Films about bullying

Dumbo is a 1941 American animated musical comedy-drama fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, and illustrated by Helen Durney for the prototype of a novelty toy ("Roll-a-Book").

Zootopia (titled Zootropolis in some markets) is a 2016 American animated buddy cop comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. Directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore and written by Jared Bush and Phil Johnston, it is the first film in the Zootopia franchise. It features the voices of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Tommy Chong, J. K. Simmons, Octavia Spencer, Alan Tudyk, and Shakira. The film follows the rabbit Judy Hopps, a rookie police officer, and the fox Nick Wilde, a con artist, as they work together to uncover

1998 film directed by Tony Kaye

It is a 2017 American supernatural horror film directed by Andy Muschietti and written by Chase Palmer, Cary Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1986 novel of the same name by Stephen King, as well as the second adaptation following Tommy Lee Wallace's 1990 miniseries. Starring Jaeden Lieberher and Bill Skarsgård, the film was produced by New Line Cinema, KatzSmith Productions, Lin Pictures, and Vertigo Entertainment. Set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, the film tells the story of The Losers' Club, a group of seven outcast children who are terrorized by the eponymous being which emerges from the sewer in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Skarsgård), and face their own personal demons as the monster torments them.

2016 film directed by Barry Jenkins

1999 film by James Mangold

2019 film directed by David F. Sandberg

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a 2000 American Christmas comedy film directed by Ron Howard and written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, loosely based on the 1957 children's book by Dr. Seuss. It was the first Seuss book to be adapted into a live-action feature film, and the second adaptation of the book following the 1966 animated TV special. Narrated by Anthony Hopkins, the film stars Jim Carrey as the Grinch, a misanthropic green creature living on Mount Crumpit, who despises Christmas and the joyful residents of Whoville and sets out to sabotage their holiday celebration. The supporting cast includes Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Taylor Momsen and Molly Shannon.

1976 film directed by Brian De Palma

2014 animated film directed by Rob Minkoff

1990 film directed by John G. Avildsen

2012 film by Thomas Vinterberg

1999 animated film directed by Trey Parker

2006 film directed by John A. Davis

2016 film by Rawson Marshall Thurber

2025 animated film directed by Adrian Molina, Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi

The Black Phone is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson from a screenplay he wrote with C. Robert Cargill, based on the 2004 short story by Joe Hill. It is the first installment in the Black Phone franchise. It stars Mason Thames as Finney, a teenage boy abducted by a serial child killer known colloquially as the Grabber. When Finney encounters a mystical black rotary phone in captivity, he uses it to plot his escape by communicating with the ghosts of the Grabber's slain victims. Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone also feature in the principal cast. Derrickson and Cargill produced The Black Phone in association with Blumhouse Productions CEO Jason Blum. Universal Pictures oversaw the film's commercial distribution, and funding was sourced through a pact with Blumhouse and tax subsidies from the North Carolina state government.

2009 clay animation film directed by Adam Elliot

2017 animated film directed by Charlie Bean

1990 psychological horror/drama series directed by Tommy Lee Wallace

1984 film directed by Wolfgang Petersen

2015 film directed by Jake Schreier

2013 film directed by Kimberly Peirce

1996 film directed by Danny DeVito

1986 American film directed by John G. Avildsen

2012 film by Josh Trank

2016 film directed by Juan Antonio Bayona

1993 film directed by Richard Linklater

1989 American film directed by John G. Avildsen

2017 film directed by McG

Flatliners is a 1990 American science fiction psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Michael Douglas and Rick Bieber, and written by Peter Filardi. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. The film is about five medical students who attempt to find out what lies beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments that produce near-death experiences. The film was shot on the campus of Loyola University Chicago between October 1989 and January 1990, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing in 1990 (

2004 film by Jared Hess

2003 film by Catherine Hardwicke

2022 film directed by David Gordon Green

2025 film by Jonathan Entwistle

2023 film directed by Michael B. Jordan

2006 film by Steve Pink

2008 film by Nick Moore

1992 film directed by Robert Mandel

Unfriended (originally titled Cybernatural) is a 2014 American screenlife supernatural horror film directed by Levan Gabriadze and produced by Timur Bekmambetov. Set on a computer screen, the film stars Shelley Hennig, Moses Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, and Courtney Halverson as six high school students in a Skype conversation which is haunted by a student, played by Heather Sossaman, who was bullied by them and killed herself. The film is told almost entirely through a screencast of a MacBook.

1978 film by Yuen Woo-ping

2007 film directed by Ilmar Raag

1985 film by John Hughes

2020 film directed by McG

1935 film by George Cukor

2019 film directed by Tate Taylor

2007 film by Nic Balthazar

2015 film by Joel Edgerton

1992 film by John G. Avildsen

1969 film directed by Ken Loach

2001 film directed by Larry Clark

A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters. It stars Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsley, and follows a young boy and his family's misadventures during Christmastime in 1940. It is the first installment in the Parker Family Saga.

2001 film directed by Jamie Blanks

2010 film by Andy Fickman

1999 film directed by Katt Shea

1963 film by Peter Brook

1996 film directed by Bronwen Hughes

1984 film directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman

2008 film directed by Gurinder Chadha

2007 film directed by John Crowley