Mischievous children movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant mischievous children movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, light and funny films and TV shows about / with mischievous children, disorder, youth, family relations, children, childhood, child, parents and children, kids and family and teenage girl plots mostly in Comedy, Family and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
mischievous children
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mischievous children movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as mischievous children: Problem Child (1990), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Baby's Day Out (1994), Daddy Day Care (2003), Eloise at the Plaza (2003), The Spy Next Door (2010), The Pacifier (2005), Dennis the Menace (1993), Yours, Mine & Ours (2005), Man of the House (1995).

List of mischievous children movies

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 5.4
 33K
Problem Child (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ben Healy (John Ritter) and his social climbing wife Flo adopt Junior a fun-loving seven year old. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares. But is ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, slapstick ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: adoption, mischievous children, chase, spoiled brat, troublemaker, children, child hero, child, friends, dark humor, kidnapping, childhood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
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Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous ...
Style: light, funny, humorous, detective, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: teacher, fish out of water, children, kindergarten, police, education, mischievous children, small town, bullying, undercover, elementary school, school ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Place: astoria oregon, california, oregon, los angeles
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 6.2
 55K
Baby's Day Out (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Baby Bink couldn't ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, slapstick, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: babies and infants, mischievous children, chase, escapades, danger, stupidity, prank, young heroes, kidnapping, lost child, rescue, farce ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
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 5.6
 73K
Daddy Day Care (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two men get laid off and have to become stay-at-home dads when they can't find jobs, which inspires them to open their own day-care center.
Style: entertaining, humorous, funny, family comedy, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, family outing, toddlers ...
Plot: children, mischievous children, unemployment, father son relationship, farce, fish out of water, kindergarten, goofy hero, friends, nothing goes right, workplace situations, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Eloise at the Plaza (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: This is a comedy about a six-year-old girl who lives at a 5 star plaza and causes havoc.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: mischievous children, little girl, nanny, precocious child, tutor, family relations, young heroes, opposites attract, family life, youth, dog, child's point of view ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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The Spy Next Door (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Former CIA spy Bob Ho takes on his toughest assignment to date: looking after his girlfriend's three kids, who haven't exactly warmed to their mom's beau. And when one of the youngsters accidentally downloads a top-secret formula, ...
Style: feel good, exciting, humorous, not serious, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: mischievous children, spy, martial arts, single parent, children, cia agent, espionage, child spy, nanny, cia, family relations, secret agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: madagascar, usa
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 5.6
 100K
The Pacifier (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Disgraced 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 hidden in the kids' house.
Style: entertaining, humorous, feel good, funny, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: nanny, children, mischievous children, undercover cop, good versus evil, bodyguard, fight scenes, one against many, fish out of water, adult child friendship, special agent, danger ...
Time: year 2005, 2010s
Place: usa
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Dennis the Menace (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, not serious, sweet ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, date night, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: mischievous children, children, prank, problem child, when the parents are away, childhood, kids and family, happy ending, neighbor, boy, nothing goes right, troublemaker ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, chicago
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Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: large family, blended family, family relations, parenthood, mischievous children, wedding, parents and children, opposites attract, siblings relations, children, family life, eccentric family ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, connecticut
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Man of the House (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben tries anything and everything to ruin the "love bubble" which surrounds his mom. However, ...
Style: touching, funny, melancholic, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: childhood, parents and children, mischievous children, single parent, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, kids and family, camping, opposites attract, male bonding, camp ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
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 5.9
 25K
It Takes Two (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Identical 9-year-olds from very different backgrounds: orphaned Amanda and wealthy Alyssa meet at summer camp and decide to switch places -- and play matchmaker between Alyssa's dad, Roger, and the kind social worker who cares for Amanda.
Style: sweet, feel good, funny, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: twins, mischievous children, summer camp, children, parents and children, adoption, orphan, single father, single parent, camp, wedding, tomboy ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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 7.0
 173K
Matilda (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
Style: feel good, fairy tale, humorous, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: school, children, mischievous children, supernatural ability, parents and children, elementary school, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, childhood, young heroes, child prodigy, telekinesis ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place: america
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The Little Rascals (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and the other characters made famous in the Our Gang shorts of the 1920s and 1930s are brought back to life in this nostalgic children's comedy. When Alfalfa starts to question his devotion to the club's ...
Style: feel good, light, sentimental, sweet, not serious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: childhood, children, child, bully, dog, mischievous children, rivalry, parents and children, precocious child, youth, friendship, rich kid ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
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Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a 10-year-old girl Dawn Haley whose sibling rivalry with her three brothers is heightened by the fact that they are quadruplets.
Style: feel good, sitcom, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: mischievous children, large family, siblings relations, parents and children, family life, children, sibling rivalry, brother brother relationship, brother sister relationship, twins, twin brother, kids and family ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.1
 18K
Jessie (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: An idealistic teen from rural Texas embarks on the adventure of a lifetime when she decides to leave behind starry nights for big city lights. Thrilled to be on her own and determined not to be intimidated by New York City, she accepts a job as ...
Style: humorous, feel good, sentimental, semi serious, sitcom ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, boys' night, family outing ...
Plot: teenage girl, butler, mischievous children, workplace, nanny, large family, family relations, teenager, youth, fish out of water, celebrity, director ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, texas
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The Thief Lord (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A tale about two young boys, Prosper and Bo, who flee to Venice after being orphaned and dumped in the care of a cruel auntie. Hiding in the canals and alleyways of the city, the boys are befriended by a gang of young urchins and their enigmatic ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, exciting, detective ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: mischievous children, orphan, imaginary, friendship, young heroes, magic, youth, police, escapades, secret, supernatural, child ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice
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 7.7
 649K
Home Alone (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, chick flick ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, mischievous children, home alone, youth, children, home invasion, kids and family, child protagonist, winter, child, when the parents are away ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2016, 80s
Place: chicago, illinois, usa, france, paris france ...
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Horrid Henry: The Movie (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Henry fails yet again to hand in his homework for the umpteenth time, he has no idea that this will set off a chain of events which will see him forming an unlikely alliance with Moody Margaret, the infuriating girl next door, and his ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, realistic, not serious
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: youth, mischievous children, young heroes, friendship, teachers and students, parents and children, friends, girl, child, kids and family, family life, troublemaker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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 5.9
 24K
The Borrowers (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed when evil lawyer ...
Style: light, entertaining, humorous, not serious, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: little people, mischievous children, friendship, child's point of view, childhood, kids and family, greed, good versus evil, disorder, danger, youth, rescue ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
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 7.7
 296K
The Goonies (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of ...
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, intense, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, childhood, treasure, pirate, treasure map, children, mischievous children, pirate ship, group of friends, map, friendship, cave ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: oregon, astoria oregon, usa
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 6.6
 153K
The Parent Trap (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins separated at a young age because of their parents' divorce. unknowingly to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp where they meet, discover the truth about themselves, and ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, romantic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: twins, divorce, summer camp, mischievous children, single parent, lookalikes, child's point of view, twins separated at birth, father daughter relationship, matchmaking, teenage girl, butler ...
Time: 90s, year 1986, 20th century, year 1998
Place: california, london, bay area, england, europe ...
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 6.5
 14K
Dutch (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.
Style: light, road movie, funny, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing
Plot: road trip, prank, mischievous children, holiday, culture clash, foe turned friend, thanksgiving, working class, unlikely friendships, reluctant partners, partner, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, georgia, usa
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Max Keeble's Big Move (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max Keeble, the victim of his 7th grade class, plots revenge when he learns he's moving; it backfires when he doesn't move after all.
Style: humorous, touching, entertaining, light, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: childhood, school, underdog, friendship, mischievous children, happy ending, kids and family, teenager, parents and children, family relations, disorder, chaos and mayhem ...
Place: usa, chicago
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Ramona and Beezus (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Ramona is a little girl with a very big imagination and a nose for mischief. Her playful antics keep everyone in her loving family on their toes, including her older sister Beezus, who's just trying to survive her first year of high school. ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: mischievous children, youth, two sisters, teenager, aunt niece relationship, family relations, child's point of view, family life, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, disorder, teenage girl ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Little Indian, Big City (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stephen, an international trader, tracks down his ex-wife Patricia in some Amazonian backwater. He needs her consent to a divorce so that he can marry Charlotte. Unfortunately, he discovers a son he didn’t know he had – Mimi-Siku. The young ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: jungle, mischievous children, culture clash, dysfunctional family, city life, amazon, parents and children, divorce, fish out of water, nothing goes right, estrangement, disorder ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: paris france, france, venezuela, latin america, europe
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Little Nicholas (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, hilarious, cute ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: mischievous children, children, friendship, school, family relations, plan gone awry, parents and children, family life, friends, school teacher, teacher student relationship, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 6.6
 85K
Nanny McPhee (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, feel good, touching, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: witch, magic, childhood, nanny, family values, children, single father, mischievous children, parents and children, widower, prank, family relations ...
Time: edwardian era, year 2005, year 2006, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place: england, europe
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: fashion, teenager, mischievous children, coming of age, children, high school, babysitter, dysfunctional family, childhood, crime gone awry, twists and turns, family relations ...
Time: 90s, year 1990
Place: australia
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 3.2
 18K
Daddy Day Camp (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Seeking to offer his son the satisfying summer camp experience that eluded him as a child, the operator of a neighborhood daycare center opens his own camp, only to face financial hardship and stiff competition from a rival camp.
Style: humorous, melancholic, not serious, slapstick, funny ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: summer camp, competition, mischievous children, father son relationship, children, childhood, happy ending, colonel, family relations, buddies, escapades, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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War of the Buttons (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 1960. The thrilling battles waged by a band of kids from two rival villages in the southern French countryside.
Style: realistic, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: mischievous children, countryside, children, rivalry, friends, friendship, village, village life, betrayal, humiliation, uninhibited rivalry, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: europe, france
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