Movies about children

Movies about children
List of the best movies about children selected by visitors to our site: Home Alone, The NeverEnding Story, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Gifted, Ideal Home, Somewhere, The Christmas Chronicles, Broken, Big Daddy, Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 7.7
Genrecomedy, adventure, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

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 ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stands his ground as his frantic mother attempts to race home before.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, family
CountryGermany, West Germany
Duration01:34

While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada
Duration02:44

A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Italy, Japan
Duration01:39

    After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:40

    Siblings Kate and Teddy try to prove Santa Claus is real, but when they accidentally cause his sleigh to crash, they have to save Christmas.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:27

    Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, documentary, short
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    A lazy law school grad adopts a kid to impress his girlfriend, but everything doesn't go as planned and he becomes the unlikely foster father.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, fantasy
    CountryRussia

    The young family who moved to a new apartment on the outskirts of the city. The nanny hired by them for the newborn daughter quickly gained confidence. However, the older boy, Egor, talks about the frightening behavior of a woman, but his parents do not believe him. The surveillance cameras installed by the father for comfort only confirm everything is in order. Then one day, Egor, returning home, finds no trace of either the nanny or the little sister, and the parents are in a strange trance and do not even remember that they had a daughter. Then Egor, together with his friends, goes in search, during which it turns out that the nanny is an ancient Slavic demon, popularly known as Baba Yaga.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genreaction, fantasy, drama, adventure
    CountryNew Zealand, USA
    Duration02:41

    The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dragon, Smaug.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, adventure, family
    CountryUSA

    When Flora rescues a squirrel she names Ulysses, she is amazed to discover he possesses unique superhero powers, which take them on an adventure of humorous complications that ultimately change Flora's life--and her outlook--forever.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrefantasy, adventure, family
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:32

    Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths -- and about the villain who's to blame.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth: the Men in Black. Agent Kay and new recruit Agent Jay find themselves in the middle of a deadly plot by an intergalactic terrorist who has arrived on Earth to assassinate two ambassadors from opposing galaxies.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:16

    Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:49

    Captain Barbossa, long believed to be dead, has come back to life and is headed to the edge of the Earth with Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann. But nothing is quite as it seems.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrefantastic, action, adventure
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:07

      After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, melodrama
      CountryFrance, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:06

      In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:24

      Remake of the popular Disney classic, this time featuring some well known voices as two dogs and a cat trek across America encountering all sorts of adventures in the quest to be reunited with their owners.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrefantasy, drama, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self- worth.

      Markimdb: 8.6
      Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genreaction, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana must team up with Marcus Brody, Sallah and Elsa Schneider to follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration02:17

      A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love?

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrefantasy, musical, adventure, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration02:10

      A wooden boy Buratino tries to find his place in life. He befriends toys from a toy theater owned by evil Karabas-Barabas, gets tricked by Alice the Fox and Basilio the Cat and finally discovers the mystery of a golden key given to him by kind Tortila the Tortoise.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:25

      Once upon a time there lived a Tsar named Yeremey who went on a year-long journey to take inventory of all he owned. One day he is kidnapped by the underwater Tsar Chudo-Yudo. When a ransom is demanded, the Tsar's family is faced with all kinds of intrigue and treachery.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantasy, musical, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration02:21

      A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
      CountryCzechoslovakia, East Germany
      Duration01:22

      The film stars Libuse Safrankova as the title character, a young woman who is put upon by her stepmother and stepsisters. The film employs a twist, though, when a handsome prince comes knocking. Cinderella does not simply fall into the prince's arms. In this version, he must actively pursue the young woman who is a skilled sharpshooter prone to wearing hunting outfits. Cinderella also has three wishes at her disposal, gained from three magic nuts.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:24

      Based on a classic fairytale "Cinderella" brilliantly adapted by Yevgeni Shvarts.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrecomedy, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:11

      A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantasy, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:15

      Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors is a 1964 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on a story with the same name by Vitali Gubarev. Both the surreal story by Vladimir Gubarev, together with the 1964 film, written in a Through The Looking Glass style. Alice-type Soviet girl, named Olya meets her counterpart Yalo, while looking into the mirror. Yalo is an absolute antipode to Olya, for example where Olya is precise and neat, Yalo is absent-minded, careless, etc. The explicit plot relates to Olya learning to see herself differently, but this occurs through an experience in the Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors which serves as a mechanism for commenting on the ability of a society to manufacture a false reality.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration03:03

      A touching story about a white Gordon Setter with black ear, who became homeless because of his master's illness. His master, Ivan Ivanovich, a man far from being young, fond of hunting and nature, took a puppy to live with him, despite the dog's black ear being a "shame of nature" to his breed. The man always took his dog, whom he called Bim or Bimka, to hunting in country. Later, however Ivan Ivanovich began to have problems with heart and when the disease became worse was taken to a hospital. His dog couldn't bear waiting for the only person that ever cared for him and set out to find his master. Thus began the story of a homeless dog and his many breathtaking and exciting adventures, encounters of many people, kind and evil, and leads to an unexpected and heart-rending end.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantasy, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:09

      The wonderful children’s author Eduard Uspensky has give us Cheburashka and Crocodile Ghena, “School of Clowns” and “Down Along the Magical River”, on which this magnificent film is based, one of the best children’s films of the 1980s-1990s. A very witty, kind and merry film! Just watch Tatiana Peltser alone as Baba-Yaga! Going to vacation at his grandmother’s in a village, the boy Mitya could never imagine that he would become a participant of the extraordinary adventures in a fairy-tale land. And all this because his grandma is Baba-Yaga, albeit a kind one… Together with his grandma Yagorovna, Vasilissa the Wisest, House Spirit and Russian Herculeses, Mitya came out to fight the army of Koschei the Deathless (a fine work by Alexander Filippenko), One-Eyed Evil and Nightingale the Robber (Oleg Anofriyev)…

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, family
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration01:24

      A fairy tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, comedy
      CountryUSA, Canada

      A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA

      Artemis Fowl is a 12-year-old genius and descendant of a long line of criminal masterminds. He soon finds himself in an epic battle against a race of powerful underground fairies who may be behind his father's disappearance.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France
      Duration01:50

      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, inner conflict, and standing on his toes!

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada, China, Australia

      After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantasy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA, India, United Kingdom
      Duration01:54

      The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, drama, family
      CountryUSA

      After failing to make it on Broadway, April returns to her hometown and reluctantly begins training a misfit group of young dancers for a competition.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except for six other teenage misfits and two menacing and mysterious teachers. As events become increasingly horrific, Jacob must conquer his fears to find the strength to survive.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:19

      A group of young boys on the cusp of becoming teenagers embark on an epic quest to fix their broken drone before their parents get home.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, family, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:14

      When ten-year-old Lewis is suddenly orphaned, he is sent to live with his Uncle Jonathan in a creaky (and creepy) old mansion with a mysterious ticking noise that emanates from the walls. Upon discovering that his uncle is a warlock, Lewis begins learning magic, but when he rebelliously resurrects an evil warlock he must find the secret of the house and save the world from destruction.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:36

      The story revolves around a new high school student, Jo (Meaghan Martin) , who agrees to befriend an outcast, Abby (Jennifer Stone), at the urging of Abby's wealthy father in exchange for paying all of Jo's costs for the college of her dreams. Jo and Abby team up to take on the school's mean girls, the Plastics.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantasy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe—for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack—temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Maryann moves in with her grandparents after she's orphaned. Desperately lonely, she sets out to befriend a neighboring deathly ill, bed-ridden boy, despite the outright disapproval of his mother. Maryann's persistence pays off, however, and during a series of secret visits she gradually uncovers some seriously sinister goings-on in the house.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genreaction, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      A boy rises to the occasion with his best friend (a lovable talking dog) to save his home and family.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      A devastated husband vows to bring justice to the people responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.




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