Attempted child murder movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant attempted child murder movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, suspense and slasher films and TV shows about / with attempted child murder, murder, deadly, youth, psychopath, danger, death, blood, serial killer and child in peril plots mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, India and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as attempted child murder: Cop and a Half (1993), Walkabout (1971), Clownhouse (1989), The Daughter of Twenty Faces (2008), Khiladi 420 (2000), Murder-Set-Pieces (2004), Cloak & Dagger (1984), Little Sweetheart (1988), The House by the Cemetery (1981), The Collector (2009).

List of attempted child murder movies

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Cop and a Half (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the ...
Style: detective, humorous, satirical, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot: children, gangster, murder, police investigation, boy, partners against crime, bully, witnessing a crime, police, friendship, odd couple, fighting crime ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, florida
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 7.6
 27K
Walkabout (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style: road movie, atmospheric, visual, visually stunning, scenic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, teenage girl, australian outback, rite of passage, culture clash, children, brother sister relationship, language barrier ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia
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 5.4
 5K
Clownhouse (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Just before Halloween, three young brothers alone in a big house are menaced by three escaped mental patients who have murdered some traveling circus clowns and taken their identities.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, bleak, controversial ...
Plot: clown, escaped mental patient, murder, child in peril, brother brother relationship, circus, chase, evil clown, halloween, boy, killer clown, serial killer ...
Time: 80s
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The Daughter of Twenty Faces (2008)
Genre: Animation
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Eleven-year-old Chizuko Mikamo is a victim; she is aware that her cruel relatives have been slowly poisoning her, but she can't do anything to escape her fate except starve herself. Luckily for her, the infamous thief, Twenty Faces, has arrived ...
Style: anime, disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: attempted murder, inheritance, attempted child murder, problem, heiress, threat
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 5.2
 2K
Khiladi 420 (2000)
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Wealthy, world-wide business-man Shyam Prasad Bharadwaj would like to get his only daughter, Rittu marry to his business-partner Dev Kumar Malhotra. But what Shyam is unaware of is Dev is not what he claims to be but merely a con-man who is in debt ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, exciting, thought provoking
Plot: murder, woman kills a man, uxoricide, lie, self sacrifice, death sentence, unrequited love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship, death of father, chase, wedding ...
Place: toronto ontario canada
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Murder-Set-Pieces (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder - a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex and brutality.
Style: disturbing, extreme horror, controversial, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: rape and murder, psycho killer, serial killer, strong sexual content, psychopath, gory, extreme, danger, murder, sexual abuse, hardcore, rape ...
Time: september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa, los angeles
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Cloak & Dagger (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 11-year-old Davey's mother is dead and his father doesn't spend nearly enough time with him. So the boy loses himself in video games--and even has an imaginary friend, a super-resourceful secret agent. When he accidentally comes into ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, weird
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, pre-teens
Plot: childhood, espionage, imaginary friend, coming of age, superhero, murder, criminal, good versus evil, disbelieving adult, hacker, nerd, spy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa, san antonio texas
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry: "the guy next door" and the serial killer.
Style: scary, disturbing, realistic, independent film, sadistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, insanity, gory, maniac, rape, killing spree, incest, violent, true crime, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, midwest
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Little Sweetheart (1988)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A criminal couple, hiding out in a remote property become the unwitting victims of a plot to blackmail them by the most unlikely of conspirators.
Style: independent film, serious, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot: photograph, blackmail, youth, nymphet, embezzlement, evil child, stalking, bad kids, creepy kid, photography, surprise twist, extortion ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida
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The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, suspenseful, scary, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, gory, serial killer, ghost, monster, violent, insanity, undead, blood, psychopath, house ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, boston
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 6.3
 72K
The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
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Alone in the Dark (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: maniac, home invasion, murder, serial killer, family in danger, mental institution, psychopath, mental illness, insanity, escaped mental patient, blackout, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
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 5.5
 530
The Bad Seed (1985)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine to suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she ...
Plot: evil child, creepy child, tiny, youth, female villain, psycho, dilemma, violence, moral dilemma, bad kids, widow, suicide ...
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 5.2
 178
Allah-Rakha (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Karim Khan is employed as driver for a gangster named Don, who has an accident with his car, and asks Karim to take the blame for it for a hefty sum of cash, which Karim does so, and is imprisoned. But Don does not fulfill his promise, and as a ...
Plot: orphan, blind woman, woman in jeopardy, bandage over eyes, death of child, attempted child murder, released from prison, imprisonment, pilgrimage, frame up, fistfight, police officer ...
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Last Action Hero (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Danny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to ...
Style: spoof, exciting, entertaining, humorous, parody ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: magic, parallel universe, heroes, chase, gunfight, breaking the fourth wall, boy, buddy, villain, fish out of water, miraculous event, buddy cop ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: los angeles, new york, california, usa, new york state ...
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 6.5
 27K
Malice (1993)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, sexy, clever ...
Plot: femme fatale, double life, twists and turns, murder, investigation, serial killer, insurance scam, couple relations, infidelity, insurance fraud, lawyer, hospital ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, victorian era
Place: massachusetts, boston
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Glass House: The Good Mother (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: One year after losing their son David, Eve Goode and her husband Raymond Goode adopt the orphan Ethan Snow (and his teenager sister Abby Snow and bring them to their mansion nearby a lake. Abby faces difficulties of adaptation in her new home, and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, mysterious ...
Plot: adoption, child in peril, orphan, psychopath, mentally unstable, danger, abusive mother, family relations, youth, siblings relations, isolation, cruelty ...
Place: usa
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 7.1
 7K
The Nanny (1965)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Joey returns home from the special school he has attended since killing his baby sister. But at home he creates a terrible fuss, moving from the bedroom Nanny has prepared to one with a strong lock, refusing to eat anything Nanny cooks ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense, black and white, twisted ...
Plot: nanny, hagsploitation, murder, babysitting, youth, demonic possession, female villain, poverty, homeless, babysitter, atmosphere, old woman ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, london, united kingdom
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Hallowed Ground (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After she becomes stranded in a small town, a young woman discovers her arrival there was foretold a century earlier by the town's founding preacher and that she is an integral part of his impending - and terrifying - rebirth.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Plot: small town, scarecrow, small town life, mentally unstable, danger, human sacrifice, gory, journalism, clergy, religious fanatic, evil man, killer scarecrow ...
Time: 21st century
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Streets of Laredo (1995)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Captain Woodrow Call, now retired from the Rangers, is a bounty hunter. He is hired by an eastern rail baron to track down Joey Garza, a new kind of killer, only a boy, who kills from a distance with a rifle. Joined by his old compadre Pea Eye, it ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot: manhunt, rivalry, heroes, escapades, haunted by the past, on the road, gang of outlaws, modern western, modern west, cowboy, wild west, child in peril ...
Time: 90s, 1890s
Place: texas, america, usa
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Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
Style: slasher, suspense, atmospheric, satanic, serious ...
Plot: stephen king, ghost, supernatural, high school, monster, murder, haunted by the past, family in danger, childhood, investigation, stalking, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A new family moves into the house on Elm Street, and before long, the kids are again having nightmares about deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger. This time, Freddy attempts to possess a teenage boy to cause havoc in the real world, and can only ...
Style: slasher, scary, queer horror, creepy, surreal ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: high school, gay, serial killer, monster, gay subtext, homoeroticism, revenge, nightmare on elm street, gory, supernatural horror, nudity, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1989
Place: usa, midwest, ohio
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The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 171 min.
TV show
Story: Four kids travel to the magical land of Narnia where they must battle an evil queen with the direction of the Lion, Aslan.
Style: serious, exciting, offbeat, mystical, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: parallel world, young heroes, narnia, imaginary kingdom, coronation, alternate dimension, medieval, good versus evil, heroes, bet, heroic mission, danger ...
Time: 1900s
Place: britain
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Josh and S.A.M. (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: coming of age, road trip, youth, journey, cross country, on the road, family relations, family life, sibling relationship, disorder, nothing goes right, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, texas, florida, africa, usa
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 3.5
 2K
Jack-O (1995)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A long long time ago a wizard was put to death, but he swore vengeance on the townsfolk that did him in, particularly Arthur Kelly's family. Arthur had done the final graces on him when he came back to life as Mr. Jack the Pumpkin Man. The ...
Style: independent film, serious, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: halloween, zombie, scarecrow, american horror, supernatural horror, supernatural ability, ghost, rivalry, small town, reincarnation, curse, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, florida
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local children's ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, classic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, halloween, supernatural, masked villain, monster, holiday horror, murder, massacre, hospital, gory, obsession, kitten ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa
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 4.8
 26K
Godsend (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A couple agree to have their deceased son cloned under the supervision of an enigmatic doctor, but bizarre things start to happen years after his rebirth.
Style: suspense, psychological, scary, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot: cloning, experiment gone awry, doctor, genetic engineering, school, adaptation, parents and children, death in the family, life is a bitch, family problems, dealing with death, coming of age ...
Time: year 2004, future
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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, gory, friday the 13th, murder, teenager, serial teen killer, mental illness, torture, hospital, nudity, killer, masked killer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, america
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 7.9
 75K
Angel (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Angel is an American television series, a spin-off from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Angel, a 240-year old vampire cursed with a conscience, haunts the dark streets of Los Angeles alone. But after he meets a half-demon with ...
Style: gothic, suspenseful, serious, witty, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, supernatural ability, vampire human love, imaginary, investigator, supernatural, monster, heroes, good versus evil, werewolf, hopes, righting the wronged ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Bloody Birthday (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense ...
Plot: evil child, solar eclipse, birthday, elementary school, creepy child, children, family life, supernatural, patricide, child in peril, psychopath, teenage life ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, year 1980, 70s, year 1970
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