Paperboy movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant paperboy movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, feel good, melancholic, suspense and psychological films and TV shows about / with paperboy, teenager, friendship, coming of age, boy, father son relationship, bicycle, youth, mentor and school plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as paperboy: The Paper Boy (1994), The Paper Brigade (1996), Newsies (1992), The Paperboy (2012), Solitude (2023), Get a Life (1990), The Benchwarmers (2006), Wild Chicks (2005), Alone in Berlin (2016), Batman Returns (1992).
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List of paperboy movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A paper-boy murders an old lady only to lure her family from the city out to the country. As each day passes the paper-boy tries to make friends with the family. Once the family sees what a sicko he is, they banish him from their lifes. Then the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, scary, realistic, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot:
paperboy, mentally unstable, family relations, psychopath, danger, estate, stalking, small town, evil child, murder, killer child, serial killer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
boston
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A 14 year old boy named Gunther moves to a small town with his parents and little brother. He meets up with a group of overly charitable paper boys who want him to sub for their friend while he's out of town. Gunther agrees so he can get enough ...
Style:
realistic, feel good, touching, rough, tense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
paperboy, bully, small town life, youth, friends, small town, adolescent boy, gang, adolescent girl, teenager, baseball, teenage boy ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Family, History, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the ...
Style:
cult classic, political, lighthearted, epic, anamorphic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, date night, chick flick ...
Plot:
dance, paperboy, orphan, teenage boy, broadway, friendship, profanity, labor union, media, journalism, underdog, youth ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1890s, year 1992, turn of the century ...
Place:
new york, america, usa, north america, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent ...
Style:
sexy, gothic, erotic, atmospheric, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
reporter, prison, small town, paperboy, journalism, dangerous attraction, american south, violent sex, injustice, police investigation, newspaper man, deep south ...
Time:
60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1969, 21st century
Place:
florida, everglades, usa, miami
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, 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, visually stunning, light, surreal, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, tour guide, mischievous children, inventor, child protagonist, childhood, surrealism, child, river ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s, year 1971
Place:
germany, europe, west germany, paraguay, arizona ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Slovakia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An aged farmer moves to the urban city for the first time in his life. He befriends a paper delivery boy in the neighborhood and their connection changes the course of both their lives and the boy's family.
Style:
independent film, melancholic, heartfelt, emotional, reflective
Plot:
loneliness, empathy, intergenerational friendship, solitude, bonding, introspection, slice of life, urban, fish out of water, isolation, intimate, minimalism ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Get a Life is a television sitcom that was broadcast in the United States on the Fox Network from September 23, 1990, to March 8, 1992. The show stars Chris Elliott as a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson. Peterson lived in an apartment above ...
Style:
sitcom, offbeat, funny, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
dying repeatedly, paperboy, weirdo, guy, best friend, prodigy, single parent, lifestyle, workplace, thirtysomething life, optimism, workplace situations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
minnesota
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
baseball, youth, mentor, adult humor, ambition, contests and competitions, bullying, coming of age, vengeance, group of friends, nfl, pizza ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Feature film adaptation of the musical about a teenager from Sheffield, England who wants to be a drag queen.
Style:
lgbt cinema, emotional, touching, psychological, social ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, female impersonator, cross dressing, lgbtq, drag queen, gay student, gay interest, gay, life is a bitch, gay slur, mentor, prom ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
britain, england, yorkshire, united kingdom
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Sprotte is about 12 years old and has a "gang" with her three friends Frieda, Melanie and Trude. Together the girls take Care of Sprottes grandmothers chickens. The new girl in School, Wilma, wishes to join the group, which Melanie is very ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, touching
Plot:
group of friends, girl gang, hostility, friendship, chicken, coming of age, friendship between girls, teenager, school, childhood, children, monkey ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, France, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, enigmatic, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot:
nazi germany, gestapo, world war two, death of son, suicide, nazi, wartime, world war, holocaust, shoah, murder, german soldier ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1943
Place:
berlin germany, germany, central europe
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Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Having defeated the Joker, Batman now faces the Penguin - a warped and deformed individual who is intent on being accepted into Gotham society. Crooked businessman Max Schreck is coerced into helping him become Mayor of Gotham and they both attempt ...
Style:
gothic, mysterious, stylized, saga, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, teens, date night, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
superhero, villain, batman, revenge, christmas, femme fatale, cat, vigilante, corruption, double life, christmas season, circus ...
Time:
year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A teenage boy lives with his single mum in a flat in South London. Into the flat below moves an anti-social, former Rock God who faked his death 8 years ago. The teenage boy works out who the mysterious neighbour is and blackmails him into teaching ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
neighbor, musician, family relations, youth, teenage life, ambition, teaching the ways of the world, desire for fame, rock, teenager, coming of age, shyness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
britain, england
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
It's been some time since Father Jebedaiah Mayii exorcised the Devil from little Nancy Aglet, who is now grown up with a husband and two children of her own. But the prince of darkness wants to go a second round and has returned to repossess ...
Style:
parody, spoof, demonic, humorous, satirical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
priest, exorcism, exorcist, supernatural, clergy, housewife, television studio, disorder, mistaken identity, fish out of water, obsessive quest, escapades ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, 80s, year 1973, 70s
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A 13-year-old brainiac invents an ingenious listening device, which he uses to bring a crooked city official and his pals to justice
Plot:
youth, teenage detective, child kidnapping, schoolboy, child in peril, amateur detective, inventor, best friend, listening device, brother sister relationship, corrupt politician, reward ...
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Genre: Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Young Berra has a friend, Ulf. Ulf has a grandfather which he likes very much, he gives Ulf presents and takes him on fishing trips. Berra doesn't have a grandfather, but he wants one that's nice to him and who can teach him to whistle. ...
Style:
emotional, pastoral, melancholic, period piece, feel good
Plot:
childhood, friendship, grandparents, heartwarming, loneliness, innocence, elderly, children, empathy, companionship, teaching, imagination ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 50s
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb
Style:
suspense, tension, period piece, dark comedy, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
yakuza, bomb, assassination, political corruption, betrayal, revenge, gangster, election, moral ambiguity, power struggle, loyalty, satire ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When we meet Thomas and his mother, Anne, for the first time, they are about to run away as so often before. Now, the escape brings Thomas and Anne to a cosy provincial town. They stop their car to fill up the tank and here Thomas meets Helene, who ...
Style:
psychological, touching, serious, sincere
Plot:
hiding, teenage boy, violent husband, friendship, fight, school, father, risk, haunted by the past, fall in love, first love, escape ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11-years-old.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, emotional, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boy, working class, youth, family relations, family life, misfit, cons and scams, social differences, physical appearance, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, friendship ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, year 1942, year 1965, 20th century ...
Place:
canada, montreal, quebec, italy
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Emilie Janzen has always had a strange intuition and talent for seeing the truth in people. But what Emilie didn't see coming is the disappearance of her 17-year-old daughter, Lori. Waking visions of Lori being abducted begin to haunt Emilie, ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
abduction, mother daughter relationship, kidnapping, clairvoyance, a vision, obsession, missing girl, missing person, clairvoyant, supernatural power, kidnapped woman, supernatural ability ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The Stolen Airship (Czech: Ukradená vzducholod) is a 1967 live-action/animated film by Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman. The story is based loosely on Jules Verne's novels Two Years' Vacation and The Mysterious Island. The film in Art Nouveau ...
Style:
period piece, surreal, cult classic, psychotronic, whimsical
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
steampunk, stop motion, escapism, friendship, coming of age, zeppelin, desert island, aviation, adventurer, paperboy, children, pirate ...
Time:
year 1967
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10-year-old looks like a 40-year-old man. After years of being tutored at home, Jack convinces his overprotective parents to send him to public school. ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, thought provoking, feel good, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, date night, girls' night ...
Plot:
childhood, friendship, freak, school, coping, genetics, fish out of water, life philosophy, adolescence, disease, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A woman attempts to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up for fraud and other criminal activity.
Style:
neo noir, retro, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
young couple, redheaded woman, christmas, injustice, against the odds, state affairs, fighting the system, rivalry, rebellion, society, photographer, telephone call ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Paul is a new kid in town with a robot named "BB". He befriends Samantha and the three of them have a lot of good times together. That is, until Samantha's abusive father throws her down some stairs and kills her. In an effort to save ...
Style:
cult classic, splatter, surprise ending, funny, cult horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
robot, murder, androids and robots, mad scientist, true love, technology, halloween, revenge, artificial intelligence, child abuse, cyborgs, terror ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwight, the "bad boy", and Brian, a disturbed young man who has just been released from a mental hospital where he was committed following ...
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, detective, slasher horror, spoof ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleading, cheerleader, male objectification, high school, serial killer, high school student, psychopath, murder, teenager, survival, nudity, woman in jeopardy ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style:
rough, bleak, hood, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, violence, ghetto, favela, coming of age, storytelling, gang war, gangster, society, juvenile delinquency, organized crime, journalism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s, future ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, south america, brazil, africa
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including saving the ...
Style:
action thriller, action adventure, entertaining, detective, mind bending ...
Plot:
time loop, time travel, groundhog day, time, dying repeatedly, back in time, travel, memory, murder, experiment gone awry, prank, disorder ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Three detectives become embroiled in a tense struggle after a tragic accident that leaves a child in critical condition. One is guilty of a crime, one will try to cover it up, and the other attempts to expose it. How far will these men go to ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, police, police corruption, police investigation, accident, life turned upside down, dirty cop, crime gone awry, dishonesty, law enforcement, cover up, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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140K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Style:
realistic, serious, clever, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder investigation, murder, police investigation, police detective, twists and turns, police, murderer, legal, grief, multiple suspects, small town, pedophile ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min.
TV show
Story:
Murderland poses the question of tragedy and curiosity - can one move on from horrible and unexplained events that one experiences as a child, and grow up to make a new life? Or will peace come only once the truth is known? Murderland tells of the ...
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, detective ...
Plot:
police detective, who done it, murder, police investigation, haunted by the past, uncover truth, life is a bitch, british police, death of mother, murder suspect, mother daughter relationship, multiple perspectives ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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