Only child movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant only child movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, humorous, serious, semi serious and emotional films and TV shows about / with only child, family relations, friendship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, youth, mother daughter relationship, boy, dog and coming of age plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Belgium and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as only child: With the Nose in the Stream (2012), Honey (2010), Mary and Max (2009), The Hole in the Ground (2019), My Dog Skip (2000), Out of This World (1987), The Two of Us (1967), The Lion King (1994), Day of the Wacko (2002), Hope Gap (2019).
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List of only child movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A televsion reporter tasked with making a feature about Jean Jacques Rousseau's upcoming 300th birthday uses a local Swiss boy with a remarkable knowledge about the philosopher as her angle for the feature. She then brings in a local professor ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental
Plot:
professor, philosophy, tv reporter, nature, child prodigy, coming of age, boy, only child, married couple, tv show, bullying, girl ...
Place:
geneva switzerland, switzerland
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7K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, a six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to make sense of his life.His father is a beekeeper whose bees have disappeared unexpectedly, ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, sentimental, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
forest, village, parents and children, family relations, hopes, introspection, father son relationship, youth, only child, everyday life, betrayal, nature ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
turkey
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180K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless ...
Style:
touching, depressing, emotional, sentimental, clever ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
loneliness, friendship, social misfits, depression, letter, stop motion, mental illness, relationships, asperger's syndrome, young woman, correspondence, unlikely friendships ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
australia, usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK, Belgium, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, scary, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
forest, doppelganger, boy, house, son, insanity, obsession, suspense, supernatural, mother son relationship, macabre, small town ...
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of ...
Style:
feel good, touching, sweet, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night
Plot:
dog, coming of age, childhood, world war two, small town, animals, child's point of view, friendship, youth, children, baseball, lifestyle ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, oxford university, southern usa
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Out Of This World is an American fantasy sitcom about a teenage girl who is half alien, which gives her unique supernatural powers. It first aired in syndication from September 17, 1987 and ended on May 25, 1991.
During its first season, the series ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, funny, light, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
alien, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, stopped time, teenage girl, time freeze, supernatural power, magic, space, alien race, friendly alien, uncle niece relationship ...
Place:
california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.
Style:
semi autobiographical, serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot:
world war two, boy, youth, wartime life, liberation, countryside, holocaust, children, children in wartime, anti semitism, aerial bombardment, pet dog ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
france, vichy, europe, alps
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1.1M
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young lion cub named Simba can't wait to be king. But his uncle craves the title for himself and will stop at nothing to get it.
Style:
touching, sentimental, inspirational, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschoolers, teens, girls' night
Plot:
disney, lion, friendship, betrayal, jungle, love, good versus evil, tragedy, talking animals, pride and honor, uncle, hyena ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school ...
Style:
tragicomedy, humorous, cynical, surreal, mind bending ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, nothing goes right, social satire, alienation, loner, teacher, obsession, suspense, self loathing, nervousness, dark humor, paranoia ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
warsaw poland, eastern europe, central europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple's visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
breakup, father son relationship, infidelity, divorce, marriage, marital separation, love, poetry, suspense, mother son relationship, family life, family relations ...
Place:
united kingdom
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Monaco
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Lui, a struggling author with a heart condition, and his wife Elle, a retired psychiatrist, find their idyllic life shattered when Elle begins to succumb to the effects of dementia.
Style:
serious
Plot:
dementia, death, existentialism, aged person, alzheimer's disease, illness, destiny, elderly, aging, elderly man, writing a book, married couple ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A story of two sisters, one from the country with simpler attitudes who comes to stay for a short while with her sophisticated sister who lives in the big city.
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
sibling relationship, breaking point, dull life, family relations, parents and children, sibling rivalry, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, living together, family problems, humour, sister ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening ...
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
world war two, childhood, holocaust, friendship, exile, anti semitism, farm, adultery, culture clash, wartime life, jewish, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
africa, kenya, germany, israel, poland ...
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487
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Bonnie, a nine-year-old single child, is part of a family of three living in the Netherlands. They have a love of elephants, passed on by Bonnie's grandfather's grandfather who worked on a game reserve in Africa, and Bonnie feels that she ...
Plot:
children, elephant, foster home, single parent, only child, single mother, family relations, female protagonist, bipolar disorder, manic depression, grandmother, circus ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
teenage love, family relations, teenage life, looking for love, youth, teenage crush, first love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, berlin wall, erotica, coming of age, roommate ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After his wife leaves him, middle-aged Ben Bingham slips into a funk and refuses to change out of his pajamas. Justin, Ben's 17-year-old son, has the cure for what ails his depressed dad: he gives Ben a makeover and pushes him out into the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
family relations, fall in love, teenage love, parents and children, lifestyle, doctor, looking for love, friendship, only child, self discovery, renewed love, dentist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When the old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of supernatural old-school and modern day cool.
Style:
humorous, funny, witty, stylized, not serious ...
Audience:
preschoolers, family outing, kids, teens, horror for children
Plot:
hotel, vampire, supernatural, zombie, children, female vampire, fantasy world, monster, magic, imaginary kingdom, frankenstein, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2014, year 2013, year 2015, year 2016, year 2019 ...
Place:
romania, transylvania, california, usa, north america
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Ready or Not is a Canadian teen drama series which aired on the Showtime Movie Channel and later on the Disney Channel and Global Television Network for 5 seasons and 65 episodes between 1993 and 1997 in both Canada and the United States.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, humorous
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, friendship, teenager, best friend, disney, canadian, high school, feminist, middle school, best friends, youth ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, art house, erotic, slasher ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
doppelganger, identical twins, pregnancy, male masturbation, erotica, doctor patient relationship, cat, model, woman on top, caught having sex, lovers, threesome ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. ...
Style:
emotional, serious, psychological, rough, clever ...
Plot:
murder, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, family problems, investigation, sex education, cheerleader, american football, babies and infants, teenage girl, teen social issues ...
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201K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, neo noir ...
Plot:
rape, family in danger, lawyer, fear, serial killer, dangerous attraction, revenge, psychology, prison, suspense, rapist, torture ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.
Style:
social, touching, sentimental, artsy, esoteric ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbt teen, high school, lgbtq, self acceptance, american football, cheerleader, transsexual, friendship, lgbtqi, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story:
13-year-old Tulip finds herself on a mysterious train with an endless number of cars, each one its own universe, and must find a way to get home.
Style:
exciting, psychological, captivating, mysterious, anime ...
Audience:
kids, preschoolers, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, teenager, self discovery, family relations, mysticism, introspection, determination, young heroes, robot, broken promise, alternate dimension, journey ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
wisconsin, minnesota, italy
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives with his overly confident substitute Spanish teacher wife Peggy, wannabe comedian son Bobby, and naive niece Luanne. Hank has conservative views about God, ...
Style:
adult animation, witty, anime, sitcom, adult cartoon ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
ordinary person, small town, family relations, family life, teenage life, youth, substitute teacher, suburban life, parents and children, americana, friendship, patriotism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
texas, usa
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168K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, touching, thought provoking, sincere ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
bullying, school, child, friendship, middle school, father son relationship, happy ending, truancy, family relations, deformity, fight, hospital ...
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, pennsylvania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Plot:
separation, husband wife relationship, queen elizabeth ii, care, blue collar, teenager, lie, mother daughter relationship, dog, death, newspaper, beach ...
Place:
south australia, australia, adelaide south australia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to ...
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
obsession, hit and run, revenge, life is a bitch, rivalry, vengeance, little boy, breaking the law, miscarriage of justice, redheaded woman, sexual euphemism, woman driver ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, new york, montreal, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Style:
sexy, dramatic, melancholic, intense, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, runaway, lawyer, murder, blindness, courtroom, african american, chauffeur, paranoia, redemption, prejudice, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
chicago illinois, africa, usa, ireland
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337
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Madlax is a 26-episode Japanese anime television series produced in 2004 by the Bee Train animation studio. Kōichi Mashimo directed Madlax and the soundtrack was composed by Yuki Kajiura. The DVD version was released by ADV Films in North America ...
Style:
anime, psychological, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, investigation, on the run, undercover, heroic mission, hitman, criminal's revenge, good versus evil, rivalry, government agency, soldier, mind game ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching
Audience:
date night
Plot:
age-gap relationship, family relations, couples, looking for love, computers and web, adult virgin, love affair, unlikely couple, human nature, hopes, unfulfillment, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, melbourne australia
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