51 de filme speciale pentru copiii gifted

1. Pay it forward

2. Akeelah and the Bee

An 11 year old African American girl tries to hide her intelligence in order to fit with her classmates and inner city neighborhood. Things change dramatically when she wins a school spelling bee and begins studying for the Scripps national bee...

Amazing Grace and Chuck (VHS only) (PG)
A 12-year-old Little League whiz decides to stop playing baseball until the world agrees to complete nuclear disarmament... and soon, other athletes around the world follow suit, as the protest escalates


3. August Rush
Cared for by a mysterious stranger who gives him the name August Rush, a child uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth...

4. Billy Elliot

Billy's got problems. His dad has scraped together the fees to send him to boxing lessons, but Billy has discovered a different aptitude: a genius for ballet dancing. Since admitting to such an activity is tantamount, in this fiercely macho culture, is very bad, Billy keeps it quiet. But his teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson, thinks he should audition for ballet school in London...

5. Black
An Indian movie based on the life and struggles of a little girl extremely bright and intelligent but deaf and blind. Its her journey into the world of knowledge (very intense at times)


6. Bridge to Terabithia

Film version of Katherine Paterson's award-winning novel Bridge to Terabithia (emotionally intense for sensitive young kids)


Charlotte's Web or Widescreen (PG)
Beautiful production of E. B. White's classic farmyard tale . Great to watch the movie and read the book...

7. Dead Poets Society
English professor John Keating (Robin Williams) inspires his students to a love of poetry and to seize the day. A compelling warning in it to parents who don't respect their children's gifts.


8. Explorers

An alien race, determined to make contact with earthlings, feeds some unsuspecting individuals the blueprints for space travel. The three kids in Explorers make their intergalactic trip in crystalline blue Flubber...

9. Finding Forrester

On a dare, Jamal sneaks into Forrester's musty sanctuary, and what might have been a condescending cliché--homeboy rescued by wiser white mentor--turns into an inspiring meeting of minds, with mutual respect and intelligence erasing boundaries of culture and generation

10. Finding Neverland

Playwright J. M. Barrie finds inspiration for his greatest creation from four lively boys, the sons of widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. Though the friendship threatens his already dwindling marriage, Barrie spends endless hours with the boys, pretending to be pirates or Indians--and gradually the elements of Peter Pan take shape in his mind...

11. Fly Away Home
A teenager becomes "mother" to a flock of geese and then must learn to fly to lead them on their migration to the south


12. Good Will Hunting or VHS (R)
A therapist (Robin Williams) tries to help a brilliant, but troubled young man (Matt Damon) overcome his personal problems and realize his potential (crude language)

13. Harriet the Spy

An 11-year-old wannabe journalist (Michelle Trachtenberg) who writes all her observations about friends in a diary. When the book is stolen and read by her peers...

14. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (FS) or DVD (WS) or VHS (PG)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (FS) or DVD (WS) or VHS (PG)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (FS) or DVD (WS) or VHS (PG)
Adapted from the wildly popular books by J.K. Rowling, stunningly brings to life Harry Potter's world of Hogwarts, the school for young witches and wizards...

15. High School Musical or Audio

While on a family New Year's vacation, shy brainiac Gabriella meets high-school basketball star Troy. During a karaoke contest at the teen party, they discover their love for singing... and an interest in each other. But will they be able to break out of their "expected" cliques and discover new interests and talents within themselves?

16. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Don't panic! Everyman Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) wakes up one morning to discover that his house is set to be demolished to make room for a bypass. Little does he know the entire planet Earth is also set to be destroyed for an interplanetary bypass by the Vogons, a hideous and bureaucratic race of aliens... (fun cult film)

17. Holes

A great movie about team work and honoring differences, friendship, tolerance and justice...

18. The Incredibles

A family of "supers," a brood of five with special powers are desperately trying to fit in with the 9-to-5 suburban lifestyle. Of course, in a more innocent world, Bob and Helen Parr were superheroes, Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl. But blasted lawsuits and public disapproval forced them and other supers to go incognito, making it even tougher for their school-age kids, the shy Violet and the aptly named Dash... (Disney & Pixar)

19. Infinity
Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman (Matthew Broderick)

20. The Iron Giant

Hogarth, a young boy, befriends a giant robot. The iron giant is a misunderstood outsider who becomes a child's best friend, and Hogarth does his best to hide the massive figure from his mom and the local scrap-yard beatnik (animated)

21. Kiki's Delivery Service

Japanese anime. A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service
Disney has acquired the rights for 20 of the films by director Hayao Miyazaki and will be releasing them on video through their Buena Vista label. Disney can do whatever they want with the soundtrack. So, they have used "big name" voices, but the gorgeous animation is unaltered. Titles include:

22. Spirited Away or
23. Princess Mononoke
24. Castle in the Sky
25. The Castle of Cagliostro
26. My Neighbor Totoro

27. The Last Starfighter
A video-gaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force

28. Little Buddha
A perfect introduction to Buddhism for anyone with his child's eye still intact. Where the film really succeeds is showing the nature of impermanence

29. Little Man Tate
The difference is the little boy is human, and not just a brain. He worries about people dying, envies the popular athletic boy, all the while plays music in competition form and forms math problems in his head

30. A Little Romance
A young girl is studying in France and meets a street wise kid; a movie about the innocence of childhood loves

31. Matilda or VHS (PG)
Based on the Roald Dahl classic book; cursed with a cretinous family and a witch of a school principal, a bright young girl (Mara Wilson) learns self-reliance--and develops unusual powers


32. Mean Girls
Based on Queen Bees and Wannabes, it's funny, but right on target and a great starting point for conversations with our daughters...

34. The Mighty
A presumably dimwitted giant of a seventh-grader and an intelligent, but diminutive boy suffering from a degenerative disease combine their best assets to forge a friendship that allows them to cope with the world in which they live

35. Mr. Holland's Opus or VHS (PG)
Being a true musician is about leaving your legacy for future generations, and by inspiring his students, Mr. Holland is ensuring that his passion will live forever, through them

36. My Father's Glory
Language: French. "My Father's Glory," and its sequel "My Mother's Castle," tell the story of a young boy’s "wonder years" growing up in a family with an adored father, a lovely but frail mother, and assorted eccentric relatives and friends


October Sky or VHS (PG)
A West Virginia teenager hopes to break free from his predetermined coal miner's life by winning a national science fair competition with his rocket building designs


37. The Princess Bride

Gently satirical, hyperbolic spin on swashbuckled adventure...


38. Rain Main
Raymond, an autistic savant whose late father has left him $3 million in a trust. This gets the attention of his materialistic younger brother, a hot-shot LA car dealer named Charlie. Charlie picks up Raymond and takes him on a cross-country journey that becomes a voyage of discovery for Charlie, and, perhaps, for Raymond, too (a different kind of gifted, but gifted none the less...)

39. Real Genius
The freshman year of a nerdy kid who enters college at a young age, with a subplot involving computers and military secrets

40. Reduced Shakespeare Company
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged with the help of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, not only can you catch all of Shakespeare's plays at once, but you can have a riotous good time doing so. Three men performing 37 plays in less than two hours may seem a bit of a stretch...
The Complete Word of God, Abridged the hilarious interpretations, the tongue-in-cheek humor, and the jokes that you have to know about to understand, this is a must-have for anybody with even the slightest sense of humor and self...z
The Reduced Shakespeare Company Christmas Chase those Yuletide blues away with this hilarious spoof of Hanukkah, Kwanza, and an obscure little holiday called Christmas.


41. Rushmore
The story of Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman ), a 10th grader at Rushmore Academy, editor of the school newspaper and yearbook; president of the French club, German club, chess club, and astronomy club; captain of the fencing and debate teams; founder of the Double-Team Dodgeball Society; and director of the Max Fischer Players, for whom he writes and produces plays about police corruption, inner-city violence, and war. He is applying for early admission to Oxford. (Harvard is his safety.) He is also one of the worst students in the school and has been placed on sudden-death academic probation


42. Searching for Bobby Fischer
The chess prodigy (Max Pomeranc) who refuses to become ruthless despite the prodding of his father (Joe Mantegna) and his surrogate-father / chess champion (Ben Kingsley)

43. The Secret of Roan Inish
Quiet story about a girl, her grandparents, and legend. The story belongs in Ireland and makes you want to go and capture a bit of the magic it spins

44. The Shaggy Dog
Family friendly old film that deals in good part with the travails of an under-achieving over-achiever... ( note: this is the original)


45. Sky High or Widescreen
Young Will Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and an extraordinary being...

46. Snow Cake (unrated, teen or adult)

(Alan Rickman) Alex, a morose, laconic ex-con just released from prison. A tragic twist of fate brings him to a Canadian small town and the doorstep of Linda, a functional autistic woman with a decidedly anti-social personality. (Sigourney Weaver) Linda is a wonder in a fiercely committed, vanity-free performance. "I don't like normal people," Linda states...

47. Spellbound or VHS
Follows eight teenagers on their quest to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee...

48. Stand and Deliver
A dedicated teacher inspires his dropout prone students to learn calculus to build up their self-esteem, and they do so well that they are accused of cheating

49. The Tic Code
A musically gifted child with Tourette's. Either must-see or must-avoid for the family of gifted kids with Tourette's Syndrome - parents preview recommended, teens only



50. Vitus or UnBox Download (PG)
Young Vitus is a virtual genius and a prodigy at the piano. From an early age, his parents push him to succeed and live up to their ambitions for him. But as Vitus grows older, he decides on a different path, one that leads to an ordinary childhood. This heartfelt tale won the Swiss Film Prize for Best Film of 2007


51. Willow
Willow attempts to save the world from evil by protecting a baby. Not about a child, per se, but about the development of gifts and self.

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