The Best Movies About Childhood
“What are the best movies about Childhood?” We looked at 195 of the top films about Childhood, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 51 films, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Childhood” movie lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 100+ movies, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
We’ve also put together a video of the Top 7 Movies About Childhood for those looking only for the top few:
Top 51 Childhood Movies
51 .) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa’s alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles: Aunt Sissy’s scandalous succession of “husbands”; the removal of the one tree visible from their tenement; and young Francie’s desire to transfer to a better school…if irresponsible Papa can get his act together.
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50 .) Babe (1995)
Lists It Appears On:
- EW
- Hollywood
Babe is a little pig who doesn’t quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mom, Babe realizes that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hogget knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
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49 .) Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in ‘the Bathtub’, a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe – for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack – temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.
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48 .) Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village’s theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater’s projectionist.
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47 .) Come and See
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI 2
- Criterion Close-Up
The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family’s wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
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46 .) E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Screen Rant
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien.
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45 .) Fish Tank (2009)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- Reel Rundown
Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
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44 .) Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (1989)
Lists It Appears On:
- Hollywood
- Screen Rant
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
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43 .) Hook (1991)
Lists It Appears On:
- Hollywood
- Screen Rant
The boy who wasn’t supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—did just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. But a trip to see Granny Wendy in London, where the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter’s kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland, could lead to a chance at redemption, in this family-oriented fantasy from director Steven Spielberg.
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42 .) Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI 2
- Reel Rundown
Poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth.
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41 .) Jurassic Park (1993)
Lists It Appears On:
- Hollywood
- USA Today
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
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40 .) King of the Hill
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- IndieWire
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
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39 .) Life of Pi (2012)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper’s son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
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38 .) Lord of the Flies (1963)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Reel Rundown
Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps — one led by the pragmatic Ralph and the other by militaristic Jack — their society falls into disarray, leading to a disturbing examination of human nature and a chilling conclusion.
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37 .) Mirror
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI 2
- Criterion Close-Up
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
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36 .) Mouchette
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- Taste Of Cinema
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
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35 .) Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Lists It Appears On:
- Hollywood
- Refinery 29
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job — disguised as an English nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children’s best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.
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34 .) My Neighbor Totorro (1988)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- Reel Rundown
Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.
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33 .) Nobody Knows
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI 2
- Criterion Close-Up
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
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32 .) Now and Then (1995)
Lists It Appears On:
- Hollywood
- Refinery 29
Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends — Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta — recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more.
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31 .) Shoeshine (1946)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride…
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30 .) Stand By Me
Lists It Appears On:
- Refinery 29
- Screen Rant
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
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29 .) The Apple (1998)
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI
- BFI 2
After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
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28 .) The Children Are Watching Us (1944)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
The film follows a four-year old boy named Prico as he becomes the subject of emotional folly by his fluctuant parents and inattentive relatives. In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
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27 .) The Goonies
Lists It Appears On:
- Refinery 29
- Screen Rant
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father’s attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.
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26 .) The Kid with a Bike (2011)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Reel Rundown
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
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25 .) The Long Day Closes (1992)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Taste Of Cinema
Set in Kensington, a working-class district of Liverpool, England in mid-1950s, this is the story of eleven-year-old Bud, a sad and lonely boy. With cinema as his main source of solace, he haunts the local ‘picture-house’. All the while, his family looms large in our peripheral vision as do the menacing bullies of his school, but Bud is the centre of attention both from the camera’s angle and from his doting family.
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24 .) The Neverending Story (1984)
Lists It Appears On:
- Hollywood
- Screen Rant
While hiding from bullies in his school’s attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.
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23 .) The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI 2
- IMDB
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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22 .) The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope – and the unforgettable friends that help us through life.
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21 .) The Princess Bride (1987)
Lists It Appears On:
- Hollywood
- Refinery 29
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can’t stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.
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20 .) Treeless Mountain (2008)
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI 2
- Reel Rundown
In Seoul, Korea, two sisters must look after each other when their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father.
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19 .) Wadjda (2012)
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Reel Rundown
Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn’t be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda’s mother won’t allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself…
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18 .) Zero for Conduct
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- Taste Of Cinema
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the director on a celebration day.
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17 .) Forbidden Games (1952)
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI 2
- IMDB
- IndieWire
Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette’s deceased pet dog. Eventually, however, Paulette’s stay with Michel’s family is threatened by the harsh realities of wartime.
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16 .) Home Alone (1990)
Lists It Appears On:
- Hollywood
- Refinery 29
- USA Today
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin’s house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stands his ground as his frantic mother attempts to race home before.
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15 .) Kes (1969)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
- Taste Of Cinema
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
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14 .) My Girl (1991)
Lists It Appears On:
- Hollywood
- Refinery 29
- USA Today
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is “allergic to everything”, and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada’s father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse…
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13 .) My Life as a Dog (1984)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
- Reel Rundown
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
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12 .) The Lion King (1994)
Lists It Appears On:
- Hollywood
- Refinery 29
- USA Today
A young lion cub named Simba can’t wait to be king. But his uncle craves the title for himself and will stop at nothing to get it.
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11 .) The Little Mermaid (1989)
Lists It Appears On:
- EW
- Hollywood
- Refinery 29
This colorful adventure tells the story of an impetuous mermaid princess named Ariel who falls in love with the very human Prince Eric and puts everything on the line for the chance to be with him. Memorable songs and characters — including the villainous sea witch Ursula.
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10 .) The Red Balloon (1956)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- EW
- IMDB
In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world’s harsh realities finally interfere. With its glorious palette and allegorical purity, this Academy Award-winning short film has enchanted young and old for generations.
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9 .) To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
- Taste Of Cinema
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
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8 .) Toy Story (1995)
Lists It Appears On:
- EW
- Hollywood
- Refinery 29
Led by Woody, Andy’s toys live happily in his room until Andy’s birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy’s heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.
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7 .) Boyhood (2014)
Lists It Appears On:
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
- IndieWire
- Reel Rundown
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
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6 .) Cria Cuervos (1976)
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI 2
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
- Taste Of Cinema
In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after seeing her mother having a painful death and her father dead in bed.
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5 .) Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI
- Criterion Close-Up
- Reel Rundown
- Taste Of Cinema
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
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4 .) Pather Panchali (1955)
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
- Taste Of Cinema
The film is a coming-of-age story of a young boy named Apu, and life in his small Indian village in the early years of the 20th century. Apu is born to a poor Brahmin family in Bengal. His father Harihar is a priest who dreams of becoming a successful poet and a playwright; he does not earn enough, but the mother Sarbajaya keeps the family going. Because of their limited resources, Sarbajaya resents having to share her home with Harihar’s elderly cousin: the old and helpless cripple Indir. Apu’s sister Durga is always getting into trouble for stealing guavas from the neighbour’s orchards for Indir. She cares for Apu like a good older sister but loves to affectionately tease him. Together, they make do with what they have and enjoy the simple joys of life.
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3 .) The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI
- BFI 2
- IMDB
- Reel Rundown
In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl in a rural Spanish hamlet is traumatized after a traveling projectionist screens a print of James Whale’s 1931 “Frankenstein” for the village. The youngster is profoundly disturbed by the scenes in which the monster murders the little girl and is later killed himself by the villagers. She questions her sister about the profundities of life and death and believes her older sibling when she tells her that the monster is not dead, but exists as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn. When a Loyalist soldier, a fugitive from Franco’s victorious army, hides out in the barn, Ana crosses from reality into a fantasy world of her own.
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2 .) The Sandlot (1993)
Lists It Appears On:
- Hollywood
- IndieWire
- Refinery 29
- Screen Rant
- USA Today
Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair.
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1 .) The 400 Blows (1959)
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI 2
- Criterion Close-Up
- IMDB
- IndieWire
- Reel Rundown
- Taste Of Cinema
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
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The 100+ Additional Best Movies To Depict Childhood
| # | Movie | Lists |
| (Films Appear On 1 List Each) | ||
| 52 | 8½ | BFI 2 |
| 53 | A Christmas Story (Dir. Bob Clark, 1983) | Taste Of Cinema |
| 54 | A Goofy Movie (1995) | Hollywood |
| 55 | A Kid for Two Farthings | BFI 2 |
| 56 | À Nos Amours | BFI 2 |
| 57 | A.I. (2001) | BFI |
| 58 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) | Hollywood |
| 59 | Adventures in Babysitting | Screen Rant |
| 60 | Aladdin (1992) | Hollywood |
| 61 | Alamar (2009) | IMDB |
| 62 | Alice in den städten | Taste Of Cinema |
| 63 | Alice in the Cities | Criterion Close-Up |
| 64 | All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) | Hollywood |
| 65 | Almost Famous | Criterion Close-Up |
| 66 | Amarcord | Criterion Close-Up |
| 67 | An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) | Hollywood |
| 68 | Annie | EW |
| 69 | Aparajito | Criterion Close-Up |
| 70 | Au Hazard Balthazar | Criterion Close-Up |
| 71 | Au Revoir Les Enfants | Criterion Close-Up |
| 72 | Au revoir les enfants | Taste Of Cinema |
| 73 | Au revoir les enfants (1987) | BFI |
| 74 | Au Revoir les Enfants (1987) | IMDB |
| 75 | Back To The Future | Refinery 29 |
| 76 | Beauty and the Beast | EW |
| 77 | Bicycle Thieves | Criterion Close-Up |
| 78 | Billy Elliot (2000) | IMDB |
| 79 | Breaking Away | Criterion Close-Up |
| 80 | Butterfly (1999) | IMDB |
| 81 | Celia (1989) | BFI |
| 82 | Children of Heaven (1997) | IMDB |
| 83 | Closely Watched Trains | Criterion Close-Up |
| 84 | Clueless | Refinery 29 |
| 85 | Curly Sue (1991) | Hollywood |
| 86 | Daisies | Criterion Close-Up |
| 87 | Days of Heaven (1978) | IMDB |
| 88 | Dazed and Confused | Criterion Close-Up |
| 89 | Deutchland im jahre null | Taste Of Cinema |
| 90 | Die blechtrommel | Taste Of Cinema |
| 91 | El espiritu de la colmena | Taste Of Cinema |
| 92 | Empire Records | Refinery 29 |
| 93 | Explorers | Screen Rant |
| 94 | Federico Fellini | BFI 2 |
| 95 | Ferris Bueller’s Day Off | Refinery 29 |
| 96 | Finding Nemo | EW |
| 97 | Flight of The Navigator | Screen Rant |
| 98 | Forrest Gump (1994) | Hollywood |
| 99 | Free Willy | Refinery 29 |
| 100 | Goodbye Children (Au Revoir les Enfants) (1987) | Reel Rundown |
| 101 | Graduate First | BFI 2 |
| 102 | Grave of the Fireflies | Criterion Close-Up |
| 103 | Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone | Refinery 29 |
| 104 | Heavenly Creatures | Criterion Close-Up |
| 105 | Heavyweights (1995) | USA Today |
| 106 | Hope and Glory (1987) | BFI |
| 107 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | EW |
| 108 | I Was Born But… (1932) | BFI |
| 109 | I’m Not Scared (2003) | IMDB |
| 110 | if…. (1968) | Reel Rundown |
| 111 | In a Better World (2010) | IMDB |
| 112 | In America | Criterion Close-Up |
| 113 | Jan Nemec | BFI 2 |
| 114 | Jeux Interdits | Taste Of Cinema |
| 115 | Jumanji (1995) | Hollywood |
| 116 | L’enfance nue (Dir. Maurice Pialat, 1968) | Taste Of Cinema |
| 117 | L’Enfance-nue (1968) | BFI |
| 118 | La balloon rouge | Taste Of Cinema |
| 119 | La Promesse | Criterion Close-Up |
| 120 | Lacombe Lucien | Criterion Close-Up |
| 121 | Le gamin au vélo (Dirs. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, | Taste Of Cinema |
| 122 | Let the Right One In | Criterion Close-Up |
| 123 | Let the Right One In (2008) | IMDB |
| 124 | Like Father, Like Son (2013) | Reel Rundown |
| 125 | Los olvidados | Taste Of Cinema |
| 126 | Luigi Comencini | BFI 2 |
| 127 | Ma Vie en Rose (1997) | IMDB |
| 128 | Mary Poppins | EW |
| 129 | Mitt liv som hund | Taste Of Cinema |
| 130 | Mommy (I) (2014) | IMDB |
| 131 | Mon Oncle (1958) | IMDB |
| 132 | Moolaadé (2004) | Reel Rundown |
| 133 | Mud | Screen Rant |
| 134 | Murmur of the Heart | Criterion Close-Up |
| 135 | My Only Sunshine | Reel Rundown |
| 136 | Neco z Alenky (Dir. Jan Svankmajer, 1988) | Taste Of Cinema |
| 137 | Night of the Hunter | Criterion Close-Up |
| 138 | Notorious | BFI 2 |
| 139 | One Upon a Time in America | Criterion Close-Up |
| 140 | Our Mother’s House | BFI 2 |
| 141 | Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) | IMDB |
| 142 | Parent Trap (1998) | USA Today |
| 143 | Persepolis | Criterion Close-Up |
| 144 | Picnic at Hanging Rock | Criterion Close-Up |
| 145 | Pinocchio | EW |
| 146 | Ponette (Dir. Jacques Doillon, 1996) | Taste Of Cinema |
| 147 | Radio Flyer | Screen Rant |
| 148 | Rang-e khoda (Dir. Majid Majidi, 1999) | Taste Of Cinema |
| 149 | Rebel Without a Cause | Criterion Close-Up |
| 150 | Sculpting in Time | BFI 2 |
| 151 | Small Change (1976) | IMDB |
| 152 | Space Jam | Refinery 29 |
| 153 | Spirited Away | Criterion Close-Up |
| 154 | Sundays and Cybele | Criterion Close-Up |
| 155 | Super 8 | Screen Rant |
| 156 | Superbad (2007) | USA Today |
| 157 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) | Hollywood |
| 158 | The Brave Little Toaster (1987) | Hollywood |
| 159 | The Butcher Boy (1997) | IMDB |
| 160 | The Devil’s Backbone (2001) | IMDB |
| 161 | The Fallen Idol | BFI 2 |
| 162 | The Innocents | Criterion Close-Up |
| 163 | The Land Before Time (1988) | Hollywood |
| 164 | The Last Picture Show | Criterion Close-Up |
| 165 | The Last Starfighter | Screen Rant |
| 166 | The Member of the Wedding (1952) | IMDB |
| 167 | The Mighty Ducks (1992) | Hollywood |
| 168 | The Monster Squad | Screen Rant |
| 169 | The Muppet Movie | EW |
| 170 | The Parent Trap | Refinery 29 |
| 171 | The Princess Diaries | Refinery 29 |
| 172 | The River | Criterion Close-Up |
| 173 | The Silence (1963) | IMDB |
| 174 | The Squid and the Whale (2005) | IMDB |
| 175 | The Thirteenth Year (1999) | USA Today |
| 176 | The Tree of Life | IndieWire |
| 177 | The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) | Reel Rundown |
| 178 | The White Balloon | Criterion Close-Up |
| 179 | The White Ribbon (2009) | Reel Rundown |
| 180 | The Window | BFI 2 |
| 181 | The Wizard of Oz (1939) | IMDB |
| 182 | The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006) | IMDB |
| 183 | Tree of Life | Criterion Close-Up |
| 184 | Twenty-Four Eyes | Criterion Close-Up |
| 185 | We Are the Best | Criterion Close-Up |
| 186 | Whale Rider | Criterion Close-Up |
| 187 | What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) | Reel Rundown |
| 188 | When Father Was Away on Business | Criterion Close-Up |
| 189 | Where is the Friend’s Home? (1987) | IMDB |
| 190 | Where the Wild Things Are | IndieWire |
| 191 | Whistle Down the Wind (1961) | IMDB |
| 192 | Witness | BFI 2 |
| 193 | Y Tu Mama Tambien | Criterion Close-Up |
| 194 | Yi Yi | Criterion Close-Up |
| 195 | Zazie dans le métro (Dir. Louis Malle, 1960) | Taste Of Cinema |
12 Best Childhood Film Sources/Lists
| Source | Article |
| BFI | 10 great films about childhood |
| BFI 2 | Age of innocence: childhood on film |
| Criterion Close-Up | Top 60 Adolescence and Childhood Films |
| EW | The 55 Essential Movies Your Child Must See (Before Turning 13 … |
| Hollywood | 26 Movies That Defined Your Childhood |
| IMDB | Best Films about Children and Childhood |
| IndieWire | Criticwire Survey: Best Movies About Childhood |
| Reel Rundown | 20 of the Best Art House Films About Childhood |
| Refinery 29 | The Best Childhood Movies Of All Time |
| Screen Rant | 15 Greatest Childhood Adventure Movies Ever |
| Taste Of Cinema | The 25 Best Movies About Childhood « Taste of Cinema |
| USA Today | 9 movies that will take you back to your childhood summers |
