty.Tsugaru
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2011
The Hanging Garden
IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 1997
William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past. He had moved to the city and become a fit, well-adjusted gay man, but during his visit home, he becomes unhinged as the newly remembered reasons for his miserable adolescence come to life in each of their presents.Reconstruction
IMDB 6.6 | Jan , 1968
A prosecutor, policemen and teacher take the students Vuica and Nicu to a restaurant to re-enact their drunken brawl there, and have it filmed to show the effects of alcoholism.The Holcroft Covenant
IMDB 5.5 | Sep , 1985
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.Death in the Garden
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 1956
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.Miss Sweden
IMDB 5.1 | Mar , 2004
Moa is in her early 20s, works at a factory and lives by herself in a cottage in the forest. She is a vegan and follows her friends and demonstrations, mostly to fit in. But at home, by herself, she listens to pop music and use make-up.Paradise Is Burning
IMDB 5.5 | Oct , 2023
Left to their own devices by their absent mother, Laura and her two sisters revel in the excitement of freedom, letting their days unfold without the constraints of adult supervision. However, when Laura receives a call that threatens to place them in foster care, she frantically searches for a substitute mother to avoid this fate.Palm Trees and Power Lines
IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 2023
A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.Lucid
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2022
Winter and summer, day and night, life and dreams. Lucid is all about duality. Anxious and awkward in real life, Everett decides to make a change. After coming across studies in the art of Lucid dreaming, Everett hopes to improve his inept social skills. Will having full control of his dreams help him feel complete? Find out in the second feature-length film imagined by Nate Ross & Daniel Walker: Lucid.On the Beach
IMDB 6.6 | Dec , 1959
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?New Waterford Girl
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 1999
A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.Marriage Story
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 2019
A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.