Truancy movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant truancy movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, crying, serious, light and sincere films and TV shows about / with truancy, coming of age, teenager, friendship, youth, family relations, teenage girl, high school, mother daughter relationship and school plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, Germany, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as truancy: The Traveler (1974), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), A Silent Voice (2016), Wonder (2017), Standing Tall (2015), Princess (2014), The Heroes of Evil (2015), Senior Skip Day (2008), Wild Things (1998), Let Me Fall (2018).

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 7.5
 2K
The Traveler (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The Traveler is a 1974 Iranian drama film directed by Abbas Kiarostami that tells the story of Hassan Darabi, a troublesome, amoral 10-year-old boy in a small Iranian town. He wishes to see the Iran national football team play an important match in ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: soccer, truancy, iranian, boy, football, coming of age, city, money, smoking, bus, corporal punishment, director ...
Place: persia, iran
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A high school slacker pretends to be sick to skip school and have an exciting day off alongside his girlfriend and his best buddy through Chicago, while trying to outwit his obsessive school principal and his unconformited sister along the way.
Style: feel good, entertaining, funny, light, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, teacher, teenage girl, friendship, teen angst, school, teenage angst, teenage boy, skipping school, rebel ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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 8.1
 99K
A Silent Voice (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya ...
Style: anime, touching, sincere, romantic, sweet ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teenager, bullying, disability, deaf, sign language, friendship, high school, japanese schoolgirl, japanese school, coming of age, deafness, suicide attempt ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan
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 7.9
 177K
Wonder (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Style: inspirational, uplifting, touching, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot: bullying, child, school, middle school, friendship, happy ending, father son relationship, deformity, family relations, fight, hospital, science teacher ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, pennsylvania
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Standing Tall (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
Style: disturbing, touching, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: juvenile delinquent, social worker, teen angst, juvenile delinquency, teenage boy, judge, nervousness, delinquent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, imprisonment, compassion, anger ...
Time: year 2015, 90s, year 1997
Place: france
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 6.2
 729
Princess (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min.
Story: While her mother is away from home, 12-year-old Adar's role-playing games with her stepfather move into dangerous territory. Seeking an escape, Adar finds Alan, an ethereal boy that accompanies her on a dark journey between reality and fantasy.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: teenage sexuality, parents and children, family relations, friendship, mother daughter relationship, friends, israeli, pedophile, child, woman, women, role playing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
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The Heroes of Evil (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three teenagers, brought together from bullying, indulge in petty theft, sex and drugs. They inevitably realize they can resort to violence to take revenge on everyone who has humiliated them: students, teachers and other outcasts. One of them ...
Style: suspense, tense, touching, psychological, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: theft, revenge, bullying, sociopathy, attempted murder, adolescence, homosexuality, juvenile delinquency, lonely man, truancy, teenage murderer, friends ...
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Senior Skip Day (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Adam Harris, a semi-lame senior, is head over heels in love with Cara. Unfortunately she is the most popular girl in school. On the one day of the year that he could actually have a chance, senior skip day, he screws it all up by accidentally ...
Style: sex comedy, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: high school, party, school, youth, buddies, disorder, looking for sex, teacher, escapades, college, nightlife, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.6
 130K
Wild Things (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but ...
Style: erotic, surprise ending, psychological, tense, sexy ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, chick flick, adult ...
Plot: femme fatale, blackmail, rape, fatal attraction, dangerous attraction, lesbian, plot twist, desire, sex, sexual harassment, teachers and students, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, usa, miami, miami beach, everglades
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 7.7
 1K
Let Me Fall (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Iceland, Finland, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story: When 15-year-old Magnea meets Stella, everything changes. Stella's no-holds-barred lifestyle drags them both into a world of drugs, which brings serious consequences for each of them, and their relationship. Twelve years later their paths cross ...
Style: suspense, depressing, harsh, disturbing
Plot: lgbt, junkie, coming of age, drug addiction, lesbian relationship, reunited friends, unfulfillment, drug abuse, life is a bitch, human nature, obsession, self destructing ...
Place: reykjavik iceland, iceland, rio de janeiro
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 5.3
 7K
Mad Love (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental ...
Style: romantic, touching, melancholic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: mental illness, high school, love, bipolar disorder, on the road, mental institution, manic depression, obsessive love, coming of age, teenage love, hitchhiking, psychology ...
Time: y2k, 90s
Place: seattle, latin america, usa, mexico
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Up the Down Staircase (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules ...
Style: esoteric, independent film, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: teacher, education, teaching, high school, dedicated educator, mentor, racism, job, swing, blaxploitation, business, school teacher ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: new york, usa
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 345
iGirlfriend (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A teen comedy about a nerdy teenager who creates an iPhone app to be his girlfriend. When she miraculously comes to life, things go hilariously wrong, and she tries to kill him.
Style: psychotronic, humorous, light, cyber, crying ...
Plot: high school student, friendship, rivalry, student, classmate classmate relationship, school, humiliation, teenage protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, failed expectations, rivals, chase ...
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 5.6
 3K
We (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between ...
Style: erotic, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex scene, sensuality, open relationship, nudism, female exhibitionist, nudity, orgy, nudist, sex orgy, exhibitionist, group sex, mother daughter conflict ...
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Willy The Sparrow (1989)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 76 min.
Story: What would it feel like to be a bird and fly over the trees and housetops? A boy named Willy finds out when the Sparrow Guardian turns him into a Sparrow for shooting a BB gun at the little birds. Suddenly, Willy's own cat thinks of him as ...
Style: retro, anime, cult classic, fairy tale, epic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: bird, furry, little girl, drunkenness, wine, anthropomorphism, anger, illiteracy, rain, good versus evil, revenge, friendship ...
Time: 1900s
Place: hungary, budapest
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Sadie's Last Days on Earth (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Everything in high school is like the world ending and Sadie Mitchell's crippling fear of the coming apocalypse is the heightened version of that.
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, teen comedy
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: high school student, high school, friendship, teenage protagonist, family relations, interracial friendship, teenage girl, teenage boy, husband wife relationship, coming of age, anxiety, distopia ...
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 7.4
 347
Fluppy Dogs (1986)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story: Originally intended to be a pilot for the third Walt Disney Television animated series the movie features five pastel-colored talking (fluppy) dogs who arrive through a fluppy interdimensional doorway. Upon arrival the dogs brefriend 10-year-old ...
Style: tv series pilot
Plot: portal, talking dog, interdimensional travel, truancy, flowers, alternate reality, police officer, valet, flood, alternate dimension, mythical creature, bribe ...
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 7.1
 216
Matinée (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jorge and Aarón, two young boys growing up in a quiet town often miss classes to go together to the cinema matinee. One day they are kidnapped by robbers while traveling in a truck. After the disintegration of the band, they begin to participate in ...
Plot: youth, journey, robbery, innocence, male homosexuality, childhood, town, young boy, boy, swimming, kidnapping, disguise ...
Place: mexico city
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Northern Borders (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 'Northern Borders' tells the story of ten year-old Austen Kittredge who is sent by his father to live on his grandparents' Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. It's 1956 ...
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: boy, child protagonist, family relations, childhood, child with gun, marital strife, coming of age, old man, bereavement, heist, youth, young boy ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: vermont
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 6.2
 149
DonT Stop (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Prague, 1983. The communist regime, in a suffocating atmosphere ruled over by the secret police, imposes "normalization". Miki and David need some kind of motivation to carry on in the communist wasteland. They discover The Clash's ...
Style: freeze frame
Plot: father son relationship, friendship between men, teen rebel, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, student, teenage boy, friendship, rock music, husband wife relationship, musician, friend ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: prague
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 7.0
 58
75 (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A car crash victim, humiliated housewife and two repressed teens are connected by their relationships with hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, existential, freeze frame ...
Audience: kids
Plot: double life, strong female character, social problems, doctor patient relationship, friendship between men, secret, secret life, organized crime, drug use, social realism, introspection, car accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: america, usa, midwest, ohio, kentucky ...
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 6.3
 442
Family Film (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, France, Slovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A couple embark on an early vacation. Left alone, their children cut loose until the boy gets caught for skipping school and things take an unexpected turn. Boasting exquisite camera work, the film is also unforgettable for its wholly original ...
Style: sincere, melancholic, captivating, sentimental, poignant ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: lost dog, brother sister relationship, dog, vacation, teenage boy, family relations, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, shipwreck, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Place: central europe, prague
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 6.3
 907
Old Enough (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite occupancies, like make-up, shoplifting, skipping school and lying to the parent about it, but ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenager, youth, coming of age, female friendship, middle school, woman, strong female lead, age-gap relationship, family relations, female bonding, friendship between girls ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york
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 6.3
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Four Suns (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Fogi is enjoying his never ending puberty. But simultaneously Fogi is also trying to live up to his family duties and bring up Véna, his son from the first marriage. He did not get married again but lives with Jana, a post office employee. Together ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, human nature, crumbling marriage, infidelity, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, introspection, rebelliousness, guru, family in crisis, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic
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Gas, Food Lodging (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the boring desert of New Mexico, a single mother raises her two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, whose deepest desire is to leave the dead calm town. Shade is the type to escape in her extravagant fantasies while Trudi is so rebelious it could ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, retro, cult classic ...
Plot: coming of age, waitress, small town, single mother, mother daughter relationship, love, women, friendship, adolescence, desert, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new mexico, usa
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 6.2
 12K
Ginger & Rosa (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Denmark, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and the pivotal event the comes to redefine their relationship.
Style: serious, sincere, stylized, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: political protest, teenage girl, cuban missile crisis, cold war, coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenager, teenage life, rebelliousness, rebellion, society, youth ...
Time: 60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1962
Place: cuba, england, europe, london
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 5.5
 15K
Little (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A woman receives the chance to relive the life of her younger self, at a point in her life when the pressures of adulthood become too much for her to bear.
Style: rom com, light, feel good, humorous, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: body swapping, african american, peer pressure, fashion designer, friendship, bullying, transformation, black, employer employee relationship, middle school, ethnic conflict, rivalry ...
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 7.4
 7K
Kids Return (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local Yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspense, anime ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, boxing, yakuza, high school, friendship, bullying, coming of age, prank, athlete's life, teenage life, ambition, gangster ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: japan
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The Garden of Words (2013)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and ...
Style: anime, touching, sweet, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: shoemaker, rain, age difference, youth, grownups, unlikely couple, overcoming, older woman younger man relationship, shyness, teenage life, teen angst, love and romance ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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 3.1
 26K
Kazaam (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Shaquille O'Neal as a rapping genie protects a little boy.
Style: feel good, humorous, intense, inspirational, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: genie, mischievous children, bully, friendship, youth, justice, wish come true, wish fulfillment, culture clash, unlikely friendships, young heroes, father son relationship ...
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