Childhood Drama
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    Movies

    Oliver Twist (2005)

    An orphan (Barney Clark) in 19th-century London falls in with a gang of young pickpockets who steal...

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    Movies

    Sleepwalking (2008)

    A girl (AnnaSophia Robb) tries to cope with her mother's abandonment by forging a bond with her...

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    Movies

    August Rush (2007)

    A boy (Freddie Highmore) uses his prodigious musical gifts to find his parents (Keri Russell,...

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    Movies

    Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

    Akeelah (Keke Palmer), an 11-year-old girl living in South Los Angeles, discovers she has a talent...

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    Movies

    In America (2003)

    A handsome actor (Paddy Considine), his wife (Samantha Morton) and their two daughters emigrate from...

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    Movies

    A Plumm Summer (2008)

    In 1968 Montana, two brothers and a plucky neighbor become amateur sleuths and set out to find the...

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    Movies

    Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

    An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent...

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    Movies

    How Green Was My Valley (1941)

    Five Oscars went to John Ford's adaptation of Richard Llewellyn's novel chronicling the life of a...

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    Movies

    Little Man Tate (1991)

    A single mother (Jodie Foster) lets her boy-genius son (Adam Hann-Byrd) move in with a rich woman...

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    Movies

    Empire of the Sun (1987)

    Steven Spielberg's acclaimed account of an English boy's life in a WWII internment camp in...

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    Movies

    The Italian (2007)

    An abandoned Russian boy (Kolya Spiridonov) runs away to find his mother after an Italian couple...

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    Movies

    Afraid of the Dark (1992)

    An English boy (Ben Keyworth) snoops around his neighborhood, with a razor slasher of blind women on...

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    Movies

    12 and Holding (2006)

    After bullies cause the death of an adolescent, the lives of his identical twin (Conor Donovan) and...

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    Movies

    Valentin (2004)

    A 9-year-old (Rodrigo Noya) stays with his widowed grandmother (Carmen Maura) after his parents'...

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    Movies

    Son of Rambow (2008)

    Though polar opposites, two schoolboys (Bill Milner, Will Poulter) in 1980s England work together on...

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    Movies

    National Velvet (1944)

    An English girl's dream of racing her horse in the Grand National thunders to reality with the help...

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    Movies

    My Life So Far (1999)

    An adventurous boy and his family (Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris) learn about life and love when his...

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    Movies

    The Sixth Sense (1999)

    A child psychologist (Bruce Willis) tries to help a boy (Haley Joel Osment) traumatized by...

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    Movies

    The Secret Garden (1993)

    An English orphan (Kate Maberly) discovers her bitter uncle's garden with her sickly cousin (Heydon...

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    Movies

    Fateless (2006)

    14-year-old György's life is torn apart in World War II Hungary as he is sent to a concentration...

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    Movies

    The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)

    An overworked single woman (Juliette Binoche) hires a Chinese film student to take care of her son.

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    Movies

    The 400 Blows (1959)

    Neglected by his parents (Claire Maurier, Albert Remy), Parisian schoolboy Antoine Doinel...

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    Movies

    Tideland (2006)

    After her parents die from drug overdoses, a girl (Jodelle Ferland) copes by inventing a fantasy...

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    Movies

    The Reivers (1969)

    A Mississippi boy (Mitch Vogel) drives to Memphis with two rascals (Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse) in...

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    Movies

    To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

    A widowed lawyer (Gregory Peck) with two children (Mary Badham, Philip Alford) defends an innocent...

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    Movies

    Treeless Mountain (2009)

    Two young sisters (Hee Yeon Kim, Song Hee Kim) must learn how to take care of themselves after their...

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    Movies

    Paradise (1991)

    Estranged after the death of their own child years earlier, a couple is brought back together during...

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    People

    Randa Haines

    American filmmaker Randa Haines was born in Los Angeles and studied with Lee Strasberg before acting...

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    People

    Tamara Hope

    The memorably sylphic, fair-haired Canadian actress Tamara Hope launched herself on the path to...

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    People

    Nicholas Kazan

    This second-generation screenwriter has made a reputation for strong psychological dramas. Nicholas...