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1	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) more movies like this directed by Robert Mulligan featuring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, Robert Duvall, Frank Overton, Brock Peters Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film in 1962 by Horton Foote and the producer/director team of Robert Mulligan and Alan J. Pakula. Set a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses on scrupulously honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch, magnificently embodied by Gregory Peck. Finch puts ... see all copies from £4.02! new only from £4.31!
2	Secondhand Lions (2003) more movies like this directed by Tim McCanlies featuring Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Haley Joel Osment, Kyra Sedgwick, Nicky Katt In this family-friendly comedy drama, Walter (Haley Joel Osment) is a shy and bookish boy just short of his teens whose mother impulsively decides to leave him for the summer with his eccentric grand-uncles, Hub (Robert Duvall) and Garth (Michael Caine). Walter isn't especially happy about being left in the middle of Texas with two old men, while ... see all copies from £3.96! new only from £5.25!
3	Empire of the Sun (1987) more movies like this directed by Steven Spielberg featuring Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun stars Christian Bale as a spoiled young British boy, living with his wealthy family in pre-World War II Shanghai. During the Japanese invasion, Bale is separated from his parents. With the help of soldier-of-fortune John Malkovich, Bale learns to survive without a retinue of ... see all copies from £3.35! new only from £7.10!
4	Billy Elliot (2000) more movies like this directed by Stephen Daldry featuring Julie Walters, Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Jean Heywood Brassed Off meets My Name Is Joe in this gritty coming-of-age drama about a young son of a poor English coal miner who dreams of being a ballet dancer. The film is set during a 1984 miners' strike in Durham county, where angry clashes between picketers and cops in riot gear are nearly daily occurrences. Among the most vociferous protestors are ... see all copies from £2.70! new only from £3.04!
5	Anne of Green Gables (1985) more movies like this directed by Kevin Sullivan featuring Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Farnsworth, Jonathan Crombie, Schuyler Grant Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables, previously filmed in 1934, was afforded a TV-movie treatment in 1985. Megan Follows stars as 13-year-old Anne Shirley, an orphan girl sent to live with a foster family on Canada's Prince Edward Island. Though she has great difficulty controlling her temper, impulsiveness and vivid imagination, ... see all copies from £4.13! new only from £13.43!
6	Pay It Forward (2000) more movies like this directed by Mimi Leder featuring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, Haley Joel Osment, Jay Mohr, James Caviezel A young boy stumbles upon a simple way to change the world in this drama. Trevor (Haley Joel Osment) is a bright 11-year-old boy who comes from a troubled home; his mother Arlene (Helen Hunt) is an alcoholic trying to hold down two jobs to support her son, while Trevor's father Jon Bon Jovi) left his family behind some time ago. At school, Trevor ... see all copies from £2.70! new only from £7.35!
7	The Sixth Sense (1999) more movies like this directed by M. Night Shyamalan featuring Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg In this tense tale of psychological terror, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist whose new patient has a problem far outside his usual area of expertise. Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) is six-years-old and claims to see the spirits of dead people all around him. It seems that Cole has psychic powers and can channel the ghosts of ... see all copies from £2.70! new only from £8.05!
8	Oliver! (1968) more movies like this directed by Carol Reed featuring Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe, Hugh Griffith, Mark Lester, Jack Wild Inspired by Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart's 1961 London and Broadway musical hit glossed over some of Dickens' more graphic passages but managed to retain a strong subtext to what was essentially light entertainment. For its first half-hour or so, Carol Reed's Oscar-winning 1968 film version does a masterful job of telling its ... see all copies from £2.70! new only from £3.38!
9	The Little Princess (1939) more movies like this directed by Walter Lang featuring Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Cesar Romero Shirley Temple's first Technicolor feature, The Little Princess was inspired by the oft-filmed novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Set in turn-of-the-century England, the film finds Temple being enrolled in a boarding school by her wealthy widowed father (Ian Hunter), who must head off to fight in the Boer War. At first, Temple is treated like ... see all copies from £2.70! new only from £3.35!
10	Pollyanna (1960) more movies like this directed by David Swift featuring Jane Wyman, Hayley Mills, Richard Egan, Karl Malden, Nancy Olson, Adolphe Menjou Eleanor H. Porter's story of Pollyanna, "The Glad Girl," was first filmed in 1920 by Mary Pickford. While entertaining, the Pickford version tended to reduce the supporting characters to stereotypes. Disney's 1960 remake of Pollyanna wisely offers three-dimensional characterizations, enhancing the charm and believability of the story. In her first ... see all copies from £3.35! new only from £12.45!
11 view cover	Akeelah and the Bee (2006) more movies like this directed by Doug Atchison featuring Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Keke Palmer, Curtis Armstrong, Tzi Ma A young girl learns to believe in herself and value her intelligence in this critically-acclaimed, family-friendly drama. Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer) is an 11-year-old being raised by her mother, Tanya (Angela Bassett), who was left on her own after the death of her husband. While Akeelah is a very bright girl, she's hardly a star student and ... see all copies from £4.08! new only from £7.43!
12 view cover	Whale Rider (2003) more movies like this directed by Niki Caro featuring Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Grant Roa Based on the novel of the same name by Maori writer Witi Ihimaera, Whale Rider is a unique family drama directed Niki Caro. On the eastern coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning by riding home on the back of a whale. The tribal group has since granted leadership positions to the first-born ... see all copies from £4.47! new only from £8.09!
13 view cover	A Little Princess (1995) more movies like this directed by Alfonso Cuarón featuring Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Liesel Matthews, Rusty Schwimmer, Arthur Malet A privileged, free-spirited young girl tries to adapt to life in a strict boarding school in this charming, critically acclaimed children's fantasy. Adapting a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also the author of The Secret Garden, the film shifts the story's setting to World War I. 10 year-old Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews) has been left in a ... see all copies from £1.94! new only from £5.81!
14 view cover	Simon Birch (1998) more movies like this directed by Mark Steven Johnson featuring Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt, David Strathairn This comedy-drama features a narration by Jim Carrey, looking back to childhood in a manner similar to the narration on TV's The Wonder Years. The film is the directorial debut of writer Mark Steven Johnson, scripter of Grumpy Old Men and its sequel. Johnson adapted only a small portion of John Irving's 600-page novel A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989 ... see all copies from £2.70! new only from £5.89!
15 view cover	The Secret Garden (1993) more movies like this directed by Agnieszka Holland featuring Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, Maggie Smith, Laura Crossley The 1993 remake of The Secret Garden is a beautifully produced rendition of the classic Frances Hodgon Burnett novel about a young girl (Kate Maberly) who discovers an abandoned garden on her uncle's large Victorian country estate, as well as an invalid cousin she didn't realize she had. With the help of a local boy, the girl sets out to restore ... see all copies from £2.70! new only from £6.46!
16 view cover	The Secret Garden (1987) more movies like this directed by Alan Grint featuring Alison Doody, Derek Jacobi, Gennie James, Lucy Gutteridge This made-for-TV adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden stars Gennie James as spoiled-rotten Mary Lennox. When her parents die of cholera, Mary is whisked from her home in India to live in the forbidding Victorian mansion of her flint-hearted uncle (Derek Jacobi). Thanks to the friendship--and vivid imagination--of gardener's ... see all copies from £4.02!
17 view cover	Eve's Bayou (1997) more movies like this directed by Kasi Lemmons featuring Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield, Debbi Morgan A young girl learns some difficult lessons about truth, love, and fidelity in this critically-acclaimed Southern gothic drama. Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett) is a ten-year-old girl whose father Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) is a successful and well-liked doctor in an African-American community in Louisiana. Louis is a good father and an excellent ... see all copies from £2.93! new only from £5.69!
18 view cover	Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) more movies like this directed by Wayne Wang featuring AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Eva Marie Saint, Dave Matthews It's not finishing school or a traditional upbringing that causes ten-year-old Opal to learn about the world outside of her own backyard, but rather a particularly awkward-looking mutt named Winn-Dixie. Based on a novel by Kate DiCamillo, Winn-Dixie and Opal not only become privy to the eventful, if eccentric, lives of their neighbors (including a ... see all copies from £4.37! new only from £6.41!
19 view cover	National Velvet (1944) more movies like this directed by Clarence Brown featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury Although National Velvet was the first starring role for 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, the early part of the film belongs to Mickey Rooney in the showier role of Mike Taylor, a headstrong English ex-jockey. Soured on life by a serious accident, Mike plans to steal from the country family that has taken him in, but his resolve is weakened by the ... see all copies from £2.70! new only from £4.00!
20 view cover	In America (2003) more movies like this directed by Jim Sheridan featuring Samantha Morton, Paddy Considine, Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger, Djimon Hounsou After chronicling various chapters of Irish history in such films as In the Name of the Father and The Field, writer/director Jim Sheridan turns his lens upon his own family's experiences immigrating to the United States in the aptly titled In America. The loosely autobiographical script centers on Johnny (Paddy Considine), a young actor sneaking ... see all copies from £2.70! new only from £8.05!
21 view cover	How Green Was My Valley (1941) more movies like this directed by John Ford featuring Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, Barry Fitzgerald, Anna Lee Spanning 50 years, director John Ford's How Green Was My Valley revolves around the life of the Morgans, a Welsh mining family, as told through the eyes of its youngest child Huw (Roddy McDowall). Over the years, the family struggles to survive through unionization, strikes, and child abuse. As they do so, their hometown and its culture begins to ... see all copies from £4.05! new only from £5.40!
22 view cover	My Dog Skip (2000) more movies like this directed by Jay W. Russell featuring Frankie Muniz, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Kevin Bacon, Caitlin Wachs The popular memoir by Pulitzer prize-winning author Willie Morris became this family comedy-drama about a boy and his dog. Young Willie Morris (Frankie Muniz) is a shy eight-year-old in 1942 Yazoo, MS, who is more comfortable reading than playing sports. A target for local bullies, Willie's only real pal is his older next-door neighbor Dink ... see all copies from £2.70! new only from £3.38!
23 view cover	Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) more movies like this directed by Steven Zaillian featuring Joe Mantegna, Max Pomeranc, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne Searching for Bobby Fischer was inspired by the life of chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin, as written by his father Fred Waitzkin. Josh (Max Pomeranc) is a "regular kid" who begins evincing signs of being a genius at chess. His father (Joe Mantegna) encourages this, hoping that it won't fundamentally change his son's healthy outlook on life. But Josh is ... see all copies from £2.71! new only from £6.25!
24 view cover	A House without a Christmas Tree (1972) more movies like this directed by Paul Bogart Embittered by the death of his wife, James Mills (Jason Robards) refuses to buy a Christmas tree for his 10-year-old daughter Addie (Lisa Lucas). Undaunted, Addie wins a Christmas tree at school, which enrages her father. With the help of her loving grandmother (Mildred Natwick), Addie eventually melts her father's quick-frozen heart. Set in 1946 ... see all copies from £4.77! new only from £7.43!
25 view cover	I Am David (2004) more movies like this directed by Paul Feig featuring Ben Tibber, James Caviezel, Joan Plowright, Hristo Shopov, Silvia De Santis A young boy is sent on a remarkable odyssey as he flees a Communist prison camp in this historical drama, set in Eastern Europe in the early '50s. David (Ben Tibber) is a 12-year-old boy who was sentenced with his parents to a Bulgarian labor camp when they were found guilty of political subversion; he hasn't seen his folks in years, and looks to ... see all copies from £4.81! new only from £8.27!

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