List of boy movies

Many boylovers enjoy watching films which feature young male actors. Boys On Your Screen provides a forum for people interested in such movies and a larger list of them.

Here is a list of films which may be of particular interest to boylovers:

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A

• About a Boy
• Alone with Mr. Carter
• The Abduction of Zack Butterfield (2011)
• Acla
• Artificial Intelligence: AI
• At Play in the Fields of the Lord
• The Annunciation (1984) angyali udvozlet

A surreal account of the history of humanity portrayed entirely by children between the ages of 8 and 12, starting with Adam and Eve!

• At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991) (complete): fields lord

Husband and wife evangelical missionaries travel to the Amazonian jungle with their young son Billy (Niilo Kivirinta) to convert the Indians

• All About Ah-Long (1989) (Cantonese with optional English subtitles): all about ah-long

After a 10-year absence the mother of Porky Yeung (Huang Kun Husen) resurfaces wanting to take him away from his father who has raised him.

• Aksharaya (2005) aka A Letter of Fire

B

• Billy Elliot
• Brotherly
• Barnens ö
• Brecha
• Butcher Boy, The
• Bumpy (1981) (Estonian with optional English subtitles): nukitsamees

Brother and sister Kusti (Ülari Kirsipuu) and Iti (Anna-Liisa Kurve) are captured by an evil hag when they stray too close to the forest and used as slave labor: Kusti is set to work on the farm, while Iti looks after the hag's mischievous son, whom she names Bumpy (Egert Soll) due to the horn-like bumps on his head.

• Balkonas (2008)
• Brother of Sleep (1995) aka Schlafes Bruder

C

• Chorus, The
• Cache Cash
• Children's Island (Barnens Ö)
• Ciske the Rat
• Child Bride (1938) (complete): child bride

A schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying 'young 'uns'. The main attraction is Jennie, played by 12-year-old Shirley Mills, who goes swimming with her (same age) sweetheart Freddie.

• Child of Rage (1992) (list of 9): child of rage

A priest and his wife adopt adorable brother and sister Eric (Sam Gifaldi) and Cat (Ashley Peldon), but the girl has terrible outbursts of rage. When they get her into treatment they begin to find out the reason for this.

• A Child Went Forth (1941) (complete): child went forth

Short documentary about a farm that's a summer camp and progressive school for exploration and discovery for young children.

• Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (2012)
• The Child of Man (1991) aka Cilveka berns
• Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965) aka Crónica de un niño solo
• Clownhouse (1989)

Just before Halloween, Casey (Nathan Forrest Winters) and his two older brothers are alone at home where they are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some circus clowns and taken their identities.

D

• Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1982)

A US Army medic in Saigon becomes emotionally involved with a group of Vietnamese orphans.

• Dreamspeaker (1976) (list of 8): dreamspeaker tracey

Ian Tracey plays Peter, a disturbed 11-year-old boy who in put in an institution for setting fires. He soon escapes and shacks up with a native Canadian 'dreamspeaker'.

• Daddy's War (1977) aka La guerra de papá
• Don't Go to Sleep (1982)

After moving to a new house, Mary (Robin Ignico) begins seeing the ghost of her older sister, Jennifer (Kristin Cumming), who died in an accident a year earlier. Oliver Robins plays Mary's younger brother, Kevin.

E

• Europa Europa
• Edges of the Lord
• El niño y el muro (1965)
• El niño y la estrella (1976)
• In Your Absence|In Your Absence (En tu ausencia) (2008)

F

• For a Lost Soldier
• Freedom is Paradise

G

• Genesis Children, The
• The Good Son
• Le Grand Chemin (1987) aka The Grand Highway (French with English subtitles): le grand chemin

Louis (Antoine Hubert), a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer holiday in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine (Vanessa Guedj), the ten-year-old girl next door, and learns from her about life.

• Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971) (Italian with English subtitles): addio zio tom

Pseudo-documentary about Negro slavery in America. Watch the 'director's cut'.

• Goracy czwartek (1994)
• La guerre des boutons

H

• Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, The
• Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990) (Arabic with English subtitles): halfaouine

A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunis about a 12-year-old boy, Noura (Selim Boughedir), who must move from the loving world of Moslem women to the harsher world of men while learning about the opposite sex.

• Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2002) (Greek with optional English or Spanish subtitles): dyskoloi apohairetismoi

In 1969 Athens, 10-year-old Elias (Yorgos Karayannis) struggles to come to terms with the sudden death of his father.

• Hans Röckle und der Teufel (1974)

I

• I Am David
• I'm Not Scared
• The Invisible Children (2001) (Spanish with English subtitles): ninos invisibles

8-year-old Rafael (Guillermo Castañeda) wants to get closer to a girl his own age, so, with the help of two friends, he attempts to make himself invisible by witchcraft.

• Invincible Space Streaker (1988)

J

• James (2008)(Short film)
• Jet Boy

K

• Kes
• Karik and Valya's Remarkable Adventures (1987)]

L

• L.I.E.
• Leolo
• Limbo
• Lord of the Flies (1963 film)
• Lord of the Flies (1990 film)
• Lille Virgil og Orla Frøsnapper (1980) aka Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface
• Lost in Siberia (1991)

M

• Man Without a Face, The
• Mysterious Skin
• Malèna
• Murmur of the Heart
• Mondo
• My Father's Glory
• My Mothers's Castle
• Mister Blot's Academy (1984) (two part film - Polish with English subtitles): akademia pana kleksa

10-year-old Adam (Slavek Wronka) goes to the eccentric Mister Blot's Academy, where work and play are equally interesting. (Make sure the quality is set to 480p.)

• Maya (2001)
• Menino Maluquinho 1 (1995)
• [[Menino Maluquinho 2 (1998)]
• Messieurs les enfants (1997)
• Mi niño Tizoc (1972)
• Mixed Company (1974)

Comedy about a family that adopts a string of children of different races.

N

• North Sea Texas (2011) (Film)
• Novecento
• The Naked Island (1960) hadaka no shima

Japanese film with no dialogue about the intolerably hard life of a family with two young boys (played by Shinji Tanaka and Masanori Horimoto), the only inhabitants of a very small island.

O

• The Odd Life of Timothy Green
• Oliver!
• Oliver Twist
• Only Clouds Move the Stars (1998)

P

• Paradise
• Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)
• Pixote
• Primaria
• Painted Faces (1988) (Chinese with English subtitles): painted faces 1988

Story of the Peking Opera School, the first half of which shows the harsh training given to the boys by their strict master.

• Philipp, der Kleine (1978) aka Phillip the Small
• Plantation Boy (1965) aka Menino de Engenho

R

• Radio Flyer
• Robby (1968)
• Ronia: The Robber's Daughter (1984) (Swedish with optional English subtitles): ronja henriksson

11-year-old Ronia (Hanna Zetterberg) lives in mediaeval Scandinavia with her robber chief father and makes friends with 11-year-old Birk (Dan Håfström), son of the sworn enemy of her father. When their relationship is discovered, the children have to learn to live in the woods. (Note that the best version I can find has Swedish subtitles for the deaf (I think) which make it hard to read the (optional) English ones. There is also a version with Swedish dialogue and no subtitles.)

• The Revolt of Job (1983) (Hungarian with optional English subtitles): job lazadasa

Hungary, 1943. An elderly childless Jewish couple adopt Lackó (Gábor Fehér), an unruly Christian boy, to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and traditions before Nazi oppression engulfs the country

S

• Sixth Sense
• Siemiany (2009)
• Second Best
• Stand By Me
• Sunday's Children

T

• The Way, Way Back
• Tom's Midnight Garden Starring: Anthony Way
• Tu seras un homme
• The World of Ludovic (1993) aka De wereld van Ludovic (French with optional English subtitles): de wereld ludovic

Neglected by his parents, 12-year-old Ludovic (Mathias Coppens) meets and falls in love with 12-year-old Sophie (Bella van Meel), the daughter of a piano teacher.

• Tarzan of the Apes (1918)

After Lord Clayton and his pregnant young wife are shipwrecked off the coast of Africa, a baby is born and raised by apes after his parents die. The young Tarzan is played by Gordon Griffith for the first half of the film.

• Tarsi se saprug za mama (1985) aka A Husband for Mum
• This Is It (1971)
• Tobi el niño con alas (1978)
• Torrid Noon (1966) aka Goreshto Pladne
• Twins at the Zoo (1989) aka Dva lidi v zoo
• [[La tía Alejandra (1979)[[ (Spanish with optional English subtitles)

When old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family they are grateful for the financial help at first, but the old woman is truly a witch, and she turns against them. The children are 13-year-old Malena (Lilian Davis) and her younger brother Andrés (Adonay Somoza Jr.) and sister Martha (María Rebeca).

U

• Última Batalla, La
• Upside Down (1983) aka Do góry nogami

V

• Vuelve

W

• Whole New Thing
• War of the Buttons
• Wavelength (1983)

A young couple decide to liberate a small group of child-like space aliens being held prisoner at a top secret military facility.

• Wee Dreaming (2009)

Short comedy/drama about 7-year-old Kosmo Wilton who drinks too much soft drink then bets his mother he won't need to pee on a long drive, during which he confronts the futility of his stand with extraordinary consequences. Sasha Wilton is his younger sister.

• [[Weiser (2001)[[ (Polish and English with optional English subtitles): weiser

A middle aged man recalls when he was 12 years old, and he and his friends were affected by tragedy when two other 12-year-olds, Dawid Weiser and Elka disappear after they set off some explosives.

• What Color is the Wind (1973) aka De que color es el viento

Y

• You Are Not Alone (film) aka Du er ikke alene
• Yeah, Kowalski! (Short film)

Z

• Zucht (2007) (Short film)

0-9

• 300 Miles to Heaven (1989) aka 300 mil do nieba (Polish with optional English subtitles): 300 mil do nieba

Drama, based on a true story, about teenager Jedrek (Rafal Zimowski) and his younger brother Grzes (Wojciech Klata) who escape from communist Poland all the way to Denmark hidden under a truck.

External links

• http://www.boysonyourscreen.org/
• (IMDb) The ultimate coming of age movie list
• BoyChat Thread on Favorite Films. Help transfer it to this list.