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 psychological, weird, captivating, suspense, serious and emotional films and TV shows about / with 12 year old, coming of age, family relations, friendship, youth, teenager, child protagonist, children, childhood and teenage girl plots mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres shot in USA, Sweden, Norway and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as 12 year old: BUNK'D: Learning the Ropes (2015), The Hideaway (1991), That Special Summer (2007), This Special Friendship (1964), Beans (2020), Angels of the Sun (2006), The Mirror Boy (2011), Night Watch (2004), Playground (2016), The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015).
Best films
New films
| Karla (2025) | 7.3 | |
| A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) | 6.0 | |
| Trap (2024) | 5.8 | |
| Living Large (2024) | 6.6 | |
| The Mother (2023) | 5.6 |
List of 12 year old movies
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, romantic, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
summer camp, 13 year old, 17 year old, teenager, love and romance, teenage life, rescue, family relations, love triangle, friendship, couple relations, justice ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Martin finds the going tough. Manhood is approaching, but so far mostly as aches and pain. His mother's men friends are definitely nothing like the father he does not have. So some kind of male bonding is inevitable when he meets Funder, a ...
Style:
crying
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
nude boy, boy, young boy, unconditional love, nude young male, nudity, sex talk, teenage sexuality, coming of age, sexual awakening, puppy love, first love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
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, disturbing, psychological, independent film
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
sexual awakening, teenage sexuality, teenage girl, coming of age, summer vacation, relationships, couple relations, teenage love, teenage life, family relations, teen romance, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 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, psychological, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
lgbt teen, boys love, friendship, gay teenager, teenage life, boys' school, boarding school, youth, boyhood, gay love, friend, child ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france
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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, land dispute, young girl, woman, politics, first kiss, car, siege, indigenous people, pregnancy, underage drinking ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s
Place:
quebec, canada
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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, serious, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
teenage prostitute, child prostitution, prostitution, child abuse, sex slave, slave trader, forced prostitution, prostitute, brothel, slave girl, sex slavery, slave trade ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
brazil
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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:
emotional, touching, serious, sincere, mystical ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
self discovery, youth, missing child, single parent, coming of age, destiny, parents and children, family relations, teasing, boy, street fight, child protagonist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
africa, london
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Among normal humans live the "Others" possessing various supernatural powers. They are divided up into the forces of light and the forces of the dark, who signed a truce several centuries ago to end a devastating battle. Ever since, the ...
Style:
dark fantasy, sexy, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, good versus evil, curses spells and rituals, destiny, supernatural power, witch, brutality, monster, dark hero, death, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1992, 2000s, medieval times, year 2004, 90s ...
Place:
russia, soviet union, eastern europe, europe, moscow russia
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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, sincere, controversial ...
Audience:
kids, toddlers
Plot:
bullying, childhood trauma, killer child, children, teenager, unrequited love, teenage love, coming of age, kidnapping, murder, tragic love, mentally unstable ...
Place:
poland
Is relevant?
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:
entertaining, sincere, captivating, feel good, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
foster home, foster child, birth mother, bully, social services, friendship, soul mate, brother sister relationship, secret, mother daughter relationship, social worker, name calling ...
Place:
maryland
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with un-attentive parents and bullies at school.
Style:
disturbing, cult classic, black comedy, teen, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, misfit, dysfunctional family, bullying, childhood, humiliation, social outcast, female protagonist, school, youth, public humiliation, high school life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, near future, year 1995
Place:
new jersey, seattle, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political changes in Brazil, in 1937. In those hours, he ...
Style:
erotic, suspense, rough, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, boy, mother son relationship, coming of age, male nudity, sexual curiosity, sex with a minor, older woman teenage boy sex, puberty, corrupt politician, sex with mother ...
Time:
1930s, year 1937, year 1982, 70s
Place:
brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
youth, self discovery, family life, society, family problems, parents and children, disability, small town life, child's point of view, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
louisiana, usa
Is relevant?
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.
Style:
scary, computer animated, 3d animation, teen, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers, family outing ...
Plot:
halloween, haunted house, suburbs, children, ghost, neighbor, supernatural, monster, human versus monster, old dark house, babysitter, three friends ...
Time:
1930s, year 1983, year 1938, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
north america
Is relevant?
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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, not serious, entertaining, suspense
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
summer camp, secret passageway, ghost, children, teenage superhero, ghost story, teenage girl, camp, mysticism, supernatural, paranormal activity, secret ...
Place:
eastern europe
Is relevant?
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, sexy, erotic, disturbing, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
virginity, innocence lost, nymphet, child prostitution, prostitution, girl man relationship, loss of virginity, world war one, photographer, brothel, child sexual abuse, sexual content ...
Time:
1910s, ancient times, victorian era, year 1978, year 1917 ...
Place:
new orleans, america, louisiana, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Ireland, Germany, USA
Duration: 11 min.
TV show
Story:
The life of Gumball Watterson, a 12-year old cat who attends middle school in Elmore. Accompanied by his pet, adoptive brother, and best friend Darwin Watterson, he frequently finds himself involved in various shenanigans around the city, during ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, offbeat, light, funny ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot:
friends, family life, friendship, plan gone awry, youth, teenage life, buddies, eccentric family, social relations, family relations, fish, teacher ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
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:
psychological, captivating, bleak, dark, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coming of age, jewish girl, orthodox jew, religion, obsessive compulsive disorder, ritual, religious, girl, self discovery, self acceptance, teenage girl, adolescence ...
Place:
israel
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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, scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
boy, child protagonist, monster, murder, murder suspect, paranormal phenomena, danger, possessed human, obsession, supernatural, supernatural power, nanny ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
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:
realistic, serious, touching, independent film, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boyhood, small town, bullying, teenage boy, brutality, coming of age, friendship, baseball, teenager, mental illness, cruelty, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york state
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, India, Germany
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, halloween, youth, children, supernatural, family relations, missing person, school, magic trick, imaginary friend, childhood, danger ...
Is relevant?
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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, sincere, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
rehabilitation, childhood trauma, father son relationship, absent mother, motel, child protagonist, abusive father, child, alcoholic father, alcoholic, forgiveness, group therapy ...
Time:
year 2019, 90s, year 2015, year 1995, 2000s ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The adventures of Elvira, a 12-year-old girl obsessed with the sea who develops the ability to breathe underwater. Elvira and her dolphin friend Elvar meet a friendly whale, among other creatures, while back on land all is not as it should be.
Style:
surreal, bilingual
Plot:
whale, dolphins, marine life, friendship, children, innocence, coming of age, melancholy, magic realism, environmentalism, grandfather, getting home ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A professional smuggler tries to save a 12-year-old girl whose family has gone missing in the Syrian war.
Style:
tense, suspense, realistic, emotional, political thriller ...
Plot:
human trafficking, political conflict, smuggler, rescue mission, survival, desperation, moral ambiguity, border crossing, trust, child protagonist, betrayal, evacuation ...
Place:
middle east
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
12-year-old Sofija is seemingly facing a boring summer vacation with two grandmothers. However, new friendships, a first kiss, and long kept family secrets will turn this summer on the idyllic Adriatic island of Hvar into a priceless experience and ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, emotional, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot:
grownups, slice of life, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, coming of age, self discovery, summer, family drama, adolescence, lifestyle, family life, teenage life ...
Place:
croatia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor ...
Style:
creepy, gothic, cult classic, dark, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, bullying, coming of age, loneliness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, school, friendship, boy, child vampire, fall in love, new neighbor ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2008, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
persia, united kingdom, europe, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Denmark
TV show
Story:
Juleønsket is about 12-year-old Julie to whom Christmas is very important. Especially Christmas Eve. When she finds out that not all of her family members will be there on Christmas, she makes a wish. A wish so strong that it reaches the Angels.
Style:
psychological, feel good, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, christmas wish, holiday, heartwarming, winter, christmas eve, family relations, female protagonist, christmas spirit, kids and family, relationship problems, family problems ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
At a secluded summer camp, timid and introverted 12-year-old Morgan is thrust into a waking nightmare when a once-fabled campfire tale becomes real. As a mysterious figure descends upon the camp, Morgan and his newfound friends must embark on a ...
Style:
psychological horror, existential, dark fantasy, teen horror, slasher
Plot:
summer camp, coming of age, isolation, survival, supernatural, folklore, loss of innocence, friendship, paranoia, investigation, rite of passage, claustrophobia ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Mystery, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
In a remote Norwegian mountain-area in the thirties, two 12 year old girls Siss and Unn meets. They are friends, but for Unn it is more serious, she admits to have secret and indecent fantasies about her girlfriend.
Style:
erotic, sexual, yuri, cult classic, sexy ...
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, bare breasts, female nudity, nude girl, sexual curiosity, nudity, sexual awakening, lesbian, blonde girl, loneliness, homosexuality ...
Time:
1930s, 1950s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth.
Style:
bleak, black and white, meditative, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
world war two, orphan, coming of age, boy, espionage, childhood, war, child spy, courage, forest, great patriotic war, youth ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, germany, europe ...
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