Child genius movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant child genius movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out humorous, entertaining, serious, feel good, exciting and clever films and TV shows about / with child genius, friendship, youth, teenager, child prodigy, dialogue, mentor, catastrophe, chase and redemption plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
child genius
TOP 10 movies tagged as child genius: Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014), Little Man Tate (1991), Matilda (1996), The Kindergarten Teacher (2018), August Rush (2007), Ender's Game (2013), Malcolm in the Middle (2000), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), A Fish Tale (2000).
List of child genius movies
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, intellectual, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
chess, child prodigy, prodigy, children, mentor, genius, tournament, teacher, sport, coming of age, childhood, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A struggling musician becomes a 12-year-old musical prodigy's guardian for a summer.
Style:
psychological, feel good, light, captivating, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
child prodigy, friendship, au pair, prodigy, nanny, boy, cellist, father son relationship, musician, fall in love, wealthy family, family relations ...
Place:
usa, new york state, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his ...
Style:
intellectual, psychological, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
prodigy, coming of age, child prodigy, autism, genius, mentor, friendship, psychology, children, mother son relationship, mathematics, working class ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
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161K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 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, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
school, children, mischievous children, supernatural ability, parents and children, adoption, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, young heroes, telekinesis, child protagonist, elementary school ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 90s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel, UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.
Style:
touching, sentimental, rough, emotional, erotic ...
Plot:
child prodigy, teacher, kindergarten, poetry, little boy, genius, talent, husband wife relationship, student, school, marriage, poem ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
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109K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, sad, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family outing ...
Plot:
music, musician, orphan, dancing, childhood, child prodigy, adoption, prodigy, child protagonist, youth, chance meeting, children ...
Time:
80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, xian ...
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245K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, entertaining, intense ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
alien, chosen one, space wars, distopia, space, battles, training, young heroes, prodigy, space and aliens, child prodigy, space battle ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
A gifted young teen tries to survive life with his dimwitted, dysfunctional family.
Style:
humorous, sitcom, realistic, witty, funny ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
teenager, siblings relations, youth, prodigy, social satire, teenage life, eccentric family, suburban life, sibling relationship, suburbs, family life, family problems ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
The sequel to Black Panther (2018).
Style:
futuristic, captivating, anime, surprise ending, psychotronic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
superhero, heroes, human nature, fight, african american, fight scenes, avenger, showdown, villain, technology, rescue, society ...
Time:
16th century, 2020s, future, 21st century
Place:
africa, haiti, boston, virginia, atlantic ocean ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Ireland, Denmark, USA, France, Canada, UK, Spain, Estonia, Latvia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Three children accidentally get turned into fish after drinking a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem. They must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, 2d animation, cult film
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
transformation, ocean, race against time, antidote, survival, rescue, heroic mission, friendship, disorder, mischievous children, young heroes, boat ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Tokyo is abuzz with persocoms – humanoid computers that are virtually perfect. The socially and technologically inept Hideki is dying to get his hands on one. When he finds Chi abandoned in the trash, she’s cuter than any current model he’s ...
Style:
anime, touching, sexual, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, teaching the ways of the world, student life, follow your dream, mysterious character, human nature, youth, friendship, robot, androids and robots, cyborgs ...
Time:
future
Place:
tokyo, asia
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
teenager, cold war, nuclear, bomb, runaway, military, whistleblower, heist, scientist, plutonium, laboratory, chase ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, new york state
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This film was the pinnacle of anti-D&D fearmongering. Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and ...
Style:
bleak, dark fantasy, suspenseful, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world trade center manhattan new york city, delusion, sword and sorcery, role playing, two worlds meeting, sword, mentally unstable, college, disappearance, delusional man, psychosis, depression ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
United States President Lex Luthor uses the oncoming trajectory of a Kryptonite meteor to frame Superman and declare a $1 billion bounty on the heads of the Man of Steel and his ‘partner in crime’, Batman. Heroes and villains alike launch a ...
Style:
stylized, anime, atmospheric, talky, exciting ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
superhero, batman, good versus evil, superman character, justice, frame up, false accusation, violence, transformation, heroes, fight scenes, supernatural power ...
Place:
washington d.c., japan, tokyo, new york
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find ...
Style:
exciting, surreal, stylized, surprise ending, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
time travel, alien, space travel, space and aliens, robot, space, save the world, space exploration, spacecraft, heroes, escapades, terrorism ...
Time:
future
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185K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Spain, France, Canada, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and ...
Style:
visually appealing, exciting, thought provoking, feel good, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
utopia, time travel, youth, young heroes, heroes, androids and robots, robot, apocalypse, cyberpunk, alternate world, obsessive quest, first contact ...
Time:
future, 60s, 2010s
Place:
florida, new york, africa, paris france, houston texas
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jarod reunites with two old friends and unleashes some powerful Centre revelations. Also Jarod and Miss Parker learn more about their pasts.
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot:
investigator, amnesia, impostor, secret society, conspiracy, protective male, uncover truth, partners against crime, memory lapse, fighting crime, memory loss, repressed memory ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A woman enters an underground bunker where gifted children use augmented reality technology to wreak havoc.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot:
virtual reality, evil child, suspense, children, artificial intelligence, childhood trauma, killer child, little girl, childhood memory, student, trapped in a building, woman in danger ...
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861K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
Style:
exciting, entertaining, witty, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
superhero, heroes, hotshot hero, superhuman powers, billionaire, rescue, terrorism, kidnapping, revenge, flying superhero, androids and robots, betrayal ...
Time:
90s, year 2012, year 1999, 20th century, 2010s ...
Place:
malibu california, california, tennessee, north america, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Do you prefer to wax on or wax off? Preacher won't let you dance? Well then, put Baby in the corner and come on down, 'cause VH1 is bringing back more of the'80s you love in this feature-length film, Totally Awesome. The Gundersons ...
Style:
parody, realistic, not serious, witty, humorous
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rivalry, lifestyle, love and romance, teenage love, friends, dancer's life, artists and showbiz, youth, goofy hero, martial arts, teenage life, high school life ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former ...
Style:
serious, exciting, psychotronic, captivating, epic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
superhero, transformation, superhero team, teleportation, superheroine, alternate dimension, telekinesis, heroes, invisibility, technology, supernatural power, shapeshifting ...
Time:
future, year 2007, year 2015, year 2014, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, pentagon, panama, new york
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715
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two mildly retarded truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who stows away on their truck.
Plot:
truck, chase, child genius, twins, invention, toxic waste, twin brother, gadget, teenage girl, truck driver, brother brother relationship, teenager ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Pretender is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series starred Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a genius and former child prodigy with the ability to become anyone he wants to be, i.e., to flawlessly impersonate ...
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
goodhearted, secret hideout, righting the wronged, prodigy, secret place, genius, undercover, self discovery, encounter, hopes, good versus evil, manhunt ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
delaware
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Through a series of bizarre circumstances, Jarod and Miss Parker find themselves trapped together on a strange island in a life and death situation, out of which come some of the most important revelations about their pasts.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, enigmatic
Plot:
secret movement, secret place, curses spells and rituals, save the day, uncover truth, heroes, dishonesty, life is a bitch, rivalry, track down, escapades, mysterious place ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Placed in a foster home that doesn't allow pets, 16-year-old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce, turn an abandoned hotel into a home for their dog. Soon other strays arrive, and the hotel becomes a haven for every orphaned canine in town. But ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, humorous, light, romantic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
dog, orphan, mischievous children, siblings relations, animals, husky dog, young heroes, animal lover, hotel, pets, friends, child ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Exceptionally ambitious high schooler Matthew has aspirations for a career in politics when he falls in love with his gorgeous 19-year-old neighbor, Danielle. But Matthew's bright future is jeopardized when he finds Danielle was once a porn ...
Style:
sex comedy, sexy, teen sex comedy, romantic, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, youth, teenage sex, dream come true, high school, couple relations, fall in love, porn star, lifestyle, high school life, teenage love, virginity ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
california, las vegas, usa, los angeles, cambodia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After saving Casey, a daughter of his friend, from hired assassins, Jack Devlin is hit with a strange phobia - fear of white color. But when his other friend, who works as a bodyguard for a supermodel, is wounded, Jack decides to step in for him. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, terrorism, suspense, heroes, gangsters, one man army, chase, assassination attempt, woman in danger, scarecrow, tough heroes, disability ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
atlantic city, new york, atlantic city new jersey
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Azumanga Daioh is a Japanese comedy manga by Kiyohiko Azuma. It was serialized by MediaWorks in the shōnen manga magazine Dengeki Daioh from 1999 to 2002 and collected in four bound volumes. In May 2009, in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of ...
Style:
anime, feel good, humorous, semi serious, biting ...
Audience:
pre-teens, teens, kids
Plot:
high school, teachers and students, friendship, teenage life, youth, shyness, precocious child, slice of life, humour, coming of age, birthday, child ...
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Mr. Young is a Canadian comedy series that premiered on March 1, 2011 on YTV. The series is shot in front of a live audience in Burnaby, British Columbia. The series was created by Dan Signer, and stars Brendan Meyer, Matreya Fedor and Gig Morton as ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, entertaining, feel good, realistic
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
high school, prodigy, child prodigy, teenage life, lifestyle, young heroes, teenage love, friends, social relations, youth, teachers and students, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow the adventures of three ordinary girls as they make life’s awkward moments a thousand times worse. Along with a colorful bunch of classmates, they learn their most important lessons the hard way. Meanwhile down the street, a pocket-sized ...
Style:
anime, feel good, light, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
school, robot, friendship, high school life, androids, female protagonist, high school, girlfriend, teenage life, humour, unrequited love, girlfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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