Thanks for refreshing my memory, both of you. 

I try to finish list 100 movies that got boy in film.
I remember more movies and mabey got 100.

1. Yearling
2. Sleepless in Seattle
3. Peter Pan (new)
4. Peter Pan (very old and got no sound 1924)
5. Dennis the Menace
6. One little Indian
7. Tarzan - greystoke
8. Tarzan of the apes (very old and got no sound)
9. Old Yeller
10. Searching for Bobby Fisher
11. My Father's Glory
12. Oliver!
13. Doctor Doolittle (not new one)
14. Munchie
15. Second Best
16. Sixth Sense
17. Big
18. Parenthood
19. Pollyanna
20. Kolya
21. Tom Sawyer (film that got Johnny Whitaker in it)
22. Paradise
23. Popi
24. What about Bob?
25. Pelle the conquerer
26. Honeysuckle Rose
27. Forever Young
28. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960 I think)
29. Sandlot
30. Safe at home
31. Joshua's heart
32. Benikar Gang
33. Education of Little Tree
34. Blue Lagoon
35. Running on empty
36. A Cool dry place
37. Murphy's romance
38. Shane
39. My side of the mountain
40. Le Grand Chemin
41. Huck Finn
42. E.T. Extra Terestrial
43. Jack the bear
44. Home Alone
45. Bingo
46. Lord of the Flies
47. Fluke
48. Pixote
49. Paperboy (australia movie)
50. War of buttons
51. Adventures of Tom Sawyer (very old 1 9 3 8 )
52. Shadrach
53. Liar Liar
54. Motorama
55. Milk Money
56. When Andrew Came Home
57. Message in a bottle
58. Crisscross
59. Will Penny
60. The 400 Blows
61. Homecoming
62. Dutch
63. My dog Skip
64. Man without a face
65. Black stallion
66. Reivers
67. Adventures of Huckleberry finn (I think 1985)
68. Witches
69. From the mixed up files of mrs. basil e.
     frankenweller
70. Edges of the Lord
71. Wide awake
72. Pete's dragon
73. Earthling
74. Little big league
75. Champ (very old got Jackie Cooper)
76. North
77. Little rascals
78. Last flight of Noah's ark
79. Biscuit eater
80. Red pony
81. Second Jungle book
82. Red fury
83. Ciske the rat
84. My life as a dog
85. Kindergarten
86. Boy ten feet tall
87. Little Buddha
88. The War
89. Why would I lie?
90. Kramer vs Kramer
91. Raggedy Man
92. Josh & S.A.M.
93. Harry and the Hendersons
94. No place to go (very old movie 1939)
95. Home alone 2
96. Testament
97. Pay it forward
98. D.A.R.Y.L.
99. Storm boy
100. Ride a wild pony

I got hundred movies . Hope dont got none two times on list.

Jasen

Thank you YoungArthur.  I like to see movie s   from your list too.  I seen Great Expectations but not old one.  I seen new movie when I was about ten and it was good but not on my list.  

You got movie Color of Paradise.  I like to see sometime.  Its Iran movie I know more from imdb.

Would be nice if more movies are on dvd but many not on dvd yet.

I'm glad Joseph start this post long time ago . Its fun to make list of movies but very hard put best movie on top.  

I put Yearling on top bcause I love film and it got very funny scenes.  My favorite is when boy walks in and see his papa standing on table wearing a dress bcause his mom was making a new dress and she used him for a pattern.  I laugh very long time when I seen this and how boy teases his dad.

Other movies very hard to put best favorite at top.

Jasen

Here's the rest of my top 200 (approx) favourite movies..  from 51-200ish (in order):


The Full Monty (97 UK) William Snape                                            8        9
Secrets of the Heart (97 Sp) Andoni Erburu                                            8        8
Jaime (99 Port) Saúl Fonseca                                                   8        8
Walkabout (71 Aust/UK) Lucien John                                            8        8
Child's Play (92-Ger) Jonas Kipp,  Matthias Friedrich                                8        8
Central station  (98 Braz) Vinícius de Oliveira                                      8        9
I like it like that (94) Tomas Melly                                                  7        8
Searching for Bobby Fischer (93) Max Pomeranc, Hal Scardino.                          9        9
Forbidden Games (52 Fr) Georges Poujouly                                            9        9
Murmur of the Heart (71 Fr)  Le Lea Massari, Benoit Ferreux                                9        8
My Girl (91) Macaulay Culkin                                                  7        9
A Painted House  (03) Logan Lerman                                            7        9
The Slingshot (93 Sw) Jesper Salen                                            8        8
Devil's Backbone (01 Sp) Fernando Tielve                                            8        8
Class Trip (98 Fr) Clement van den Bergh, Lockman Nalkacan                          8        8
Nicholas and Alexandra (71 UK) Roderic Noble                                      8        8
Terminator II (91) Edward Furlong                                                     8        8
Butterfly's Tongue (99 Sp) Manuel Lozano                                            8        8
Ivan's Childhood  (62 Ru) Kolya Burlayayev                                            9        8
Paradise (91) Elijah Wood                                                        7        8
Eres mi héroe  (02 Sp) Manuel Lozano                                            8        8
We can be heroes (02 Sw) Ariel Petsonk                                            8        8
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (01)                                      8        8
Billy Elliot (00 UK) Jamie      Bell                                                  8        8
Hard Goodbyes: My Father  (02 Gr) Yorgos Karayannis                                8        8
Sixth Sense (99) Haley Joel Osment                                            8        8
Slingblade (95) Lucas Black                                                  8        8
Swing (02 Fr) Oscar Copp                                                        8        8
John John in the sky (01)  Christian Craft                                            7        9
Color of Paradise (99 Iran) Mohsen Ramezani                                    10        7
La Ville dont le prince est un enfant  (97 Fr) Clément van den Bergh                          7        8
Unfair Competition (01) Walter Dragonetti,  Simone Ascani                                8        8
Radio Flyer (92) Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello                                      7        8
Ma vie en Rose  (97 Fr)  Georges Du Fresne                                      8        8
Malabar Princess (04 Fr)      Jules Bigarnet                                            8        8
The Cistern (01 Gr) Mihalis Evripiotis, Dimitris Thomas                                8        8
Elementary School (92-Cz) Vaclav Jakoubek, Radoslav Budac                                 8        8
Stand by Me (86) Wil Wheaton                                                  8        8
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (01) Haley Joel Osment                                       8        8
The Good Son (93) Elijah Wood,  Macaulay Culkin                                      7        9
Home Alone I & II (90/92) Macaulay Culkin                                      7        9
Motorama (91) Jordan Christopher Michael                                      7        9
Year of the First Kiss (02 Ger) Max Mauff                                            8        8
Joe the King (99)      Noah Fleiss                                                  8        8
Scars (02 Nor) Eirik Evjen                                                  8        8
Cross my heart and hope to die (94 Nor) Martin Dahl Garfalk                                8              8
Lloyd (97) Brendon Ryan Barrett                                                  6        9
Bingo (91)  Robert J. Steinmiller                                                  6        9
Second Jungle Book (97) Jamie Williams                                            6        9
Tarzan finds a son  (39) Johhny Sheffield                                            6        9
Halfaouine, child of the terraces (90 Tunisia/Fr) Selim Boughedir                          8        8
Punktchen and Anton (99 Ger) Max Felder                                            6        8
D.A.R.Y.L (85) Barrett Oliver                                                  6        8
The Client (94) Brad Renfro, David Speck                                            6        8
The Black Stallion (79) Kelly Reno                                                  8        7
War of the Buttons (93 Ir)                                                  8        8
A Perfect World  (93) TJ. Lowther                                                  8        8
Close to Leo (02 Fr) Yannis Lespert                                            8        8
Tom and Thomas (02 UK/Neth) Aaron Johnson                                      7        8
Tall Stories (88-Port) Bruno Leite                                                  7        8
I'm Not Scared (02 It) Giuseppe Cristiano                                            8        8
The Crumbs I & II (91/92-Den) Laus Hoybe                                            6        8
Chronicle of a Boy Alone (65 Arg) Diego Puente                                      7        8
Burning Secret (89 UK) David Eberts                                            7        8
To Kill a Mockingbird (62) Phillip Alford                                          10        6
The Buddy System (83) Will Wheaton                                            6        8
Indian in the Cupboard (95) Hal Scardino                                            6        7
The River Wild  (94) Joseph Mazzello                                            7        8
3 Ninjas I, II, & III (92/94) Michael Treanor, Max Elliott Slade, Chad Power                    5        9
Dunston Checks In (95) Eric Loyd                                                  6        9
Storm Boy (77 Aust) Greg Rowe                                                  8        8
Bushwacked (95) Michael Galeota,  Blake Bashoff, Cory Carrier                          5        8
The Search (48)  Ivan Jandl                                                  8        7
The Mudlark (50 UK) Andrew Ray                                                  7        7
Wanted: A Grandfather (aka Kan du vissla Johanna) ( 94 Sw) Tobias Swärd, Jimmy Sandin        7        8
The War (94) Elijah Wood                                                        7        8
Small Change (76 Fr) Philippe Goldmann, Richard Golfier                                7        8
Four Hundred Blows (59 Fr) Jean Pierre Leaud                                      9        6
E.T. (82) Henry Thomas                                                        6        8
The Innocents (61-UK) Martin Stephens                                            9        6
The Believers (87) Harley Cross                                                  5        8
Cinema Paradiso (88 It) Salvatore Cascio                                            8        7
About a boy (02 UK) Nicholas Hoult                                                  7        7
A Cool, dry place (98) Bobby Moat (5)                                            7        7
When I Got Jesus... with a Slingshot (00 Nor) Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen              7        7
Little Buddha (94) Alex Wiesendanger                                            5        8
Grandmother's House (88) Eric Foster                                            5        8
Kids of the Round Table (95) Johnny Morina                                      5        7
Dennis the Menace (93) Mason Gamble                                            6        8
Camp Nowhere (94) Jonathan Jackson                                            6        8
Finding Neverland (04) Freddie Highmore                                            8        8
Leaving of Liverpool (92 Aust/UK) Kevin Jones, David Kaff                                8        7
Just a dream (01)  Jeremy Sumpter                                            7        8
Forever Young (92) Elijah Wood                                                  6        8
Harnessing Peacocks (92 UK) Tom Beasley,  Ben Keyworth                                7        7
Children of Heaven (97 Iran) Amir Farrokh Hashemian                                8        6
An Angel for May (UK 02) Matthew Beard                                            6        7
Pure (02 UK) Harry Eden                                                        8        6
The Burning Snail (95 Ger) Max Haas                                            7        7
The Man Without a Face (93) Nick Stahl                                            6        7
Blank Check (94) Brian Bonsall                                                  5        7
The Nanny (65 UK) William Dix                                                  7        7
Lucas (86) Corey Haim                                                        7        7
Machuca (04 Sp) Matias Quer, Ariel Mateluna                                      8              6
The Tit and The Moon (94 Sp) Biel Duran                                            6        8
The Butcher Boy (97 Ir) Eamon Owens, Alan Boyle                                      8        6
Witness (85) Lukas Haas                                                        8        7
The Power of One (92 UK/Aust) Guy Witcher, Simon Fenton                                7        8
Olivier, Olivier (92 Fr) Emmanuel Morozof                                            7        7
A Feast at Midnight (94 UK) Freddie Findlay                                            7        8
Newcomers (00) Christopher McCoy                                            6        8
Bad news Bears  (76) Chris Barnes                                            8        7
King of the Hill (93) Jesse Bradford, Cameron Boyd                                      7        7
CrissCross (92)  David Arnott                                                  6        7
Jim's Gift (96 UK) Luciano Romano                                            5        7
The Handsome Priest (aka Il Prete bello) (89 It) unknowns                                6        7
The Brat (95 Fr) Axel Lingee                                                  6        7
Misunderstood (84) Henry Thomas, Huckleberry Fox                                      6        8
Mother's Boys (94) Luke Edwards                                                   6        7
Houseboat (58) Paul Petersen, Chris Herbert                                      7        7
Shipwrecked (90 Nor/USA) Stian Smestad                                            5        7
Once in a Blue Moon (95 Can) Cody Serpa, Simon Baker                                6        7
Kes (69 UK) David Bradley                                                   8        6
The Tin Drum (79 Ger) David Bennent                                            8        7
Night of the Hunter (55) Billy Chapin                                            7        7
The Champ (79) Ricky Schroder                                                  6        8
Testimony Of Taliesin Jones (00 UK) John-Paul Macleod                                7        7
Devil's Playground (76 Aust) Simon Burke                                            7        6
El Bola  (00 Sp) Juan José Ballesta                                            8        7
The Zookeeper (01 UK/Czech) Javor Loznica                                      7        7
Lily In Winter (94) Brian Bonsall                                                  7        7
Salaam Bombay (88 Ind) Shafiq Syed                                            8        7
The Kid from Chaaba (98 Fr) Bouzid Negnoug                                      7        7
Jake's Progress (96 UK) Barclay Wright                                            7        8
The Browning Version (94 UK) Ben Silverstone                                      8        7
My Side of the Mountain (69) Ted Eccles                                            6        7
Three Wishes (95) Joseph Mazzello, Seth Mumy                                      6        7
Danny, The Champion of the World (89 UK) Samuel Irons                                6        7
Man About the House (94) Jonathan Taylor Thomas,  Zac Browne                          6        8
Careful he might hear you (83 Aust)  Nicholas Gledhill                                7        7
Interrogation of Michael Crowe (02)                                            7        7
Oliver Twist (48 UK) John Howard Davies                                            8        7
Captain's Courageous (37) Freddie Bartholomew                                      8        7
David Copperfield (35) Freddie Bartholomew                                      8        7
The Bicycle Thief  (48 It) Enzo Staiola                                            8        6
The White Balloon (95) Mohsen Kafili                                            8        6
The Mighty (98)  Kieran Culkin                                                  7        7
Simon Birch (98) Joseph Mazzello                                                  7        6
Paris, Texas (83) Hunter Carson                                                  7        7
The Go-Between (71 UK) Dominic Guard                                            7        6

Thanks you for the welcome. Your lists are all very impressive. I wish I found this forum sooner!

My top 50

1.   Stand by me (U.S.)
2.   L.I.E (U.S.)
3.   400 blows (France)
4.   All abou Lily Chou Chou (Japan)
5.   Children's Island (Sweden)
6.   Searching for Bobby Fischer (U.S.)
7.   Leolo (Canada)
8.   Ma vie en rose (France)
9.   The day the earth stood still
10.  Little Cheung (Hong Kong)
11.  Childhood days (Japan)
12.  Fresh (U.S.)
13.  A brighter summer day (Taiwan)
14.  Au revoir les enfants (France)
15.  Second best (U.K.)
16.  El bola (Spain)
17.  Sixth sense (U.S.)
18.  Kes (U.K.)
19.  A.I. (U.S.)
20.  My Girl (Thailand)
21.  Cinema Paradiso (Italy)
22.  Ali Zaoua (Morocco)
23.  Lucas (U.S.)
24.  My father's glory (France)
25.  D.A.R.Y.L. (U.S.)
26.  Pelle the Conqueror (Denmark)
27.  Lord of the flies (U.S.) (1962)
28.  Almost angel (U.S.)
29.  War of the buttons (France)
30.  Les diabos (France)
31.  Dull ice flower (Taiwan)
32.  Almost famous (U.S.)
33.  Mother (China)
34.  1900 (Italy)
35.  Finding neverland (U.S.)
36.  The cure (U.S.)
37.  Reflecting skin (U.K.)
38.  R¨¦volte des enfants, La (France)
39.  Ivan's childhood (Russia)
40.  Promises (U.S.)
41.  Empire of the sun (U.S.)
42.  Sai hu (China)
43.  If (U.K.)
44.  Bag of marbles (France)
45.  For a lost soldier (Holland)
46.  Mondo (France)
47.  This special friendship (France)
48.  My life as a dog (Sweden)
49.  Don't tell papa (Korea)
50.  Joe the king (U.S.)

Jasen,
Some of your add on titles are pretty cool. No Place To Go is a particularly inspired choice. I saw this film last year on TCM and it was pretty good.

cal,
While I certainly haven't seen all the films on your list by a long shot (only 40 of the top 50 and like YA's list, I'm missing your #1), every one I haven't seen is on my wish list save for the two I've never heard of.
What can you tell me about Jim's Gift and The Handsome Priest?

zhizhi,

I have also seen 40 of your 50, BUT your list has the highest concentration of films I've never heard of. Any comments you could add about Childhood Days, Brighter Summer Day, Mother, Sai hu, and Don't Tell Papa would be appreciated.

Everyone,

This has been one of the best threads we've had in a long time. 

cal:

Thanks. If I were to make my list 100 or 150 films, I'd include many movies on your list. I have seen 160 of it.  Quite a few films you'd seen are on my wish list.

Jasen:

I've seen 77 of your top 100. Many of what I haven't seen are old films that I have heard a lot about.

Young Arthur:

Looking at your list is like looking at movie titles I have put  on my vcr or dvd player more than once. I've seen 89 of them.

Like I said on my first post, it's great to be among film buffs who appreciate boy films.


Zabladowski:

Of the 5 films you mentioned I have two on discs so I'll post vidcaps for these films in a few days.

Childhood Days/Boyhood /Shonen Jidai
(1990) Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Toshiyuki Hosokawa

It's based on the semi-autobiography of famed anime legend who created Doraemon.

Shinji, a quiet and bookish 11-year old boy, is sent to countryside to stay with his aunt.  He befriends the class leader Takeshi. Yet at school, Takeshi treats him cruelly despite showing affection to him in private. The movie depicts firendship and power struggle among children in a very intriquing way. 

A brighter summer day/Guling jie shaonian sha ren shijian(1991)
director: Edward Yang
starring: Chen Chang (who later starred in Crouching tiger, hidden dragon)

Long before Yi-Yi, Edward Yang had created a masterpiece. Check out the user comments on imdb. They wrote great sypnosis of the film.

Mother/Mama (1990)
director: Yuan Zhang

Zhang directed this moving film about a mother who struggles to take care of her 12 year-old son with autism.  I'll post vidcaps of it.

Sai Hu (1982)

This a typical boy-and-his-dog film.
The only difference is that it's in Mandarin. Not a good film to be honest. Even Shiloh tops this (not to mention Old Yeller, Lassie comes home or My dog Skip). However with  criteria (a) in mind, I'd happily put it among my favorites.

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Don't tell papa (2004)
director: Sang-hun Lee

If you like Korean film The  way home and its star Seung-ho Yu , this is a must own movie.  In the tradition of single dad taking care of his son , there are tons of scenes about father-son bonding. The first time we see Yu is in a bathhouse with his dad. It sets the tone for the remaing 90 minutes. Over all, this is a moving film mixed with some low-brow humors.  I'll post vidcaps later.

Yikes...  those men with tattoos look rather intimidating but it's nice to see Seung-ho Yu captivating his audience.  I thought he was really good in The Way Home so I'm very pleased to see he's done another movie...  and it looks like it's going to be a 'must' watch.