Child labor movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant child labor movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, serious, crying, feel good and captivating films and TV shows about / with child labor, coming of age, family relations, boy, friendship, poverty, children, flashback, teenager and child plots mostly in Drama, Family and Fantasy genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as child labor: Playing Beatie Bow (1986), Schwabenkinder (2003), The Child Wanderers (2010), Capernaum (2018), Chop Shop (2007), The Rescuers (1977), The Strange Ones (2017), Owl and the Sparrow (2007), Tiny Angels (1995), Jaime (1999).

List of child labor movies

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Playing Beatie Bow (1986)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Abigail Kirk was an ordinary enough sixteen year old growing up in todays Sydney. An intriguing chain of events finds Abigail, through some eerie time shift, transported back one hundred years after watching some children playing a scary game called ...
Style: independent film, psychotronic, crying, urban fantasy
Plot: time travel, woman in danger, time traveler, pianist, game, prostitute, teenager, female protagonist, bare chested male, looking for someone, widower, slum ...
Time: year 1986, 19th century, victorian era, 1870s, 80s
Place: australia, sydney australia, adelaide south australia
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 7.2
 263
Schwabenkinder (2003)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A man returning to his parents years after having been sent away as a child-laborer tells his lifetime story to his dying father.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, psychological
Plot: child labor, coming of age, father son reunion, emigration, father son relationship, death of wife, farmer, mountain, child trafficking, poverty, slavery, farm ...
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The Child Wanderers (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 125 min.
Story: In the 1890s, 10-year-old Yohan is sent away from home to survive on his own as a child laborer. He experiences hardships and overcomes his fears by relying on bravery and hope to make the best of his circumstances.
Style: psychological, captivating, unusual plot structure, touching
Plot: boy, friendship, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, mother son relationship, theft, grandson, violinist, death of child, bear cub, servant, school ...
Time: 1890s
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The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens’ semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive ...
Style: costume drama, atmospheric, touching, sentimental, semi serious ...
Plot: charles dickens, poverty, victorian england, orphan, aunt, kite, child's point of view, children, blackmail, betrayal, society, guardian ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, future, 1840s
Place: england, europe, dover england, london
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 8.4
 104K
Capernaum (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, USA, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style: social, sad, thought provoking, depressing, rough ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, child abuse, neglected child, life is a bitch, low lives, child protagonist, child neglect, starving child ...
Time: 2010s, future
Place: lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, maghreb ...
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 7.2
 5K
Chop Shop (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles ...
Style: bleak, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: street kid, coming of age, brother sister relationship, siblings relations, working class, pitbull, urban ghetto life, teenage life, kids in trouble, family relations, youth, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 6.9
 69K
The Rescuers (1977)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: What can two little mice possibly do to save an orphan girl who's fallen into evil hands? With a little cooperation and faith in oneself, anything is possible! As members of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society, Bernard and Miss ...
Style: light, touching, feel good, colorful, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, toddlers, preschool ...
Plot: childhood, mouse, good versus evil, orphan, friendship, kidnapping, rescue, chase, little girl, anxiety, happy ending, talking animal ...
Time: 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: madagascar, new york, usa, louisiana, new orleans
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The Strange Ones (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Mysterious events surround the travels of two brothers as they make their way across a remote American landscape. On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets. This is ...
Style: road movie, rough, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: boy, motel, man boy relationship, pedophile, road trip, sibling relationship, gay, child abuse, pretending to be someone else, psychopath, investigation, on the run ...
Time: year 2017
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Owl and the Sparrow (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In modern-day Saigon, three lonely strangers form a unique family as a ten-year old orphan plays matchmaker to a zookeeper and a beautiful flight attendant.
Style: uplifting, serious, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: matchmaking, youth, couples, orphan, street kid, friendship, optimism, on the run, human nature, society, opposites attract, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: saigon, asia, vietnam
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 6.2
 535
Tiny Angels (1995)
Genre: Musical, Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Chiquititas is a successful children's musical telenovela from Argentina. Created and produced by Cris Morena, starring her daughter Romina Yan, it aired on Telefé from 1995 until 2001. The series focuses about orphans living in a manor, ...
Style: soap opera, telenovela
Plot: occupation, latina, female protagonist, orphan, friendship between girls, manor, family relations, rebellious teenager, dual identity, attic, domestic violence, single father ...
Place: argentina
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 7.0
 1K
Jaime (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Brazil, Luxembourg
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he ...
Style: sexual, semi serious, realistic, touching
Plot: coming of age, politics, boy, boyhood, school, unemployment, pedophilia, society, youth, life is a bitch, family relations, fired from the job ...
Time: 90s
Place: portugal, europe
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Gretel & Hansel (2020)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Style: dark, fairy tale, dark fantasy, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: witch, witchcraft, folk horror, danger, good versus evil, forest, black magic, supernatural power, blood, child, supernatural, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 2020s
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A Little Princess (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's ...
Style: touching, feel good, fairy tale, heartbreaking, serious ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: boarding school, orphan, childhood, imagination, princess, little girl, fantasy life, servant, children, girls' boarding school, magic, coming of age ...
Time: 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, future, victorian era ...
Place: new york, india, england, africa, britain ...
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 5.4
 142
The Punishment (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, psychological
Plot: child labor, re-education, child abuse, life is a bitch, teenage life, exploitation, slave labor, problem child, forced labor, juvenile delinquency, juvenile delinquent, labor camp ...
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King of Thieves (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.
Style: disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: youth, circus, boy, child prostitution, human trafficking, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, kidnapping, kids in trouble, hopes, dishonesty, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, berlin germany, ukraine, europe, germany
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Turtles Can Fly (2004)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France, Iraq
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Turtles can fly tells the story of a group of young children near the Turkey-Iran border. They clean up mines and wait for the Saddam regime to fall.
Style: sincere, bleak, emotional, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: childhood, orphan, children in wartime, blind character, refugee, children, coming of age, camp, child, muslim, anti war, survival ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: kurdistan, iraq, middle east, iran, afghanistan ...
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The Promised Land (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional ...
Style: serious, realistic, biting, epic, crying
Plot: revolution, friendship, capitalist, renaissance, literary, identity, time machine, revolt, railway, artist, fire, adultery ...
Time: victorian era, year 1975, 19th century, turn of the century
Place: poland, eastern europe, middle east, berlin germany, europe ...
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David Copperfield (1993)
Genre: Family, Animation
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An animated version of the classic David Copperfield story. Filled with music, color, and anthropomorphic versions of the classic characters.
Plot: anthropomorphism, charles dickens, literary, david copperfield, child labor, cartoon cat, furry, abusive relationship, cartoon dog, victorian england, talking animal, anthropomorphic animal ...
Time: victorian era
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James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
Style: surreal, dark fantasy, feel good, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: stop motion, magic, surrealism, orphan, childhood, friendship, youth, giant, aunt, young heroes, escapades, buddies ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1948
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, england, empire state building manhattan new york city
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 7.3
 23K
Angela's Ashes (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film ...
Style: touching, depressing, sad, compassionate, serious ...
Audience: toddlers, teen drama
Plot: poverty, life is a bitch, ira, injustice, family relations, youth, parents and children, depression, children, society, human nature, childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: ireland, new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, europe ...
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 7.7
 9K
Not One Less (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Teacher Gao loves the students in his poor village and is devoted to educating them in the hope of their greater futures. When he is called away to tend to his dying mother for a month, the Mayor calls in an inexperienced 13 year-old replacement, ...
Style: road movie, inspirational, realistic, touching, sad ...
Plot: teacher, children, coming of age, poverty, youth, job, teaching, teenager, education, school, friendship, village ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: china, tibet
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 174K
27 Dresses (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.
Style: romantic, feel good, light, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: wedding, fall in love, love story, love, opposites attract, wedding planner, love and romance, women, bridesmaid, couple relations, unlikely couple, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, rhode island, manhattan new york city, usa
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Children of the Salt (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An old man, in the agony of death, asks his children to cremate his body and scatter the ashes in the sea. Willing to fulfill the last wish of the elderly, as a rite of passage the youngsters unknowingly transgress the traditions of their father. ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: incest, brother sister relationship, coming of age, first sexual experience, teenage sexuality, death of father, loss of father, sexual desire, lasciviousness, isolation, family life, social problems ...
Time: 2010s
Place: venezuela
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The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, rough, tense, captivating ...
Plot: holocaust, nazi, nazism, world war two, concentration camp, nazi occupation, nazi concentration camp, slave labor, spanish civil war, forced prostitution, concentration camp survivor, nazi war criminal ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944, year 1945, year 1943
Place: spain, germany, central europe
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Black Shack Alley (1983)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Martinique
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for the smallest infraction. The way to advance is to do well in ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: black, youth, women of color, african, international relations, blaxploitation, racial issues, woman, boy, grandmother, school, poverty ...
Time: 1930s, year 1983
Place: indiana, africa, europe, france
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, China, Belgium, Germany, United Arab Emirates, USA, Canada
Duration: 136 min.
Story: In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, exciting, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick, kids
Plot: alien, space travel, outer space, alien planet, space station, government agent, creature, mission, alien race, marriage proposal, space adventure, space pirate ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2017, year 1975, 70s ...
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 6.5
 290K
Zoolander (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany, USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic "he's so hot right now" Hansel scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu seizes the ...
Style: funny, humorous, parody, light, stylized ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: conspiracy, fashion model, male model, brainwashing, satire, fashion, assassination, dumb, stoner, fame, president, comedy of errors ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, malaysia
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 111K
Ip Man 2 (2010)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Having defeated the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese army in occupied Shanghai, Ip Man and his family settle in post-war Hong Kong.Struggling to make a living, Master Ip opens a kung fu school to bring his celebrated art of Wing Chun to the ...
Style: heroic, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, wing chun, master warrior, contests and competitions, pride and honor, courage, wuxia, hopes, heroes, master, martial artist ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 1950s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, asia
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Wicked Little Things (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, undead, abandoned house, zombie child, danger, missing person, small town life, small town, parents and children, ghost, creepy kid, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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 7.8
 265K
Walk the Line (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: music, rock and roll, country music, musician's life, musician, addiction, marriage, biopic, accident, prison, drug, rise and fall ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 50s, 2000s, 1940s ...
Place: tennessee, memphis, usa, arkansas, west germany ...
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