Without Children / 1935

Struggling architect David Cole is encouraged by his boss, Phil Graham, to fraternize with high society as a means of drumming up business. This inadvertently leads to him having an affair with a rich older woman. When his wife Sue discovers the infidelity, she divorces him and takes away their two children. It turns out this was Phil's intent all along - so he could marry Sue. With David now living in Europe, the two children grow up spoiled and self-centered under Phil and Sue's neglectful care. When one of them is shot while roughhousing, David realizes he must own up to his responsibilities as a father...but it may be too late to make a difference in his children's lives...

Children Without / 1965

Children Without is a 1964 American short documentary film directed by Charles Guggenheim, about a young girl and her brother growing up in the housing projects of Detroit. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Children Without Parents / 2013

Children Without Parents is a work of autobiographical fiction, where the filmmaker Casey Puccini explores his relationship with his brazen siblings in the days right after their father’s suicide. The orphaned adults soon enter into a match of emotional destruction, targeting each other’s insecurities, and channeling the worst of their posthumous father’s personality. Puccini plays himself in this heartfelt pre-enactment, revealing the destructive underbelly of family dynamics.

The House Without Children / 1919

A husband longs for children, but his wife has no desire for children.

Children Without a Shadow / 2009

The story of Prof. Shaul Harel is the tale of resilience of all the hidden Jews in Belgium. This gentle film allows a peek at a very personal story which embodies the courage and perseverance of those who survived the Holocaust. The story of the Jewish community in Belgium has not been previously explored and in this touching film we meet adults who survived the war and went on to become successful –and even happy adults. A remarkable story told through the experiences of a remarkable man.

How to Divorce Without Screwing Up Your Children / 2006

A kid's animation special - DEFA children's animation film without words /

THis program for young viewers includes eight short films produced with different animation techniques by the DEFA Studio for Animaion Film in Dresden.

Children Without Love / 1963

In 1963 a documentary film, Children Without Love [Dětí bez lásky], was smuggled out of Communist Czechoslovakia to the Venice Biennale film festival – and was screened in cinemas at home, surreptitiously tagged onto the end of a Miloš Forman film. It showed emotionally distressed young children looked after for long hours in state crèches, many from the first weeks of infancy. A collaboration between filmmaker Kurt Goldberger, child psychiatrists, a crèche headmistress and a reformist journalist, the film eventually led to a change in the law, with the Communist Party committing to extend paid maternity leave for women, reversing the state’s ideological prioritising of collective child-rearing and full female employment.

Children Without Childhood / 1979

Produced by the Palestinian Cinema Institute and the General Union of Palestinian Women On August 12, 1976, during the civil war in Lebanon, the Tal al-Zaatar refugee camp was attacked by Phalangists. 2,000 people are massacred. A house welcomes orphans. The camera accompanies them in their everyday life, in their suffering, in the precariousness of the refugee camps in neighboring countries and in Palestine under Israeli occupation. 1979, the year of the shoot, is also "The International Year of the Child". The articles of the future International Convention on the Rights of the Child are confronted with the reality of the lives of these Palestinian children.

A Woman Without Children / 2021

Asta fights a daily battle to conceive a child before her biological clock rings out.

Winter Buoy / 2015

In icy mid-winter Toronto, a group of pregnant women desperately strive to regain control of their lives. They have insurmountable forces against them: homelessness, drug addiction, violent relationships. But following these particular individuals are the attentive eyes of their guardian angels, the social workers of a unique public health initiative. If these expectant mothers can only manage to break free of the vicious cycles dogging their steps, they have a chance to keep their newborns.

Children Nevertheless / 1979

The film depcits the life of the orphans of Tall Azaatar Martyrs in “Bait El- Somoud”, the house which was set for them by the General Union of Palestinian Women (GUPW). It recounts the sufferings that Palestinian children endure in diaspora camps and under the Israeli occupation.

Our Children / 20128.03 voti

Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir. A wedding soon follows, and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to make a family. However, with family come ties, and none come as tight as that between Mounir and his adoptive father. As Murielle continues to bring new life into the family, frictions between Mounir and Doctor Pinget reach boiling point. Helpless to extract her husband and children from the wealthy nest that Doctor Pinget has provided for them, Murielle is drawn into an unhealthy family dynamic. There is only one way out of this nightmare, and for Murielle all sense of reasoning begins to abandon her.

36 ore di paura / 1993

Sono ventitré anni che Edward Ray fa l'autista dell'autobus scolastico in una cittadina della California. Ogni giorno Edward preleva i piccoli studenti e li accompagna a scuola; nel pomeriggio, li riporta alle loro case. Ma una mattina, l'ultimo di scuola dell'anno, scoppia l'inferno. Tre ragazzi armati e mascherati bloccano l'autobus e lo dirottano verso una cava abbandonata. Qui Edward e i suoi ventisei piccoli passeggeri vengono nascosti in un furgone sotterrato nella sabbia: l'unica presa d'aria è una ventola collegata con l'esterno. È l'inizio del piano criminale ideato e preparato da Fred e dai fratelli Jim e Rick. L'obiettivo dei tre è quello di chiedere un riscatto di cinque milioni di dollari da investire nella produzione di un film.