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Movies: Best "childhood" Movies

A children's film, or family film, is a film genre that generally relates to children in the context of home and family. Children's films are made specifically for children and not necessarily for a general audience, while family films are made for a wider appeal with a general audience in mind. Children's films come in several major genres like realism, fantasy, adventure, war, musicals, comedy, and literary adaptations. ()

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Past Lives(2023)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 288 votes)

Nora and Hae Sung, two childhood friends, are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.

Directed by Celine Song - With Greta Lee, Yoo Teo, John Magaro, Choi Won-young, Jonica T. Gibbs

The Fabelmans(2022)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 31min | Drama, Comedy
3.9/5 (with 928 votes)

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood(2022)

3.6/5 (with 94 votes)

A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the moon.

Directed by Richard Linklater

Dreamcatcher(2003)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 16min | Drama, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 773 votes)

Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante ... and then overcome a threat to the bond that unites the four of them.

The City of Lost Children(1995)

3.7/5 (with 453 votes)

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.

Like Stars on Earth(2007)

2h 45min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 477 votes)

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.

Crayon Shin-chan: Storm-invoking Passion! The Adult Empire Strikes Back(2001)

1h 30min | Animation, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 22 votes)

Shin-chan must rescue the adults of Kasukabe when they mysteriously abandon their responsibilities to relive their youth at the new 20th-century expo.

Directed by Keiichi Hara

Like Father, Like Son(2013)

FSK: 0+ years
| 2h | Drama, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 284 votes)

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and choose his true son or the boy he raised as his own.

The Tree of Life(2011)

FSK: 0+ years
| 2h 19min | Drama, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 1,439 votes)

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

Christopher Robin(2018)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 44min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 1,215 votes)

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

C'mon C'mon(2021)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 48min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 267 votes)

Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los Angeles.

Mirror(1975)

1h 47min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 394 votes)

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

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The Lifeguard(2013)

2.7/5 (with 126 votes)

A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut. She gets work as a lifeguard and starts a dangerous relationship with a troubled teenager.

D.A.R.Y.L.(1985)

3.2/5 (with 126 votes)

Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.

The Song of Names(2019)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 53min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 57 votes)

A man searching for his childhood best friend — a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust — who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

Antboy(2013)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 16min | Comedy, Adventure, Kids & Family
2.8/5 (with 61 votes)

12-year-old Pelle accidentally gets bitten by an ant and develops unimaginable superpowers. With help from his friend, comic book nerd Wilhelm, Pelle creates a secret identity as the superhero Antboy. Slowly things start to happen in the surburban community, and when a scary and crazy supervillain, Flea, enters the scene, Antboy must step up to the challenge. The first Danish superhero-movie. Based on the books by Kenneth Bøgh Andersen.

Directed by Ask Hasselbalch - With Elsebeth Steentoft, Aske Bang, Caspar Phillipson, Jakob Bjerregaard Engmann, Jonas Schmidt, Thomas Voss, ...

Petite Maman(2021)

3.6/5 (with 155 votes)

Nelly has just lost her grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods. One day she meets a girl her same age building a treehouse.

Directed by Céline Sciamma - With Nina Meurisse, Margot Abascal, Stéphane Varupenne

The Red Balloon(1956)

3.9/5 (with 160 votes)

A young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to have a mind of its own, on the streets of Paris. The two become inseparable, yet the world’s harsh realities finally interfere.

Sometimes They Come Back(1991)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 37min | Horror, TV Movie
2.9/5 (with 92 votes)

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.

Summer 1993(2017)

1h 36min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 83 votes)

After her mother's death, six-year-old Frida is sent to her uncle's family to live with them in the countryside. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.

Small Change(1976)

1h 44min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 58 votes)

Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's awakening interest in girls, couples double-dating at the movies, brothers giving their friend a haircut, a boy dealing with an abusive home life, a baby and a cat sitting by an open window, a child telling a dirty joke, and a boy who develops a crush on his friend's mother.

Kes(1970)

1h 50min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 167 votes)

A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.

Emil in Lonneberga(1971)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 31 votes)

Emil Svensson lives with his mother and father, little sister Ida, farmhand Alfred, and maid Lina on a picturesque farm in Småland. He is an unusually lively little boy, who just can't resist trying out every whim that enters into his white-haired head. Always with the best intentions in mind, because he is a good-hearted child, but often with catastrophic results, especially for his short-tempered father. As a result, Emil spends a lot of quality time in the wood shed carving wood figurines and waiting for Anton's temper to cool down. And the father's patience is certainly tried, as Emil gets his head stuck in the family's only soup bowl, hoists little Ida up the flag pole, and arranges a lavish Christmas party for the poor.

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints(2006)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 44min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 129 votes)

Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.

Toto the Hero(1991)

1h 31min | Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 44 votes)

80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.

Echoes of the Rainbow(2010)

3.7/5 (with 26 votes)

Told through the eyes of sticky-fingered eight-year-old boy Big Ears, Echoes of the Rainbow takes place in a close-knit grassroots community in 1960s Hong Kong. Big Ears' mother and father run the neighborhood shoe store, and his older brother Desmond is every family's dream son - an outstanding athlete with grades worthy of Hong Kong's best school.

Directed by Alex Law - With Simon Yam, Sandra Ng, Aarif Rahman, Buzz Chung, Evelyn Choi, Paul Chun, ...

Julieta(2016)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 36min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 386 votes)

The film spans 30 years in Julieta’s life from a nostalgic 1985 where everything seems hopeful, to 2015 where her life appears to be beyond repair and she is on the verge of madness.

Naked Childhood(1969)

1h 23min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 29 votes)

Handed over to foster care by his mother—who's unwilling to give up permanent custody—the now-adolescent François understands that nothing in life is permanent, and his increasingly erratic actions reflect this knowledge.

Directed by Maurice Pialat - With Raoul Billerey, René Thierry

Boy A(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 42min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 194 votes)

Freed after a lengthy term in a juvenile detention center, convicted child killer Jack Burridge (Andrew Garfield) finds work as a deliveryman and begins dating co-worker Michelle (Katie Lyons). While out on the road one day, the young Englishman notices a distressed child, and, after reuniting the girl with her family, becomes a local celebrity. But, when a local newspaper unearths his past, Jack must cope with the anger of citizens who fear for the safety of their children.

The Curse of the Cat People(1944)

1h 10min | Horror, Drama, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 55 votes)

Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

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