coming of age movies
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101. Cooley High (1975)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1964 on Chicago's Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis
Votes: 5,548
102. Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)
Not Rated | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man's personality is shaped, involving some weird happenings around.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Slavko Stimac, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Mira Banjac
Votes: 6,796
103. A Love Story (1970)
115 min | Drama, Romance
Two teenagers fall in love over the summer, in spite of cynical and disapproving adults who dismiss their relationship as being nothing but young love.
Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Ann-Sofie Kylin, Rolf Sohlman, Anita Lindblom, Bertil Norström
Votes: 7,523
104. 10½ (2010)
108 min | Drama
Tommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence.
Director: Daniel Grou | Stars: Claude Legault, Robert Naylor, Eugénie Beaudry, Blaise Tardif
Votes: 725
105. Dog Days of Summer (2007)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
A mysterious drifter lures two boys into uncovering the secrets of a sleepy southern town.
Director: Mark Freiburger | Stars: Will Patton, Devon Gearhart, Colin Ford, Richard Herd
Votes: 462 | Gross: $0.01M
106. Accidents Happen (2009)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Billy, his parents, siblings and neighbors have their fair share of accidents in 1974 and 1982. Boys will be boys.
Director: Andrew Lancaster | Stars: Geena Davis, Harrison Gilbertson, Harry Cook, Joel Tobeck
Votes: 2,801
107. Allez, Eddy! (2012)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The eleven year old cycling talent Freddy is the son of a butcher in an idyllic village in no man's land. His isolated life is turned upside down completely in 1975 when the first ... See full summary »
Director: Gert Embrechts | Stars: Jelte Blommaert, Peter Van den Begin, Barbara Sarafian, Mathias Vergels
Votes: 871
108. Digger (1993)
PG | 92 min | Family, Comedy, Drama
A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
Director: Rob Turner | Stars: Adam Hann-Byrd, Joshua Jackson, Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Williams
Votes: 257
109. Un été sans point ni coup sûr (2008)
104 min | Drama, Sport
Martin is 12 years old and dreams of making the neighbourhood baseball team. When he gets cut, his father steps in and together they spend a summer full of hope and disappointment, line drives and foul balls.
Director: Francis Leclerc | Stars: Patrice Robitaille, Pier-Luc Funk, Jacinthe Laguë, Roy Dupuis
Votes: 502
110. All Good Children (2010)
81 min | Drama
After the death of their mother, Irish youngsters Dara and Eoin are moved to France to stay with their aunt. There, the boys befriend a local English family and the impressionable Dara ... See full summary »
Director: Alicia Duffy | Stars: Jack Gleeson, Imogen Jones, David Brazil, Austin Moulton
Votes: 290
111. Childhood Days (1990)
119 min | Drama
Bombing during World War II resulted in whole urban populations fleeing to the countryside, and this created a meeting of urban and rural cultures. Shinji (a young boy evacuated from Tokyo)... See full summary »
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Tetsuya Fujita, Yuji Horioka, Katsuhisa Yamazaki, Noritake Kobinata
Votes: 224
112. Clandestine Childhood (2011)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamín Ávila | Stars: Ernesto Alterio, Natalia Oreiro, César Troncoso, Teo Gutiérrez Moreno
Votes: 2,689 | Gross: $0.01M
113. A Little Closer (2011)
Not Rated | 72 min | Drama, Romance
Three family members each learn the cruelties of love and sexuality.
Director: Matthew Petock | Stars: Sayra Player, Parker Lutz, Eric Baskerville, Chris Kies
Votes: 328
114. Dead Europe (2012)
84 min | Drama
In Greece to scatter his father's ashes, Isaac hears of a curse that hangs over the head of his family. Dismissing the idea, his trip begins to unveil dark truths that forced his father to flee years ago.
Director: Tony Krawitz | Stars: Ewen Leslie, William Zappa, Thanos Samaras, Theodora Tzimou
Votes: 751
115. Amy George (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
Thirteen-year-old Jesse wants to be an artist and believing that his mundane, middle-class life has left him unprepared, he sets out looking for wildness and women.
Directors: Yonah Lewis, Calvin Thomas | Stars: Elizabeth Smith, David Woroner, Gabriel del Castillo Mullally, Brian Scott Carleton
Votes: 193
116. Our Father (2002)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama
Tahir (15) and Amine (8) wake up one morning to learn that their father has left home. The brothers decide to go looking for him. One day, they see their father on the big screen and decide to steal the reel.
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Stars: Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa, Hamza Moctar Aguid, Zara Haroun, Mounira Khalil
Votes: 738
117. Beyond the Heavens (2013)
TV-PG | 85 min | Family
Writer/Director Corbin Bernsen and Nathan Gamble (The Dark Knight) star in the powerful story about a boy whose search for answers leads him to faith. Oliver is a bright 12-year-old who ... See full summary »
Director: Corbin Bernsen | Stars: Nathan Gamble, Dendrie Taylor, Corbin Bernsen, Lawrence Pressman
Votes: 113
118. Blackbird (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
An alienated teenager's posturing online threat ignites a firestorm of fear in a small community.
Director: Jason Buxton | Stars: Connor Jessup, Alexia Fast, Michael Buie, Alex Ozerov-Meyer
Votes: 1,736
119. Charlie's Ghost Story (1995 TV Movie)
PG | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
An archeologist finds remains of a famous explorer and moves them to a museum. This causes the spirit of the explorer to become restless. He wants his bones properly buried and returns as ghost to seek help from the archeologist's son.
Director: Anthony Edwards | Stars: Trenton Knight, Cheech Marin, Anthony Edwards, Charles Rocket
Votes: 357
120. A Bag of Hammers (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Ben and Alan, two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, find direction for their lives by taking in an abandoned child and creating the family they've always needed.
Director: Brian Crano | Stars: Jason Ritter, Jake Sandvig, Chandler Canterbury, Rebecca Hall
Votes: 3,137
121. 16-Love (2012)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
When the number one junior player in the country is injured, she begins to discover the teenage life she never got to live... and find the love she never thought she'd have.
Director: Adam Lipsius | Stars: Lindsey Shaw, Chandler Massey, Keith Coulouris, Lindsey Black
Votes: 1,746
122. Buenos Aires 100 Km (2004)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
An Argentine "Stand By Me", Buenos Aires KM 100 is a touching story about five friends growing from childhood into adolescence. The small quiet town they live in doesn't have much to offer and can't fulfill their curiosity.
Director: Pablo José Meza | Stars: Juan Ignacio Pérez Roca, Emiliano Fernández, Hernán Wainstein, Alan Ardel
Votes: 354
123. A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, War
Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Ayoub Ahmadi, Rojin Younessi, Amaneh Ekhtiar-dini, Madi Ekhtiar-dini
Votes: 8,832 | Gross: $0.70M
124. A Summer Tale (2000)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Two kids move in with a lonely undertaker who is secretly in love with the town's school teacher.
Director: Ulf Malmros | Stars: Kjell Bergqvist, Anastasios Soulis, Rebecca Scheja, Cecilia Nilsson
Votes: 4,481
125. Days of Heaven (1978)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Romance
A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz
Votes: 62,767
126. Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
PG | 112 min | Drama, Family
Akeelah, a young gifted girl, comes from a dysfunctional family and is on the verge of quitting school. She discovers that she has a high aptitude for spellings and enters a spelling bee contest.
Director: Doug Atchison | Stars: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Keke Palmer, Curtis Armstrong
Votes: 21,633 | Gross: $18.81M
127. Eine Hand Voll Gras (2000)
100 min | Drama
A Kurdish boy who sells drugs and an ex-cop who drives a taxi: an unlikely couple who get lost in an urban crime thriller.
Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Oliver Korittke, Arman Inci, Ercan Durmaz, Lisa Martinek
Votes: 244
128. Alabama Moon (2009)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Family
After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven-year-old boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.
Director: Tim McCanlies | Stars: Jimmy Bennett, Gabriel Basso, Uriah Shelton, Clint Howard
Votes: 1,716
129. Antboy (2013)
PG | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
12-year-old Pelle is bitten by an ant and develops superpowers. Aided by comic book nerd Wilhelm, Pelle creates a secret identity as superhero Antboy. When a super villain The Flea enters the scene, Antboy must step up to the challenge.
Director: Ask Hasselbalch | Stars: Oscar Dietz, Amalie Kruse Jensen, Samuel Ting Graf, Nicolas Bro
Votes: 2,418
130. Die schwarzen Brüder (2013)
100 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Giorgio's poor parents sell their son to Milan to work as a chimney sweeper. There he joins the «Black Brothers».
Director: Xavier Koller | Stars: Fynn Henkel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Waldemar Kobus, Richy Müller
Votes: 483
131. Becoming Redwood (2012)
R | 99 min | Drama
Redwood Forrest Hanson dreams that if he can beat Jack Nicklaus at the 1975 Masters of golf, he'll reunite his parents forever.
Director: Jesse James Miller | Stars: Ryan Grantham, Jennifer Copping, Chad Willett, Derek Hamilton
Votes: 185
132. A Suprema Felicidade (2010)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
The story follows Paul, from 10 to 18 years old. During this period, he finds friendship, love and sex in Rio de Janeiro from the 50s and 60s.
Director: Arnaldo Jabor | Stars: Fernanda Avellar, César Cardadeiro, Tammy Di Calafiori, Maria Flor
Votes: 330
133. Come Into the Light (2005)
89 min | Crime, Drama
Padre Puglisi a priest from a mafia-controlled district of Paleremo, helps kids to get off the streets and in his church creates an embracing place of hope and righteousness, which means ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Faenza | Stars: Luca Zingaretti, Alessia Goria, Corrado Fortuna, Giovanna Bozzolo
Votes: 653
134. Bless Me, Ultima (2012)
PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
A drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.
Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Luke Ganalon, Joseph A. Garcia, Miriam Colon, Benito Martinez
Votes: 1,593 | Gross: $1.55M
135. Balkonas (2008)
48 min | Drama, Family
Soviet eighties. A little town in the periphery. After his parents' divorce, 11-year-old Rolanas and his dad move in next door to same-aged Emilija. Friendship is born between the kids, ... See full summary »
Director: Giedre Beinoriute | Stars: Irmantas Bacelis, Elzbieta Degutyte, Rolandas Kazlas, Viktorija Kuodyte
Votes: 583
136. Bastard (2012)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. Criminal psychologist Claudia notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child, in particular Nikolas' mother, who appears to be hiding something.
Director: Carsten Unger | Stars: Martina Gedeck, Markus Krojer, Antonia Lingemann, Thomas Thieme
Votes: 266
137. Crossing the Lighthouse (1999 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Crossing The Lighthouse is a story about the encounter of two ten-year old children (Jim Redler and Katty Loisel) who share a similar past. Two orphans who have taken refuge in lies to ... See full summary »
Director: Thierry Redler | Stars: Jim Redler, Katty Loisel, Corinne Touzet, Thierry Redler
Votes: 112
138. Bad Hair (2013)
93 min | Drama
A nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.
Director: Mariana Rondón | Stars: Samuel Lange Zambrano, Samantha Castillo, Beto Benites, Nelly Ramos
Votes: 2,435
139. Autumn Blood (2013)
R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
High in the mountains, two orphaned children keep their mother's death secret. They survive until the villagers destroy their innocence when they brutally assault the girl. Now, the siblings must protect each other to survive.
Director: Markus Blunder | Stars: Sophie Lowe, Maximilian Harnisch, Peter Stormare, Samuli Vauramo
Votes: 1,991
140. Belle & Sebastian (2013)
104 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A six-year-old boy and his dog look to foil a Nazi effort to capture French Resistance fighters.
Director: Nicolas Vanier | Stars: Félix Bossuet, Tchéky Karyo, Margaux Chatelier, Dimitri Storoge
Votes: 5,567
141. ...and Your Name Is Jonah (1979 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Drama
A couple whose son had been institutionalized after being diagnosed as intellectually disabled are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong: their son is deaf.
Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: Sally Struthers, James Woods, Randee Heller, Titos Vandis
Votes: 459
142. David & Kamal (2011)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama
In Jerusalem, friendship develops between a Jewish 9-year-old American coin collector and the abused 9-year-old Arab street urchin trying to extort money from him.
Director: Kikuo Kawasaki | Stars: Abdallah El Akal, Yoni Rosenzweig, Zach Cohen, Noga Vogel
Votes: 78
143. 1er amour (2013)
80 min | Drama
Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbour, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and ... See full summary »
Director: Guillaume Sylvestre | Stars: Macha Grenon, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Marianne Fortier, Antoine DesRochers
Votes: 255
144. Against the Wild (2013 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Family
Two siblings and their devoted dog become lost in the wilderness and must learn how to combine their skills, trust their instincts and navigate a terrain as beautiful as it is untamed.
Director: Richard Boddington | Stars: CJ Adams, Erin Pitt, Natasha Henstridge, Ted Whittall
Votes: 1,328
145. Club Sandwich (2013)
R | 82 min | Comedy
Hector and his young mother Paloma go on vacation. Out of season their hotel is deserted. They spend their days sitting on the edge of the swimming pool. Then attractive Jazmin arrives and we see how Paloma loses her son to a summer fling.
Director: Fernando Eimbcke | Stars: María Renée Prudencio, Lucio Giménez Cacho, Danae Reynaud, Carolina Politi
Votes: 986
146. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
PG | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. However, he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother and sister - who all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Director: Miguel Arteta | Stars: Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Ed Oxenbould, Dylan Minnette
Votes: 46,613 | Gross: $66.95M
147. Crooklyn (1994)
PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris
Votes: 11,336 | Gross: $13.64M
148. Andre (1994)
PG | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The true story of how a seal named Andre befriended a little girl named Toni and her family in 1962.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Tina Majorino, Keith Carradine, Chelsea Field, Shane Meier
Votes: 7,266 | Gross: $16.82M
149. Cub (2014)
Not Rated | 84 min | Adventure, Horror
Over-imaginative 12 year-old Sam heads off to the woods to summer scout camp with his pack convinced he will encounter a monster...and he does.
Director: Jonas Govaerts | Stars: Maurice Luijten, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts
Votes: 6,186
150. Les Confessions d'un enfant de choeur (1977 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama, Family
A twelve year old boy who lives in a small town where strict social codes are observed, joins the choir to get to know a young girl of his own age whom he has seen at mass.
Director: Jean L'Hôte | Stars: Maurice Biraud, Danièle Ajoret, Pierre Olaf, Jean-Marc Thérin
Votes: 9
151. Bunks (2013 TV Movie)
PG | 80 min | Comedy, Family, Horror
When two trouble-making brothers scam their way into an idyllic summer camp, they find themselves leading a rag tag cabin of boys into breaking every rule in the book. But the real trouble ... See full summary »
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Dylan Schmid, Aidan Shipley, Emilia McCarthy, Atticus Mitchell
Votes: 886
152. Camp (I) (2013)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama
On his 10th birthday, Eli, a neglected and abused kid, is taken to the hospital by police who respond to a domestic disturbance call. Eli is removed from his home and is placed in Locustwood, a facility little better than a youth prison.
Director: Jacob Roebuck | Stars: Miles Elliot, Betsy Roth, Josh Berry, Michael Mattera
Votes: 790 | Gross: $0.32M
153. Alles mag (2014 TV Movie)
22 min | Family
After moving to Amsterdam, Tygo gives a class talk about Carnival. What starts as a general explanation of the festival, turns into a personal poignant account. Although his father always ... See full summary »
Director: Steven Wouterlood | Stars: Lars Jennissen, Indy Aponno, Patrick Stoof, Ricky Koole
Votes: 58
154. 25 Hill (2011)
G | 108 min | Drama, Family, Sport
The story of an 11-year-old boy whose derby dreams are left in pieces when his soldier father is killed in Afghanistan. The boy teams up with a father figure whose own son, a firefighter, ... See full summary »
Director: Corbin Bernsen | Stars: Nathan Gamble, Timothy Omundson, Maureen Flannigan, Ronal Fergeson
Votes: 252
155. Sugar Kisses (2013)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
Nacho is a kid that has a crush into Mayra, the daughter of the leader of a gang of thieves and street vendors, La Diabla. She opposed to that relationship, and Nacho and Mayra will discover the love and the first steps into adulthood.
Director: Carlos Cuarón | Stars: César Kancino, Daniela Arce, Kristyan Ferrer, Veronica Falcón
Votes: 346
156. Clara and the Secret of the Bears (2013)
90 min | Adventure, Family
The balance of nature is in danger and only Clara and her friend have the heart to solve the secret of the bears and to break a centuries-old spell.
Director: Tobias Ineichen | Stars: Ricarda Zimmerer, Elena Uhlig, Roeland Wiesnekker, Damian Hardung
Votes: 203
157. Behavior (2014)
108 min | Drama
Aging teacher Carmela has a special heart for pupils from broken homes and is challenged by the headmaster to follow up 12 year old Chala which is infatuated in Yeni. They are both poor, and has severe home troubles.
Director: Ernesto Daranas | Stars: Alina Rodríguez, Yuliet Cruz, Armando Miguel Gómez, Miriel Cejas
Votes: 1,608
158. Afterschool (2008)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Mystery
An Internet-addicted prep-school student captures on video camera the drug overdose of two girls.
Director: Antonio Campos | Stars: Ezra Miller, Jeremy Allen White, Emory Cohen, Michael Stuhlbarg
Votes: 4,950 | Gross: $0.00M
159. Cyanide (2013)
103 min | Drama, Romance
A young hopeful teenager is waiting for his unknown and fantasized father to come out of prison. His family dream life is seriously undermined by an exhausted mother and a man who, after so... See full summary »
Director: Séverine Cornamusaz | Stars: Alexandre Etzlinger, Roy Dupuis, Sabine Timoteo, Christophe Sermet
Votes: 218
160. Back in the Game (2013–2014)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy
Centers on Terry Gannon, a recently divorced single mother who temporarily moves in with her estranged father, a beer-swilling former baseball player.
Stars: James Caan, Maggie Lawson, Benjamin Koldyke, Griffin Gluck
Votes: 1,952
161. Cookie (2013)
98 min | Comedy, Drama
Adeline's Chinese housekeeper suddenly disappears, leaving behind a little boy who doesn't speak a word of French. Helped by her sister, she takes care of the child and proceeds to locate the mother.
Director: Léa Fazer | Stars: Alice Taglioni, Virginie Efira, Mehdi Nebbou, Scali Delpeyrat
Votes: 332
162. Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1966)
89 min | Drama, Family
The antics of a burro named Brighty is set among the grandeur of the Grand Canyon. The animal endures some perilous adventures before finding friendship with a prospector who finally strikes it rich.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Jiggs the Donkey, Joseph Cotten, Pat Conway, Dick Foran
Votes: 146
163. Come Morning (2012)
80 min | Drama, Thriller
Set in rural Arkansas in 1973, Come Morning is the tragic story of Frank and his 10-year-old grandson and the hunting accident that forever changes their lives.
Director: Derrick Sims | Stars: Michael Ray Davis, Thor Wahlestedt, Elise Rovinsky, Blake Logan
Votes: 424
164. Duck Season (2004)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Eimbcke | Stars: Diego Cataño, Daniel Miranda, Enrique Arreola, Danny Perea
Votes: 4,616 | Gross: $0.15M
165. The Tit and the Moon (1994)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A child cannot stand the idea of having a new brother and dreams about drinking milk from the breasts of his mother again. The child asks the moon to bring him a teet only for him.
Director: Bigas Luna | Stars: Biel Duran, Mathilda May, Gérard Darmon, Miguel Poveda
Votes: 3,393
166. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
Votes: 39,943
167. Moon Child (1989)
118 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Adopted by a treacherous semi-scientific cult where extraordinary mental powers are common, extraordinary 12-year-old David begins an archetypal journey across two continents to find his destiny as Child of the Moon.
Director: Agustí Villaronga | Stars: Maribel Martín, Lisa Gerrard, Enrique Saldana, Lucia Bosè
Votes: 639
168. Little Nicholas (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Family
Nicholas has every reason to keep things in life unchanged; however, when he accidentally overhears mum and dad talking about a new baby brother, his world will turn upside down. Will they abandon him to make room for the little stranger?
Director: Laurent Tirard | Stars: Maxime Godart, Vincent Claude, Charles Vaillant, Victor Carles
Votes: 14,110
169. Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama
Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets.
Director: Buddy Giovinazzo | Stars: Evan Ross, Stephanie Lugo, Maurice Blake, Omar Regan
Votes: 1,887
170. Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988)
90 min | Comedy
A revengeful nurse switches a girl and a boy at birth. They are raised in two radically different families. When the switch is revealed many years later, the now teenagers and families need to cope with their new environments.
Director: Étienne Chatiliez | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Hélène Vincent, Valérie Lalande, Tara Römer
Votes: 4,723 | Gross: $0.19M
171. La haine (1995)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama
24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui, Abdel Ahmed Ghili
Votes: 196,531 | Gross: $0.31M
172. L.I.E. (2001)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama
A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.
Director: Michael Cuesta | Stars: Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Bruce Altman, Billy Kay
Votes: 10,448 | Gross: $1.14M
173. Uroki v kontse vesny (1991)
75 min | Drama
A young boy's loss of innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison is the harrowing, Kafkaesque premise of LESSONS AT THE END OF SPRING. During the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev ... See full summary »
Director: Oleg Kavun | Stars: Danya Tolkachev, Yuriy Nazarov, Yuriy Mazhuga, Aleksandr Feklistov
Votes: 157
174. Lakki... The Boy Who Could Fly (1992)
102 min | Drama
A friendless, lonely boy who dreams of escape from a broken home with an neglectful, promiscuous. alcoholic mother and self-centered, clueless, absent father.
Director: Svend Wam | Stars: Anders Borchgrevink, Nina Gunke, Bjørn Skagestad, Jorunn Kjellsby
Votes: 286
175. Lokas (2008)
90 min | Comedy
Charly is a homophobic man who discovers that Mario, his own father, is gay. Against his will, Charly have to deal with the tender relationship that Mario develops with his grandson Pedro.
Director: Gonzalo Justiniano | Stars: Rodrigo Bastidas, Coco Legrand, Raimundo Bastidas, Fabiola Campomanes
Votes: 185
176. Little Fugitive (2006)
89 min | Drama
Set in present-day Brooklyn, this film is a remake of the 1953 classic "Little Fugitive." With his father in jail and his mother working long hours at a nursing home, Lenny, 11, is burdened... See full summary »
Director: Joanna Lipper | Stars: David Castro, Nicolas Salgado, Raquel Castro, Dianne Mazzaro
Votes: 211
177. L'année de l'éveil (1991)
102 min | Drama
A sensitive, 14 year old orphan in a military school learns about life and love from his classmates and teachers.
Director: Gérard Corbiau | Stars: Laurent Grévill, Martin Lamotte, Chiara Caselli, Grégoire Colin
Votes: 292
178. King of the Hill (1993)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, History
A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down hotel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn, Karen Allen
Votes: 8,826 | Gross: $1.30M
179. Ken Park (2002)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
Ken Park is about several Californian skateboarders' lives and relationships with and without their parents.
Directors: Larry Clark, Edward Lachman | Stars: Adam Chubbuck, James Bullard, Seth Gray, Eddie Daniels
Votes: 30,811
180. I Am... Gabriel (2012 Video)
93 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
The town of Promise, Texas, is dying when a wandering boy shows its residents the way to salvation. They are slow to listen to his message, until the boy reveals his real identity.
Director: Mike Norris | Stars: Dean Cain, Gavin Casalegno, Elise Baughman, Carey Scott
Votes: 1,045
181. Kolya (1996)
PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate.
Director: Jan Sverák | Stars: Zdenek Sverák, Andrey Khalimon, Libuse Safránková, Ondrej Vetchý
Votes: 16,225 | Gross: $5.73M
182. Kes (1969)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Family
A working-class English boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: David Bradley, Brian Glover, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie
Votes: 22,946
183. Local Boys (2002)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama
Two brothers and their surfing buddies face new challenges and adventures over the course of a memorable summer.
Director: Ron Moler | Stars: Mark Harmon, Eric Christian Olsen, Stacy Edwards, Jeremy Sumpter
Votes: 1,022
184. Little Criminals (1996 TV Movie)
91 min | Crime, Drama
Des is an eleven year old kid who has had a really bad deal in life. Crime and mischief are the main staples of his life and he and his friends cruise around the city and do things like ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Surjik | Stars: Brendan Fletcher, Myles Ferguson, Adam Harrison, Jordan Clarke
Votes: 798
185. Innocent Voices (2004)
R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980's El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.
Director: Luis Mandoki | Stars: Carlos Padilla, Leonor Varela, Xuna Primus, Gustavo Muñoz
Votes: 8,194 | Gross: $0.84M
186. I'm Not Scared (2003)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner.
Director: Gabriele Salvatores | Stars: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia, Riccardo Zinna
Votes: 15,553 | Gross: $1.62M
187. I Want to Be a Soldier (2010)
100 min | Drama
Alex, an eight-year-old boy, seems to have a macabre fascination for violent images that he sees on television. After his two brothers are born, he feels lonely, and he makes up two ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Molina | Stars: Fergus Riordan, Cameron Antrobus, Andrew Tarbet, Josephine Barnes
Votes: 776
188. I Am David (2003)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Drama
A twelve-year-old boy escapes from a Bulgarian Communist concentration camp and sets out on a journey to reach Denmark.
Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Ben Tibber, Jim Caviezel, Joan Plowright, Hristo Shopov
Votes: 8,131 | Gross: $0.28M
189. If.... (1968)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama
In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England.
Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan
Votes: 25,197
190. Jaime (1999)
111 min | Drama
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's ... See full summary »
Director: António-Pedro Vasconcelos | Stars: Saúl Fonseca, Fernanda Serrano, Joaquim Leitão, Sandro Silva
Votes: 1,239
191. Jake's Closet (2007)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Jake's Closet takes you back through childhood in a suspenseful and deeply moving story that dives deep into the mind of a little boy under the stress of a fractured family.
Director: Shelli Ryan | Stars: Brooke Bloom, Sean Bridgers, Anthony De Marco, Monette Magrath
Votes: 398
192. Fishing Platform (2008)
88 min | Drama
After his mother's death, a 12-year-old boy is sent to his father who works as a supervisor on a jermal (a fishing platform in the middle of the sea). His father is shocked, never knowing he has a son and rejects the boy as his kin.
Directors: Ravi L. Bharwani, Rayya Makarim, Orlow Seunke | Stars: Iqbal S. Manurung, Didi Petet, Yayu A.W. Unru, Chairil A. Dalimunthe
Votes: 178
193. I'll Wave Back (2000)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama
Ten year old John John and a cognitively disabled friend build a plane so John John can fly his mother to a hippie commune she desires to join.
Director: Jefferson Davis | Stars: Matt Letscher, Christian Craft, Rusty Schwimmer, Randy Travis
Votes: 152
194. Joe the King (1999)
R | 93 min | Crime, Drama
A disadvantaged, abused, neglected, exploited but basically decent kid slips into criminality while trying to cope with his harsh, inescapable reality.
Director: Frank Whaley | Stars: Noah Fleiss, Karen Young, Camryn Manheim, Austin Pendleton
Votes: 2,960 | Gross: $0.06M
195. Jet Boy (2001)
TV-PG | 99 min | Drama
A drug dealer finds an unlikely traveling companion in a runaway kid trying to dodge social services.
Director: Dave Schultz | Stars: Branden Nadon, Joe Norman Shaw, Matthew Currie Holmes, Randy Birch
Votes: 1,532
196. I'm the King of the Castle (1989)
90 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Thomas is the 12-year-old son of a millionaire who lives in a big mansion surrounded by woods in France. When his mother dies, his father hires a widowed maid to take care of everything ... See full summary »
Director: Régis Wargnier | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Dominique Blanc, Régis Arpin, David Behar
Votes: 626
197. Jestem (2005)
93 min | Drama
A self-reliable 11-year-old boy runs away from children's home to be with his dysfunctional mother. She doesn't want him back so he starts living on an old barge.
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska | Stars: Piotr Jagielski, Agnieszka Nagórzycka, Edyta Jungowska, Barbara Szkaluba
Votes: 1,053
198. Jacquot of Nantes (1991)
PG | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A boy growing up in Nantes during World War II around his father's auto shop has a love for puppet shows and cinema and develops it into his own art. Jacques Demy, the artist at the end of his life, reflects on his childhood influences.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Philippe Maron, Edouard Joubeaud, Laurent Monnier, Brigitte De Villepoix
Votes: 1,998 | Gross: $0.15M
199. Himalaya (1999)
108 min | Drama
An aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's salt lakes,... See full summary »
Directors: Eric Valli, Michel Debats | Stars: Thilen Lhondup, Gurgon Kyap, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Karma Wangel
Votes: 5,693 | Gross: $2.48M
200. Forever Young (2010)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Xavi goes down to his family holiday home in Spain where he meets his best friends. As a gang they enter a race to win the magic tree house where Xavi can wish for his Dad to come back ... See full summary »
Director: Pau Freixas | Stars: Eva Santolaria, Alex Brendemühl, Emma Suárez, Lluís Homar
Votes: 903
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