A young boy struggles with life on the streets of Vancouver's dangerous and soul-consuming lower East side.
According to the story, the heroes of the backyard are "Impression from the moment when a child realizes that childhood is transient". The scriptwriters combined episodes in the film on Merima's two works and placed events in an unspecified town after the wars. Costumes and sculptures refer to the wooden houses of the 1940s and 1950s. The venues included Suomenlinna and the Ruiskumestari House in Helsinki Kruununhaa. The backyard heroes were filmed for 16mm film originally as a television movie , but also taken to theatrical release.
Dambarey is a street kid, who in a dendrite induced trance, turns invincible to outfox Kathmandu with his gang of five. Little does he know that his altered mind is playing wicked tricks to lead him and his friends to a place of no return.
BIRD IN THE SKY is a gritty, poetic tale of a young man’s spiritual struggle on the streets of New York City. Rob has been given a second chance to right the wrongs of his street-wise past; he must perform a miracle to be saved. His fate lies in his love for a young woman, Kay, who is coping with the loss of her child.
Karesz has been raised in an institution, his mother has a new family, and her husband does not tolerate that she meets her first-born son. Karesz tramps, joining up with his casual pals he washes the windscreens of cars, sells newspapers; sometimes they steal, or break into houses if hired.
秀茂坪一班童党打死了一名少年，他们七手八脚将尸体转移，毁尸灭迹……不良青年大王好勇斗狠，与得力搭档阿必两人为维护小弟阿鸡与另一帮不良分子黑仔等人发生冲突，黑仔不敌只得退缩。另一方面，出身泰国区的番薯在垃圾站工作，但游手好闲的番薯将工作推给为人老实木讷的三叔（李健仁 饰），不时对后者施以暴力。番薯为泰国区孩子出头赢得称赞，趁机收小弟建立了自己的势力，黑仔找到番薯要求合作对付大王，结果两人却一起被擅长打斗的大王收编。自此，大王掌控下的“皇朝”党正式成立，一班年轻人整日游手好闲，欺侮三叔，同三叔关系较好的阿鸡心中不平，却因此引来了杀身之祸……
本片根据真实事件改编。
Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.
阿里与所有街童无异，睡大街，讨生活之余，还要面对性侵犯、毒品、卫生问题等威胁。但阿里的高尚梦想，是成为出色的水手，在身边众多如神仙故事人物的影响下，他立心追逐自己的梦。只是回到现实中，他们却要面对童党死敌的袭击，致令阿里横死路边。他的死党，不欲见他弃尸街头，于是为他安排了一个帝皇式的葬礼。
摩洛哥街童 - 幕后花絮
2000年，那比尔·艾奥殊以《摩洛哥街童》（Ali Zoua: Prince of the Streets）横扫摩洛哥，除票房依旧亮眼之外，更在国际影展上一次抱回了16项大奖，堪称摩洛哥之光。
For the summer, troublemaker Freddie Egan is being sent to a camp-style juvenile detention center, while spoiled rich-kid Frederick Egan III is going to a luxurious getaway for kids of the elite. Until a name mix-up at the bus-boarding area sends the boys to each other's destinations, and while Eddie gets a taste of the good life, Frederick has to deal with being without all his usual comforts. Eventually, they both learn some valuable life-lessons.
Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.
Four lads find themselves in a situation where they have to take on a powerful man (and his innumerable henchmen) to reclaim their identity.
Grace is a homeless teenager. She befriends an unemployed carpenter and he invites her to share his flat. She moves in and to her surprise a delicate relationship develops. He helps her repair her shattered self-esteem and she begins to feel loved and secure. But then she discovers his secret - he tells her he is Jesus Christ.
An aimless adolescent joins several itinerant misfits who live on the fringe of society and welcome at-risk youths into their fold.
《朋克少年梦》(Engel & Joe)
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough money with which to pay a smuggler, and be able to cross the Strait of Gibraltar with his two friends.
A searing legal drama that centers on a highly credentialed child psychologist whose life is shattered when he's accused of sexually assaulting a young boy he's been treating.
2000年，里约热内卢植物公园的一起劫持人质事件经电视现场转播后在巴西国内引发了一定的关注，贫民窟出身的黑人青年桑德罗抢劫一辆公车未遂，在警察赶到时劫持车上数名乘客，经过下午至夜间数小时的对峙，警察们最终在混乱的局面中扑向了桑德罗和人质……