Best movies like The Dear Boy
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like The Dear Boy Starring Vladislav Strzhelchik, Georgiy Vitsin, Sergey Migitsko, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, and more. If you liked The Dear Boy then you may also like: The Omen, A Bronx Tale, Down to Earth, Life with Father, A Hole in the Head and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
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A Bronx Tale
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.
Down to Earth
Struggling comic Lance Barton knows what it's like to die on stage. But when his life takes an unexpected turn - straight to heaven - Lance is sure there's been a mistake. Miraculously, he's right! An angel tells Lance he was taken prematurely but assures him he can be returned to Earth - in the aged body of a ruthless white billionaire. In this improbable reincarnation, Lance begins a hilarious quest to realize his showbiz dream...and, along the way, discovers the person he never imagined he could be. Chris Rock delivers a first-rate performance in this romantic comedy remake of HEAVEN CAN WAIT.
Life with Father
A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.
A Hole in the Head
An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.
Déjà vu
The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odesa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, Pollack, arrives in Odesa, and realizes how hard it is to make the hit here, as compared to a civilized country like USA.
Tea with Mussolini
Semi-autobiographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, telling the story of young Italian boy Luca's upbringing by a circle of English and American women, before and during World War II.
Don't Drink the Water
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.
The Fallen Idol
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
Girl Stroke Boy
Middle-class parents are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian.
Potato Dreams of America
A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the 90s.
Intimate Relations
Yvonne is seething when her devoted son, Michael, declares his intention to marry Madeleine, despite the latter's admitting to having an affair with a mysterious older man. At the same time, George, Michael's father, confides in Yvonne's sister, Leo, that he is in fact Madeleine's other lover. Together, they hatch a plot to end Madeleine's hopes of marriage - by threatening to reveal George's scandalous secret to his son.
The Red Maple Leaf
A detective, who is deeply grieving over the tragic loss of his wife and daughter, becomes determined to find the kidnapped daughter of the U.S. Ambassador, no matter what the cost.
My Perestroika
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have adjusted to their post-Soviet reality in today's Moscow.
Military Academy
Tommy Lewis, the son of a big time racketeer, is enrolled in military school under an assumed name as protection from the notoriety of his father. Tommy is assigned to share a room with Dick Hill, an egotistical school athlete, and Sandy Blake, a pampered rich boy. Even though all three boys are potentially good lads, each has a handicap that he must overcome.
Woman in the Dark
A pastry-shop girl (Penny Edwards) sees a priest's (Ross Elliott) and a lawyer's (Rick Vallin) brother take part in a jewel heist.
The Big Space Travel
From the same studio that produced Richard Viktorov's diptych Moscow-Cassiopeia / Adolescents in the Universe comes this second teen-themed sci-fi adventure, in which three youngsters have to take command of a space flight when their adult captain comes down sick and is forced to quarantine himself.
The Searching Wind
With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.
Paper Tiger
A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
Ambassador Bill
An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.
Bad Attitudes
The film centers around two hijackers that take over a plane. The problem is: The airplane is not carrying a billionaire as planned, but otherwise is carrying a group of smart children.
Billionaire Boy
The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could want but what he really needs is a friend.
The Happy Time
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
Rick Stein and the Japanese Ambassador
Challenged by the UK's Japanese Ambassador to cook a Japanese banquet for his distinguished guests, Rick spends one week visiting Japan's vibrant fish markets and island restaurants, aiming to master the art of cooking fish - Japanese-style. Japan is arguably the ultimate destination for serious lovers of fish. Will Rick be able to learn enough to impress all at the banquet?
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced by a young lawyer, the brother of the accused
No Greater Love
The first day of the war brings tragedy to a peasant woman, Pasha. Her husband and her toddler son die before her eyes. She and the other villagers leave to go into the woods. Pasha leads the villagers to fight some German troops. Coming out victories, the partisans become a feared opponent of the Germans, with the leadership of Comrade P.
Superman: Red Son
Set in the thick of the Cold War, Red Son introduces us to a Superman who landed in the USSR during the 1950s and grows up to become a Soviet symbol that fights for the preservation of Stalin’s brand of communism.
The Double Life of My Billionaire Husband
Sebastian Klein, known to most as the illegitimate son of the prestigious Klein family, has been plagued by rumors suggesting he's nothing more than a loser who recently emerged from a stint in prison. Society, guided by these harsh tales, deemed him an undesirable match for any sensible young woman. That was until Natalie Quinn defied expectations by marrying him. Little did she realize the astonishing truth concealed beneath the surface: she had, unknowingly, wed a covert billionaire.
A group of gangsters are kidnapping two boys: a son of a billionaire and a son of a USSR ambassador.
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like The Dear Boy Starring Vladislav Strzhelchik, Georgiy Vitsin, Sergey Migitsko, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, and more. If you liked The Dear Boy then you may also like: The Omen, A Bronx Tale, Down to Earth, Life with Father, A Hole in the Head and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
The Omen
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.