12 year old movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant 12 year old movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, touching, captivating, feel good, psychological and disturbing films and TV shows about / with 12 year old, coming of age, family relations, youth, teenager, boy, friendship, teenage girl, girl and young girl plots mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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12 year old movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as 12 year old: BUNK'D (2015), This Special Friendship (1964), Angels of the Sun (2006), Playground (2016), The Mirror Boy (2011), The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015), Casper (1995), Pretty Baby (1978), Beans (2020), Room 213 (2017).

List of 12 year old movies

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 5.4
 4K
BUNK'D (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Siblings Emma, Ravi, and Zuri Ross leave their extravagant New York City penthouse once again to return to Camp Kikiwaka, a rustic summer camp in Maine where their parents met as teenagers.
Style: sitcom, entertaining, funny, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: summer camp, 13 year old, 17 year old, teenager, love and romance, teenage life, family relations, friendship, love triangle, rescue, couple relations, childhood ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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This Special Friendship (1964)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, psychological, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt teen, gay teenager, friendship, teenage life, youth, boys love, boarding school, lgbt, gay love, teenage boy, school, child ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france
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Angels of the Sun (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In Northeastern of Brazil, the father of the twelve years old illiterate Maria sells his daughter to Tadeu to be employed as a housemaid and have a better life. However, the girl is resold to the farmer Lourenço that deflowers her, and he gives the ...
Style: rough, psychological, suspense, serious, disturbing
Plot: child prostitution, prostitution, prostitute, teenage prostitute, sex slave, slave girl, slave trader, sex slavery, child abuse, brothel, slave trade, slavery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: brazil
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 6.2
 1K
Playground (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story: It's the end of the school year and today is the last chance for 12-year-old Gabrysia to tell her classmate that she has fallen in love with him. She sets up a secret meeting and blackmails the boy to show up. But what was supposed to be an ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, controversial, sincere ...
Audience: kids
Plot: bullying, childhood trauma, killer child, children, teenage love, unrequited love, teenager, coming of age, prank, tragic love, kidnapping, mentally unstable ...
Place: poland
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 4.8
 151
The Mirror Boy (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, Nigeria
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The Mirror Boy is a mystical journey through Africa, seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy, Tijan. After a London street fight, in which a local boy is hurt, Tijan's mother decides to take him back to their roots, to Gambia. On their ...
Style: touching, emotional, serious, sincere, twisted ...
Plot: self discovery, missing child, single parent, youth, parents and children, destiny, family relations, teasing, boy, street fight, coming of age, mirror ...
Time: 2010s
Place: africa, london
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The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, sincere, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: foster home, foster child, bully, birth mother, social services, friendship, brother sister relationship, secret, mother daughter relationship, name calling, social worker, transformation ...
Place: maryland
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 6.2
 146K
Casper (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style: fairy tale, light, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, ghost, halloween, haunted house, supernatural, single father, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, mischievous children, life & death, family bonds ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: maine, new england, usa
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 6.5
 13K
Pretty Baby (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields). When Violet is brought on as ...
Style: controversial, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prostitution, virginity, child prostitution, innocence lost, photographer, loss of virginity, girl man relationship, world war one, nymphet, brothel, nudity, child prostitute ...
Time: 1910s, victorian era, year 1978, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place: new orleans, america, louisiana, usa
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 6.9
 1K
Beans (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and ...
Plot: coming of age, mother daughter relationship, woman, politics, young girl, land dispute, woods, showdown, girlhood, driving, grownups, first kiss ...
Time: 90s, year 1990
Place: quebec, canada
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 4.6
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Room 213 (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Elvira goes to summer camp and is scared to death of not making any friends. Mysterious things also start to happen, things that can't be explained… unless you believe in ghosts.
Style: fairy tale, suspense, not serious, entertaining
Audience: teens, horror for children
Plot: secret passageway, summer camp, ghost, camp, ghost story, teenage superhero, children, teenage girl, parents and children, paranormal activity, escapades, fantasy world ...
Place: eastern europe
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The Greening of Whitney Brown (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from her comfort zone, she befriends an amazing horse, and undertakes a misguided ...
Style: sentimental, captivating, light, sincere, serious ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: horse, school, family relations, family life, new house, teenage life, girl horse relationship, farm, hopes, fish out of water, countryside, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia, ireland
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 6.4
 412
Being Ian (2004)
Genre: Animation, Family, Mystery
Country: Canada, Philippines
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Being Ian is a Canadian animated series produced by Studio B Productions, Corus Entertainment and Nelvana, focusing on 12-year-old Ian Kelley, who aspires to become a filmmaker. It originally aired from January 1, 2005 to April 22, 2007. The series ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, captivating, light, children's program
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: best friend, obsession, parents and children, family relations, friends, youth, coming of age, family life, siblings relations, isolation, store, emotionless ...
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With the Nose in the Stream (2012)
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, only child, child prodigy, young boy, coming of age, boy, married couple, girl, gentleman ...
Place: geneva switzerland, switzerland
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Voices from the Heartland: Slaves of the Lord (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
Story: In a Jewish Orthodox village in Israel, Tamar, a twelve-year-old girl, prepares for her Bat-Mitzvah (confirmation), which will take place on Passover. Becoming convinced that she is impure, and growing increasingly scared and depressed, she forces ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: jewish girl, orthodox jew, religion, religious, ritual, coming of age, girl, self discovery, teenage girl, self acceptance, easter, menarche ...
Place: israel
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 3.0
 201
Sickle (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Twelve year old Michael Hart is convicted of the murder of a babysitter, despite his claims that a "monster did it." Upon his release, the monster returns and the bodies are piling up. Is it the grim reaper? Is it the Mothman? Whatever it ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, psychological, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: child protagonist, boy, monster, murder, murder suspect, obsession, supernatural power, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, possessed human, danger, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Mostly Ghostly (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on the successful book series by R.L. Stine, this spooky tale finds 11-year-old Max making a deal with the ghosts who haunt his home. If Max helps them find what was responsible for their parents' disappearance, they'll help him ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, light, scary, tripping ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, horror for children
Plot: ghost, youth, halloween, children, supernatural, haunted house, family relations, missing person, school, imaginary friend, childhood, danger ...
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Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This 1986 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is ...
Style: feel good, futuristic, entertaining, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama, preschool
Plot: time travel, ufo, nasa, benign alien, space and aliens, space travel, outer space, flying saucer, robot, alien, getting home, young heroes ...
Time: year 1978, year 1986, 80s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: florida, miami, miami beach, japan, texas ...
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Little Secrets (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Emily Lindstrom, 14, is an aspiring concert violinist; she's spending the summer practicing for a big audition while her girlfriends are at camp. She's also got a thriving neighborhood business: for 50 cents, she'll keep your secret. ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: secret, youth, violinist, coming of age, introspection, lifestyle, family life, parents and children, teenage life, friendship, family problems, violin ...
Time: 21st century
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 41K
Honey Boy (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.
Style: inspirational, independent film, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Audience: kids
Plot: father son relationship, rehabilitation, absent mother, child protagonist, abusive father, motel, child, alcoholic father, forgiveness, group therapy, childhood trauma, boyhood ...
Time: year 2019, year 2015, 90s, year 2005, year 1995 ...
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 6.9
 3K
King Jack (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Growing up in a rural town filled with violent delinquents, Jack has learned to do what it takes to survive, despite having an oblivious mother and no father. After his aunt falls ill and a younger cousin comes to stay with him, the hardened ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bullying, teenage boy, friendship, small town, teenage life, brutality, violence, party, mental illness, cruelty, drinking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york state
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 8.9
 133K
Gravity Falls (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Twin brother and sister Dipper and Mabel Pines are in for an unexpected adventure when they spend the summer helping their great uncle Stan run a tourist trap in the mysterious town of Gravity Falls, Oregon.
Style: captivating, exciting, offbeat, anime, adult animation ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family friendly, adult ...
Plot: supernatural, friendship, small town, youth, twins, magical, child protagonist, mysterious place, summer vacation, monster, imaginary, good versus evil ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, california
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 6.1
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Princesita (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Tamara lives within a cult that is ruled by the beliefs of its leader Miguel, who becomes obsessively convinced that Tamara is the "chosen one". But when she falls in love with a classmate, Tamara's relationship gets ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, rough, suspense
Plot: child abuse, chosen one, obsession, commune, rebelliousness, cult leader, power relations, fall in love, coming of age, young girl, menarche, child rape ...
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 7.0
 8K
War Witch (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona a 14-year-old girl tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
Style: disturbing, touching, serious, bleak, sad ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: civil war, innocence lost, slavery, murder, battles, child soldier, teenager, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, wartime life, rebellion, african ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: africa
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 140K
It (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 192 min.
TV show
Story: A series of murders prompts Mike Hanlon to suspect that the supernatural menace that he and a group of friends battled as children has returned. He begins to call his friends to remind them of the oath they swore: if It returned again, they would ...
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, dark fantasy ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: stephen king, supernatural, monster, clown, friendship, children, childhood, fear, killer clown, small town, supernatural horror, childhood trauma ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 60s, year 1960
Place: maine, usa, new york
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The Flavor of Corn (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lorenzo, a handsome first-year professor in an isolated Italian village, falls under the spell of his most beguiling pupil, a dark-haired, starry-eyed 12-year-old named Duilio. As Lorenzo's relationship with his heartless girlfriend ...
Style: erotic, homoerotic, independent film, crying, gay cinema ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, coming of age, homoeroticism, gay interest, youth, glbt, boys love, homoerotic friendship, homosexuality, teenage sexuality, erection ...
Place: italy
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Back Home (TV Movie) (1989)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During World War II, young Rusty was sent to America for safety. It's now five years later and the spunky redhead returns to her native England. From the family she hardly remembers to snobby classmates and rule-filled boarding schools, Rusty ...
Style: crying
Plot: adoption, brother sister relationship, redhead girl, post war, boarding school, mother daughter relationship, world war two, getting home, dance class, death of friend, dormitory, singing ...
Time: year 1945, 1940s
Place: england, britain
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That Special Summer (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The year is 1984. It's summer, and the rebellious 12-year-old girl Kid wants to stay in Gothenburg, but her mother has other plans. Kid discovers that summer vacation in Finland isn't as bad as first feared. In a few hot weeks she ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage sexuality, teenage girl, sexual awakening, coming of age, summer vacation, family relations, relationships, couple relations, teenage life, teenage love, teenager, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1984, 80s
Place: finland
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The Go-Between (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Tale of torrid and forbidden love between Christie and Bates in the English countryside.
Style: sexy, disturbing, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: forbidden love, coming of age, class differences, summer, literary, love, first love, landscape, children, cricket, new love, trippy ...
Time: victorian era, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place: england, america, europe
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Firehouse Dog (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Rexxx, Hollywood's top canine star, gets lost and is adopted into a shabby firehouse. He teams up with a young kid to get the station back on its feet.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens, kids ...
Plot: dog, fire department, human animal relationship, pets, firefighter, youth, friendship, young heroes, family life, parents and children, coming of age, animal ...
Time: year 2007
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The Black Stallion (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a ...
Style: scenic, inspirational, fairy tale, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: horse, horse race, child, boy horse relationship, shipwreck, survival, coming of age, beach, human animal relationship, storm at sea, friendship, racing ...
Time: 1940s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: detroit, astoria oregon
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