Childhood memory movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant childhood memory movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, thought provoking, crying, touching, sentimental and weird films and TV shows about / with childhood memory, storytelling, flashback, family relations, memory, childhood, friendship, coming of age, boy and loneliness plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Mystery genres shot in USA, France, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as childhood memory: My Father's Glory (1990), Hearts in Atlantis (2001), This Is Us (2016), Drop Dead Fred (1991), A Christmas Story (1983), Flatliners (1990), Out Stealing Horses (2019), Us (2019), Brand Upon the Brain! (2006), My Dog Skip (2000).
Best films
New films
| Beneath Us All (2023) | 3.6 | |
| The Dive (2023) | 5.6 | |
| All of Us Strangers (2023) | 7.6 | |
| Nope (2022) | 6.8 | |
| Ponyboi (2024) | 5.7 |
List of childhood memory movies
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
French adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's memoirs of his childhood in the countryside, early in the century.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
countryside, childhood, coming of age, children, childhood memory, country house, summer, precociousness, childhood friend, precocious child, brother brother relationship, boy ...
Time:
1900s, turn of the century, 19th century, year 1990, 20th century ...
Place:
france, marseille, south of france, europe, provence ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sincere, sentimental, enigmatic ...
Plot:
small town, childhood, stephen king, single mother, friendship, childhood friend, coming of age, mysterious stranger, childhood memory, father figure, psychic, psychic power ...
Time:
year 2001, 1950s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
virginia, connecticut, usa, new york, boston
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173K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, thought provoking, sincere, saga ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
adoption, childhood memory, childhood, husband wife relationship, parenthood, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, depression, teenage angst, siblings, flashback, self esteem ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 2020s, 2010s, 60s ...
Place:
syria, harvard university, pittsburgh, vietnam, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her job. In between the chaos and mayhem that Fred creates, ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, humorous, absurd, light ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult, teen drama
Plot:
imaginary friend, childhood memory, mental illness, emotional manipulation, friendship, vengeance, personal growth, emotional abuse, absent father, self discovery, mother daughter relationship, adult humor ...
Time:
80s
Place:
minnesota, usa
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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:
cult classic, christmas special, funny, period piece, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
christmas, bullying, childhood, holiday, boy, school, coming of age, children, christmas season, childhood memory, bully, little boy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
indiana, columbus ohio, usa, canada
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, cult classic, medical horror ...
Plot:
afterlife, near death experience, supernatural, nightmare, hallucination, medical student, medical school, memory, suicide, paranoia, childhood memory, childhood trauma ...
Time:
80s, 90s, distant future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A grieving widower moves to the country where a chance encounter rekindles memories from his past.
Style:
existential
Plot:
widower, adultery, father son relationship, childhood memory, flashback, world war two, nazi occupation, neighbor, nature, dream, death of wife, forest ...
Time:
1940s, year 1999, year 1948, year 1943, year 2019
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia, oslo norway
Is relevant?
387K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, psychological thriller, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
doppelganger, murder, home invasion, amusement park, panic, african american, fear, husband wife relationship, evil twin, traumatic childhood, childhood memory, black family ...
Time:
year 1986, 2010s, year 2019, 80s
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Together with his teenage sister and a horde of orphans, young Guy Maddin lazes away his under-stimulated youth on the mysterious island he will someday inherit. In the lighthouse orphanage in which they all live, their every move is watched over by ...
Style:
disturbing, surreal, cerebral, experimental, psychological ...
Plot:
human experiment, surrealism, lighthouse, childhood memory, lesbian, island, orphanage, investigation, family relations, parallel world, dying, abandoned ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
canada, romania
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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, sentimental, touching, sad, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
dog, coming of age, childhood, small town, child's point of view, childhood memory, friendship, animal, boy, american football, children, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, oxford university
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories ...
Style:
crying, independent film, depressing, surprise ending, gay cinema ...
Plot:
gay club, gay romance, gay son, gay relationship, gay couple, homosexuality, gay interest, childhood home, death of mother, traumatized man, man dances with a man, childhood memory ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A young surgeon with Savant syndrome is recruited into the surgical unit of a prestigious hospital. The question will arise: can a person who doesn't have the ability to relate to people actually save their lives?
Style:
medical drama, clever, psychological, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
autism, medical, medicine, doctor, hospital, prodigy, talented, surgeon, surgical operation, talent, male doctor, flashback ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
san francisco, syria, chicago
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the ...
Style:
gothic, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
pedophilia, pedophile priest, children, religion, child abuse, childhood trauma, childhood memory, cardinal the priest, church, catholic church, female nudity, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2014, year 2015, year 2016, year 2019, 2010s
Place:
france, portugal
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312K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Plot unknown.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, scary, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
massacre, alien, first contact, chimpanzee, alien monster, ufo, brother sister relationship, horse, childhood trauma, eaten alive, horse ranch, alien invasion ...
Time:
2020s, year 1998, future, 90s, year 1996
Place:
california, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Style:
philosophical, black and white, cult classic, postmodern, talky ...
Plot:
satire, artist, existentialism, weekend, filmmaking, discussion, alien, nostalgia, argument, childhood memory, price of fame, flashback ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, reflects on the choices he's made in life as past and present come crashing down around him.
Style:
sincere, touching, disturbing, hispanic, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, gay interest, introspection, lgbt, movie business, filmmaker, lgbtq, actor, nostalgia, childhood memory, death of mother, drawing ...
Time:
2010s, 1950s, year 1985, year 2019, year 1981 ...
Place:
spain, madrid
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, intense, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, estrangement, playwright, relationships, women, friendship, corporal punishment, reconciliation, childhood memory, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, american south ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
southern usa, louisiana, new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style:
touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, teenage love, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 1991, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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903K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, 3d animation ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
joy, imaginary friend, memory, creativity, parents and children, dream, childhood, life philosophy, coming of age, friendship, anger, happy ending ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 2000s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, minnesota, california, tibet, usa
Is relevant?
8K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, art house, erotic, humorous ...
Plot:
coming of age, masturbation, insanity, surrealism, dark humor, boy, dysfunctional family, animal abuse, childhood memory, mental illness, magic realism, bestiality ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
canada, quebec, sicily, montreal
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Style:
political, art house, visual, breathtaking, sexual ...
Plot:
fascism, assassination, childhood trauma, italian fascism, fascist, professor, murder, betrayal, politics, homosexuality, chauffeur, honeymoon ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1917 ...
Place:
italy, paris france, rome italy, france, europe
Is relevant?
506
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Childhood friends, Nina and Hugo chose different paths in life. Years later, Hugo returns to his hometown unbeknownst to him, the day before Nina's wedding. Events on the wedding day throw them back together and they embark on a new adventure.
Style:
captivating, humorous, sincere, light, emotional ...
Plot:
childhood friend, ex lover, childhood memory, afrikaans, forbidden love, marital problem, couples therapy, ex-lover, honeymoon, escape, wedding, friendship ...
Place:
africa
Is relevant?
125K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Turkey, Philippines, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum. As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thought provoking, semi autobiographical, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
vacation, coming of age, father daughter relationship, depression, hotel, memory, 11 year old girl, swimming pool, past, memories, lesbian, gay ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
turkey, edinburgh scotland
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
It’s 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, and as the train travels through the night, memories flood back of her younger years: the first immature ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sentimental, melancholic, serious ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
countryside, friendship, childhood, coming of age, self discovery, adolescence, childhood memory, village life, deadend life, nostalgia, female protagonist, marriage ...
Time:
year 1991
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A prequel to Zack Snyder's upcoming Army of the Dead that is said to be 'international'.
Style:
suspense, saga, romantic, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
zombie, safecracking, zombie outbreak, bank teller, safecracker, bank robbery, safe, organized crime, childhood memory, tranquilizer, home alone, red herring ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
europe, berlin germany, munich germany, prague, germany ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
A reunion of childhood friends at a remote chalet in the French Alps soon turns into a desperate struggle for survival as they get cut-off from rest of the world and a shocking dark secret from the past surfaces.
Style:
touching, enigmatic, tense, suspense, spooky ...
Plot:
friendship, isolation, childhood memory, betrayal, small town, childhood friend, childhood trauma, dark secret, secret, death, danger, judiciary ...
Time:
year 1997, 21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
Style:
thought provoking, period piece, psychological, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
small town life, dysfunctional family, addiction, single mother, heroin addict, mother daughter relationship, mother son estrangement, grandmother grandson relationship, mother daughter conflict, childhood memory, teenage boy, family drama ...
Time:
2020s, year 1946, year 1997, 90s, year 2011 ...
Place:
kentucky, columbus ohio, yale university, ohio, new haven connecticut ...
Is relevant?
85K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Deliveryman Jongsu is out on a job when he runs into Haemi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return she introduces to Jongsu an enigmatic ...
Style:
suspense, art house, exciting, ambiguous ending, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
class differences, metaphor, suspicion, arson, asian, anger, aspiring writer, childhood friend, rural setting, stalking, tragic love, bare breasts ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, seoul, korea, india
Is relevant?
22K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Emma, a famous and successful French horror writer, is forced to return to her hometown after the women who haunted her dreams fifteen years ago begin to re-appear. The work she writes is apparently a work of fiction, but how much is fact?
Style:
disturbing, mystical, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
writers, childhood trauma, witch, curse, evil spirit, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, female writer, macabre, relationships, fantasy becomes reality, evil witch ...
Place:
brittany, france
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The persona of a celebrated author is threatened when her best friend and muse reveals the dark secret behind her first novel's provenance, igniting an incendiary tale of sex, lies and betrayal.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
gang rape, childhood memory, mysterious man, revenge, writing a novel, friend, deception, rape, betrayal, secret, muse, supernatural horror ...
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