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Nightshade poster
Movie

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 life.

Nightshade

Jan 1995

Awayday poster
Movie

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

Awayday

Jan 1997

Dark Enemy poster
Movie

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 investigate, and finds out that things aren't the way they thought.

Dark Enemy

Jul 1984

Hard Road poster
Movie

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 illegal trip to Brighton. On the way they discover more about life and each other than they had bargained for.

Hard Road

Jan 1988

Infantile Disorders poster
Movie

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 group, headed by a black girl!

Infantile Disorders

Dec 1988

Emily's Ghost poster
Movie

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 begins to see the ghost of another girl.

Emily's Ghost

Jan 1992

School for Vandals poster
Movie

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 summer. One day an old lady is found in the school, claiming she used to work there. The children hold her to ransom, but no-one takes any notice.

School for Vandals

Nov 1986

Under the Bed poster
Movie

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

Under the Bed

Jan 1988

Captain Stirrick poster
Movie

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

Captain Stirrick

May 1982

How's Business poster
Movie

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

How's Business

Jan 1991

Daemon poster
Movie

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 away in America. Nick is unhappy at his new school, where he is befriended by a boy named Sam and intimidated by scripture teacher Mr. Crabb, who is interested in the occult and demonology. Nick hears voices in the house and receives messages on his computer screen; he also suffers inexplicable blisters on his feet and grazes on his elbows and knees. When he dreams of burning and wakes up in a bed full of ashes, Nick tells a psychiatrist that he feels he is possessed by a demon.

Daemon

Dec 1985

The Higher Mortals poster
Movie

This movie deals with the problems suffered by many smaller girls' boarding schools during the early 1990s recession, and makes use of metaphor and analogy in its critique of the John Major government of the day.

The Higher Mortals

Jun 1993

Willie's War poster
Movie

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 rambling country house.

Willie's War

Jan 1994

A Swarm in May poster
Movie

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 Beekeeper - a traditional role. One of the traditional duties of the Beekeeper is to sing a solo in the Cathedral. Owen hates and dreads the prospect, so he persuades the smallest boy in the school, Iddingley, to take his place. Then, while exploring one of the Cathedral towers without permission, Owen finds something which makes him change his mind, and solves a mystery which has been baffling people for hundreds of years...

A Swarm in May

Dec 1983

Survivors poster
Movie

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 breakdown and turns hostile, the boys are forced to fend for themselves.

Survivors

Oct 1990

Mister Skeeter poster
Movie

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 meet up with Mr. Skeeter who brings them food but steals their emergency money.

Mister Skeeter

Dec 1985

The Custard Boys poster
Movie

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 seems the only one available to him, until he forms 'a particular friendship' with another boy, a Jewish refugee. This threatens the stability of his gang (who also mirror the racist/jingoist attitudes of adulthood), and he is caught in Forster's great liberal crux: your country or your friend?

The Custard Boys

Nov 1979

Doombeach poster
Movie

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 a nearby nuclear plant is to blame. Their teacher is sympathetic, but has broken into her house, perhaps as a warning. Gavin is nearly killed after talking about the problem on TV, but gradually all is uncovered - with terrible consequences for Gavin.

Doombeach

Jan 1989

The Gingerbread House poster
Movie

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 of their grandfather, who has been estranged from the family for the past ten years. The girl discovers the old mans corpse in his room, and, fearing that they might be blamed for killing him, devises a cover-up plan, which is almost foiled by a local boy.

The Gingerbread House

Jan 1996