Child Protagonist Movies

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

Three orphans take on a pair of snooty toffs in the Old Town Dog Show.

China, 1997. An unhappy marriage, a love affair and a child who holds all the secrets.

This animated short by Theodore Ushev combines warmth, humour and magic in a story about a young girl who misses her grandmother. When Lili finds a...

Rong Chen would like to keep her place in the recorder group, Shao Yu wants to give up playing. She asks him for tips, and by practicing together,...

Three friends find a treasure map from the mysterious 'White Falcons', a juvenile gang whose leader disappeared ten years before.

Ramon, a twelve year old visit a bicycle shop to fix a puncture. There he meets an old man named Mario, a former amateur cyclist, and was fascinated...

David Wiseman is eleven years old and mad about cricket. He has all the kit but none of the skill. When a Jamaican family moves in next door the...

Five boys and girls. Five small courage. Five different stories. But all linked together. From acclaimed director/writer Shunsuke Okubo ("Clocks...

In the middle of a Texas summer, plans for a babysitter fall through and six-year-old Caroline is left in charge of her two younger siblings.

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel...

By giving non-traditional answers, Pi Pi Lu is seen as a disruptive student by his teacher, Ms. Xu. In her view, only tamed students could be good...

Cadette inadvertently puts Nono at risk trying to befriend her introverted classmate Sam during a class project.

Eva and her younger brother Johnny own two sentient octopuses made out of strange matter. Will their parents divorce and ruin Christmas? Will a...

A talented 12-year-old boy dream of becoming a great soccer player despite his loving grandfather's stern disapproval.

At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. The chicken comes to life, runs away, and finds itself in the teacher's garden....

After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and...

While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient...

Ulrik's Monster is the story of a young boy who feels overlooked and ignored by his parents. This really becomes a problem when a gruesome monster...