The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
Stephen Archibald
Jamie
Hughie Restorick
Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith
Grandmother
Karl Fieseler
Helmuth
Bernard McKenna
Tommy's father
Paul Kermack
Jamie's father
Helena Gloag
Father's mother
Ann Smith
Jamie's mother
Eileen McCallum
Nurse
The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.
In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh and the Lord Provost to decide what's to be done.
At the dawn of the 20th century, following their father's arrest on suspicion of betraying state secrets, the three Waterbury children—Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter—move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Mary Lennox เกิดในอินเดียกับพ่อแม่ชาวอังกฤษที่ร่ำรวยที่ไม่เคยต้องการเธอ เมื่อพ่อแม่ของเธอเสียชีวิตอย่างกะทันหันเธอจึงถูกส่งกลับอังกฤษเพื่อไปอยู่กับลุงของเธอ เธอได้พบกับลูกพี่ลูกน้องที่ป่วยและเด็กทั้งสองได้พบกับสวนลับสุดมหัศจรรย์ที่หายไปในบริเวณคฤหาสน์ Misselthwaite
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen. The movies give Bud the strength to get through another day as he deals with his oppressive school environment and his burgeoning homosexuality.
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth commits a treasonous act and takes the throne for himself.
เด็กกลุ่มหนึ่งติดเกาะอยู่เพียงลำพัง พวกเขาต้องรับผิดชอบหน้าที่ของผู้ใหญ่แม้ว่าจะไม่พร้อมก็ตาม ในที่สุดก็เกิดการรวมตัวกันของสองกลุ่ม กลุ่มหนึ่ง (นำโดยราล์ฟ) ต้องการสร้างที่พักพิงและรวบรวมอาหาร ในขณะที่กลุ่มของแจ็คต้องการสนุกสนานและล่าสัตว์มากกว่า ซึ่งแสดงให้เห็นถึงความแตกต่างระหว่างอารยธรรมกับความป่าเถื่อน