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| 1. Akeelah and the Bee Cinema (Year: 2006) |
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A young girl learns to believe in herself and value her intelligence in this critically-acclaimed, family-friendly drama. Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palme ...
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| 2. August Rush Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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Estranged from his parents by circumstance and nudged toward a foster family, a young boy seeks out his long-lost folks and discovers prodigious music ...
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| 3. Billy Elliot Cinema (Year: 2000) |
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Brassed Off meets My Name Is Joe in this gritty coming-of-age drama about a young son of a poor English coal miner who dreams of being a ballet dancer ...
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| 6. Chocolat Cinema (Year: 1988) |
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| 7. Class Trip Cinema (Year: 1998) |
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Claude Miller directed this French psychological drama adapted from Emmanuel Carrere's 1995 novel (based on a factual news item). Detailing a troubled ...
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| 8. Empire of the Sun Cinema (Year: 1987) |
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Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun stars Christian Bale as a spoiled young British boy, living with his wealthy family ...
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| 9. Fateless Cinema (Year: 2005) |
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One young man's devastating voyage through the Holocaust sets the stage for this powerful drama. Gyorgy "Gyurka" Koves (Marcell Nagy) is a 1 ...
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| 10. Fresh Cinema (Year: 1994) |
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| 12. In America Cinema (Year: 2002) |
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After chronicling various chapters of Irish history in such films as In the Name of the Father and The Field, writer/director Jim Sheridan turns his l ...
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| 13. La Teta y la Luna Cinema (Year: 1994) |
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This Spanish/French film presents a loving ode to a woman's breasts and the three men who love them. The fairy tale is told from the viewpoint of 9-ye ...
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| 14. Little Buddha Cinema (Year: 1994) |
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Bernardo Bertolucci attempts to mix Buddhist spirituality with childhood fantasy in Little Buddha. When Dean Conrad (Chris Isaak), a Seattle architect ...
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| 15. Little Man Tate Cinema (Year: 1991) |
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Jodie Foster made her directorial debut (with a script by Scott Frank) in this tale of a child prodigy's search for social acceptance. Fred Tate (Adam ...
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| 16. Ma Vie en Rose Cinema (Year: 1997) |
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Boys will be boys and girls will be girls, but one child isn't so sure in this Belgian comedy drama. 7-year-old Ludovic (Georges DuFresne) is happy, h ...
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| 17. Mouchette Cinema (Year: 1967) |
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Robert Bresson directed this grim but moving story of a girl forced to grow up quickly due to the unfortunate circumstances which surround her. Mouche ...
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| 18. My Dog Skip Cinema (Year: 2000) |
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The popular memoir by Pulitzer prize-winning author Willie Morris became this family comedy-drama about a boy and his dog. Young Willie Morris (Franki ...
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| 19. My Life as a Dog Cinema (Year: 1985) |
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In 1959 Sweden, young Ingemar (Anton Glanzelius) lives with his dying mother and his nasty older brother. He survives all of life's knocks by comparin ...
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| 20. Nobody Knows Cinema (Year: 2004) |
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Hirokazu Kore-eda, who wrote and directed the international success After Life, returns with this story about a family dealing with an unusual dilemma ...
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| 21. Oliver! Cinema (Year: 1968) |
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Inspired by Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart's 1961 London and Broadway musical hit glossed over some of Dickens' more graphic passage ...
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| 22. Pay It Forward Cinema (Year: 2000) |
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A young boy stumbles upon a simple way to change the world in this drama. Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) is a bright 11-year-old boy who comes from a trou ...
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| 23. Pixote Cinema (Year: 1981) |
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The Brazilian Pixote so closely resembles the films of Luis Bu?uel that one is almost shocked to see writer/director Hector Babenco's name on the cred ...
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| 24. Pollyanna Cinema (Year: 1960) |
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Eleanor H. Porter's story of Pollyanna, "The Glad Girl," was first filmed in 1920 by Mary Pickford. While entertaining, the Pickford version ...
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| 25. Rich Kids Cinema (Year: 1979) |
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The rich kids of the title are 12-year-old Trini Alvarado and her intellectual pal Jeremy Levy. Alvarado is down in the dumps because her parents are ...
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| 26. Secondhand Lions Cinema (Year: 2003) |
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In this family-friendly comedy drama, Walter (Haley Joel Osment) is a shy and bookish boy just short of his teens whose mother impulsively decides to ...
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| 27. Son of Rambow Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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As the summer sun shines down on England in the early 1980s, two boys who couldn't be more different are brought together by a mutual love of cinema a ...
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| 28. The King of Masks Cinema (Year: 1996) |
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This tender Chinese tale of an aged street performer who begins teaching a young child is filled with warm humanity but not imbued with undue sentimen ...
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| 29. The Sixth Sense Cinema (Year: 1999) |
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In this tense tale of psychological terror, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist whose new patient has a problem far outside his u ...
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| 30. The Spirit of the Beehive Cinema (Year: 1973) |
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Widely regarded as a masterpiece of Spanish cinema, this allegorical tale is set in a remote village in the 1940s. The life in the village is calm and ...
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| 31. Things That Hang From Trees Cinema (Year: 2006) |
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Things that Hang from Trees constitutes American director Ido Mizrahy's debut feature. As adapted by singer-songwriter Aaron Louis Tordini from his ow ...
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| 32. To Kill a Mockingbird Cinema (Year: 1962) |
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Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film in 1962 by Horton Foote and the producer/director team of Robert Mul ...
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| 33. Tricks Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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A young boy living in a provincial mining town near Wroclaw does his best to tempt fate by connecting a handsome commuter with his single mother in wr ...
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| 34. Under the Same Moon Cinema (Year: 2007) |
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The debut feature from director Patricia Riggen, this drama centers on a young boy's journey across the U.S./Mexico border to be reunited with his mot ...
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