Childhood Drama
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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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Sleepwalking (2008)
The drama follows an 11-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's...
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August Rush (2007)
A boy (Freddie Highmore) uses his prodigious musical gifts to find his parents (Keri Russell,...
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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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In America (2003)
A handsome actor (Paddy Considine), his wife (Samantha Morton) and their two daughters emigrate from...
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A Plumm Summer (2008)
Based on a true-story - A Plumm Summer tells the remarkable tale of two young brothers, Elliott and...
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How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Five Oscars went to John Ford's adaptation of Richard Llewellyn's novel chronicling the...
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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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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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The Italian (2007)
An abandoned Russian boy (Kolya Spiridonov) runs away to find his mother after an Italian couple...
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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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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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Valentin (2004)
A 9-year-old (Rodrigo Noya) stays with his widowed grandmother (Carmen Maura) after his...
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Son of Rambow (2008)
Though polar opposites, two schoolboys (Bill Milner, Will Poulter) in 1980s England work together on...
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National Velvet (1944)
An English girl's dream of racing her horse in the Grand National thunders to reality with the...
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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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The Sixth Sense (1999)
A child psychologist (Bruce Willis) tries to help a boy (Haley Joel Osment) traumatized by...
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The Secret Garden (1993)
An English orphan (Kate Maberly) discovers her bitter uncle's garden with her sickly cousin...
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Fateless (2006)
14-year-old György's life is torn apart in World War II Hungary as he is sent to a...
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The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008)
A little boy and his baby-sitter inhabit the same imaginary world: through their adventures they are...
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The 400 Blows (1959)
Neglected by his parents (Claire Maurier, Albert Remy), Parisian schoolboy Antoine Doinel...
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Tideland (2006)
After her parents die from drug overdoses, a girl (Jodelle Ferland) copes by inventing a fantasy...
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The Reivers (1969)
A Mississippi boy (Mitch Vogel) drives to Memphis with two rascals (Steve McQueen, Rupert Crosse) in...
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To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
A widowed lawyer (Gregory Peck) with two children (Mary Badham, Philip Alford) defends an innocent...
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Paradise (1991)
Estranged after the death of their own child years earlier, a couple is brought back together during...
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Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
A Florida girl (Annasophia Robb) and her canine pal befriend misfit souls and begin to soften her...
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Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
A mysterious man (Anthony Hopkins) with a very rare ability enters the lives of a widow (Hope Davis)...
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Tamara Hope
The memorably sylphic, fair-haired Canadian actress Tamara Hope launched herself on the path to...
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Nicholas Kazan
This second-generation screenwriter has made a reputation for strong psychological dramas. Nicholas...
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Randa Haines
American filmmaker Randa Haines was born in Los Angeles and studied with Lee Strasberg before acting...
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