Man boy relationship movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant man boy relationship movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, emotional, crying, independent film and touching films and TV shows about / with man boy relationship, boy, coming of age, family relations, friendship, father son relationship, youth, teenage boy, gay and childhood plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as man boy relationship: Nachttocht (1982), For a Lost Soldier (1992), The Boys of St. Vincent (1992), Return to Innocence (2001), Jet Boy (2001), The Strange Ones (2017), The Summer House (2014), Out in the Open (2019), Mysterious Skin (2004), Second Best (1994).

List of man boy relationship movies

 6.2
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Nachttocht (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 63 min.
Story: 12 year old Thomas ( Abel Claassen) and his quest for friendship and love. He takes rowing lessons and grows rather fond of his teacher...who, according to his mother, is unlike the bully trainers in the other clubs...he really knows how to work ...
Style: crying
Plot: man boy relationship, coming of age, homoerotic fight, homoeroticism, bare chested male, friendship between boys, homoerotic friendship, gay interest, teenage boy, sex scene, sexual tension, caught having sex ...
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For a Lost Soldier (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of a romantic relationship between a Canadian soldier and a child set in the Netherlands near the end of WWII. Told in flashback from the present day, the child, now a man, is still seeking his lost soldier.
Style: sentimental, sincere, realistic, touching, romantic ...
Plot: world war two, lgbt, forbidden love, gay, man boy relationship, pedophilia, intergenerational friendship, soldier, gay interest, first love, sexual awakening, homosexual ...
Time: 90s, 1940s, year 1945
Place: europe, netherlands, germany, holland
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The Boys of St. Vincent (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.
Style: realistic, disturbing, bleak, sad, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: child abuse, pedophilia, child molestation, man boy relationship, catholic priest, childhood, pedophile, lgbt teen, pedophile priest, homosexual rape, catholic orphanage, child molester ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: canada, newfoundland, london
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Return to Innocence (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Director Rocky Costanzo's searing legal drama centers on a highly credentialed child psychologist named Glen Erskine (Richard Meese) whose life is shattered when he's accused of sexually assaulting a young boy he's been treating. ...
Style: realistic, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: child abuse, man boy relationship, coming of age, courtroom, sexual abuse, pedophilia, life is a bitch, redemption, parents and children, dysfunctional family, teenage life, custody ...
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 7.1
 2K
Jet Boy (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Dave Schultz' feature debut Jet Boy is a drama about a boy attempting to figure out his future. Nathan (Branden Nadon) goes on a search to find his father after his mother dies of a drug overdose. Nathan has been prostituting himself in order ...
Style: independent film, sexy, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: kids in trouble, man boy relationship, gay, boyhood, orphan, child neglect, boy, teenage boy, teenager, teenage prostitution, lgbt teen, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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The Strange Ones (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Mysterious events surround the travels of two brothers as they make their way across a remote American landscape. On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets. This is ...
Style: road movie, suspense, rough, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot: motel, man boy relationship, male masturbation, sexual attraction, gay, pedophile, teenage boy, on the run, investigation, road trip, sibling relationship, hiding place ...
Time: year 2017
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The Summer House (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A haunting portrait of a well-established German family living on the outskirts of Berlin in their ideal world, but are slowly shaken by external influences. It's a subtle portrait of human desire, inner desolation, self-deception and moral ...
Style: psychological, controversial, queer cinema
Plot: man boy relationship, gay husband, pedophilia, bisexual, loveless marriage, unhappy marriage, pedophile, gay, boy, male masturbation, lgbt, male nudity ...
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The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A 12-year-old gay who comes from a criminal family falls in love with a handsome policeman.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, erotic, serious ...
Plot: gay, teenage life, lgbt teen, boy, gays and lesbians, youth, man boy relationship, friendship, rich and poor, brother brother relationship, teenage love, parents and children ...
Place: manila philippines, the philippines
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Out in the Open (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A boy escaped from home, listening, crouched in the depths of his hiding place, the cries of the men who seek him. When the game passes, what remains before him is an infinite and arid plain that he must cross if he wants to get away definitively ...
Style: suspense, period drama
Audience: kids
Plot: male nudity, sexual predator, man boy relationship, desert, spanish civil war, male pubic hair, 11 year old boy, bare chested male, child protagonist, boy, shepherd, child ...
Time: 1940s, year 1946
Place: spain
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Mysterious Skin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Style: disturbing, lgbt cinema, depressing, independent film, psychological ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, child abuse, gay, sexual abuse, pedophilia, homosexuality, homosexual, child molestation, lgbtq, male rape, homosexual rape, youth ...
Time: 90s, year 2004, 2000s, near future, y2k ...
Place: kansas, new york, usa
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 6.8
 2K
Second Best (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic
Plot: orphan, social worker, man boy relationship, child abuse, adoption, single parent, absent father, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, hopes, family relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: england, europe, wales
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The Painted Bird (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine
Duration: 169 min.
Story: A young Jewish boy in Poland seeks refuge in the forest during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
Style: disturbing, captivating, exciting, visual, controversial ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, man boy relationship, intolerance, abuse of power, sexual abuse, existentialism, little boy, child protagonist, zoophilia, survival, abuse ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 2010s, 1930s
Place: eastern europe, poland, europe
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 6.3
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Lamb (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: boys' school, epilepsy, youth, school, man boy relationship, surrogate father, teacher student relationship, murder by drowning, neurology, epileptic seizure, schoolboy, priest ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: ireland, england, dublin ireland, london, europe ...
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 5.6
 10K
King Cobra (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on a stranger than fiction true story, King Cobra is a deliciously dark, twisted plunge into the behind-the-scenes world of the pornography industry. A young Sean Paul Lockhart (using the stage name 'Brent Corrigan') is a ...
Style: sexy, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay interest, porn industry, gay lead character, lgbtq, gay, gay sex, sodomy, gay teenager, male nudity, 17 year old, lgbt, rent boy ...
Time: 2000s, year 2016, year 2006
Place: indiana
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 6.0
 271
The Moon Child (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: David, a professor of dermatology, has been treating 13-year-old Romain since he was a baby. Afflicted with a rare skin condition, Romain must avoid sunlight and is condemned to live in the shade. David and Romain have become the closest of friends ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, friends, power relations, child illness, terminal illness, hospital, teenage boy, man boy relationship, genetics, skin disease ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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The Boy and the Wind (1967)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young engineer on holiday gets involved with a boy who has a strange relationship with the wind. Their close friendship arouses suspicion in the small town. When the boy disappears, the engineer is accused of murdering him.
Style: homoerotic, gay cinema
Plot: man boy relationship, lgbt, gay interest, trial, gay, court, lawyer, lgbtq, homosexuality, law, lgbtqi, court case ...
Place: brazil
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In Your Absence (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 13-year-old Pablo is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to help Pablo with his transition from childhood to adolescence, and give him some advice on sex, love and ...
Style: emotional, serious, captivating, disturbing, art house ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot: coming of age, stranger, teenage girl, boy, nudity, flashback, male nudity, surrogate father, lgbt teen, masturbation, father son relationship, dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, andalusia
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Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Colombia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: World-weary arthur Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a ...
Style: meditative, thought provoking, rough, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: gay, murder, man boy relationship, poverty, vengeance, gang, lgbt, homosexual, drug dealing, teenage life, fall in love, love affair ...
Time: 90s
Place: colombia, los angeles, south america, usa, tokyo ...
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Rubber Tarzan (1981)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As a result of this Ivan spends a lot of his time on ...
Style: inspirational, uplifting, emotional, realistic, period piece ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, bullying, loneliness, children, school, father son relationship, childhood, underdog, dreaming, dyslexia, self discovery ...
Time: 80s
Place: copenhagen
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The Boys Club (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three teenage boys in small-town Southern Ontario are thrilled when Luke Cooper, a mysterious American fugitive with a gunshot wound in his leg, decides to crash their secret hideout. Luke tells them that he's a cop on the run from corrupt ...
Style: epic, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: absent mother, coming of age, man boy relationship, teenage boy, psychopath, theft, ambush, held captive, bully, rage, anger, shooting ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada, ontario canada
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 7.5
 145K
Doubt (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and ...
Style: clever, period piece, sincere, psychological, philosophical ...
Plot: priest, nun, teacher, religion, catholic church, suspicion, pedophile, clergy, christian, boy, altar boy, catholic ...
Time: year 1964, year 2008, victorian era, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa
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 8.4
 811
Thorn Castle (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Hungary
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: A story about two urban boys, who spend a summer at the romantic Kis-Balaton side with an old field keeper, and gradually change their point of view about their civilized life, and fall in love with the nature.
Style: black and white
Plot: eagle, school, fishing, teacher, snake, ruins, lake, nature, coming of age, summer vacation, dog, crab ...
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Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth.
Style: bleak, black and white, meditative, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: world war two, orphan, coming of age, boy, espionage, childhood, war, child spy, courage, forest, great patriotic war, youth ...
Time: 1940s, year 1962, 20th century, year 1943
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia, germany, europe ...
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A Perfect World (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Style: suspense, road movie, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Plot: friendship, prison, fugitives, life philosophy, moral ambiguity, on the run, boy, child abuse, road trip, small town, prison escape, coming of age ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1963, year 1993
Place: texas, austin texas, birmingham alabama, alaska, usa ...
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Darker Than Midnight (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, touching, serious, queer cinema
Plot: androgyny, social misfits, lgbt, family relations, youth, parents and children, friendship, society, gay, boyhood, leaving home, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy, sicily
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Lost in the Sun (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A small time crook and a newly-orphaned teenage boy team up to perform a string of robberies.
Style: disturbing, exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: man boy relationship, teenage boy, road trip, robbery, cross country, teenager, lost child, accomplice, ex convict, armed robbery, father son estrangement, child in peril ...
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Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Monsieur Ibrahim is a story about a young Jewish boy in Paris who meets an old Muslim Turkish grocery store owner. The film touches the themes of friendship and love as the old man is a father figure to the boy as he teaches him of the Koran. The ...
Style: sentimental, sexy, touching, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, muslim, religion, adoption, friendship, self discovery, youth, koran, generation gap, family relations, teaching the ways of the world, parent child relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s, year 2003
Place: paris france, europe, switzerland, middle east, turkey ...
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 6.7
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The Climb (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. Danny, who's 12, gets teased and folks make nasty cracks about cowards. An old radio tower on a nearby hill is about to be torn down, ...
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: man boy relationship, friendship, friends, family relations, human spirit, young heroes, heroes, aging, rescue, coming of age, hopes, youth ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, post world war two
Place: baltimore, usa
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Welcome Home, Bobby (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a Chicago teen is arrested for drug possession, the ensuing investigation reveals that he has had sexual contact with an older man. Discovering his sexual encounter, other students start shunning him and call for his expulsion from school. His ...
Plot: gay teenager, gay, sexual confusion, arrest, lgbt, gay subtext, parent child relationship, architect, school, math teacher, older man younger man relationship, teacher ...
Place: chicago, illinois
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 6.3
 623
Fly Me Away (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thomas, a blasé young man, spends his nights in clubs and his days in bed. Until his father, Dr. Reinhard, fed up with his son’s escapades, cuts him off completely and forces him to take care of one of his young patients. Mar- cus, 12, was born ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, disturbing, psychological
Plot: disabled child, man boy relationship, father son relationship, rich, illness, father son conflict, lifestyle change, changing lives, fighting illness, boy, single father, serious illness ...
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