Growing Pains
5 Episodes
Your childhood may have been rough, but it could have been so much worse . . .
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1:40:00Episode 1
The 400 Blows
Episode 1
Directed by François Truffaut • 1959 • France
Starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert RémyFrançois Truffaut’s first feature is also his most personal. Told through the eyes of Truffaut’s cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud), THE 400 BLOWS sensitively re-creates t...
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1:24:42Episode 2
The Children Are Watching Us
Episode 2
Directed by Vittorio De Sica • 1944 • Italy
Starring Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa PolaIn his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the...
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1:27:55Episode 3
Young Törless
Episode 3
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff • 1966 • France, West Germany
Starring Mathieu Carrière, Marian Seidowsky, Bernd TischerAt an Austrian boys’ boarding school in the early 1900s, shy, intelligent Törless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized clas...
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1:40:54Episode 4
Warrendale
Episode 4
Directed by Allan King • 1967 • Canada
For his enthralling first feature, Allan King took his cameras to a home for emotionally disturbed young people. Situated inside the facility like a fly on the wall, we witness the full spectrum of emotions displayed by twelve fascinating children and the...
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Sweetie
Episode 5
Directed by Jane Campion • 1989 • New Zealand
Starring Genevieve Lemon, Karen Colston, Tom LycosThough she went on to create a string of brilliant films, Jane Campion will always be remembered for her stunning debut feature SWEETIE, which focuses on the hazardous relationship between the button...