Best of Movies on Children

by santosheflu | created - 24 May 2022 | updated - 24 May 2022 | Public

These movies are about children, made in various languages across the world.

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1. The Way Home (2002)

PG | 80 min | Drama

63 Metascore

This is the story of a 7-year-old boy, Sang-woo, born and raised in the big city, and his mute grandmother, who has spent her whole life in a small rural village.

Director: Jeong-hyang Lee | Stars: Yoo Seung-ho, Eul-boon Kim, Hyo-hee Dong, Kyung-hyun Min

Votes: 5,895 | Gross: $0.44M

2. Where Is the Friend's House? (1987)

Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Family

Eight-year-old Ahmed has mistakenly taken his friend Mohammad's notebook. He wants to return it, or else his friend will be expelled from school. The boy determinedly sets out to find Mohammad's home in the neighbouring village.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Babek Ahmed Poor, Ahmed Ahmed Poor, Khodabakhsh Defaei, Iran Outari

Votes: 18,691

3. The Blue Umbrella (2005)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

In a small village when a little girl's prescious umbrella is stolen, things goes wrong for a greedy tea seller who was very much interested in buying that umbrella from her.

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj | Stars: Pankaj Kapur, Shreya Sharma, Deepak Dobriyal, Rahul Kumar

Votes: 2,197

4. The Butterfly (I) (2002)

PG | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

64 Metascore

This is the story of a young girl named Elsa who was raised by a single mother (Isabelle) in the city. Isabelle and Elsa begin the film moving in next door to an elderly man who collects ... See full summary »

Director: Philippe Muyl | Stars: Michel Serrault, Claire Bouanich, Nade Dieu, Jacques Bouanich

Votes: 3,310 | Gross: $0.04M

5. Lord of the Flies (1990)

R | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

49 Metascore

Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.

Director: Harry Hook | Stars: Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, James Badge Dale

Votes: 33,607 | Gross: $13.99M

6. Makdee (2002)

90 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

In a small North Indian village, Legend has it that a 100 years-old witch lives in an abandoned mansion on the village outskirts, and any person who goes inside is turned into an animal. In... See full summary »

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj | Stars: Shabana Azmi, Shweta Basu Prasad, Makrand Deshpande, Aalaap Majgavkar

Votes: 2,260

7. Matilda (1996)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

72 Metascore

A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.

Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz

Votes: 174,544 | Gross: $33.08M

8. Wadjda (2012)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

81 Metascore

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Ahd

Votes: 21,473 | Gross: $1.35M

9. The Chorus (2004)

PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Music

56 Metascore

Pierre, a successful orchestra conductor, returns home when his mother dies. He stumbles upon an old diary and recollects the childhood school memories and his music teacher Clement Mathieu.

Director: Christophe Barratier | Stars: Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jean-Baptiste Maunier, Kad Merad

Votes: 67,148 | Gross: $3.64M

10. Not One Less (1999)

G | 106 min | Drama

73 Metascore

In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for each ... See full summary »

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Minzhi Wei, Huike Zhang, Zhenda Tian, Enman Gao

Votes: 9,359 | Gross: $0.59M

11. Barefoot (2017)

111 min | Comedy, Drama

A boy and his family leave Prague during World War II and move to a small village called Slavonice. There, he meets distant relatives and adjusts to a new way of life.

Director: Jan Sverák | Stars: Jan Tríska, Oldrich Kaiser, Tereza Ramba, Ondrej Vetchý

Votes: 897

12. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War

98 Metascore

In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú

Votes: 702,905 | Gross: $37.63M

13. Ivan's Childhood (1962)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War

During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Stepan Krylov

Votes: 39,924

14. Paper Moon (1973)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

77 Metascore

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman

Votes: 52,451 | Gross: $30.93M

15. The Hedgehog (2009)

Unrated | 100 min | Drama

64 Metascore

The life of a determined young girl is changed when she befriends her building's concierge, a solitary woman who is more than what she seems.

Director: Mona Achache | Stars: Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa, Anne Brochet

Votes: 9,762

16. Nobody Knows (2004)

PG-13 | 141 min | Drama

88 Metascore

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu

Votes: 31,398 | Gross: $0.68M

17. I Wish (2011)

PG | 128 min | Drama

80 Metascore

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Kôki Maeda, Oshiro Maeda, Ryôga Hayashi, Seinosuke Nagayoshi

Votes: 7,938 | Gross: $0.15M

18. A Summer at Grandpa's (1984)

93 min | Drama

A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister who spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.

Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou | Stars: Chi-Kuang Wang, Shu-Chen Li, Hsiu-Ling Lin, Mei-Feng

Votes: 1,741

19. Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass (2015)

103 min | Drama

Set in the countryside village of Vietnam, Yellow Flowers on the Green grass is a touching tale of innocent love, friendships and brotherhood.

Director: Victor Vu | Stars: Thinh Vinh, Khang Trong, Lam Thanh My, My Anh

Votes: 1,467

20. The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005)

G | 93 min | Drama, Family

73 Metascore

The little Nansal finds a baby dog in the Mongolian veld, who becomes her best friend against all rejections of her parents.

Director: Byambasuren Davaa | Stars: Batchuluun Urjindorj, Buyandulam Daramdadi, Nansal Batchuluun, Nansalmaa Batchuluun

Votes: 3,534 | Gross: $0.14M

21. The Steed (2019)

110 min | Action, Adventure, Family

Set in the first part of the 20th century during the Russian revolution's spill over into the vast majestic lands of Mongolia. This epic story is about family, love, devotion and kinship ... See full summary »

Director: Erdenebileg Ganbold | Stars: Ariunbold E., Enkhtuul G., Tserendagva Purevdorj, Mendbayar Dagvadorj

Votes: 155



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