Movies about boys often show what it’s like to grow up and figure out who you are. They explore everyday challenges like friendships, family issues, and finding your place in the world. These stories feel real because they capture the mix of excitement and confusion that comes with youth, making it easy to connect with the characters and their personal struggles.
38 Movies
2024
14-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbour of the same age, Alexander, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality....
1999
An eight-year-old boy named Cole Sear believes he can see the spirits of the dead. Seeking to help him, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe begins therapy sessions with Cole—only to discover that ...
2010
A family’s world is turned upside down when their son mysteriously falls into an unending sleep. As they seek the help of a professional, they soon realize the dark forces haunting their home a...
2017
The story of August Pullman, a young boy with facial differences, as he faces the challenges of entering fifth grade and attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time....
2014
After a disastrous blind date, a man and woman unexpectedly end up stuck together at a family resort, where their initial frustration slowly turns into attraction—while their kids thrive from t...
2005
A young boy wins a once-in-a-lifetime tour of the world’s most extraordinary chocolate factory, guided by its eccentric and enigmatic candy maker....
1982
A middle-aged man looks back on the 48 most defining hours of his youth—the brief, intense window that shaped the rest of his life. As a teenager in 1937, on the eve of major political upheaval...
1986
After losing a close friend, a writer looks back on a formative childhood adventure a quest he and his buddies undertook to find the body of a missing boy....
2013
During his summer break, a teenage boy begins to discover himself, guided in part by an unexpected friendship with one of the park’s managers....
1993
Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mother and stepfather and is determined to learn how to play baseball. The local baseball prodigy, Rodriguez, takes him under his wing, pulling him i...
2003
After her father’s tragic death, Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but embittered aunt. Armed with the “Glad Game†her father taught her—finding something to b...
2008
When Bruno’s family relocates from their home in Berlin to an unfamiliar house in Poland, the young boy befriends Shmuel, a child living on the other side of a fence where everyone wears stripe...
