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, sincere, touching, bleak and emotional films and TV shows about / with street kid, youth, life is a bitch, society, coming of age, friendship, family relations, street life, teenager and poverty plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as street kid: Pixote (1980), The Little Polish (2003), Owl and the Sparrow (2007), Two-Legged Horse (2008), Kids (1995), AJ and the Queen (2020), Chop Shop (2007), Little Birds (2011), The Kid with a Bike (2011), A Children's Story (2004).
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List of street kid movies
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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:
depressing, rough, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
prostitution, street kid, child abuse, boy, sex with a minor, coming of age, 10 year old, child rape, children, nude boy, violent, loneliness ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil ...
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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:
serious, realistic, touching, bleak
Plot:
youth, forbidden love, street kid, prostitute, train, love affair, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, orphan, fall in love, rebelliousness, rescue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
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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:
uplifting, serious, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
matchmaking, couples, youth, orphan, street kid, friendship, optimism, love and romance, on the run, society, opposites attract, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
saigon, asia, vietnam
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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, islamic ...
Plot:
street kid, youth, life is a bitch, dehumanization, cruelty, poverty, parents and children, family relations, power relations, master and servant, disability, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, iran, asia
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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, independent film, controversial, bleak, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, aids, innocence lost, youth, drug abuse, virginity, underage sex, teenage boy, street kid, puberty, sex, teenager ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, seattle, los angeles, usa, new jersey
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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:
road movie, funny, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
female impersonator, lgbtq, gay club, gay, nightclub, trip, deception, dream, street kid, lgbt, adult child friendship, male protagonist ...
Place:
usa
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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, sincere ...
Plot:
street kid, coming of age, pitbull, brother sister relationship, working class, siblings relations, urban ghetto life, teenage life, family relations, kids in trouble, youth, orphan ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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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, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage life, sex scene, sexual attraction, attempted rape, coming of age, female nudity, self discovery, rebellion, youth, estrangement, street kid, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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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:
emotional, atmospheric, disturbing, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
childhood, kids in trouble, youth, boy, realism, adoption, social problems, life is a bitch, street kid, society, parents and children, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, belgium
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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:
juvenile delinquency, youth, friends, danger, society, life is a bitch, coming of age, social worker, social decay, urban ghetto life, teaching the ways of the world, street life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
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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, sincere, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, street kid, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, gang, dishonesty, society, orphan, life is a bitch, danger, rich and poor, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cape town south africa, south africa, africa
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 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, bleak, islamic, social ...
Plot:
homeless, street kid, youth, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, poverty, kids in trouble, friendship, danger, society, gang, vengeance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, middle east, maghreb, morocco
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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, social, art house, offbeat ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, drug addiction, coming of age, homeless, red light district, drug, sex, childhood, youth, corruption, betrayal, friendship ...
Time:
year 1988, 20th century, 80s
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia, bombay india
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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, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot:
gay teenager, gay, street kid, graffiti, youth, social differences, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle, friendship, drug abuse, life is a bitch ...
Place:
oregon, seattle, usa, portland oregon, washington state
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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:
emotional, period piece, harsh, rough, intense ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, friendship, urban ghetto life, foul language, street kid, swimming pool, gangster, loss of friend, depression, anger, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2006, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, california, america, usa, north america ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of ...
Style:
bleak, independent film, political, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, homeless shelter, homelessness, schizophrenia, homeless man, death, murder, photograph, photography, friendship, street life, street kid ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, boston, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the streets of Istanbul, ailing waste warehouse worker Mehmet takes a small boy under his wing and must soon confront his own traumatic childhood.
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
help, street kid, life is a bitch, child custody, social problems, lifestyle change, tragic past, social misfits, protection, troubled past, confronting the past, changing lives ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
middle east, istanbul turkey, turkey
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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, sentimental, sincere, talky ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
drug addict, punk, youth, kids in trouble, pregnancy, love affair, fall in love, grownups, street kid, family relations, couples, breakup ...
Time:
21st century
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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, rough, atmospheric ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, friendship, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social decay, street kid, social problems, struggle, youth, young heroes, society, gang ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sao paulo brazil, rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 35 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:
costume drama, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
victorian england, orphan, child's point of view, child abuse, street kid, friendship, social decay, danger, society, life is a bitch, youth, injustice ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Panama, Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Alicia is a 42-year-old-woman whose grief has caused her estrangement from society. Her world is turned upside down when 14-year-old Chief, a young boy who looks after people’s cars, stumbles into her house, bleeding.
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, empowerment, street kid, unlikely friendships, salvation, loss, older woman younger man relationship, family relations, woman, trauma, mourning ...
Place:
panama, peru
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Four lads find themselves in a situation where they have to take on a powerful man (and his innumerable henchmen) to reclaim their identity.
Style:
action drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
teenager, orphan, boy, street kid, street life, friendship, fight, teenage protagonist, social problems, problem, teenage life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young girl lives in a van with her little brother & her mom. Tired of the embarrassing situation which was promised to be temporary, she decides to try to fix it all on her own. But how to get the money needed first? One day, the girl comes ...
Style:
tense, entertaining, feel good, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
dog, working mom, homeless, youth, children, homelessness, scheming, single mother, street kid, heist gone wrong, heist, get rich quick scheme ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea
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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:
sad, social, depressing, rough, cynical ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
poverty, refugee, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, neglected child, child abuse, low lives, child neglect, child protagonist, starving child, child labor ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
lebanon, beirut lebanon, middle east, nebraska, sarajevo ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, India
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, uplifting, motivational, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
poverty, childhood, destiny, orphan, rags to riches, against the odds, love, street life, society, journey, true love, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia, taj mahal, britain
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Peru
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the streets of Cusco, Peru, the lives of an American businessman and his family become irreversibly intertwined with those of a rural Peruvian family struggling day to day to survive. As the construction of a new hotel is finalized, both families ...
Style:
intercultural, multicultural, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
globalization, poverty, love, street kid, class differences, change of heart, family drama, businessman, tourism, empathy, understanding, survival ...
Place:
peru, south america
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Silsila is the "manager" of one traffic signal, that is he collects the "hafta" (protection tax) from each signal squatter plying his trade. There's Tsunami, a little scavenger boy, there's Rani - a Gujrati girl selling ...
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
prostitute, life is a bitch, drug abuse, politics, misfit, social misfits, society, disability, gangster, addiction, street kid, pedophile ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, mumbai india
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Perhaps the most ebullient “musical” you’ll see this year, Marc-Henri Wajnberg’s singular documentary/fiction hybrid follows a group of street children in the Congolese capital.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, uplifting
Plot:
music band, kids in trouble, music, society, youth, street kid, poverty, blaxploitation, artists and showbiz, theft, police officer, sorcery ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
africa, congo
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.
Style:
cult classic, hood, grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
dancing, hip hop, breakdance, music, redneck, dj, gangster, ghetto, cannon, street kid, dance, urban ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, australia, tokyo, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Drama - Regency is a fatherless fifteen year old. Having to face her mother succumbing to the AIDS virus, she must survive on her own. She is forced to prostitute herself to feed her addictions, attend to her mother’s needs, and pay the rent. - ...
Style:
sexy, hot
Audience:
adult
Plot:
street kid, sexy teenager, aids, drug, teenage prostitute, pimp, loss, drug addiction, homeless, hottie, sexpot, baby ...
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