My "Top 50" Coming-of-Age/Childhood Movie Wishlist for Bluray

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My "Top 50" Coming-of-Age/Childhood Movie Wishlist for Bluray

Of the many, many movies I have seen, this list represents some of the best coming-of-age movies NOT out on pressed bluray region free or region A.

Some of these have never even made it to dvd. All of these can be found online in English or with English subtitles if you know where to look.

It would be amazing to see these incredible films treated to a quality remaster!

I would love to hear your thoughts! And your coming-of-age/childhood wishes and recommendations for bluray.

FOUND!: These titles from the list have been found on Region A/Free bluray with English subtitles and taken off the list - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...1&postcount=11



For more coming-of-age/childhood films sadly missing on blu...
My Forbidden Love Classics Wishlist For Bluray - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=323197

Angela (1995)
Not Rated | 1h 39min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112364

The ten year-old Angela and her little sister Ellie move to an old house in the countryside with her parents Mae and Andrew. Their mother has mental illness and has just left an institution and her husband tries to keep the dysfunctional family together. Angela is an imaginative disturbed girl that might have inherited the illness of her mother and is obsessed by purification to get rid of her sins; and has visions of the fallen angel Lucifer and the Virgin Mary. She leads her little sister in her paranoia and uses a circle of toys and dolls to protect them against evil. They have a crazy neighbor that Angela believes is an angel and she asks the woman how to find the way to heaven. When Mae returns to the institution, Angela becomes uncontrollable in her quest to heaven.

Anna to the Infinite Power (1983)
Not Rated | 1h 41min | Sci-Fi

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085169

Anna Hart was always an odd child, a genius, a shoplifter, desperately afraid of flickering lights, with strange prophetic dreams. Simultaneously, several strange things begin to happen. A strange, mysterious neighbor, by the name of MacKayla moves in next door to the Harts. And, most frightening of all, Anna sees her exact double on the television one night. As her investigation of the other Anna, Anna Smithson, progresses, she begins to learn the truth. The truth about a woman named Anna Zimmerman that has been dead for twenty years, and most importantly, the truth about herself.

The Annunciation (1984)
Angyali üdvözlet
1h 40min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123381

When Adam and Eve having succumbed to Lucifer's temptation, are cast out of the Garden of Eden, Adam holds Lucifer to his promise, reminding him that "You said I would know everything!". So Lucifer grants Adam a dream of the world to come. And what a bizarre dream: Adam becomes Miltiades in Athens; a knight called Tancred in Byzantium; Kepler in Prague; Danton in revolutionary Paris; and a nameless suitor in Victorian London. Guided by a deceptively sweet but ultimately contemptuous Lucifer, Adam confronts an endless procession of the horror of the human story - rapists and concubines, betrayal and savagery, mindless cruelty and fanaticism.

Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
R | 1h 38min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115633

A mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture. Will their family ever be what they expect?

The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
PG | 1h 54min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090768

An autistic boy who dreams of flying touches everyone he meets, including a new family who has moved in after their father dies.

Buldermanden (1996)
18min | Short, Family

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185962

The first of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen. The two siblings Ida and Skrubsak are visiting their grandmother, a harsh woman without much understanding of small people and their thoughts and feelings. When the children show signs of naughtiness, she threatens them with the Bogey Man, who lives in the chimney and eats bad children. Grandmother has given Skrubsak a yelping teddy bear, and severely affected by jealousy Ida suggests to him that he should show the teddy bear to the Bogey Man. Fearless Skrubsak follows Ida's proposal - so far that he is lowered into the deep chimney.

and

Southern Comfort (1997)
Lykkefanten (original title)
57min | Drama, Family

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186326

Harsh realism and pure magic go hand in hand in this moving story about love, abandonment and alcohol. 7-year old Ida, a brave little girl, has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, feed the family and keep the child welfare officers at stake. Ida's father has left the family for another woman, and so far Mum has found consolation in the bottle.

and

Ogginoggen (1997)
40min | Short, Drama, Romance

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186415

Ida and her family are recovering from the divorce. She is looking forward to the upcoming dance contest. She is also growing up and developing romantic urges of her own. But romance almost destroyed her family and almost cost her her life and Ida wants nothing to do with it. Which is stronger, biology or will-power.

The Cay (1974)
1h | Adventure, Drama, Family

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246477

When Young Phillip is separated from his mother and found by a black man named Timothy and his cat Stewcat, Phillip becomes blind and they all end up on an island. Will they survive or will they die?

The Cement Garden (1993)
Not Rated | 1h 41min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106535

Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin to deteriorate mentally, whilst they hide their mom's decomposing corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus.

C'est la vie (1990)
La Baule-les-Pins (original title)
1h 50min | Drama, Romance

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099200

In 1950s France, teenage Frederique (Julie Bataille) and her younger sister, Sophie (Candice Lefranc), are enjoying their summer vacation at a seaside villa, cared for by their nanny. Their mother, Lena (Nathalie Baye), drops by with Jean-Claude (Vincent Lindon), a young painter. When the girls' father, Michel (Richard Berry), shows up and can barely hide his anger, Frederique realizes that her mother is having an affair, and her parents' marriage may be disintegrating under the summer sun.

The Champ (1979)
PG | 2h 1min | Drama, Sport

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078950

A former boxer discovers that his biggest battle of all is going to be with his ex-wife, Annie, who returns after abandoning their young son seven years prior.

The Children of Theatre Street (1977)
G | 1h 30min | Documentary

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075839

A documentary on the Kirov School of Ballet in Russia, narrated by Princess Grace of Monaco.

Ciao, Professore! (1992)
Io speriamo che me la cavo (original title)
R | 1h 40min | Comedy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107225

A teacher must deal with the underworld of Naples and the family problems of his students.

The Demilitarized Zone (1965)
Bimujang jidae (original title)
1h 2min | Drama, War

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321451

The film exposes the atrocities of war through the eyes of two children who are stranded in the DMZ after the end of the Korean War. The DMZ, strewn with abandoned tanks, dead bodies, land mines, and unexploded shells, is an exceedingly dangerous place for children. But what most endangers them in the end are not weapons but people.

Fire-Eater (1998)
Tulennielijä (original title)
1h 40min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120872

The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the protection of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged Helena has looked into her past, ceased to hate and now, for the first time in her life, voluntarily accepts responsibility for another human being.

Forbidden Games (1952)
Jeux interdits (original title)
Not Rated | 1h 26min | Drama, War

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043686

A young French girl orphaned in a Nazi air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.

Fruit Is Swelling (1997)
Mat to sing suk si 1997 (original title)
1h 30min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167945

Sex comedy about two 8 year old girls who want to become adults. One day through magic this happens, but how should they handle this new situation?

The Girl and the Echo (1964)
Paskutine atostogu diena (original title)
59min | Drama, Family, Romance

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0194918/

Movie about a friendship of two children - a girl and a boy during the last day of summer holiday

A Girl Named Sooner (1975)
1h 25min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073047

A young girl in the hills of Indiana, who had been abandoned by her family and raised by a bootlegging old woman, is taken by the authorities and made the ward of a childless couple.

Ham and Chips (1977)
Jambon d'Ardenne (original title)
1h 26min | Comedy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209052

World Wars can break out for futile causes. But, in the holiday town of Durbuy (the smallest one in Belgium), there IS a good reason for civil war, namely the business rivalry between Simone, the energetic and successful owner of the Esplanade Hotel and Germaine Radoux, the envious tenant of the French fries stand across the square. Such an unbearable situation naturally pits half of the population against the other. Things do not improve when Simone's son and Germaine's daughter take it into their head to fall in love!

I'm the King of the Castle (1989)
Je suis le seigneur du château (original title)
1h 30min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097614/

Thomas is the 12-year-old son of a millionaire who lives in a big mansion surrounded by woods in France. When his mother dies, his father hires a widowed maid to take care of everything while he is away. The woman brings her only son, Charles, to live with them and, hopefully, be company to lonesome Thomas. The rich boy and the poor one become enemies from the very first encounter. Moved essentially by jealousy and fear, Thomas decides to turn Charles' life into a hell on Earth, especially after their parents eventually fall in love. As the title suggests, he wants to make it clear to the invader who is the lord of the castle.

In the Morning at Seven the World Is Still in Order (1968)
Morgens um Sieben ist die Welt noch in Ordnung (original title)
1h 36min | Comedy, Family

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064696

A quirky family lives their simple but joyful life which centers around the youngest family member, a little boy.

King of Thieves (2003)
König der Diebe (original title)
1h 41min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206866

Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West. Caruso smuggles them to Berlin and separates them from each other. Mimma is sold to prostitution, while Barbu is taught to snatch purses together with an older Albanian boy Marcel. Barbu finds out about Mimma's fate and decides to free her from the brothel.

Lawn Dogs (1997)
R | 1h 41min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119506

When Devon, a 10-year-old girl, forges a friendship with Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, things suddenly get very complicated and private.

An Impudent Girl (1985)
L'effrontée (original title)
1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Music

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089072

Charlotte (Gainsbourg) is being raised without a mother. She is only 13 but ready to be an adult. She meets an older boy and begins a relationship while teaching a young friend about life and learning the ropes herself.

Innocence (2004)
R | 2h 2min | Drama, Mystery

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375233

A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.

The Last Butterfly (1991)
Poslední motýl (original title)
PG-13 | 1h 58min | Drama, War

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100393

Stage mime Antoine Moreau (Sir Tom Courtenay) is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau slowly learns the true nature of the camp, including the meaning of the "transports" on which people leave. With a world-class orchestra (made up of people interned in the camp) and a cast of children, Moreau stages a show to end all shows.

Little Darlings (1980)
R | 1h 36min | Comedy, Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081060/

Two fifteen year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.

A Little Princess (1995)
G | 1h 37min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113670

and


A Little Princess TV Series (1973– ) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073301/

and

The Little Princess (1939) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031580/

A young girl is relegated to servitude at a boarding school when her father goes missing and is presumed dead.

Manny & Lo (1996)
R | 1h 28min | Comedy, Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116985

A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.

Ma Vie en Rose (1997)
R | 1h 28min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119590

Ludovic is an innocent seven-year-old child who provokes horror in her community when she dresses in girls clothes and insists she's a girl.

Mixed Company (1974)
PG | 1h 49min | Drama, Family

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071850

Joseph Bologna portrays a racially prejudiced basketball coach who is persuaded to adopt three (more!) kids of mixed ethnic backgrounds. Frustrated and angry at first, his feelings soon turn to love.

Mort un dimanche de pluie (1986)
1h 49min | Horror, Thriller

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091556

Thriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand. Many years after the accident, Bronsky shows up at Briand's residence with his family and his trailer looking for assistance. He and his wife insinuate themselves into the household without revealing their true identity. They start to work for Briand and his wife Elaine as a gardener and a babysitter with the sole objective of wreaking havoc on their lives and avenging Bronsky's disabilities.

Nobody's Daughter (1976)
Árvácska (original title)
Unrated | 1h 23min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075463

An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adopting parents.

Olivier, Olivier (1992)
R | 1h 50min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102583

A nine-year-old boy disappears without a trace. Six years later, he reappears in Paris but there are doubts about his real identity.

Olyan, mint otthon (1978)
1h 48min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078027

Returning from America, Andras tries to renew a relationship with Anna, an old flame but she refuses. His decision to buy a dog for companionship leads to a meeting with a little girl, and the film traces their relationship.

Paper Moon (1973)
PG | 1h 42min | Comedy, Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070510

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

The Pocket Lover (1978)
L'amant de poche (original title)
1h 35min | Comedy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077155

"The Pocket Lover" tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julien will have to face several obstacles, which includes his parents opposition with this affair, and Julien's own perceptions about the woman's line of work, going out with wealthy guys.

Pups (1999)
R | 1h 39min | Action, Crime, Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185101/

Two teens impulsively decide to rob a bank, a la Bonnie and Clyde. Quickly they find themselves in over their heads as they are forced to take a bank full of hostages and the FBI are at the door. Hostages include a heroin addicted Gulf War vet, the pesky bank manager, a gruff old man, a calm bank employee, and a helpful young woman. The head FBI man must sort through the psychology of all the participants to try to keep the events from escalating. Underlying in all of this is the pure adolescence of the two who initiate the trouble.

Quand j'avais 5 ans je m'ai tué (1994)
1h 40min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110931

This film is about Gils, a young boy (about ten) in a juvenile mental hospital in 1950's France. Flashbacks recount his conflicts with authority and his strong relationship with Jessica, a similarly rebellious schoolmate. Simultaneously, a compassionate doctor develops a trusting friendship with Gils, which a higher-ranking authoritarian doctor tries to thwart.

Robby (1968)
1h | Adventure, Drama, Family

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063513

Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a young boy befriends an abandoned native youth, forcing him to reevaluate societal prejudice about race, religion and nudity.

The Secret Garden (1993)
G | 1h 41min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108071

and

The Secret Garden (1987) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093935/

and

The Secret Garden TV Series (1975– ) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073675/

A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings -- and its secrets.

The Shiralee TV Mini-Series (1987)
Not Rated | 3h | Drama, Family

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094546

Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.

Some Birds Can't Fly (1997)
Ptice koje ne polete (original title)
1h 30min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133162

Doctors predicted to Vesna one more year. Very sick girl was taken by her grandfather to the mountains. However, in this true story, faith played with little Vesna.

Somewhere Near Conakry (1992)
Quelque part vers Conakry (original title)
1h 18min

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105203

1971: Guinea, thirteen years after independence. A revolutionary storm is brewing on the streets of the city of Fria. Somewhere near Conakry - Children play, far from the adults' worries. The gigantic land stretches from the savanna to the marshes. In this mosaic of people in conflict, Jacques leads his warriors though an Africa that has been torn apart, where only children and the elderly have kept a innocent look in their eyes. Beyond the taboos and laws governing the country, Jacques and Madiou, the little African boy, will experience the trial of friendship and parting.

Take Me to the River (2015)
Not Rated | 1h 24min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3142366/

Ryder (Logan Miller), an artsy, confident California teen is heading to Nebraska for a family reunion. After planning to come out to his conservative relatives, he holds off at his mother's request, but nevertheless makes a showy entrance at the cookout with his short shorts and his eye-catching shades. No one seems particularly impressed except his nine-year old cousin Molly (Ursula Parker), who likes to follow him around. When they go to the barn to look for birds in the rafters and she comes back screaming and inconsolable, Ryder comes under suspicion and, in the process of clearing his name, learns that some family secrets are sometimes better kept that way.

Tendres cousines (1980)
R | 1h 30min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081614

With the outbreak of WWII, the sudden call to arms will send the men of a family's estate to the front, leaving a curious adolescent alone with the remaining women of the house, in need of a warm embrace and, possibly, a daring kiss.

The Thief (1997) TWO VERSIONS (USA and Russian)
Vor (original title)
R | 1h 36min | Crime, Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124207

In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a play for her. She accepts. Posing as a married family, the soldier finds them a rooming house where he becomes everyone's favorite through his good looks and generosity. Meanwhile he gives the boy, Sanya, lessons in life: to fight back, to win at all costs. The child's mother, Katya, is head-over-heels in love with Tolyan, the soldier, but the relationship becomes rocky when Tolyan's true plans for the rooming house become clear. It starts them on a treadmill of flight that risks Katya's life, Tolyan's liberty, and Sanya's trust.

Tiger Bay (1959)
Not Rated | 1h 45min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053361/

A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.

Tom and Lola (1990)
Tom et Lola (original title)
1h 37min | Sci-Fi

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098488

Their immune systems tragically damaged at birth, TOM AND LOLA are two beautiful children forever isolated in plastic bubbles. But neither cold urethane nor chillier hospital technicians can keep down the beguiling spirit of these indomitable siblings. Nor can anything stop their quest to one day run naked and truly free, unbound from the medical shackles that bind them. Magnifique!

Travelling Circus (1988)
Gánh Xiêc Rong (original title)
1h 16min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286644/

Viet Linh tells the bittersweet story of a small traveling circus from Hanoi stopping in an impoverished ethnic minority village in Vietnam’s central highlands.

Valentina (1982)
PG | 1h 32min | Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084847

In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.

Viva Cuba (2005)
Not Rated | 1h 32min | Comedy, Drama

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477916

In a tale akin to Romeo and Juliet, the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malu is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist that is proud of her family's social standing. She places similar restriction on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malu and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malu's mother is planning to leave Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malu's father and persuade him against signing the forms that would allow it.

Young Aphrodites (1963)
Mikres Afrodites (original title)
1h 28min | Drama, Romance

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057307

200 BC. During a merciless drought, the brute nature of man and the delicate essence of woman become inextricably intertwined, as the omnipotence of the carnal instinct demands the total surrender of the flesh.