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Wonder 2017
Película
Un niño de 10 años nacido con una deformidad facial que le ha obligado a ser operado 27 veces de cirugía, se esfuerza por encajar en su nuevo colegio.
Las caras de Wonder
- Un niño con un rostro diferente empieza la escuela
- Una familia que lo adora
- Halloween, el único día en que pasa desapercibido
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una película familiar que hace llorar a todos.
- quieres una historia amable que te anime.
- te gusta el primer año de un niño en una escuela de verdad, desde almorzar solo hasta su primer amigo de verdad.
Mala para ti si
- prefieres quedarte con un solo protagonista. Los capítulos pasan de Auggie a su hermana y a sus amigos.
- necesitas que pasen cosas. Son mesas del comedor, una feria de ciencias y una excursión escolar.
Temas: la amabilidad · la diferencia · la familia
The Eagle Huntress 2016
Documentary
Follow Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rise to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been typically been handed down from father to son for centuries.
The sides of The Eagle Huntress
- A 13-year-old Kazakh girl training a golden eagle
- Mountains and snow in western Mongolia
- A father teaching his daughter an old tradition
Good for you if
- you like wide Mongolian landscapes and a wild eagle on a girl's arm.
- you want a true story to watch with children.
- you like a girl proving herself in a tradition passed from father to son.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for the family's Kazakh.
- you want real danger and suspense, not a warm triumph.
About: tradition · girlhood · fathers and daughters
Spellbound 2002
Documentary
This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in Washington D.C.
The sides of Spellbound
- Eight kids heading for the national spelling bee
- Parents and coaches drilling word lists
- A final round in Washington
Good for you if
- you hold your breath over one letter in a hard word.
- you want kids you root for, from very different homes.
- you like real kids and their real families, followed all the way to the national final.
Bad for you if
- you need more happening than children spelling words.
- you roll your eyes at hard work and the American dream.
About: ambition · immigration · childhood
The Sound of Music 1965
Film
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
The sides of The Sound of Music
- A young nun hired as a governess
- Seven children and a widowed naval captain
- Austria before the Nazi takeover
Good for you if
- you like songs you already know, sung in the Alps.
- you like Maria winning over the seven von Trapp children.
- you like a love story between a governess and a stern captain.
Bad for you if
- you find nearly three hours too long for one evening.
- you roll your eyes at sincere songs and big feelings.
About: family · joy · resistance
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey 2011
Documentary
Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Few people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. Displaying his creativity and talent at a young age, Kevin ultimately found a home on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this documentary includes rare archival footage, interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O’Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney and others and offers a behind-the-scenes look at Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop.
The sides of Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
- Kevin Clash, the man inside Elmo
- A Baltimore teenager building puppets at home
- Behind the scenes of Sesame Street
Good for you if
- you like the true story of the puppeteer behind Elmo.
- you want a warm look behind the scenes of Sesame Street.
- you can be moved by a boy who gets to work with his idol Jim Henson.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at a feel-good tale of a dream come true.
- you need suspense to stay with a film.
About: dreams · craft · childhood
Won't You Be My Neighbor? 2018
Documentary
For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his puppets and his many friends, spoke directly to young children about some of life's most important issues.
The sides of Won't You Be My Neighbor?
- Fred Rogers and his TV neighborhood
- Puppets talking to children about hard things
- Three decades of archive footage
Good for you if
- you like being moved by plain kindness.
- you want something warm and gentle for the evening.
- you want to know the real man behind the cardigan.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at gentle, sincere speeches.
- you find old television footage dated. Much of it is archive from the 1960s to the 1990s.
About: kindness · childhood · television
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 2024
Documentary
Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.
The sides of Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
- The actor who played Superman, paralysed after a riding accident
- His wife Dana and his three children
- A fight for spinal cord research
Good for you if
- you like being moved by a man learning to live again.
- you want the real Christopher Reeve, from Superman to activist.
- you like a story told by his children, about a father they nearly lost.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch paralysis, hospitals and grief up close.
- you roll your eyes at a tribute full of courage and love.
About: courage · disability · fatherhood
Twinsters 2015
Documentary
Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anaïs believe that they are twin sisters separated at birth.
The sides of Twinsters
- Two women who find each other online
- Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents
- Twin sisters meeting for the first time
Good for you if
- you like two strangers finding out they are twin sisters.
- you want to be moved when they finally meet in person.
- you want a true story with nothing cruel in it.
Bad for you if
- you need more happening than video calls and visits.
- you roll your eyes at heartfelt talk about adoption and belonging.
About: adoption · identity · sisterhood
Little Angel Face 2000
Series
Dulce María is like her name, a sweet 5-year-old girl, full of joy and good feelings. With the death of his mother, his father, Luciano Larios, sinks into depression and pain, and decides to distance himself from everything and everyone. He admits Dulce María to the "Queen of America" nuns' school and goes abroad, leaving her in the care of her brother Gabriel, who is a priest. The only visit the girl receives is from her beloved Aunt Estefanía, whom she affectionately calls "Aunt Wigs" because instead of showing her hair, she wears colored wigs that match her clothes.
The sides of Little Angel Face
- A five-year-old girl at a convent school
- A widowed father who leaves for abroad
- An aunt who wears colored wigs
Good for you if
- you like a little girl waiting for her grieving father to come home.
- you want a gentle telenovela with nuns and jokes.
- you want something to watch with children.
Bad for you if
- you can't commit to a daily telenovela with a very long run.
- you roll your eyes at sweet moral lessons.
About: grief · faith · childhood
En busca de la felicidad 2006
Película
Chris Gardner es un vendedor brillante y con talento, pero su empleo no le permite cubrir sus necesidades más básicas. Tanto es así que acaban echándolo, junto a su hijo de cinco años, de su piso de San Francisco y no tienen ningún lugar al que ir. Cuando Gardner consigue hacer unas prácticas en una prestigiosa correduría de bolsa, los dos protagonistas tendrán que afrontar muchas adversidades parar hacer realidad su sueño de una vida mejor. Basada en hechos reales.
Las caras de En busca de la felicidad
- Un padre y su hijo sin dónde dormir
- Unas prácticas sin sueldo
- Un cubo de Rubik en un taxi
Buena para ti si
- te gusta una historia de lucha con un final conmovedor.
- te gusta ver en pantalla a un padre y un hijo de verdad.
- te gusta una historia sincera sobre no rendirse nunca.
Mala para ti si
- vivir en la calle con un niño es demasiado duro para ti esta noche.
- quieres reírte con Will Smith. Aquí lo hace en serio, hasta una noche en el baño del metro.
Temas: la perseverancia · la paternidad · la pobreza
On the Way to School 2013
Documentary
These children live in the four corners of the earth, but share the same thirst for learning. They understand that only education will allow them a better future and that is why, every day, they must set out on the long and perilous journey that will lead them to knowledge. Jackson and his younger sister from Kenya walk 15 kilometres each way through a savannah populated by wild animals; Carlito rides more than 18 kilometres twice a day with his younger sister, across the plains of Argentina; Zahira lives in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains who has an exhausting 22 kilometres walk along punishing mountain paths before she reaches her boarding school; Samuel from India sits in a clumsy DIY wheelchair and the 4 kilometres journey is an ordeal each day, as his two younger brothers have to push him all the way to school…
The sides of On the Way to School
- Jackson and his sister walking past elephants in Kenya
- Carlito riding a horse across Argentina
- Samuel pushed in a wheelchair by his brothers in India
Good for you if
- you want to show children what getting to school means elsewhere.
- you like savannahs, plains and mountain paths of the Atlas.
- you're moved by children who walk for hours to learn.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you need a plot, and this is four journeys to class.
About: education · courage · childhood
The Goldbergs 2013
Series
Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up, and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s. For geeky 11-year old Adam these were his wonder years and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the crazy. The Goldbergs are a loving family like any other, just with a lot more yelling.
The sides of The Goldbergs
- A geeky kid with a video camera in the eighties
- A smothering mom named Beverly
- A family that shouts a lot
Good for you if
- you like a loud family sitcom full of eighties jokes.
- you like a family that yells a lot and loves even more.
- you want an easy, warm half hour.
Bad for you if
- ten seasons is too much for you.
- you roll your eyes at the sweet lesson at the end of each episode.
About: family · nostalgia · growing up
Becoming 2020
Documentary
Join former first lady Michelle Obama in an intimate documentary looking at her life, hopes and connection with others.
The sides of Becoming
- Michelle Obama on her book tour
- A childhood on the South Side of Chicago
- Eight years as first lady
Good for you if
- you like hearing Michelle Obama tell her own story.
- you like sincere talks about hope and connecting with people.
- you want a warm, gentle portrait to watch on a calm evening.
Bad for you if
- you need conflict and suspense to stay interested.
- you want to keep politics out of your evening, and the Obama years are never far.
About: identity · family · hope
He Named Me Malala 2015
Documentary
A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
The sides of He Named Me Malala
- Malala Yousafzai and her father Ziauddin
- A Taliban gunman on a school bus
- Hand-painted animated flashbacks
Good for you if
- you like a girl's speech about school at the United Nations.
- you want to know the teenager behind the Nobel Peace Prize.
- you like a father and daughter who share the same fight.
Bad for you if
- you can't take the story of a child shot for going to school.
- you don't like animated scenes in your documentaries.
About: education · courage · fatherhood
Young Sheldon 2017
Series
The early life of child genius Sheldon Cooper, later seen in The Big Bang Theory.
The sides of Young Sheldon
- A nine-year-old genius in a Texas high school
- The Cooper family in the 1980s
- Adult Sheldon narrating his childhood
Good for you if
- you want a gentle family sitcom with half-hour episodes.
- you like Mary, George, Missy and Georgie loving Sheldon in their own way.
- you like a child correcting his teachers and his pastor.
Bad for you if
- seven seasons is too much for you.
- you roll your eyes at heartfelt family moments.
About: family · growing up · faith · being different
The Wolfpack 2015
Documentary
Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed ‘The Wolfpack’, the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate home-made props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes.
The sides of The Wolfpack
- Six brothers raised inside a Manhattan apartment
- Home-made remakes of Reservoir Dogs and The Dark Knight
- A first walk outside without their father
Good for you if
- you like a true story stranger than most fiction.
- you like six brothers who share everything in a few rooms.
- you like the Angulo brothers remaking Tarantino with cardboard props.
Bad for you if
- you can't face a father who kept his children locked away.
- you want every question about the family answered.
About: confinement · cinema · freedom · brotherhood
A Letter to Momo 2012
Anime
A shy 11-year-old's life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.
The sides of A Letter to Momo
- A girl who lost her father
- An unfinished letter he left her
- Three hungry goblins in the attic
Good for you if
- you like a slow summer on a quiet island.
- you like a mother and daughter learning to grieve together.
- you like being moved by a letter that only says Dear Momo.
Bad for you if
- you don't watch anime.
- you need momentum, and two quiet hours of summer feel slow to you.
About: grief · family · moving on
The Speed Cubers 2020
Documentary
This documentary captures the extraordinary twists and turns in the journeys of Rubik's Cube-solving champions Max Park and Feliks Zemdegs.
The sides of The Speed Cubers
- Two Rubik's Cube champions
- A young autistic solver and his idol
- Seconds that decide a world title
Good for you if
- you like a rivalry that turns into a real friendship.
- you like competition where a title comes down to a fraction of a second.
- you like being moved by Max Park's family and his progress.
Bad for you if
- you want a long, patient portrait, and this is forty minutes.
- you roll your eyes at sincere, feel-good stories of champions cheering each other on.
About: friendship · autism · competition
Full House 1987
Series
After the death of his wife, Danny enlists his best friend and his brother-in-law to help raise his three daughters, D.J., Stephanie, and Michelle.
The sides of Full House
- A widowed father raising three daughters
- His brother-in-law and an old friend moving in
- A San Francisco house full of catchphrases
Good for you if
- you want a warm sitcom where every problem is solved by the end.
- you like three men raising three girls together.
- you like Michelle's one-liners and Joey's impressions.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at the heart-to-heart talk ending every episode.
- eight seasons is too much for you.
About: family · grief · fatherhood
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie 2023
Documentary
A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease?
The sides of STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
- Michael J. Fox telling his own life
- A Parkinson's diagnosis at twenty-nine
- Clips from Back to the Future and Family Ties
Good for you if
- you like hearing Michael J. Fox tell his story in his own words.
- you like being moved by his family standing by him.
- you like his jokes about his own falls and tremors.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch someone live with an incurable illness.
- you want a grim, unresolved look at Parkinson's. His optimism carries every scene.
About: illness · optimism · fame