Child's point of view movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant child's point of view movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out touching, realistic, feel good, sad, sweet and humorous films and TV shows about / with child's point of view, youth, coming of age, family relations, child, children, childhood, friendship, boy and child protagonist plots mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
child's point of view
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child's point of view movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as child's point of view: Standing Up (2013), Hounddog (2007), The Art of Crying (2006), Let the Right One In (2008), Anne with an E (2017), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008), American Fable (2016), Little Manhattan (2005), Hugo (2011), I, Cesar (2003).

List of child's point of view movies

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 6.8
 3K
Standing Up (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on one of the most beloved Young Adult novels of all time: Two kids are stripped naked and left together on an island in a lake - victims of a vicious summer camp prank; But rather than have to return to camp and face the humiliation, they ...
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, sad ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: youth, friendship, child's point of view, coming of age, summer camp, children, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, child, on the road, runaway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.2
 7K
Hounddog (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Style: disturbing, serious, touching, stylized, controversial ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: sexual abuse, child's point of view, child molestation, child molester, nymphet, children, youth, music, child rape, blues, child, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: alabama, usa
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The Art of Crying (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Life is not easy for 11-year-old Allan living in South Jutland during the early 1970s. His mentally unstable father frequently threatens suicide and his mother has long since given up. It's up to Allan to keep the family together. When a rival ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, black comedy ...
Plot: child's point of view, coming of age, society, dysfunctional family, small town, lifestyle, young heroes, family life, understanding, family problems, life is a bitch, obsession ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: denmark, europe, scandinavia, germany
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Let the Right One In (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, dark, dark fantasy, creepy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, bullying, loneliness, coming of age, goth, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, murder, boy, child ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 2008, y2k, year 2000 ...
Place: united kingdom, persia, europe, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
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 8.6
 65K
Anne with an E (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood ...
Style: compassionate, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: orphan, friendship, coming of age, small town, teenage life, child's point of view, family relations, school, feminism, children's home, imaginary, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s
Place: canada
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When his family moves from their home in Berlin to a strange new house in Poland, young Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the fence where everyone seems to be wearing striped pajamas. Unaware of Shmuel's fate as a ...
Style: emotional, touching, sad, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama ...
Plot: world war two, holocaust, concentration camp, war, children, childhood, nazi, friendship, nazism, gas chamber, boy, morality ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, ancient times, year 2008
Place: germany, poland, europe, berlin germany, switzerland
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American Fable (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When 11-year-old Gitty discovers that her father, Abe, a good and beloved farmer, is holding a wealthy man hostage in their abandoned silo in order to save their suffering farm, she befriends the captive in secret. As the truth unfolds about who he ...
Style: suspenseful, enigmatic, disturbing, suspense, tense ...
Plot: farmer, psychopath, child, hostage, moral dilemma, brother sister relationship, dark secret, child's point of view, child in peril, farm, children, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
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Little Manhattan (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not be going to public school any ...
Style: touching, romantic, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: first love, children, child's point of view, coming of age, school, friendship, love story, jealousy, bully, love, couples, childhood love ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 7.5
 336K
Hugo (2011)
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, visual, fairy tale, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens
Plot: steampunk, orphan, filmmaking, magical, boy, street kid, friendship, robot, childhood, train crash, child, secret ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, post world war one, 20th century, 1930s ...
Place: paris france, france, iran, madagascar, europe
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 6.1
 1K
I, Cesar (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Cesar is a young schoolboy living in Paris with his family. Their life is ordinary, but Cesar wants more excitement (which he creates, in one instance, by claiming to his teachers that his father has been arrested). During the school holidays, Cesar ...
Style: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: child's point of view, friendship, obsessive quest, young heroes, disorder, family relations, youth, escapades, parents and children, fish out of water, first love, overweight child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, paris france, europe, france, england
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Lady in White (1988)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, halloween, supernatural, serial killer, murder, bullying, small town, child in peril, coming of age, maniac, investigation, child's point of view ...
Time: 60s, year 1962, 20th century
Place: new york state, new york, los angeles
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 7.3
 3K
Oliver Twist (2007)
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: costume drama, sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: orphan, child's point of view, thief, victorian england, child abuse, street kid, friendship, social decay, injustice, danger, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place: england, europe, london
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 6.6
 153K
The Parent Trap (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins separated at a young age because of their parents' divorce. unknowingly to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp where they meet, discover the truth about themselves, and ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sweet, romantic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: twins, divorce, summer camp, mischievous children, single parent, lookalikes, child's point of view, twins separated at birth, father daughter relationship, matchmaking, teenage girl, butler ...
Time: 90s, year 1986, 20th century, year 1998
Place: california, london, bay area, england, europe ...
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The Railway Children (1970)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The Waterbury family are completely happy until mysterious men take their father away and they have to move up to Yorkshire without him. The three open-hearted children soon make many friends including their Old Gentleman whom they regularly wave to ...
Style: emotional, touching, feel good, semi serious, family saga ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: teenage girl, child's point of view, countryside, train, friendship, railway, children, human spirit, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, missing person ...
Time: edwardian era, 1800s, 20th century, 19th century, 1900s ...
Place: england, yorkshire, britain, northern england, europe ...
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The Neon Bible (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory while creating a heartfelt portrait of a boy's ...
Style: stylized, inspirational, serious, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: childhood, loneliness, working class, dialogue, small town, family problems, society, religion, world war two, child's point of view, youth, melancholy ...
Time: 1940s
Place: georgia, southern usa
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 7.8
 185K
Mary Poppins (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Style: feel good, touching, uplifting, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, toddlers ...
Plot: magic, nanny, female protagonist, imagination, mischievous children, kite, child, dancing, child's point of view, dog, childhood, children ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1910s
Place: london, england, united kingdom, europe, madagascar ...
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 7.7
 649K
Home Alone (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, chick flick ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, mischievous children, home alone, youth, children, home invasion, kids and family, child protagonist, winter, child, when the parents are away ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2016, 80s
Place: chicago, illinois, usa, france, paris france ...
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 6.3
 623
The Visitor (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Estonia, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. From time to time, the boy visits his father - a man of great violence - in prison. Locked in the stable is an unruly horse, the ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, suspense, realistic, tense ...
Plot: childhood, boy, child's point of view, parents and children, stranger, mute, mysterious character, family relations, life turned upside down, countryside, isolated house, desperation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, europe
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 7.0
 21K
My Dog Skip (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of ...
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, sad, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: dog, coming of age, childhood, small town, child's point of view, friendship, animal, youth, children, world war two, human animal relationship, baseball ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa, oxford university
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 7.3
 239K
Big (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young boy, Josh Baskin makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how ...
Style: feel good, sweet, touching, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot: body swapping, adolescence, child as adult, coming of age, magic, friendship, toys, child's point of view, wish fulfillment, teenager, fish out of water, child ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place: new york, new jersey, bronx new york city, arizona, usa ...
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 6.3
 1K
Angela (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A ten year old girl named Angela leads her six year old sister, Ellie, through various regimens of 'purification' in an attempt to rid themselves of their evil, which she believes to be the cause of their mother's mental illness. ...
Style: psychological, sincere, touching, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: mental illness, dysfunctional family, girl, youth, pedophile, coming of age, spirituality, child's point of view, obsession, sister sister relationship, self discovery, mysticism ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, new york state
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The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
Style: dark, suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, pandemic, post apocalypse, infection, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, military, zombie child, children, undead, virus ...
Time: future, year 2016
Place: london
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. Though he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves living ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, sweet, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: childhood, bad luck, job interview, child's point of view, siblings relations, father son relationship, brothers, family relations, birthday party, coming of age, friends, mischievous children ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: australia, usa
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, surreal, visual ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, mischievous children, childhood, tour guide, child protagonist, surrealism, factory, grandfather grandson relationship, inventor ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s
Place: germany, west germany, paraguay, europe, arizona ...
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, sad, inspirational, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: alien, friendship, childhood, children, coming of age, ufo, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, friendly alien, boy, chase, child protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, future, year 1982, 90s
Place: california, usa, persia, los angeles
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 7.7
 142K
Billy Elliot (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, friendship, childhood, gay, audition, poverty, follow your dream, boxing ...
Time: year 1984, 20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s ...
Place: england, northern england, london, europe
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 6.7
 30K
Fido (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, funny, stylized, horror comedy ...
Plot: zombie, small town, monster, housewife, infected, master and servant, undead, canuxploitation, virus, apocalypse, satire, child's point of view ...
Time: 1950s, year 2006, 20th century, 50s
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them ...
Style: atmospheric, feel good, sentimental, surreal, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, date night, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: children, coming of age, adolescence, camp, first love, boy scout, orphan, youth, island, search party, summer camp, journey ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1965
Place: new england, nebraska, rhode island, usa
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A Christmas Story (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
Style: christmas special, funny, christmas classics, hilarious, period piece ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: christmas, bullying, holiday, childhood, boy, children, christmas season, bully, childhood memory, school, little boy, father son relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
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 6.2
 146K
Casper (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style: fairy tale, light, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, ghost, halloween, haunted house, supernatural, single father, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, mischievous children, life & death, family bonds ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: maine, new england, usa
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