Movies With a Child Lead
Kinora's catalogue lists 193 films led by a child, spanning 1939–2023. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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- 2007
28 Weeks Later
Urbandir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo - 1991
A Brighter Summer Day
Urbandir. Edward Yang - 1993
A Bronx Tale
Urbandir. Robert De Niro - 1983
A Christmas Story
Suburbandir. Bob Clark - 1995
A Little Princess
Urbandir. Alfonso Cuarón - 1993
A Perfect World
Ruraldir. Clint Eastwood - 2018
A Quiet Place
Rural · Wildernessdir. John Krasinski - 2021
A Quiet Place Part II
Rural · Islanddir. John Krasinski - 2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Spielberg - 2022
Aftersun
Coastal Seadir. Charlotte Wells - 1988
Alice
dir. Jan Švankmajer - 1974
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1974
Alice in the Cities
Urbandir. Wim Wenders - 1951
Alice in Wonderland
dir. Clyde Geronimi - 1986
An American Tail
Urban · Ruraldir. Don Bluth - 2023
Anatomy of a Fall
Mountain · Ruraldir. Justine Triet - 1999
Angela's Ashes
Urbandir. Alan Parker - 2010
Animal Kingdom
Urbandir. David Michôd - 1956
Aparajito
Urban · Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray - 2011
Attack the Block
Urbandir. Joe Cornish - 1987
Au Revoir les Enfants
Ruraldir. Louis Malle - 1983
Barefoot Gen
Urbandir. Mori Masaki - 2000
Battle Royale
Island · Wildernessdir. Kinji Fukasaku - 2015
Beasts of No Nation
Rural · Wildernessdir. Cary Joji Fukunaga - 2012
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Rural · Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Benh Zeitlin - 1992
Benny's Video
Urbandir. Michael Haneke - 1988
Big
Urban · Suburbandir. Penny Marshall - 2000
Billy Elliot
Urbandir. Stephen Daldry - 2014
Boyhood
Suburban · Urbandir. Richard Linklater - 1999
Butterfly
Ruraldir. José Luis Cuerda - 2018
Capernaum
Urbandir. Nadine Labaki - 1976
Carrie
Suburbandir. Brian De Palma - 1986
Castle in the Sky
Underground · Island · Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1998
Central Station
Urban · Ruraldir. Walter Salles - 1988
Child's Play
Urbandir. Tom Holland - 1997
Children of Heaven
Urbandir. Majid Majidi - 1981
Christiane F.
Urbandir. Uli Edel - 2022
Close
Ruraldir. Lukas Dhont - 2017
Coco
Urbandir. Lee Unkrich - 2021
CODA
Coastal Seadir. Sian Heder - 1985
Come and See
Rural · Wildernessdir. Elem Klimov - 2009
Coraline
Ruraldir. Henry Selick - 1976
Cria!
Urbandir. Carlos Saura - 2019
Doctor Sleep
Ruraldir. Mike Flanagan - 1990
Dreams
Rural · Mountain · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Akira Kurosawa - 1982
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Suburbandir. Steven Spielberg - 2018
Eighth Grade
Suburbandir. Bo Burnham - 1987
Empire of the Sun
Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1997
Eve's Bayou
Ruraldir. Kasi Lemmons - 1982
Fanny and Alexander
Urbandir. Ingmar Bergman - 1996
Fly Away Home
Ruraldir. Carroll Ballard - 1952
Forbidden Games
Ruraldir. René Clément - 1948
Germany, Year Zero
Urbandir. Roberto Rossellini - 1959
Good Morning
Suburbandir. Yasujirō Ozu - 1988
Grave of the Fireflies
Urbandir. Isao Takahata - 1989
Heathers
Suburbandir. Michael Lehmann - 1990
Home Alone
Suburbandir. Chris Columbus - 1992
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Urbandir. Chris Columbus - 1941
How Green Was My Valley
Ruraldir. John Ford - 2016
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Taika Waititi - 2015
Inside Out
Urbandir. Pete Docter - 2018
Isle of Dogs
Island · Urbandir. Wes Anderson - 1962
Ivan's Childhood
Wildernessdir. Andrei Tarkovsky - 2019
Jojo Rabbit
Urbandir. Taika Waititi - 1993
Jurassic Park
Islanddir. Steven Spielberg - 1970
Kes
Ruraldir. Ken Loach - 1989
Kiki's Delivery Service
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1999
Kikujiro
Urban · Ruraldir. Takeshi Kitano - 1998
Kirikou and the Sorceress
Ruraldir. Michel Ocelot - 1996
Kolya
Urbandir. Jan Svěrák - 2016
Kubo and the Two Strings
Rural · Mountaindir. Travis Knight - 1988
Landscape in the Mist
Ruraldir. Theo Angelopoulos - 2018
Leave No Trace
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Debra Granik - 1992
Léolo
Urbandir. Jean-Claude Lauzon - 1994
Léon: The Professional
Urbandir. Luc Besson - 2008
Let the Right One In
Suburbandir. Tomas Alfredson - 2012
Life of Pi
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Ang Lee - 2002
Lilo & Stitch
Island · Coastal Seadir. Dean DeBlois - 2016
Lion
Urban · Ruraldir. Garth Davis - 1993
Little Buddha
Urban · Mountaindir. Bernardo Bertolucci - 2006
Little Miss Sunshine
Suburban · Desertdir. Jonathan Dayton - 2017
Logan
Desert · Ruraldir. James Mangold - 1990
Lord of the Flies
Island · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Harry Hook - 2022
M3GAN
Suburban · Urbandir. Gerard Johnstone - 2000
Malena
Ruraldir. Giuseppe Tornatore - 1985
Mask
Suburbandir. Peter Bogdanovich - 1996
Matilda
Suburbandir. Danny DeVito - 2021
Minari
Ruraldir. Lee Isaac Chung - 2023
Monster
Urbandir. Hirokazu Kore-eda - 2006
Monster House
Suburbandir. Gil Kenan - 2016
Moonlight
Urbandir. Barry Jenkins - 2012
Moonrise Kingdom
Island · Wildernessdir. Wes Anderson - 1967
Mouchette
Ruraldir. Robert Bresson - 2013
Mud
Rural · Islanddir. Jeff Nichols - 2015
Mustang
Ruraldir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven - 1990
My Father's Glory
Ruraldir. Yves Robert - 1991
My Girl
Suburbandir. Howard Zieff - 1985
My Life as a Dog
Ruraldir. Lasse Hallström - 1990
My Mother's Castle
Rural · Urbandir. Yves Robert - 1988
My Neighbor Totoro
Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1945
National Velvet
Ruraldir. Clarence Brown - 1989
New York Stories
Urbandir. Martin Scorsese - 2004
Nobody Knows
Urbandir. Hirokazu Kore-eda - 1999
Not One Less
Rural · Urbandir. Zhang Yimou - 2017
Okja
Mountain · Urbandir. Bong Joon Ho - 1957
Old Yeller
Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Stevenson - 1980
Ordinary People
Suburbandir. Robert Redford - 2006
Pan's Labyrinth
Rural · Undergrounddir. Guillermo del Toro - 1973
Paper Moon
Ruraldir. Peter Bogdanovich - 1955
Pather Panchali
Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray - 2000
Pay It Forward
Urbandir. Mimi Leder - 1987
Pelle the Conqueror
Rural · Islanddir. Bille August - 1953
Peter Pan
Urban · Islanddir. Clyde Geronimi - 2021
Petite Maman
Rural · Wildernessdir. Céline Sciamma - 1979
Phantasm
Suburbandir. Don Coscarelli - 1940
Pinocchio
Rural · Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Hamilton Luske - 1980
Pixote
Urbandir. Héctor Babenco - 1960
Pollyanna
Ruraldir. David Swift - 1978
Pretty Baby
Urbandir. Louis Malle - 2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Desert · Wildernessdir. Phillip Noyce - 1999
Ratcatcher
Urbandir. Lynne Ramsay - 2015
Room
Suburbandir. Lenny Abrahamson - 1993
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Urbandir. Steven Zaillian - 1946
Shoeshine
Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica - 2018
Shoplifters
Urbandir. Hirokazu Kore-eda - 2011
Snowtown
Suburban · Ruraldir. Justin Kurzel - 2018
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Urbandir. Bob Persichetti - 2001
Spirited Away
Urbandir. Hayao Miyazaki - 2014
St. Vincent
Urbandir. Theodore Melfi - 1986
Stand by Me
Ruraldir. Rob Reiner - 1971
Summer of '42
Island · Coastal Seadir. Robert Mulligan - 2011
Super 8
Suburban · Undergrounddir. J.J. Abrams - 1991
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Urbandir. James Cameron - 1959
The 400 Blows
Urban · Coastal Seadir. François Truffaut - 2014
The Babadook
Urban · Suburbandir. Jennifer Kent - 1979
The Black Stallion
Island · Coastal Sea · Suburbandir. Carroll Ballard - 2023
The Boy and the Heron
Rural · Undergrounddir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1985
The Breakfast Club
Suburbandir. John Hughes - 1995
The City of Lost Children
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 1994
The Client
Urbandir. Joel Schumacher - 1999
The Color of Paradise
Rural · Mountaindir. Majid Majidi - 1972
The Cowboys
Rural · Wildernessdir. Mark Rydell - 2023
The Creator
Urban · Rural · Off Worlddir. Gareth Edwards - 1995
The Cure
Suburban · Ruraldir. Peter Horton - 2001
The Devil's Backbone
Ruraldir. Guillermo del Toro - 1973
The Exorcist
Urbandir. William Friedkin - 2022
The Fabelmans
Suburban · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 2017
The Florida Project
Suburbandir. Sean Baker - 1985
The Goonies
Coastal Sea · Underground · Suburbandir. Richard Donner - 1999
The Iron Giant
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Brad Bird - 1967
The Jungle Book
Wildernessdir. Wolfgang Reitherman - 1984
The Karate Kid
Suburbandir. John G. Avildsen - 2007
The Kite Runner
Urbandir. Marc Forster - 1988
The Land Before Time
Wilderness · Desert · Mountaindir. Don Bluth - 1976
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Nicolas Gessner - 1991
The Man in the Moon
Ruraldir. Robert Mulligan - 1955
The Miracle of Marcelino
Ruraldir. Ladislao Vajda - 1962
The Miracle Worker
dir. Arthur Penn - 1984
The NeverEnding Story
dir. Wolfgang Petersen - 1955
The Night of the Hunter
Ruraldir. Charles Laughton - 2009
The Road
Wilderness · Rural · Coastal Seadir. John Hillcoat - 1993
The Sandlot
Suburbandir. David Mickey Evans - 2003
The School of Rock
Urbandir. Richard Linklater - 1993
The Secret Garden
Ruraldir. Agnieszka Holland - 1980
The Shining
Mountaindir. Stanley Kubrick - 1999
The Sixth Sense
Urbandir. M. Night Shyamalan - 1973
The Spirit of the Beehive
Ruraldir. Víctor Erice - 2005
The Squid and the Whale
Urbandir. Noah Baumbach - 1963
The Sword in the Stone
Ruraldir. Wolfgang Reitherman - 1979
The Tin Drum
Urbandir. Volker Schlöndorff - 2000
The Virgin Suicides
Suburbandir. Sofia Coppola - 1970
The Wild Child
Rural · Wildernessdir. François Truffaut - 1990
The Witches
Coastal Seadir. Nicolas Roeg - 1939
The Wizard of Oz
Ruraldir. Victor Fleming - 1950
The Young and the Damned
Urbandir. Luis Buñuel - 1993
This Boy's Life
Rural · Mountaindir. Michael Caton-Jones - 2007
This Is England
Suburban · Coastal Seadir. Shane Meadows - 1962
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ruraldir. Robert Mulligan - 2016
Train to Busan
Urbandir. Yeon Sang-ho - 2010
True Grit
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Ethan Coen - 2014
Unfriended
Suburbandir. Levan Gabriadze - 2009
Up
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Pete Docter - 2018
Utøya: July 22
Island · Wildernessdir. Erik Poppe - 1970
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Ruraldir. Jaromil Jireš - 2012
Wadjda
Urbandir. Haifaa al-Mansour - 1971
Walkabout
Desert · Wilderness · Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg - 1996
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Suburbandir. Todd Solondz - 2003
Whale Rider
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Niki Caro - 1987
Where Is The Friend's House?
Ruraldir. Abbas Kiarostami - 1995
Whisper of the Heart
Urban · Suburbandir. Yoshifumi Kondo - 2018
Wildlife
Suburbandir. Paul Dano - 1971
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Urbandir. Mel Stuart - 2010
Winter's Bone
Rural · Mountaindir. Debra Granik
Frequently asked
How many movies are led by a child?
Kinora's catalogue lists 193 films led by a child, spanning 1939–2023.
What are some movies led by a child?
Films led by a child in our catalogue include 28 Weeks Later (2007), A Brighter Summer Day (1991), A Bronx Tale (1993), A Christmas Story (1983), and A Little Princess (1995).
What is the oldest movie led by a child?
The Wizard of Oz (1939) is the earliest film led by a child in our catalogue; the most recent is The Creator (2023).