Best movies with child leads.

[jasonjl]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

Still quite a major character...dammit.

yeah, she stole the show

[Shanester]

Originally Posted by jasonjl

yeah, she stole the show

I concur with both of you. She was awesome!

[Foggy]

Beasts of the Southern Wild is probably the best one.
Super 8 is great as well.
Let Me In kids are good (although the film simply works better in it's original setting)
E.T is a great example as well, along with The Goonies.

No one has mentioned Son of Rambow yet though, which is a really fantastic film led completely by kids.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Thirteen
Leon: The Professional

[principehomura]

Moonrise Kingdom
My Girl
Stand by me
ET
The Goonies
Home Alone 1 and 2
The Monster Squad
The Wizard
Super 8

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by menaceuk

Since I am feeling nice today I will let you have it

Originally Posted by jasonjl

yeah, she stole the show

Originally Posted by Shanester

I concur with both of you. She was awesome!

Right on!

[cricepng]

Annie
Christmas Story
Flight of the Navigator
Goonies
The NeverEnding Story

[TommySyk]

Let Me In
Hugo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
E.T

I can't remember more

[toddly6666]

What a retarded statement - some of the best movies have children in leading roles. Here are some of the good ones:

The Adventures of Baron Manchausen
Annie
The Blue Umbrella
Bugsy Malone
Cinema Paradiso
Empire of the Sun
The Fall
Flight of the Navigator
Hugo
Labyrinth
Little Fugitive
Malena
Moonrise Kingdom
My Life as a Dog
The Neverending Story
Oliver Twist (David Lean)
Pan's Labyrinth
Rushmore
Terminator 2
Time Bandits
Pathfinder (Norway)
Wanda Nevada (Brooke Shields)
Lord of the Flies
The Sixth Sense
The Black Stallion
Stand by Me
Goonies
Shirly Temple films
The Shining
Explorers
Super 8
Old Yeller
Billy Elliot
Little Miss Sunshine
Paper Moon
A Perfect World
Captains Courageous
The Kid (Chaplin)
Orphan
Firestarter
The Omen
A Christmas Story
The Last Emperor

[macabradoll]

A Little Princess (1995)
The Secret Garden (1993)

[Jbug]

I vote Secret Garden also w/Kate Maberly (1993) as well as The Company of Wolves w/Sarah Patterson. Some kid leads can be annoying like the pod race kid in episode 4 of the Star War movies but the young stars in these two movies are keepers.

[RomanBlade86]

Home Alone!

[Saints 2010]

Stand by Me is probably the standout film for me.

[EPlay]

Dare Mo Shiranai (Nobody Knows)
Kiseki (I Wish)

[DaViD Boulet]

just read:

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-B...Blu-ray/94109/

Joy...

Now if we could get the Secret Garden and Whale Rider on Blu-ray, I'd be content!

dave

[blufellas]

City of God - nothing comes close, IMHO.

[L.J.]

The Sixth Sense

[arrow61095]

Leon: The Professional
Empire of the Sun

Kick Ass (Chloë Grace Moretz) wasn't the main character, but she was part of the main cast.

Ender's Game

runner up:
Hugo

I do have to say that on TV, I have been impressed by the child acting on Game of Thrones. (There is really no main character on the show.)
Maisie Williams as Arya Stark does a great job &
Jack Gleeson as Joffrey Baratheon does a perfect job of playing a character that everyone hates.
Even Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark and Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark are decent.

[SLeeK]

Originally Posted by arrow61095

Leon: The Professional
Empire of the Sun

Kick Ass (Chloë Grace Moretz) wasn't the main character, but she was part of the main cast.

Ender's Game

runner up:
Hugo

I do have to say that on TV, I have been impressed by the child acting on Game of Thrones. (There is really no main character on the show.)
Maisie Williams as Arya Stark does a great job &
Jack Gleeson as Joffrey Baratheon does a perfect job of playing a character that everyone hates.
Even Isaac Hempstead-Wright as Bran Stark and Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark are decent.

Pretty sure Jack Gleeson is much older than his character in the show, but the girl who plays Arya is excellent, good call on that.

[agoofykindasuperman]

Originally Posted by SLeeK

Pretty sure Jack Gleeson is much older than his character in the show, but the girl who plays Arya is excellent, good call on that.

Currently, Jack is 20, so he was just a teenager when he started GoT.

Have to agree with arrow, the kids (and everyone else) in GoT were cast perfectly for their roles.

To add to the list, I love child-led movies. In fact, I often seek them out. Coming of Age movies are some of my favourite flicks of all time. Here's another two I didn't see mentioned yet;

Kings of Summer
The Impossible - Tom Holland stole the show