Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "new-boy-in-town"

1. The Karate Kid (2010)

PG | 140 min | Action, Drama, Family

Work causes a single mother to move to China with her young son; in his new home, the boy embraces kung fu, taught to him by a master.

Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith, Taraji P. Henson, Wenwen Han

Votes: 205,945 | Gross: $176.59M

2. A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

R | 87 min | Horror

A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.

Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Robert Englund, Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Robert Rusler

Votes: 77,580 | Gross: $30.00M

3. Disturbing Behavior (1998)

R | 84 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

The new kid in Cradle Bay, Washington stumbles across something sinister about the town's method of transforming its unruly teens into upstanding citizens.

Director: David Nutter | Stars: James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Tobias Mehler

Votes: 25,324 | Gross: $17.41M

4. Center of My World (2016)

Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

After a summer spent with his his best friend Kat to escape his family, Phil goes back to school and starts to question his feelings towards Nicholas, a new classmate.

Director: Jakob M. Erwa | Stars: Louis Hofmann, Jannik Schümann, Sabine Timoteo, Ada Philine Stappenbeck

Votes: 7,243

5. Tomboy (2011)

Not Rated | 82 min | Drama

A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old named Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mikhael to the neighborhood children.

Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Zoé Héran, Malonn Lévana, Jeanne Disson, Sophie Cattani

Votes: 22,294 | Gross: $0.13M

6. The New Kids (1985)

R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang.

Director: Sean S. Cunningham | Stars: Shannon Presby, Lori Loughlin, James Spader, John Philbin

Votes: 4,064 | Gross: $0.20M

7. Mortuary (I) (2005)

R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A family moves to a small town in California where they plan on starting a new life while running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, which is suspected to be on haunted ground.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Dan Byrd, Denise Crosby, Stephanie Patton, Alexandra Adi

Votes: 6,258

8. Be Afraid (2017)

TV-14 | 99 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In order to protect his family, Dr. John Chambers must solve the town's deadly secret, which lives within the darkest shadows of the night.

Director: Drew Gabreski | Stars: Brian Krause, Jaimi Paige, Louis Herthum, Jared Abrahamson

Votes: 2,212

9. Forever Summer: Hamptons (2022)

45 min | Documentary

Hamptons locals Avery, Frankie, Habtamu, Reid, Emelye, Hunter, and Juliet are set on having the best summer of their lives, but tides change when city newcomer Ilan moves out there for the summer.

Stars: Emelye Ender, Avery Solomon, Shannon Sloane, Hunter Hulse

Votes: 305

10. Headless Horseman (2007)

R | 87 min | Horror

Seven college kids take a shortcut on their way to a party and unfortunately end up in Wormwood, where the spirit of the Headless Horseman hunts them one by one.

Director: Anthony C. Ferrante | Stars: Billy Aaron Brown, Rebecca Mozo, Richard Moll, Arianne Fraser

Votes: 1,210

11. The Year I Became a Liar (2009)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls the events surrounding his family moving to a new neighborhood when he was 11 years old.

Director: Ricardo Trogi | Stars: Jean-Carl Boucher, Claudio Colangelo, Sandrine Bisson, Gabriel Maillé

Votes: 2,045

12. New Hope (2012)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama

High school senior Michael (the son of a preacher and a Christian) is the new guy in a small town still reeling from a high school basketball star's unforeseen suicide of a year ago.

Director: Rodney Ray | Stars: Samuel Davis, Perry Frost, Ben Davies, Will Schwab

Votes: 448

13. Christmas on Division Street (1991 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Romance

A good-natured homeless man and an ill-tempered student become good friends.

Director: George Kaczender | Stars: Fred Savage, Hume Cronyn, Badja Djola, Jim Byrnes

Votes: 590

14. The Awakening (2018 Video)

Short, Drama, Horror

In the Small Village of Oakwood, A group of bullied kids who as a tradition, go to one of their places for a sleepover each weekend. The kids go about their usual day totally unaware of the dark powers they are about to encounter.

Directors: Alex Cullen, John McNally, Conor Sheridan | Stars: Conor Sheridan, Alex Cullen, Antonia German

15. Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990–2000)
Episode: The Tale of Old Man Corcoran (1993)

Not Rated | 22 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Two boys from a tough city move into the neighborhood where a group of friends invite them to play a game of hide and seek along with seeking a ghost known as Old Man Corcoran.

Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Adam Bonneau, Michael Alexander Jackson, Jonathan Cameron, Tamar Kozlov

Votes: 910

16. Malibu, CA (1998–2000)
Episode: Welcome to Malibu (1998)

TV-Y | Comedy

After their divorced mother takes a job in Saudi Arabia, fraternal twins Scott and Jason Collins move from New York to Malibu to be with their father Peter, who runs a restaurant there ... See full summary »

Director: Gary Shimokawa | Stars: Trevor Merszei, Jason Hayes, Wendi Kenya, Brandon Brooks

Votes: 9

17. Lockie Leonard (2007–2010)
Episode: The Human Torpedo (2007)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Lockie Leonard, surf-rat, arrives in Angelus with his family to discover they're to live in a house that's slowly sinking into a swamp.

Director: Tony Tilse | Stars: Sean Keenan, Rhys Muldoon, Briony Williams, Corey McKernan

Votes: 16

18. Davey and Goliath (1960–2004)
Episode: The Kite (1960)

TV-G | 15 min | Animation, Family

Davey and his friends try to build a kite, but their feverish efforts to get it aloft are at cross-purposes and result in disaster.

Director: Art Clokey | Stars: Dick Beals, Hal Smith

Votes: 11

19. No Ordinary Family (2010–2011)
Episode: No Ordinary Friends (2011)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

An overly friendly though somewhat manipulative family comes to town, as do the workings of a professional art thief, and Jim wonders if the two facts are related.

Director: Terry McDonough | Stars: Michael Chiklis, Julie Benz, Kay Panabaker, Jimmy Bennett

Votes: 160

20. Max Steel (2013–2015)
Episode: Come Together: Part One (2013)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

After moving to yet another new city, teenager Max McGrath discovers inherited powers from his late father.

Directors: Steve Sacks, Logan McPherson | Stars: Kathleen Barr, Richard Ian Cox, Brian Dobson, Michael Dobson

Votes: 42