A young Welsh soldier on duty in Northern Ireland finds himself used as a political pawn, following a tragic incident during a violent clash with some of the local agitators. The Guardian proposed that "if Spielberg's ET, in the immortal words of Pauline Kael, was a bliss out, Karl Francis' 'Boy Soldier' is a bleed out for sheer fist shaking emotionalism, it would be hard to find another British film of recent years to beat it."

Bloody Sunday
2002
7.3/10

'71
2014
6.8/10

Shadow Dancer
2012
5.9/10

Elephant
1993
6.6/10

The Journey
2017
6.3/10

Danny Boy
2021
6.8/10

The Experiment
2010
6.4/10

A Dry White Season
1989
6.7/10

Hunger
2008
7.2/10

Coldwater
2013
6.4/10

The System
2022
7.1/10

Tom Clancy's Without Remorse
2021
6.9/10

All Day and a Night
2020
6.2/10

Fifty Dead Men Walking
2008
6.3/10

Sergio
2020
6.6/10

Hands of Stone
2016
6.6/10

The Kill Team
2019
6.4/10

Field of Lost Shoes
2015
6.1/10

Behold a Pale Horse
1964
6.0/10

The Crying Game
1992
6.8/10
Major
2022
6.895/10