Movies and TvShows featuring "truant" 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.

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.

I Was Born, But... tells the story of two young boys who, after moving to a new neighborhood, confront a neighborhood bully and deal with the challenges of growing up. The film explores themes of loss of innocence, social order, and the self-absorption of adults in a humorous and poignant way.

In I Wish, two brothers are separated due to their parents' divorce. They believe that if they make a wish at the moment when two bullet trains pass each other, their wish will come true and their family will reunite. The movie follows their journey to the magical spot, exploring their relationships with their family, friends, and each other.

In 'The Fan,' a teenage girl develops an unhealthy obsession with a pop star, leading her down a dark path of psychopathic behavior. She becomes determined to make the pop star love her, resorting to violence and manipulation. As her obsession grows, she becomes increasingly dangerous and unpredictable, causing fear and chaos in the lives of those around her.

In this animated comedy short, a truant officer tries to catch a mischievous squirrel who is playing hooky. The squirrel leads the officer on a chase through various comedic scenarios, including fishing and golfing. Eventually, the two end up in a photo booth, where the squirrel gets hit on the head with a mallet. The story is set during World War II and showcases the antics of the squirrel and the truant officer in a humorous and surreal way.

A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.

Junior wants to be a Big Fry, but learns the hard way that he just isn't ready for smoking in the pool room when he should be in the school room.

Prague, 1983. The communist regime, in a suffocating atmosphere ruled over by the secret police, imposes "normalization". Miki and David need some kind of motivation to carry on in the communist wasteland. They discover The Clash's album 'London Calling' and, of course, decide to set up a punk band. But playing punk during normalization in Czechoslovakia isn't the best idea, an opinion shared not only by their horrified parents. Many decisions made under the influence of cheap alcohol and compulsive music could be more fatal than they initially seemed. A story about the revolt of some 18-year-olds against authority, against social norms, against adult duties and responsibility. It is about the search for one's own models and values. Although based on personal experiences from the early 1980s, it could have taken place at any time and anywhere, and is more than likely taking place somewhere right now.

A class of five-year-old children gets lost in the forest after their schoolmistress faints from eating wild berries. All alone, they encounter a fourteen-year-old runaway, Tom the Truant, who lives in a centennial oak tree. Tom strikes a deal with them: he will bring them back to their parents, safe and sound, when they have forgotten everything they learned in school. A field trip led by a “master Truant”, or how to re-enchant the world with fantasy and impertinence.

A story about a gipsy girl Kati who moves from Hungarian province to Budapest and starts going to school.