Films about children

1999 film directed by George Lucas

1997 film by Roberto Benigni

1982 film directed by Steven Spielberg

1964 film directed by Robert Stevenson

2005 film directed by Tim Burton

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis. The film follows escaped mental patient Michael Myers, who was committed to a mental institution for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween in the fictional Illinois town of Haddonfield; 15 years later, he returns to Haddonfield, where he stalks teenage babysitter Laurie Strode and her friends while his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis pursues him.

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.

2006 film by Guillermo del Toro

2006 film by Gabriele Muccino

1921 film directed by Charlie Chaplin

1962 film by Robert Mulligan

2008 film by Clint Eastwood

2014 film directed by Richard Linklater

1997 film directed by Raja Gosnell

It Chapter Two is a 2019 American supernatural horror film directed by Andy Muschietti from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman. It is the sequel to It (2017) and the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1986 novel It by Stephen King. The film stars James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, and Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Set 27 years after the events of the first film, the story centers on the Losers Club and their relationships as they reunite to destroy It once and for all.

2018 film directed by Rob Marshall

2008 US-UK film directed by Mark Herman

1980 film by Randal Kleiser

2001 film by Alejandro Amenábar

2014 film directed by Rob Marshall

Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Rob Reiner. Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body, the film is set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon, in 1959. Stand by Me stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell as four boys who set out on a journey to find the dead body of a missing boy. The film's title is derived from the 1961 song of the same name by Ben E. King, which plays during the film's closing credits.

2012 film directed by Wes Anderson

Gordy is a 1994 American family comedy-drama film directed by Mark Lewis, about a livestock piglet named Gordy who searches for his missing family (who are taken away to a slaughterhouse in Omaha, Nebraska). He experiences the lives of others who are part of the film's side plots, including traveling country music singers Luke McAllister and his daughter, Jinnie Sue; and lonely boy Hanky Royce whose mother, Jessica, is engaged to a sinister businessman named Gilbert Sipes. Gordy changes lives for the people he encounters due to their ability to understand him. The film was distributed by Miram

2008 film by Dave Filoni

2003 film by Richard Linklater

2023 film directed by Rob Marshall

2011 film directed by Stephen Daldry

2011 film directed by J. J. Abrams

2009 film directed by Michael Haneke

1971 film directed by Mel Stuart

2012 film directed by Benh Zeitlin

1988 film by Tom Holland

2016 film directed by Tim Burton

1985 film directed by Richard Donner

2003 film by Bo Welch

1996 film by Jan Svěrák

2007 film by Ben Affleck

Lilo & Stitch is a 2025 American live-action animated science fiction comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Rideback. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, it is a live-action animated remake of Disney's 2002 traditionally animated film Lilo & Stitch. The film stars Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham, Courtney B. Vance, Zach Galifianakis, and Maia Kealoha in her film debut, with original Lilo & Stitch writer-director Chris Sanders reprising his voice role as Stitch.

2022 film directed by Steven Spielberg

2014 film by Brian Percival

1990 psychological horror/drama series directed by Tommy Lee Wallace

Weapons is a 2025 American supernatural mystery horror film directed, written, co-produced, and co-scored by Zach Cregger. It stars an ensemble cast including Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. Its plot follows the case of seventeen children from the same classroom who mysteriously run away on the same night at the same time.

1997 film directed by Majid Majidi

2017 film by Sean Baker

1994 film directed by Donald Petrie

1996 film directed by Danny DeVito

1977 American live-action/animated musical fantasy comedy by Don Chaffey

2002 animated film by Craig McCracken

1988 film directed by Dwight H. Little

1993 film directed by Simon Wincer

2018 film directed by Andy Serkis

1995 film directed by Joe Chappelle

2017 film by Andrey Zvyagintsev

1982 film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace

2010 film by Susanne Bier

1948 film by Roberto Rossellini

2005 film by Adam Shankman

1989 film directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard

2017 film by Marc Webb

1989 film by Amy Heckerling