Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "adult-child-friendship"

1. Up (2009)

PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.

Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 1,126,465 | Gross: $293.00M

2. Doctor Sleep (2019)

R | 152 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.

Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis

Votes: 218,862 | Gross: $31.58M

3. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure

In 1935, Indiana Jones is tasked by Indian villagers with reclaiming a rock stolen from them by a secret cult beneath the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri

Votes: 535,838 | Gross: $179.87M

4. Sling Blade (1996)

R | 135 min | Drama

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

Director: Billy Bob Thornton | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter

Votes: 98,877 | Gross: $24.48M

5. The Pacifier (2005)

PG | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Having recovered from wounds received in a failed rescue operation, Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains in the kids' house.

Director: Adam Shankman | Stars: Vin Diesel, Brittany Snow, Max Thieriot, Brad Garrett

Votes: 101,013 | Gross: $113.09M

6. Running Scared (2006)

R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his crime boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things get out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.

Director: Wayne Kramer | Stars: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Chazz Palminteri, Vera Farmiga

Votes: 103,759 | Gross: $6.86M

7. About a Boy (2002)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Will, who attends single parent meetings to woo women, meets Marcus, a troubled 12-year-old boy. As they become friends, Will learns to be responsible while he helps Marcus with his studies.

Directors: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz | Stars: Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Sharon Small

Votes: 191,780 | Gross: $41.39M

8. Camp Nowhere (1994)

PG | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A group of junior high kids don't want to go to summer camps chosen by their parents. They make their own adult-free camp and "hire" an ex drama teacher to help.

Director: Jonathan Prince | Stars: Jonathan Jackson, Christopher Lloyd, John Putch, Peter Scolari

Votes: 10,685 | Gross: $10.47M

9. Mary and Max (2009)

Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.

Director: Adam Elliot | Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries

Votes: 186,946

10. Mercury Rising (1998)

R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.

Director: Harold Becker | Stars: Bruce Willis, Miko Hughes, Alec Baldwin, Chi McBride

Votes: 77,677 | Gross: $32.94M

11. Curly Sue (1991)

PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A homeless man and his young companion, who survive by conning people, meet a woman who may need them even more than they need her.

Director: John Hughes | Stars: Jim Belushi, Kelly Lynch, Alisan Porter, John Getz

Votes: 23,251 | Gross: $33.69M

12. Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror

In a small Southern town, four vigilantes wrongfully execute a mentally-challenged man, but after the court sets them free mysterious "accidents" begin to kill them off one by one.

Director: Frank De Felitta | Stars: Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons, Claude Earl Jones, Lane Smith

Votes: 8,231

13. Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

PG | 114 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

A lawyer and a little girl must prove that a man claiming to be Santa Claus is the real thing.

Director: Les Mayfield | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, J.T. Walsh

Votes: 43,908 | Gross: $17.19M

14. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.

Director: George Seaton | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 54,948 | Gross: $2.65M

15. As We See It (2022)

TV-MA | 264 min | Comedy, Drama

Three autistic roommates find a way to live together and strive for similar things in life.

Stars: Rick Glassman, Sue Ann Pien, Albert Rutecki, Chris Pang

Votes: 4,250

16. Nappily Ever After (2018)

TV-MA | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Violet Jones tired of waiting for her longtime boyfriend to propose, breaks up with him. But old feelings, and heaps of jealousy, no doubt, arise when he promptly begins dating another woman.

Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Sanaa Lathan, Ricky Whittle, Lyriq Bent, Lynn Whitfield

Votes: 9,851

17. Battle for Terra (I) (2007)

PG | 85 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

The peaceful alien planet Terra faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on it. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, will do everything she can to stop it.

Director: Aristomenis Tsirbas | Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Luke Wilson, Justin Long, Chad Allen

Votes: 12,200 | Gross: $1.65M

18. Night Trip (1982 TV Movie)

63 min | Drama

12 years old Thomas is on quest for friendship and love. He takes rowing lessons and is really fond of his teacher.

Director: Nick van den Boezem | Stars: Abel Claassen, Cees Heyne, Mies de Heer, Marnix Kappers

Votes: 99

19. Lamb (I) (2015)

R | 97 min | Drama

When a man meets a young girl in a parking lot he attempts to help her avoid a bleak destiny by initiating her into the beauty of the outside world. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.

Director: Ross Partridge | Stars: Ross Partridge, Oona Laurence, Jess Weixler, Tom Bower

Votes: 2,324 | Gross: $0.01M

20. The Hussy (1979)

90 min | Drama

Misfit François kidnaps young Mado and takes her to live with him in the attic of his parents' home. A strange relationship evolves till the police comes upon them.

Director: Jacques Doillon | Stars: Claude Hébert, Madeleine Desdevises, Paulette Lahaye, Juliette Le Cauchoix

Votes: 696

21. Saint Frances (2019)

101 min | Comedy, Drama

After an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting.

Director: Alex Thompson | Stars: Kelly O'Sullivan, Ramona Edith Williams, Charin Alvarez, Lily Mojekwu

Votes: 5,314

22. Angel Face (2018)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama

One day, Marlene suddenly chooses to abandon her daughter for a man she has just met during yet another night of excess. Elli must confront her mother's demons to get her back.

Director: Vanessa Filho | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Ayline Aksoy-Etaix, Alban Lenoir, Amélie Daure

Votes: 1,198

23. Yaarana (1981)

Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Bishan loses his fortune while helping his friend Kishan in his singing career. Now successful, would Kishan return the favour?

Director: Rakesh Kumar | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Neetu Singh, Tanuja Samarth, Aruna Irani

Votes: 1,963

24. The Motel (2005)

Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Drama

Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Kang | Stars: Jeffrey Chyau, Sung Kang, Jade Wu, Samantha Futerman

Votes: 1,427 | Gross: $0.05M

25. Cheeni Kum (2007)

140 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An egotistical 64-year-old chef and confirmed bachelor falls for a woman 30 years his junior.

Director: R. Balki | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Tabu, Paresh Rawal, Zohra Sehgal

Votes: 5,596 | Gross: $0.66M

26. Cousinhood (2011)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Three cousins travel to the village where they spent summer vacations as kids.

Directors: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Raúl Arévalo | Stars: Quim Gutiérrez, Inma Cuesta, Raúl Arévalo, Antonio de la Torre

Votes: 5,163

27. Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas (2018 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

When strangers Cara and Heath are stranded before Christmas, they embark on an unexpected journey that may give them the miracles they've been hoping for.

Director: David Winning | Stars: Josh Henderson, Megan Park, Lindsay Maxwell, Paul McGillion

Votes: 1,853

28. Rubber Tarzan (1981)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Family

A weak, dyslexic boy is bullied in school. His Tarzan obsessed dad calls him Rubber Tarzan. He makes a friend in crane driver Ole, who tells him: There's always something, you're good at. You just have to know what it is.

Director: Søren Kragh-Jacobsen | Stars: Alex Svanbjerg, Otto Brandenburg, Peter Schrøder, Susanne Heinrich

Votes: 1,358

29. Lea to the Rescue (2016)

Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Family

Born for adventure, Lea Clark heads deep into the Brazilian rainforest, where her most exciting story awaits.

Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Laysla De Oliveira, Storm Reid, Hallie Todd

Votes: 386

30. Kabuliwala (1961)

95 min | Drama

A poor Afghani leaves his family behind to earn a living as a dried fruit vendor in India. Profoundly homesick, he befriends a young girl who reminds him of his own daughter. Meanwhile, the locals are distrustful of all foreigners.

Director: Hemen Gupta | Stars: Balraj Sahni, Baby Sonu, Usha Kiran, Padma

Votes: 359

31. Pak Pak Pakaak (2005)

138 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A mischievous boy, living with his grandmother in a village that people believe is haunted, meets the ghost "Bhutya". How the "Bhutya" transforms the boy's character and the whole village in the process, forms the rest of the story.

Director: Gautam Joglekar | Stars: Nana Patekar, Saksham Kulkarni, Narayani Shastri, Usha Nadkarni

Votes: 545

32. Siblings (2004)

R | 85 min | Comedy

SIBLINGS is a dark comedy about love, lust, murder and other issues of normal family life.

Director: David Weaver | Stars: Alex Campbell, Paul Soles, Andrew Chalmers, Samantha Weinstein

Votes: 685

33. The White Dove (1960)

76 min | Drama

A poetic film about a dove getting lost on its way to Prague getting shot down by a paralyzed boy. An artist who finds the dove becomes friends with the boy. Together they take care of it bringing it back to recovery.

Director: Frantisek Vlácil | Stars: Katerina Irmanovová, Karel Smyczek, Vjaceslav Irmanov, Gustav Püttjer

Votes: 751

34. Artik (2019)

Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Thriller

A comic book obsessed serial killer teaches his son how to get away with a series of brutal murders until the boy befriends a mysterious man who threatens to expose everything.

Director: Tom Botchii | Stars: Chase Williamson, Jerry G. Angelo, Lauren Ashley Carter, Matt Mercer

Votes: 887

35. Poslední propadne peklu (1982)

83 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

The story is set in the early 17th century and revolves around a magic bottle, from which one drop can fulfill one wish. The current owner is obliged to sell it on, but for half the price. ... See full summary »

Director: Ludvík Ráza | Stars: Michaela Kudlácková, Ivan Vyskocil, Bruno O'Ya, Ludek Munzar

Votes: 94

36. Up in the World (1956)

87 min | Comedy

A friendly window cleaner works at an English country estate where he saves the owner's son from kidnappers.

Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Maureen Swanson, Jerry Desmonde, Michael Caridia

Votes: 754

37. Benedict Ironbreaker: The Red Taxis (2014)

77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Benoit Brisefer is a little boy with a herculean force,except when he has a cold.He's got no parents and he can't make friends with children his age ,because he involuntary always breaks their toys.

Director: Manuel Pradal | Stars: Gérard Jugnot, Jean Reno, Thierry Lhermitte, Leopold Huet

Votes: 201

38. Then I Sentenced Them All to Death (1972)

103 min | War, Drama

In order to avoid reprisals from the Wehrmacht for the murder of a soldier, intellectuals from a Romanian village try to convince Ipu, the village idiot, to take the blame for the murder and save everybody.

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu | Stars: Amza Pellea, Cristian Sofron, Ion Besoiu, Gheorghe Dinica

Votes: 992

39. Zmruz oczy (2002)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Comedy

The story of a spirited ten-year-old girl who has run away from her proudly affluent parents in town and finds grudging refuge with the slightly slovenly caretaker of an abandoned farm, an ex-teacher.

Director: Andrzej Jakimowski | Stars: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Olga Prószynska, Rafal Guzniczak, Malgorzata Foremniak

Votes: 969

40. Jasminum (2006)

115 min | Comedy, Romance

The peaceful world of a monastery in the small town of Jasmine is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers, Natasha and her daughter Eugenia. The legend associated with the monastery ... See full summary »

Director: Jan Jakub Kolski | Stars: Justyna Bartoszewicz, Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Marta Dabrowska, Grzegorz Damiecki

Votes: 1,382

41. Anbulla Rajanikant (1984)

Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Drama, Family

A disabled child in a group home starts corresponding with a matinee idol

Director: K. Nataraj | Stars: Rajinikanth, Ambika, Bhagyaraj, Meena

Votes: 208

42. U zemlji cudesa (2009)

93 min | Drama

Still today, years after the war, some regions are contaminated with broken families, poverty, crime and low-grade uranium. In the middle of nowhere in Western Herzegovina, at a NATO ... See full summary »

Director: Dejan Sorak | Stars: Marija Stjepanovic, Franjo Kuhar, Dora Lipovcan, Borko Peric

Votes: 180

43. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: A Man Greatly Beloved (1957)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

In a small Massachusetts town, precocious young Hildegarde Fell learns a secret about crusty old John Anderson, who has just moved there.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Cedric Hardwicke, Evelyn Rudie, Hugh Marlowe

Votes: 652

44. Naked City (1958–1963)
Episode: The One Marked Hot Gives Cold (1962)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A man steals records from the orphanage where he grew up, hoping to find his father. At the same time, the age of his young female companion gets him in trouble with the police.

Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Paul Burke, Horace McMahon, Harry Bellaver, Robert Duvall

Votes: 96

45. Taxi (1978–1983)
Episode: Arnie Meets the Kids (1983)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Elaine's has dated Arnie for sometime and wants him to meet her children. Arnie has reservations about how well he'll get along with them..

Director: Richard Sakai | Stars: Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza

Votes: 130

46. Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode: Episode #1.122 (1966)

TV-G | 22 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Matthew hears a ghostly voice, then sees an eerie light coming from the portrait of Josette Collins.

Director: John Sedwick | Stars: Mitchell Ryan, Thayer David, Nancy Barrett, David Henesy

Votes: 67

47. Monk (2002–2009)
Episode: Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure (2007)

TV-PG | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Monk, in competition with one of Dr. Kroger's other patients, gets conned into helping his son find buried treasure. The problem is, it has ties to a recent bank robbery.

Director: Sam Weisman | Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine

Votes: 1,154

48. Monk (2002–2009)
Episode: Mr. Monk and the Birds and the Bees (2007)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Monk is on the trail of a man who seems to have committed the perfect crime when he murdered his wife and an intruder, and Natalie worries that Julie's new relationship is progressing too fast.

Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine

Votes: 1,176

49. Dag juf, tot morgen (1995)
Episode: Een vriendin (1995)

Adventure, Drama, Family

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Director: Ben Sombogaart | Stars: Stije van der Beek, Guus Dam, Con Meyer, Karin van Holst Pellekaan