Children's Film Unit Movie Trailers

How's Business Trailer (1991)

12 January 1991

During World War II a young city boy is evacuated to the country.

A Swarm in May Trailer (1983)

26 December 1983

John Owen returns to the Choir School at the start of term to find that he is the youngest Singing Boy in the school.

Hard Road Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

When Kelly and Max, two 13-year olds from widely different social backgrounds, form an unlikely alliance and take off in Max's father's Ferrari for an illegal trip to Brighton.

Survivors Trailer (1990)

14 October 1990

A group of teenage boys are tricked into accompanying their teacher on a survival holiday to a deserted island.

Doombeach Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

A young boy dies after swimming at a seaside resort, and the local children, led by Gavin, investigate and are led to suspect that contamination from a nearby nuclear plant is to blame.

Willie's War Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

When 10-year-old Willie is evacuated from the East End of London, he is chosen by Zander, 13-year-old son of an army captain, to be his companion in a rambling country house.

Under the Bed Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

A young girl kicks all of her rubbish under her bed creating a monster which she and her brother must fight.

Emily's Ghost Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Emily, a young Edwardian girl stifled by the constraints put on the women of her time, moves with her family to the ancestral home in the country, and begins to see the ghost of another girl.

Awayday Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

Two boys take an awayday in August, to Brighton to catch the last summer girls.

The Gingerbread House Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

A 10-year-old girl and her 6-year-old brother are dumped by their abusive mother and her boyfriend to spend a few days at the rambling country house of their grandfather, who has been estranged from the family for the past ten years.

Mister Skeeter Trailer (1985)

25 December 1985

Lisa and Jamie, residents of the Alton House Children's Home, learn that the home is to close because of government cuts.

School for Vandals Trailer (1986)

30 November 1986

Middle-class parents have bought a run-down school in the country. Their two children, plus an assortment of friends, are staying there over the summer.

Daemon Trailer (1985)

31 December 1985

11-year-old Nick moves into a large old house with his sisters Jennie and Clare, left in the care of Helga the Swedish au pair while their parents are away in America.

Nightshade Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

After his wife is murdered and his house torched, a judge becomes the vigilante title character and seeks revenge on the criminals who destroyed his life.

The Custard Boys Trailer (1979)

24 November 1979

An Indian summer, 1942: "When I was thirteen, all I wanted to be was a hero." A young evacuee's response to the surrounding war-obsessed adult world seems the only one available to him, until he forms 'a particular friendship' with another boy, a Jewish refugee.

The Higher Mortals Trailer (1993)

01 June 1993

This movie deals with the problems suffered by many smaller girls' boarding schools during the early 1990s recession, and makes use of metaphor and analogy in its critique of the John Major government of the day.

Infantile Disorders Trailer (1988)

21 December 1988

A gang of boys who run their money raising 'business' - on strictly free market lines - is threatened by the arrival of another group.

Dark Enemy Trailer (1984)

06 July 1984

After a nuclear war, a group of children at an isolated farmhouse debate what the outside world might be like.

Captain Stirrick Trailer (1982)

25 May 1982

The adventures of a group of nineteenth century homeless children who operate as pickpockets in the n