Here are two more films that focus on children (or a child) and their problems. "The Search" (1948) tells the moving story of a Czech boy who finds himself displaced in the aftermath of WWII. The movie (directed by Fred Zinnemann) is done in semi-documentary style and all the children in the film except for the boy who stars (Ivan Jandl who won a special Oscar for this movie, his only movie, as it turned out) are real life displaced children. "The Search" was entirely shot on location in Germany and is not typical Hollywood stuff at all. The British film "Whistle Down the Wind" (1961) tells the story of three children who find a bearded man (a fugitive murderer, but the kids don't know that) in a barn and think he's Jesus. The children have a neglectful dad and no mom. I highly recommend both these movies. Mary Kalfatovic, Washington, D.C.