Great Films with Child Stars
Films with great child stars that played their roles very well.
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- DirectorByron PaulStarsJohn AndersonTerry BurnhamWalt DisneyNostalgic tale of two brothers and their new neighbor, who all fight over the attention of Willadean, the pretty girl from the farmhouse down the road.
- 1954–19971hUnrated7.7 (27)TV EpisodeDirectorByron PaulStarsTerry BurnhamRoger MobleyMichael McGreeveyThe new boy was dared to enter a supposedly haunted house. In the house they uncover a bag of money stolen in a bank robbery.
- 1954–19971hUnrated8.7 (85)TV EpisodeDirectorByron PaulStarsTerry BurnhamRoger MobleyMichael McGreeveyNostalgic tale of two brothers and their new neighbor, who all fight over the attentions of a pretty girl name Willadean and who should steal a prize-winning watermelon.
- StarsWilliam MillerTom HardySophie OkonedoThe adventures of the orphaned Oliver Twist in Victorian London.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsRobert NewtonAlec GuinnessKay WalshIn Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.
- DirectorClive DonnerStarsGeorge C. ScottTim CurryMichael HordernThe classic Charles Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsGregory PeckJane WymanClaude Jarman Jr.A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsUta HagenDiana MuldaurChris UdvarnokyA series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
- DirectorCharles LaughtonStarsRobert MitchumShelley WintersLillian GishA self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsOliver ReedRaquel WelchMark LesterPoor boy Tom Canty and Edward, Prince of Wales exchange identities, but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlStarsGene TierneyCornel WildeJeanne CrainA writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.
- 1955–196230mTV-147.3 (472)TV EpisodeDirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsAlfred HitchcockClaude RainsJohn LarchA man goes to a police station claiming memory loss, followed by a boy who says he was accidentally left behind by his father, but the desk sergeant is suspicious of both their stories.
- DirectorMark WatersStarsFreddie HighmoreSarah BolgerDavid StrathairnUpon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsPenny SingletonArthur LakeLarry SimmsDagwood and Blondie are overjoyed when Mr. Dithers invites them to stay in an old mansion with servants and everything else--including ghosts.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsPenny SingletonArthur LakeLarry SimmsBlondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerRobert SparksStarsPenny SingletonArthur LakeLarry SimmsDagwood disguises himself as a drummer in the ship's conga band to sneak aboard a South American cruise ship. Blondie performs several song-and-dance routines.
- DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsPenny SingletonArthur LakeLarry SimmsDagwood brings home a pedigreed Great Dane which an important company client wants and which Blondie enters in the big dog show. A highlight of this film is the canine burping display.
- DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsGene TierneyRex HarrisonGeorge SandersIn 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsPeter LorreEllen WidmannInge LandgutWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsJeni CourtneyEileen ColganMick LallyYoung Fiona lives with her grandparents in a small fishing village where she takes an active role to unravel the mysterious secrets.
- CreatorJeffrey AddissWill MatthewsStarsNeil SterenbergBeccy HendersonNathalie EmmanuelReturn to the world of Thra, where three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power, and set out to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world.
- DirectorPhil JohnstonRich MooreStarsJohn C. ReillySarah SilvermanGal GadotOn a quest to save the video game 'Sugar Rush' and to find a replacement, Ralph and his best friend Vanellope travel to the World Wide Web through a Wi-Fi router they find at the arcade.
- DirectorJames SheldonStarsJohn LarchCloris LeachmanDon KeeferOn an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsSusan GordonJ. Pat O'MalleyNancy KulpYoung lame Jenny and the other neighborhood kids don't realize that their kind playmate Old Ben is really an intergalactic fugitive hiding out - until two serious men come looking for him and asking questions that test their friendship.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonJames SheldonStarsJosephine HutchinsonDavid WhiteVaughn TaylorRecent widower George Rogers, needing loving care for his three young children, orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of his children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.