When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except for six other teenage misfits and two menacing and mysterious teachers. As events become increasingly horrific, Jacob must conquer his fears to find the strength to survive.

Aatmapamphlet

2023

Marathi

8.1

♡ 2

religious conversation

young boy

Ashish Bende Director

Khushi Hajare as

Ketan Karande as Datarkaka

Deepak Shirke as Grandfather

Harsha Gupte as Grandmother

Ten-year-old Ashish falls head-over-heels in love with his classmate, Srushti. While he grows up, the country goes through several socio-economic changes.

Frankenweenie

1984

English

7.2

♡ 5

74%

Tim Burton Director

Daniel Stern as Ben Frankenstein

Jason Hervey as Frank Dale

Joseph Maher as Mr. Chambers

Shelley Duvall as Susan Frankenstein

When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sparky's still the good loyal friend he's always been.

Happythankyoumoreplease

2010

English

6.7

♡ 20

42%

Josh Radnor Director

Malin Akerman as Annie

Pablo Schreiber as Charlie

Kate Mara as Mississippi

Josh Radnor as Sam Wexler

Captures a generational moment - young people on the cusp of truly growing up, tiring of their reflexive cynicism, each in their own ways struggling to connect and define what it means to love and be loved. Six New Yorkers juggle love, friendship, and the keenly challenging specter of adulthood. Sam Wexler is a struggling writer who's having a particularly bad day. When a young boy gets separated from his family on the subway, Sam makes the questionable decision to bring the child back to his apartment and thus begins a rewarding, yet complicated, friendship. Sam's life revolves around his friends — Annie, whose self-image keeps her from commitment; Charlie and Mary Catherine, a couple whose possible move to Los Angeles tests their relationship; and Mississippi, a cabaret singer who catches Sam's eye.

North

1994

English

4.6

♡ 8

14%

27%

Action

Adventure

based on children's book

parent child relationship

travel

young boy

Rob Reiner Director

Scarlett Johansson as Laura Nelson

Reba McEntire as Ma Tex

Bruce Willis as Narrator

Elijah Wood as North

Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus North starts off on a journey around the world to find parents that really care about him.

Run for the Roses

1977

English

5.7

♡ 1

Henry Levin Director

Lisa Eilbacher as Carol

Stuart Whitman as Charlie

Vera Miles as Clarissa Stewart

Teddy Wilson as Flash

Juanito, a boy from Puerto Rico, finds himself in Kentucky and drawn to a thoroughbred horse. He believes the horse can win the Derby and eventually others around him start to think it's possible.

Innocent Voices

2004

Spanish

7.8

♡ 12

74%

Luis Mandoki Director

Paulina Gaitan as Angelita

Ofelia Medina as Mama Toya

Daniel Giménez Cacho as Priest

Héctor Jiménez as Raton

A young boy, attempting to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life when he desperately tries to avoid the war that is raging all around him.

Switchback

1997

English

6.4

♡ 14

32%

Jeb Stuart Director

Walton Goggins as Bud

William Fichtner as Chief Jack McGinnis

Dennis Quaid as Frank LaCrosse

Jared Leto as Lane Dixon

After FBI agent Frank Lacrosse believes his son was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer, he travels to Amarillo, Texas, where he believes the murderer is in hiding. Although officially taken off the case because of its personal significance to him, Frank continues to pursue the killer, causing concern for local sheriff Buck Olmstead. When another victim pops up at a nearby car garage, Frank knows that he is as close as he'll ever be to tracking down the elusive killer.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1938

English

7.1

♡ 14

82%

Action

Adventure

aunt nephew relationship

based on novel or book

Norman Taurog Director

Victor Jory as Injun Joe

Harry Myers as Irate Churchgoer

Margaret Hamilton as Mrs. Harper

Lon McCallister as Schoolboy

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

My Father's Dragon

2022

English

6.5

♡ 16

87%

based on children's book

Nora Twomey Director

Golshifteh Farahani as Dela Elevator

Ian McShane as Saiwa

Judy Greer as Soda

Adam Brody as (voice)

Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.

Hinokio

2005

Japanese

6.4

♡ 7

Takahiko Akiyama Director

Maki Horikita as Eriko Akishima

Mikako Tabe as Jun Kudo

Mieko Harada as Sayuri Iwamoto

Ryôko Kobayashi as Sumire Takasaka

Satoru, a wheelchair-bound elementary student, locks himself away from the outside world after his mother dies. His father designs a remote-controlled robot to go to school for him, allowing him to interact with people and do normal things.

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

1990

Arabic

6.7

♡ 33

Férid Boughedir Director

Raouf Ben Amor as Client du coiffeur

Férid Boughedir as Client du coiffeur

Jamel Sassi as Moncef

Mustapha Adouani as Si Azzouz Noura's father

Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old enough to participate in grown-up discussions with the men of his Tunisian village. Noura's only real friend is a troublemaker named Salih -- the village political outcast.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

2010

English

6.2

♡ 82

54%

50%

Action

Animation

breaking the fourth wall

Thor Freudenthal Director

Chloë Grace Moretz as Angie Steadman

Steve Zahn as Frank Heffley

Alistair Abell as Male Reporter

Devon Bostick as Rodrick Heffley

Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid’s life – middle school! That won’t be easy, considering he’s surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!

Palmer

2021

English

7.2

♡ 132

72%

Fisher Stevens Director

Dann Fink as Additional Voices

John McConnell as Hogan Leroux

Wynn Everett as Lucille Coles

Juno Temple as Shelly

After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.

Ilo Ilo

2013

Chinese

7.2

♡ 21

100%

78%

Action

asian financial crisis

Anthony Chen Director

Naomi Toh as English Teacher

Jack Tan as Factory Worker

Yann Yann Yeo as Hwee Leng

Hansel Tan as TV Documentary

During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.

Silent Fall

1994

English

5.9

♡ 5

29%

Bruce Beresford Director

Zahn McClarnon as Deputy Bear

John Lithgow as Dr. Rene Harlinger

Linda Hamilton as Karen Rainer

Liv Tyler as Sylvie Warden

Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr. Jake Rainer. Jake tries to probe the silent child about what he saw, but he gets more details about the Wardens' household dynamics from Tim's teenage sister, Sylvie. As he spends more time with the siblings, Jake learns that the Wardens' marriage was not as perfect as it seemed, and he uncovers other new details that might help solve the crime.

Transit

2018

German

6.9

♡ 21

94%

66%

Action

based on novel or book

Christian Petzold Director

Trystan Pütter as American Consul

Justus von Dohnányi as Conductor

Paula Beer as Marie

Godehard Giese as Richard

In an attempt to flee Nazi-occupied France, Georg assumes the identity of a dead author but soon finds himself stuck in Marseilles, where he falls in love with Maria, a young woman searching for her missing husband.

The Drowning

2016

English

4.5

♡ 22

46%

18%

Action

based on novel or book

Bette Gordon Director

Julia Stiles as Lauren Seymour

Mike Houston as Louis

John C. McGinley as Teddy

Josh Charles as Tom Seymour

A psychiatrist faces his past, present and future when he finds himself involved in the treatment of a young man recently released from prison for a murder committed when the boy was just 11 years old.

The Mask You Live In

2015

English

7.6

♡ 15

67%

Jennifer Siebel Newsom Director

Ashly Burch as Herself - Actress and Writer

Caroline Heldman as Herself - Political Scientist and Educator

Joe Herman as Himself - Coach and Former NLF Player

Michael Kimmel as Himself - Sociologist and Educator

Compared to girls, research shows that boys in the United States are more likely to be diagnosed with a behaviour disorder, prescribed stimulant medications, fail out of school, binge drink, commit a violent crime, and/or take their own lives. The Mask You Live In asks: as a society, how are we failing our boys?

Eli

2019

English

5.8

♡ 101

52%

supernatural phenomena

Thriller

young boy

Ciarán Foy Director

Kelly Reilly as

Sadie Sink as Haley

Lou Beatty Jr. as Motel Owner

Max Martini as Paul

A boy named Eli with a rare autoimmune disorder is confined to a special experimental clinic for his treatment. He soon begins experiencing supernatural forces, turning the supposedly safe facility into a haunted prison for him and his fellow patients.

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