Movies and TvShows featuring "boy-smokes-a-cigarette" theme.

A writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy. Gordie and his friends set out to find the body of Ray Brower, a kid who recently went missing. Along the way, they encounter various challenges and obstacles, including facing off against a gang led by Ace Merrill. The boys eventually find Ray's body and decide to report it anonymously. After the journey, the group takes different paths in life, with Chris becoming a lawyer but tragically getting killed while trying to break up a fight. Gordie finishes writing about his childhood and goes swimming with his son and friend.

Honey Boy is an autobiographical film that explores the complicated and intense relationship between a young actor, Otis, and his alcoholic and abusive father. The story follows Otis as he reflects on his traumatic childhood experiences while in rehab, and delves into themes of addiction, trauma, and the struggle to find redemption.

The Postman's White Nights follows the life of a postman in a remote rural area of Russia. The postman, who is also an alcoholic, navigates through the challenges of alcoholism, theft, illegal fishing, and social decay. He finds solace in telling tales and looking at himself in the mirror. The film explores themes of loneliness and the decay of society in a small community.

Bugcrush (2006) is a drama horror movie about a teenage boy who becomes infatuated with a new student and gets drawn into a dangerous and manipulative relationship. The story explores themes of fear, manipulation, addiction, and betrayal. The protagonist's infatuation with the new student leads him to engage in risky behaviors, including drug use and a series of dangerous encounters. The plot takes a dark turn when the new student reveals his true intentions, leaving the protagonist in a state of shock and vulnerability. As the movie progresses, the protagonist must confront his fears and find a way to escape the dangerous situation he finds himself in.

Karen, a maths teacher, finds herself involved in a traffic accident for which she is not to blame. The accident causes the death of a girl on a scooter. Although innocent, the young woman is distraught, more so when she discovers that the dead girl – Miriam – is none other than the sister of her pupil, Lukas. The more everyone around her assures her that she is not to blame for the girl’s death, the guiltier Karen feels. To her, the accident is like an equation that just doesn’t add up. In an attempt to make up for her actions at least in part, she begins to give Lukas extra maths lessons. But, consumed by his pain, the boy wants much more from her.

St. Augustine, Florida, 1969. An eight-year-old boy's wish to see the fireworks from atop the city's lighthouse is complicated by his odd neighbors, abusive peers, and hopeless parents. The young boy's seemingly simple goal develops into a struggle in which his life, both internal and corporeal, hangs in the balance

An awkward young farm boy undergoes a profound and painful rite of passage in Michael Burke's masterful drama of nascent sexuality and friendship. Ridiculed for his love of animals (his best friend is a chicken), the boy's acceptance by his peers requires a stunning choice.

In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and only true maternal figure), a sixty-five-year-old Chilean woman named Aida. What was supposed to be an exhilarating and somewhat fearful rite of passage - diving into the exciting, fast-paced world of first experiences - quickly becomes skewed by an incomprehensible depression, and a house of interior horrors. Surrounded by women - his untraditional, Spanish, photographer mother (more interested in the role of confidante than mother) his sister, a comedic, door-slamming tormentor, marked by her parent's divorce; and Aida, his silver-haired emotional focal point on the verge of death in Lenox Hill Hospital - Oliver struggles to maintain his role as "man of the house" and his sanity.

A boy from a small town has never kissed a girl. One day he and his friends decide to go to the 'big city' to see if they have more luck there. In the city, the boys get much more than they bargained for.

In the summer of 1970, amidst the cholera epidemic in Odessa, Ukraine, a disabled 15-year-old girl finds herself caught in a web of deception, confusion, and forbidden love. As she navigates the heat and chaos of the city, she discovers a family secret that will change her life forever.

The first feature of Lithuanian Valdas Navasaitis is a drama which unravels the hopeless 1970s, when people were deprived of their roots and forced to sit and watch their lives slip from their fingers. In a decrepit house that once belonged to a bourgeois family, several families seek shelter. Senis, a 65-year-old alcoholic, lives on the ground floor with his wife and their 16-year-old daughter. Senis is a survivor of the Nazis as well as the communist camps. He drowns the pain of his memories in a nearby pub and in talking to a depressed young laborer, Lorenca. Later on, a young couple and a lonely eccentric who enjoys only his cat's company join the inhabitants. Children wile away the time with useless games or spying on adults. When Lorenca hangs himself at the ruins of a nearby factory, the lives are shaken up. During the dinner held for the deceased, they find a moment of common hope.

When two squeegee kids descend upon Sarah and her luxury sedan, the fuse is lit on a tense cat and mouse tale of captors and captives. Sarah is forced to continue her trip to an isolated cottage where the twisted trio bait and entice one another in a reckless search for truth.

Glasgow is a heartfelt coming-of-age drama set in 1990s Glasgow. The story follows a teenage boy as he navigates the challenges of growing up in a troubled neighborhood. Along the way, he grapples with issues such as family dynamics, friendship, and discovering his own identity.

A teenage boy wonders what love is. He's in love with a girl who is his opposite. The question is whether she is in love with him.