Street kid movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant street kid movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, gloomy, sincere and rough films and TV shows about / with street kid, youth, life is a bitch, coming of age, society, friendship, juvenile delinquency, family relations, friends and teenage life plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
street kid
TOP 10 movies tagged as street kid: Pixote (1980), AJ and the Queen (2020), Two-Legged Horse (2008), A Children's Story (2004), Kids (1995), The Little Polish (2003), Chop Shop (2007), Boy Called Twist (2004), Neds (2010), The Killing (2011).
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List of street kid movies
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by ...
Style:
disturbing, depressing, rough, bleak, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
prostitution, sex with a minor, street kid, boy, coming of age, children, child rape, jail, loneliness, tragedy, friendship, crime gone awry ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, africa, sao paulo brazil, latin america
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
While traveling across the country in a run-down RV, drag queen Ruby Red discovers an unlikely sidekick in AJ: a tough-talking 10-year-old stowaway.
Style:
funny, road movie, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
female impersonator, street kid, gay, lgbtq, adult child friendship, nightclub, dream, deception, lgbt, sister, gay interest, road trip ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
Style:
serious, psychological, disturbing, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
dehumanization, street kid, youth, parents and children, realism, life is a bitch, cruelty, poverty, power relations, family relations, master and servant, disability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, iran, asia, middle east
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story focuses on the life of an 11-year old boy surrounded by criminality and poverty in the suburbs of Naples.
Style:
disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic
Plot:
street kid, juvenile delinquency, youth, friends, society, life is a bitch, coming of age, social worker, urban ghetto life, teaching the ways of the world, social decay, street life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, controversial, depressing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, virginity, innocence lost, drugs, aids, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, teenager, sexual promiscuity, street kid ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, los angeles, new jersey, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
At age 13, a street kid known as "El Polaquito" makes his living mostly by singing tangos (originally sung by his namesake, the singer "El Polaco") on Buenos Aires commuter trains. He falls in love with a 16 year old prostitute, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, bleak
Plot:
youth, prostitute, train, teenage life, love affair, juvenile delinquency, orphan, fall in love, forbidden love, love and romance, society, rebelliousness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
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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:
touching, bleak, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
street kid, coming of age, brother sister relationship, working class, siblings relations, pitbull, family relations, kids in trouble, urban ghetto life, teenage life, youth, orphan ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpredictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin's ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, street kid, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, dishonesty, gang, life is a bitch, orphan, society, cons and scams, rich and poor, negligence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa, cape town south africa
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9K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, street kid, gang, bullying, gang war, coming of age, youth, teenage life, social decay, realism, social problems, society ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, europe
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115K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.
Style:
psychological, serious, gloomy, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder investigation, police detective, strong female lead, multiple suspects, murder mystery, murder, police investigation, female protagonist, crime investigation, female detective, policewoman, strong female character ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington d.c.
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39K
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Style:
visually appealing, sentimental, melancholic, witty, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
orphan, street kid, children, child, dancing, runaway, charles dickens, happy ending, dog, youth, coming of age, child abuse ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1830s
Place:
london, england, europe, britain
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's ...
Style:
serious, captivating, rough, bleak, social ...
Plot:
street kid, youth, homeless, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, poverty, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, friendship, society, vengeance, gang ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, morocco
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
Style:
sincere, realistic, meditative, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
childhood, kids in trouble, boy, realism, orphan, youth, coming of age, adoption, bicycle, social problems, petty criminal, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style:
touching, realistic, motivational, feel good, uplifting ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
poverty, love, childhood, destiny, orphan, rags to riches, against the odds, society, life is a bitch, street life, cheating, ambition ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 2005, 2000s, year 2006 ...
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia, taj mahal
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 176 min.
TV show
Story:
Oliver is born into poverty and misfortune - the son of an unmarried mother, who dies shortly after his birth. He is soon delivered to the workhouse, where the cruel Mr. Bumble oversees children tormented by starvation and suffering. When Oliver ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
orphan, child's point of view, victorian england, child abuse, thief, friendship, street kid, social decay, youth, life is a bitch, society, injustice ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place:
europe, england, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Adrift in the lush, nocturnal urban landscape of THE GRAFFITI ARTIST, Nick (Ruben Bansie-Snellman) is a post-modern urban hero asserting his anarchistic agenda on the endless maze of virgin exterior walls that comprise downtown Seattle and Portland. ...
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
gay teenager, gay, street kid, youth, social differences, teenage life, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, rebellion, friendship, drug abuse, rebelliousness ...
Place:
seattle, usa, washington state, oregon, portland oregon
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, sincere, realistic
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
attempted rape, teenage life, coming of age, self discovery, rebellion, street kid, estrangement, youth, bait, cons and scams, leaving home, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and ...
Style:
touching, visually appealing, light, fairy tale, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
orphan, steampunk, magical, friendship, robot, hopes, filmmaking, destiny, childhood, child, street kid, secret ...
Time:
1920s, post world war one, 20th century, 1930s, year 1931
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band.
Style:
touching, melancholic, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, youth, overweight, street kid, parents and children, coming of age, music band, misfit, unsupportive parent, suicidal, fat man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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650
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Pip, a street kid just turning 18, receives his grandfather's World War II-era memoirs and discovers parallels to his own life.
Style:
touching, psychological, serious, realistic, queer cinema
Plot:
street kid, introspection, self discovery, survival, estrangement, soldier, youth, redemption, hopes, life is a bitch, society, juvenile delinquency ...
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A love story of a 17 year old punk-rocker and a 15 year old runaway girl.
Style:
psychological, touching, sincere, sentimental, talky ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, kids in trouble, punk, pregnancy, fall in love, love affair, life is a bitch, drug addict, grownups, street kid, couples, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, ...
Style:
thought provoking, emotional, harsh, rough, intense ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, friendship, gangsters, urban ghetto life, street kid, loss of friend, depression, foul language, anger, life is a bitch, teenager ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 2005, 2000s, year 1986 ...
Place:
new york, los angeles, california, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
homeless teenager, homeless, youth, life is a bitch, aids, against the odds, human spirit, starting over, university, street kid, kids in trouble, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of June 12th 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
breast feeding, favela, hijacking, street kid, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, confined, youth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, prison escape, robbery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
City of Men is a Brazilian television programme created by Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles, the directors of the film City of God. The series was watched by 35 million viewers in Brazil and was released internationally on DVD shortly after the ...
Style:
stylized, captivating, serious, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, friendship, street gang, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social decay, street kid, struggle, social problems, gang, society, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, sao paulo brazil, latin america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A group of teen-age runaways try to survive in the streets of Los Angeles. Drugs, prostitution, violence and bureaucratic indifference all pose threats to the kids, who nevertheless prefer this harsh life to going back to their families. King, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, gloomy, touching ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, realism, runaway, hustler, drug addiction, coming of age, troubled youth, street kid, street life, teenage prostitution, homelessness, male prostitute ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India, USA, France, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Before Slumdog Millionaire came Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair’s Oscar-nominated drama tells the moving story of life on the streets of Bombay as seen through the eyes of Chaipu, a twelve-year-old boy living rough in the city.
Style:
realistic, touching, art film, art house, sad ...
Plot:
coming of age, drug addiction, kids in trouble, childhood, youth, homeless, ethnic, sex, friendship, corruption, poverty, betrayal ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
india, asia, mumbai india, bombay india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
Style:
captivating
Plot:
street kid, problem child, juvenile delinquency, traumatic childhood, troubled youth, life is a bitch, social problems, family problems, money problems, criminal, lgbt, youth ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Style:
uplifting, touching, rough, serious, feel good ...
Plot:
going straight, life is a bitch, family relations, society, parents and children, hopes, street kid, urban ghetto life, gang, blaxploitation, gangsters, african american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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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:
serious, sincere, uplifting, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
matchmaking, youth, orphan, couples, friendship, society, human nature, love and romance, opposites attract, on the run, street kid, optimism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
saigon, asia, vietnam
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