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Many boylovers enjoy watching films which feature young male actors. [[Boys | Many boylovers enjoy watching films which feature young male actors. [[Boys On Your Screen]] is a site which provides a forum for people interested in discussing such movies. The films that have a red link do not yet have their own page on BoyWiki, please feel free to write a review. Also see: [[:Category:Film]] | ||
Here is a list of films which may be of particular interest to boylovers: | Here is a list of films which may be of particular interest to boylovers: | ||
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==A== | |||
* [[The Abduction of Zack Butterfield (2011)]] | * [[The Abduction of Zack Butterfield (2011)]] | ||
* [[About a Boy]] | * [[About a Boy]] | ||
* [[Acla]] | * [[Acla]] | ||
* [[Aksharaya]] (2005) aka A Letter of Fire | |||
* [[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. | |||
* [[Alone with Mr. Carter (film)|Alone with Mr. Carter]] | |||
* [[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! | |||
* [[Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001 film)|Artificial Intelligence: AI]] | * [[Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001 film)|Artificial Intelligence: AI]] | ||
* [[At Play in the Fields of the Lord]] | *[[At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)]] | ||
::Husband and wife evangelical missionaries travel to the Amazonian jungle with their young son Billy (Niilo Kivirinta) to convert the Indians | |||
==B== | |||
* [[Bad News Bears (1976) (Film)]] | |||
*[[Bad News Bears (2005) (Film)]] | |||
* [[Balkonas (2008)]] | |||
* [[Barnens ö (Children's Island) (1980) (Film)|Barnens ö]] | |||
* [[The Beastmaster (film)|The Beastmaster (1982)]] - [[Josh Milrad]] and [[Billy Jacoby]] | |||
* [[Billy Elliot]] | * [[Billy Elliot]] | ||
* [[The Boy with Green Hair (film)|The Boy with Green Hair]] (1948) (Dean Stockwell) | |||
* [[Brecha (film)|Brecha]] | |||
* [[Brotherly (2008)|Brotherly]] | * [[Brotherly (2008)|Brotherly]] | ||
* [[Brother of Sleep (1995)]] aka Schlafes Bruder | |||
* [[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. | |||
* [[The Butcher Boy|Butcher Boy, The]] | * [[The Butcher Boy|Butcher Boy, The]] | ||
* [[ | |||
==C== | |||
* [[Cache Cash (1994) (film)|Cache Cash]] | |||
* [[Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (2012)]] | |||
* [[The Chorus|Chorus, The]] | * [[The Chorus|Chorus, The]] | ||
* [[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (movie)]] | |||
* [[Child Bride (1938)]] | |||
::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. | |||
* [[The Child of Man (1991)]] aka Cilveka berns | |||
* [[Child of Rage (1992)]] | |||
::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)]] | |||
::Short documentary about a farm that's a summer camp and progressive school for exploration and discovery for young children. | |||
* [[Barnens ö (Children's Island) (1980) (Film)|Children's Island (Barnens Ö)]] | |||
* [[Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)]] aka Crónica de un niño solo | |||
* [[Ciske the Rat]] | * [[Ciske the Rat]] | ||
* [[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== | |||
* [[Daddy's War (1977]]) aka La guerra de papá | |||
* [[D.A.R.Y.L. (Film)]] | |||
* [[Death in Venice (film)]] | |||
* [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]] | |||
* [[Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder (1982)]] | |||
::A US Army medic in Saigon becomes emotionally involved with a group of Vietnamese orphans. | |||
* [[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. | |||
* [[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'. | |||
* [[Dunston Checks In (Film)]] | |||
==E== | |||
* [[Edges of the Lord]] | * [[Edges of the Lord]] | ||
* [[El niño y el muro (1965)]] | |||
* [[El niño y la estrella (1976)]] | |||
* [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial]] | |||
* [[En tu Ausencia (film)|In Your Absence (En tu ausencia) (2008)]] | |||
* [[Europa Europa]] | |||
==F== | |||
* [[For a Lost Soldier]] | * [[For a Lost Soldier]] | ||
* [[Freedom is Paradise]] | * [[Freedom is Paradise]] | ||
==G== | |||
* [[The Genesis Children|Genesis Children, The]] | * [[The Genesis Children|Genesis Children, The]] | ||
* [[Good Son, | *[[Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)]] (Italian with English subtitles): addio zio tom | ||
::Pseudo-documentary about Negro slavery in America. Watch the 'director's cut'. | |||
* [[The Good Son]] | |||
* [[Goracy czwartek (1994)]] | |||
* [[Le Grand Chemin (1987)]] aka The Grand Highway (French with English subtitles) | |||
::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. | |||
* [[La guerre des boutons]] | |||
*[[Guter Junge (TV movie)|Guter Junge (2008)]] (German with English subtitles) | |||
:: After his mother's death, 17-year-old Sven moves in with his dad Achim, a taxi driver, who had divorced his mother several years earlier. Achim's girlfriend Julia senses that something is different with Sven. Why does he not have any friends his own age? Why, she wonders, does he always hang around with young boys? | |||
==H== | |||
* [[Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990)]] (Arabic with English subtitles) | |||
::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. | |||
* [[Hans Röckle und der Teufel (1974)]] | |||
* [[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. | |||
* [[The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things |Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, The]] | * [[The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things |Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, The]] | ||
==I== | |||
* [[I Am David]] | * [[I Am David]] | ||
* [[I'm Not Scared]] | * [[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== | ||
* [[Karik and Valya's Remarkable Adventures (1987)]] | |||
* [[Kes]] | * [[Kes]] | ||
==L== | |||
* [[Leolo]] | * [[Leolo]] | ||
* [[L.I.E.]] | * [[L.I.E.]] | ||
* [[Lille Virgil og Orla Frøsnapper (1980)]] aka Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface | |||
* [[Limbo (film)|Limbo]] | |||
* [[Lord of the Flies (1963 film)]] | * [[Lord of the Flies (1963 film)]] | ||
* [[Lord of the Flies (1990 film)]] | * [[Lord of the Flies (1990 film)]] | ||
* [[Lost in Siberia (1991)]] | |||
* [[Lucas (film)|Lucas]] | |||
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==M== | |||
* [[Malèna]] | |||
* [[The Man Without a Face (film)|Man Without a Face, The]] | * [[The Man Without a Face (film)|Man Without a Face, The]] | ||
* [[Maya (1966)]] - Jay North and Sajid Khan | |||
* [[Maya (2001)]] | |||
* [[Menino Maluquinho 1 (1995)]] | |||
* [[Menino Maluquinho 2 (1998)]] | |||
* [[Messieurs les enfants (1997)]] | |||
* [[Mi niño Tizoc (1972)]] | |||
* [[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. | |||
* [[Mixed Company (1974)]] | |||
::Comedy about a family that adopts a string of children of different races. | |||
* [[Mondo]] | * [[Mondo]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Moonrise Kingdom]] | ||
* [[Murmur of the Heart]] | |||
* [[My Father's Glory]] | * [[My Father's Glory]] | ||
* [[My Mothers's Castle]] | * [[My Mothers's Castle]] | ||
* [[Mysterious Skin]] | |||
==N== | |||
* [[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. | |||
* [[The NeverEnding Story (film)]] - Barret Oliver and Noah Hathaway | |||
* [[North Sea Texas (2011) (Film)]] | |||
* [[Novecento]] | |||
==O== | |||
* [[The Odd Life of Timothy Green]] | |||
* [[Oliver!]] | * [[Oliver!]] | ||
* [[Oliver Twist (2005 film)|Oliver Twist]] | * [[Oliver Twist (2005 film)|Oliver Twist]] | ||
* [[Only Clouds Move the Stars (1998)]] | |||
==P== | |||
* [[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. | |||
* [[Paradise]] | * [[Paradise]] | ||
* [[Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)]] | * [[Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)]] | ||
* [[Philipp, der Kleine (1978)]] aka Phillip the Small | |||
* [[Pixote]] | * [[Pixote]] | ||
* [[Plantation Boy (1965)]] aka Menino de Engenho | |||
* [[Precious Moments (Film)]] | |||
* [[Primaria(film)|Primaria]] | |||
==R== | |||
* [[Radio Flyer]] | * [[Radio Flyer]] | ||
* [[Robby (1968)]] | * [[The Red Balloon (film)|The Red Balloon]] (1956) (French) Pascal Lamorisse | ||
* [[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 | |||
* [[Robby (1968) (Film)]] | |||
* [[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. | |||
==S== | |||
* [[Second Best]] | * [[Second Best]] | ||
* [[Stand By Me]] | * [[Siemiany (2009)]] | ||
* [[Sin destino 2002]] aka Without Destination | |||
* [[Sixth Sense]] | |||
* [[Stand By Me (Film)]] | |||
* [[Suddenly, Last Summer (Film)]] | |||
* [[Sunday's Children]] | * [[Sunday's Children]] | ||
* [[Tom's Midnight Garden]] Starring: Anthony Way | |||
* [[ | ==T== | ||
* [[ | |||
* [[Tarsi se saprug za mama (1985)]] aka A Husband for Mum | |||
* [[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. | |||
* [[Terri (2011)]] | |||
::Centers on a large 15-year-old boy in a small town as he struggles to adjust to his difficult life. Some very nice scenes with Bridger Zadina. | |||
* [[This Is It (1971)]] | |||
* [[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). | |||
* [[Tobi el niño con alas (1978)]] | |||
* [[Tom's Midnight Garden]] Starring: Anthony Way | |||
* [[Torrid Noon (1966)]] aka Goreshto Pladne | |||
* [[Tu seras un homme (film)|Tu seras un homme]] | |||
* [[The Tutor (film)|The Tutor]] | |||
::A new free adaptation of Turn of the Screw by Henry James - shows signs of pushing technical, artistic and social boundaries a little further still. | |||
* [[Twins at the Zoo (1989)]] aka Dva lidi v zoo | |||
==U== | |||
* [[Upside Down (1983)]] aka Do góry nogami | |||
==V== | |||
* [[Vuelve (film)|Vuelve]] | |||
==W== | |||
* [[War of the Buttons (1994 film)|War of the Buttons]] | * [[War of the Buttons (1994 film)|War of the Buttons]] | ||
* [[Du er ikke alene]] | * [[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. | |||
* [[The Way, Way Back]] | |||
* [[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 | |||
* [[White Mane (Short film)|White Mane]] (1953) (French) Alain Emery | |||
* [[Whole New Thing]] | |||
* [[Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Film)]] | |||
* [[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. | |||
==Y== | |||
* [[Yeah, Kowalski! (Short film)]] | |||
* [[You Are Not Alone (film)]] aka Du er ikke alene | |||
==Z== | |||
* [[Zucht (2007) (Short film)]] | |||
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* [[1er amour (2013)]] Canada | |||
* [[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. | |||
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*[http://www.boysonyourscreen.org/favorites_2007/favorites_2007.html Favorites films of 2007 from Boys On Your Screen] | |||
*[http://www.boysonyourscreen.org/favorites_2013/favorites_2013.html Favorites films of 2013 from Boys On Your Screen] | |||
*[http://www.imdb.com/list/I_kYwk3e15s/?ref_=tt_rls_1 (IMDb) The ultimate coming of age movie list] | *[http://www.imdb.com/list/I_kYwk3e15s/?ref_=tt_rls_1 (IMDb) The ultimate coming of age movie list] | ||
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Many boylovers enjoy watching films which feature young male actors. Boys On Your Screen is a site which provides a forum for people interested in discussing such movies. The films that have a red link do not yet have their own page on BoyWiki, please feel free to write a review. Also see: Category:Film
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