Boy of the Streets

Jan 8, 1938

1h 16m

★ 5.0

CHUCK WANTED TO BE A BIG SHOT LIKE HIS OLD MAN...until one day...he learned the old man was a two-bit stooge!

Overview

Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Monogram Pictures

Boy of the Streets Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Chuck Brennan

Jackie Cooper

Nora

Maureen O'Connor

Julie Stone

Kathleen Burke

Police Officer Rourke

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Mrs. Mary Brennan

Marjorie Main

Blackie Davis

Matty Fain

Tim 'Flannel-Mouth' Farley

George Cleveland

Dr. Allan

Bill Elliott

Fog Horn Brennan aka Foggy

Guy Usher

Spike, Gang Member

Paul White

Gang Member (uncredited)

Robert Taylor

BIRD IN THE SKY is a gritty, poetic tale of a young man’s spiritual struggle on the streets of New York City. Rob has been given a second chance to right the wrongs of his street-wise past; he must perform a miracle to be saved. His fate lies in his love for a young woman, Kay, who is coping with the loss of her child.

6.2

Engel & Joe

Oct 25, 2001

A love story of a 17 year old punk-rocker and a 15 year old runaway girl.

6.8

Return to Innocence

May 5, 2001

A searing legal drama that centers on a highly credentialed child psychologist whose life is shattered when he's accused of sexually assaulting a young boy he's been treating.

5.5

The Man from the Embassy

Nov 29, 2007

The unusual friendship between a German embassy employee and a twelve-year-old refugee girl helps both of them rediscover their joy in life, but also brings with it suspicion, corruption and violence.

5.4

Mouth to Mouth

Jun 2, 2005

An aimless adolescent joins several itinerant misfits who live on the fringe of society and welcome at-risk youths into their fold.

7.6

Billy Elliot

Sep 28, 2000

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

6.8

Crooklyn

May 13, 1994

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.

7.0

Takapihan sankarit

Dec 12, 1992

According to the story, the heroes of the backyard are "Impression from the moment when a child realizes that childhood is transient". The scriptwriters combined episodes in the film on Merima's two works and placed events in an unspecified town after the wars. Costumes and sculptures refer to the wooden houses of the 1940s and 1950s. The venues included Suomenlinna and the Ruiskumestari House in Helsinki Kruununhaa. The backyard heroes were filmed for 16mm film originally as a television movie , but also taken to theatrical release.

6.7

The Life Ahead

Nov 3, 2020

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.

7.9

Perro callejero

Feb 28, 1980

An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.

6.5

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets

Mar 21, 2001

Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

6.8

Boys on the Outside

Sep 14, 1990

Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?

6.9

The Devil Is a Sissy

Sep 18, 1936

A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

6.5

Kim

Dec 7, 1950

During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English secret service.

No Image Available

6.0

Saving Grace

Oct 18, 1998

Grace is a homeless teenager. She befriends an unemployed carpenter and he invites her to share his flat. She moves in and to her surprise a delicate relationship develops. He helps her repair her shattered self-esteem and she begins to feel loved and secure. But then she discovers his secret - he tells her he is Jesus Christ.

10.0

Final Round

Dec 28, 2022

Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough money with which to pay a smuggler, and be able to cross the Strait of Gibraltar with his two friends.

5.8

Ultima Street

Jun 27, 2010

Miriam is thirteen years of age. Today could be her last day at school. This film follows her day - with all its ups and downs - and describes her efforts to find acceptance.

5.6

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Nov 10, 1960

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.

6.4

Goli Soda

Jan 24, 2014

Four lads find themselves in a situation where they have to take on a powerful man (and his innumerable henchmen) to reclaim their identity.

5.0

The Unvarnished Boy

Oct 18, 2010

A young boy struggles with life on the streets of Vancouver's dangerous and soul-consuming lower East side.