Movies and TvShows featuring "truancy" theme.

In A Silent Voice: The Movie (2016), a young man named Shoya Ishida tries to make amends for his past actions of bullying a deaf classmate, Shoko Nishimiya. As he grows older, he begins to understand the consequences of his actions and sets out on a journey of redemption and forgiveness.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off is about a popular high school student who decides to take a day off from school and goes to extreme lengths to make it happen. He convinces his girlfriend and best friend to spend the day in Chicago, visiting various landmarks and having fun. However, his sister and the school principal are determined to catch him in his lie. The day involves a stolen Ferrari, a parade, and a near run-in with his family. In the end, Ferris outwits his pursuers and imparts some wisdom about enjoying life.

After a child's curse transforms her into her 13-year-old self, a ruthless businesswoman must learn valuable life lessons as she navigates her way through middle school.

A 15-year-old student skips class and spends his days in a beautiful garden, where he meets a woman in her 20s. They bond over their love for rainy weather and begin to share their dreams and fears with each other. As their relationship deepens, they both learn valuable lessons about love, loss, and personal growth.

Rumble Fish is a crime drama movie that follows Rusty James, a troubled teenager involved in a street gang. As he navigates through life in a tough neighborhood, he grapples with the complexities of family, brotherhood, and his own identity. The movie explores themes of love, loss, and the search for meaning in a violent and chaotic world.

Seemingly in constant trouble at school, 14-year-old Antoine Doinel returns to an unhappy home life. With little money and a turbulent family dynamic, he spirals into a life of lies and theft. However, when he faces the consequences of his actions and is sent to a juvenile detention facility, he finds himself trapped in a cycle of trouble and escape.

Heaven Help Us is a comedy-drama film set in the 1960s, depicting life in a Catholic boys' school in Boston, Massachusetts. The story follows a group of young students as they navigate the strict discipline, pranks, and secret desires of their teenage years. From secret confessions in the confessional booth to rebellious acts of disobedience, the boys learn about friendship, love, and the challenges of adolescence under the watchful eyes of their teachers.

Gas Food Lodging is a coming-of-age drama about a teenage girl named Shade whose life revolves around working at a diner, taking care of her teenage daughter, and dealing with the challenges of being a single mother. When Shade's sister arrives in town, she brings with her a series of events that force Shade to confront her past and make difficult decisions about her future.

Twin sisters Jane and Roxy Ryan have opposite personalities but are forced to work together when they get involved in a series of misadventures during a day in New York City. They must retrieve Jane's speech for a scholarship competition while being chased by a truant officer and a shady music producer.

Let Me Fall (2018) tells the powerful and tragic story of a young woman named Magnea, who becomes entangled in a world of drugs, addiction, and despair. Through a nonlinear timeline, the movie explores Magnea's relationship with her mother, her experiences in a rehab center, and her destructive friendship with Stella. As Magnea's life spirals out of control, she must confront the trauma of her past and find the strength to reclaim her life.

A young, inexperienced teacher starts her job at an inner-city high school in New York City. She faces difficulties with her students, an incompetent principal, and the struggles of the school system. Through determination and perseverance, she strives to make a difference in the lives of her students and improve the education system.

A boy climbs an unsteady path to adulthood under difficult circumstances in this drama from Australia. Shaun (Kane McNay) is a teenager growing up in a run-down suburb of Melbourne. His father Sam (Brett Swain) is in prison, while his mother Jenny (Nell Feeney) is too lost in her problems with alcohol to provide much guidance for her children. Left to his own devices, Shaun commits petty theft, smokes pot, and deals drugs to his friends as they hang out at the nearby shopping mall. Shaun seems unable to reach out to anyone, not even his girlfriend (Lauren Hawker) or Darren (Brett Tucker), a social worker eager to help him. When his father is released from prison and brings his mistress to the "Welcome Home" party Jenny throws for him, Shaun comes to realize that if he is ever to resolve his problems, he will have to do it without the help of his family. Mallboy marked the feature film debut for writer/director Vincent Giarrusso.

Senior Skip Day is a sex-comedy film about a group of senior high school students who decide to skip class for a day of wild partying and debauchery. They throw a house party, engage in sexual fantasies, and get into various misadventures while evading the principal and other authority figures.

Jerry is a strange and solitary boy who lives with his young neglectful mother in a run down apartment. He spends his weekends hidden away in his bedroom making model figurines and watching TV alone. While investigating a damp stain on his bedroom wall, Jerry peels off some wallpaper, revealing a seductive alien orifice growing behind the plaster. After spending an ever increasing amount of time in his bedroom exploring and inspecting the alien creature, Jerry embarks on his first sexual experience. After numerous encounters between Jerry and the creature, it becomes pregnant. Filled with panic and guilt, Jerry attempts to abort the alien creature, leading to a horrific outcome which neither himself nor his mother will ever forget.

Everything in high school is like the world ending and Sadie Mitchell's crippling fear of the coming apocalypse is the heightened version of that.

When a young boy discovers a magic boom box, he accidentally releases a genie named Kazaam. Now, Kazaam must help the boy navigate through his troubled life and fulfill his deepest wishes.

Romance in Manhattan is a screwball comedy about a Czech immigrant taxi-driver who falls in love with a chorus girl. They face various obstacles, including deceit, tension, and treachery, as they navigate their way through the dire straits of the 1930s. With the backdrop of the Great Depression, this film explores themes of faith, resolvement, and betrayal.

Set in Galway and Dublin, 'Land Without God' delves into the harrowing experiences of individuals who suffered from truancy, poverty, physical and childhood sexual abuse, and the oppressive practices of the Catholic Church. It highlights the repercussions of being taken away from their families and confined to reformatory schools and children's prisons, shedding light on the dark underbelly of Ireland's history.

Follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families.

In 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets.