adult child friendship movies

Palmer (2021)
8.138 / 10

Drama

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...

Shane (1953)
7.411 / 10

Drama, Western

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smouldering settler and rancher conflict forces him to act.

The Illusionist (2010)
7.236 / 10

Animation, Drama

A French illusionist travels to Scotland to work. He meets a young woman in a small village. Their ensuing adventure in Edinburgh changes both their...

The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
6.995 / 10

Drama, Comedy

In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids,...

Le Havre (2011)
6.995 / 10

Drama, Comedy

In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a...

A Girl at My Door (2014)
6.85 / 10

Drama

Sent from Seoul to serve in a remote coastal village, a policewoman gets involved in the life of a mysterious teenage girl who is abused by both her...

Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow (2022)
6.8 / 10

Animation, Family, Comedy, Mystery

After being put on indefinite leave by his chief of police uncle, the highly intelligent and arrogant huntsman spider Inspector Sun boards a San...

The Hussy (1979)
6.9 / 10

Drama

Twenty-year old misfit François earns his living by gathering boxes and bottles to resell to local shopkeepers. He lives with his grossly...

The Fallen Idol (1948)
7.141 / 10

Drama, Thriller

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes...

Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
6.4 / 10

Adventure, Family

In 1897, little Priscilla Williams, along with her widowed mother, goes to live with her army colonel paternal grandfather on the British outpost he...

Man on Fire (1987)
5.649 / 10

Drama, Thriller

Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a...

The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
6.2 / 10

Fantasy, Drama, Horror

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

My Spy: The Eternal City (2024)
0 / 10

Action, Comedy

A now teenage Sophie convinces J.J. to chaperone her school choir trip to Italy where they both unwittingly end up pawns in an international...

Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder (2014)
5.9 / 10

Comedy, Family

By helping Doctor Proctor getting recognition for his amazing invention in a world quite different from ours, two lonely children gets help to stand...

The Spanish Gardener (1956)
6.2 / 10

Drama

Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas....

aTypical Wednesday (2020)
5.6 / 10

Comedy

Gabe sees his therapist every Wednesday. Therapy takes a turn when another patient is "left behind" at the therapist's office and they go on a...

Pirú (2023)
0 / 10

Comedy, Drama

Alí and José María, friends on a work trip in an old Volkswagen, get stranded in a village and make friends, but they discover that their job...

Show Me the Way to the Station (2019)
6.7 / 10

Drama, Family

A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an award-winning novel by Ijuin Shizu.

Gleich (2023)
0 / 10

Drama

The Boy Who Disappeared (1984)
8 / 10

Family, Drama

Fed up with his quarreling middle class parents, thirteen-year-old Jonas runs away from home. He seeks his freedom in the woods, where he befriends a...