Dead child movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant dead child movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, psychological, scary, suspense, disturbing and serious films and TV shows about / with dead child, death, murder, blood, violence, supernatural, brutality, macabre, female protagonist and chase plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dead child: My Girl (1991), Daisy Diamond (2007), Subconscious Cruelty (2000), Stolen (2009), Macabre (1980), A Dark Place (2018), Terrified (2017), The Guilty (2013), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Herbert West: Re-Animator (2017).
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97K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, crying, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, kids, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, children, single father, single parent, small town, kids and family, grief, teenager ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1972, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has something else in store for her. Though she struggles to give her 4 month old daughter a good ...
Style:
sexy, disturbing, erotic, brutal, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
making love, baby, casting, motherhood, dead child, movie business, actress, female protagonist, swedish, audition, director, strong sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
copenhagen, denmark, europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, rough, anthology, suspense ...
Plot:
symbolism, surrealism, dead child, torture, birth, killing, incestuous desire, pregnancy, cannibalism, extreme, danger, gory ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similarities between the case and his son's disappearance.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
loss of child, haunted by the past, dead child, missing child, law enforcement, police investigation, dealing with death, uncover truth, corpse, life is a bitch, interrogation, police detective ...
Time:
1950s, year 2009, 2000s, 50s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord becomes suspicious to her activities of continuing her affair with her dead lover.
Style:
slasher, gothic, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
necrophilia, dead child, accident, mental illness, bare breasts, haunted by the past, gory, supernatural, filicide, evil child, violent, camp ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered.
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, dark, crying
Plot:
missing child, amateur detective, dead child, small town, child molester, investigation, child abuse, mental disorder, drowning, parent child relationship, injustice, garbage collector ...
Place:
pennsylvania
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30K
Genre: Horror
Country: Argentina
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Police commissary Funes and three researches of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbia of Buenos Aires.
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, demonic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
paranormal investigator, paranormal investigation, macabre, dead child, paranormal phenomena, reanimated corpse, haunted house, living dead, supernatural, death of boy, fear, cosmic horror ...
Place:
argentina, south america, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Lives are torn apart and relationships fractured forever when a young child goes missing. Five years later, DCI Maggie Brand leads a new investigation and puts at risk her own happy family life.
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, detective ...
Plot:
missing child, police investigation, dead child, law enforcement, life turned upside down, investigation, police procedural, cold case, family drama, secrets, grief, guilt ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style:
fairy tale, dark fantasy, surreal, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
kids, teen fantasy, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
monster, fantasy world, imagination, creature, mythology, macabre, legends and myths, magical, young heroes, imaginary, good versus evil, maze ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, year 1944, 20th century, year 2006
Place:
spain, south america, europe, canada
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After the loss of his daughter Eleanor, a famous scientist, Dr. Herbert West, experimenting with a special serum invented by him, desperately tries to bring her back to life.
Style:
medical horror, lovecraft, scary, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
daughter, father and daughter, body horror, reanimation, violence, serum, dead child, deadly creature, murder, supernatural, reincarnation, creature feature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, twist ending, surreal ...
Plot:
twins, mental illness, brother brother relationship, torture, divorce, dead child, boy, animal mask, children, isolation, single parent, supernatural ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
austria, germany, central europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A teenage girl comes to terms with the unexplained death of the boy next door.
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, grindhouse, gloomy ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
ghost, dead child, seeing dead people, woods, supernatural, secret place, dealing with death, youth, teenage life, suburbs, haunted by the past, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, dark, scary, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, immortality, goth, loneliness, dark hero, vampirism, monster as victim, blood, bonding, vampire bite, child vampire ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, georgian era, 20th century, 1870s ...
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, paris france, san francisco, france ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Style:
dark, emotional, psychological, suspense, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, serial killer, pedophile, murder mystery, rape, loss of daughter, teenage girl, missing child, death in the family, family drama, loss of family member, murderer ...
Time:
70s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1973, 2000s
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, delaware
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Milos, a retired porn star, leads a normal family life trying to make ends meet. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to financially support his family for the rest of their lives, Milos must participate in one last mysterious film. From ...
Style:
disturbing, brutal, bloody, controversial, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, gory, torture, violence, macabre, sadism, incest, perversion, controversy, insanity, murder ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia, europe
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297K
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, dark fantasy, dark, scary ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
stop motion, children, monster, parallel world, alternate reality, fantasy world, secret place, heroine, imagination, doll, danger, young heroes ...
Time:
year 2009, y2k, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, michigan, usa, north america, texas
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Genre: Drama, Horror, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michal witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, bleak, psychological, psychedelic ...
Plot:
world war two, nazi occupation, dead child, nun, lice, surrealism, blood, father son relationship, philosophy, bible, insanity, experiment ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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40K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Style:
depressing, heartbreaking, sentimental, psychological, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
loneliness, sex, drug addiction, obsession, depression, mental health, suicide, friendship, mental disorder, dead child, loss of wife, suicide attempt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, mexico, tijuana mexico
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. But when Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to ...
Style:
creepy, slasher, frightening, bloody, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
masked killer, serial killer, psychopath, murder, female villain, killing spree, holy communion, evil child, blood, child, female serial killer, child molester ...
Time:
year 1961, year 2016, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa
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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:
emotional, bleak, atmospheric, stylized, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood, children in wartime, blind character, coming of age, children, camp, child, muslim, anti war, saddam hussein, survival, orphan ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
kurdistan, middle east, iran, maghreb, afghanistan ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, thrilling, psychological horror ...
Plot:
pathologist, reanimation, frankenstein, dead child, medicine, dead girl, physician, corpse, transplant, conspiracy, cadaver, hospital ...
Place:
bronx new york city
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents’ house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.
Style:
gothic, suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
voyeurism, ghost, murder, supernatural horror, uxoricide, mysterious death, brother sister relationship, paranoid schizophrenia, grandmother granddaughter relationship, escape attempt, violence, supernatural power ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand
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117
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After she read in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.
Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
abortion, foster child, judge, dead child, female protagonist, doctor, baby, burial, newborn baby, lesbian, female nudity, junkyard ...
Place:
latin america
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The small community of Eidolon Crossing once boasted a flourishing economy and great prosperity, fueled by Dogwood Park, an amusement park at the edge of town. Then the child murders began. When the first child's corpse was discovered at ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
amusement park, ghost, murder, small town, serial killer, kidnapping, haunted by the past, supernatural, death, dead child, uncover truth, investigation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Over the span of several weeks, two couples, who have been close friends for years, face several life-altering traumas out of their control. Mike and Meryl are recovering from their son's death and their inability to communicate. Joanna and Tim ...
Style:
emotional, romantic, captivating, realistic, sad ...
Plot:
parenthood, couples, relationships, friend, motherhood, miscarriage, dead child, loss of child, grief, character study, love affair, love and romance ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
October 16, 1817: a farmer discovers the corpse of Luigia Bacchi, the woman missing a few days before. At the cemetery, the night before, it was stolen the dead body of Victoria Clementi, the suicidal girl alleged murderer of Luigia Bacchi. The ...
Style:
bleak, scary, suspense, psychotronic, independent film
Plot:
investigation, police commissioner, dead child, dead girl, secret society, corpse, cemetery, who done it, murder investigation, murder mystery, investigator, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A desperate woman tries to make sense of the supernatural occurrences bringing chaos to her young family. Things take a turn when the midwife pays a visit.
Style:
bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot:
mission, ghost, revenge, violence, characters in danger, supernatural, loss, supernatural ability, fear, vengeance, hunting, victim ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Short, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
Story:
After losing her baby and nearly her life during labor, a journalist unravels amid disturbing visions and chilling attacks as she grieves alone at home.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
loss, a vision, journalist, grief, bereavement, trauma, single woman, female journalist, lonely, childbirth, child, grieving mother ...
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567
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After visiting her father's grave, Lilly and her mother are involved in a terrible car accident leaving Lilly orphaned and unable to see. In her youth, she struggles with her blindness and begins to hear voices. Unbeknownst to her they ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, second chance, ghost, supernatural ability, female protagonist, paranormal activity, blind woman, supernatural power, spirit, dead child, mysticism, blind man ...
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475
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Chuan, a quiet 30-year-old man working as a chef in a Japanese restaurant, collapses suddenly and is rushed to a hospital. His colleagues send him to his father, who resides in the mountains. While there, Chuan becomes immobile: he won’t speak, ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, serious ...
Plot:
psychopath, murder, possession, schizophrenia, mentally unstable, parents and children, danger, family relations, strong violent content, supernatural, macabre, unsettling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan
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