Films of fictional feral children

Princess Mononoke

Princess Mononoke is in the list below because she was brought up by wolves and, indeed, considered herself a wolf.

Tarzan

As well as the films listed below, there are of course many, many more films featuring Tarzan, as well as other films on the same theme but featuring different characters .

The Tarzana variations

In addition, there is an entire genre of films that used a variation on the Tarzan story as a thinly-veiled excuse to film very scantily-clad young women cavorting around the jungle, such as the delightful Femi Benussi in Tarzana, sesso selvaggio (1969), later dubbed and released variously as Tarzana, the Wild Girl or Tarzana, the Wild Woman.

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Shiver

Ortiz, Isidro

Dark Sky Films, 2008

FeralChildren.com says A horror film featuring a feral child (to say more would spoil the surprise).

Feral

Carbone, Daniel Patrick

Nicole Ramey, 2007

FeralChildren.com says A disturbed young man pushes away his exurban family to seek wildness in the woods. The boy's urge for the primitive manifests in his bedroom at home and in a wild dog he follows through the countryside.

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The Backwoods

Serra, Koldo

Momentum Pictures, 2006

FeralChildren.com says A young married couple come to visit a friend who now lives in the Basque region. Their summer turns to horror when they discover a girl with horribly mutilated hands locked away in an abandoned cabin in the forest. They try to help her by taking her away, but the local villagers start a pursuit in the forest they know much better than the visitors.

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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

McG

Columbia, 2005-02-1

FeralChildren.com says The Creepy Thin Man's parents were killed in a fire when he was five and he spent two years living in the wilderness, subsisting on roots and insects.

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Wild Boy

Ben-Ner, Guy

2004

FeralChildren.com says A feral child is captured by a teacher who attempts to dominate, train and tame him. 17 mins.

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Tarzan of the Apes

Hsieh, Bobby

Pegasus, 2002-08-12

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Castle Freak

Gordon, Stuart

Full Moon Home Video, 2002-04-23

FeralChildren.com says A horror movie. An abused child is incarcerated in a castle…

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Human Nature

Gondry, Michel

Pathe Distribution, 2001

FeralChildren.com says A film that features a young man (Puff) who was raised as an ape.

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The Secret of Roan Inish

Sayles, John

Columbia, 2000-07-25

FeralChildren.com says 10-year-old Fiona's baby brother was washed out to sea and, someone believes, is being brought up by seals. Fiona then spots a naked boy and makes it her goal to uncover the secret of Roan Inish.

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Tarzan (1999)

Buck, Chris (II) & Lima, Kevin

Disney, 2000-09-4

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The Jungle Book

Reitherman, Wolfgang

Disney, 2000-03-27

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Princess Mononoke

Miyazaki, Hayao

Miramax, 1999

FeralChildren.com says Although the feral child theme isn't central to the plot, Princess Mononoke had been brought up by wolves, to the extent that she considered herself to be a wolf.

To Live Again

Schachter, Steven

Citadel Entertainment , 1998

FeralChildren.com says A mother locks her teenage daughter up in isolation for 16 years.

Intensity

Simoneau, Yves

Mandalay Entertainment, 1997

FeralChildren.com says A girl is kidnapped and locked in a room for a year and becomes doll-like.

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Nell

Apted, Michael

Fox Home Entertainment, 1994

FeralChildren.com says A woman had been brought up on her own in the wilderness of North Carolina by her mother. After her mother died, she lived for many years on her own until she was discovered, by which time she was an old woman.

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Cries of Silence

Crounse, Avery

Elysian Pictures, 1993

FeralChildren.com says During a hurricane on an island, a girl is found. She can't speak, and it transpires she'd been brought up pretty much in total isolation.

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Batman Returns

Tim Burton

Warner Home Video, 1992

FeralChildren.com says The prologue shows The Penguin as a baby being first caged and fed fish and then brought up by penguins.

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Walk Like a Man

Frank, Melvin

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1987

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Where the River Runs Black

Cain, Christopher

1986

FeralChildren.com says A boy is raised by dolphins after his Indian mother is killed. The mother herself was a loner, rejecting her own Yanomami society and preferring to live alone. After a few years of living with dolphins the boy is found and brought to an orphanage. Based on a novel titled LAZARO. In the book, the boy is about 4 when his mother dies; in the movie he is older--maybe 10 or so.

For more about the movie, see Native American Films.

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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Hudson, Hugh

Warner Studios, 1984

ISBN 9786300270350

FeralChildren.com says Does this film really need any introduction? The best and most realistic Tarzan interpretation, for which much credit must go to stunt arranger Roy Scammell.

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Mad Max 2 - Road Warrior

George Miller

Warner Home Video, 1981

FeralChildren.com says The Feral Kid, who wears shorts and boots of animal hide, is befriended by Max.

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Friday the 13th, Part 2

Miner, Steve

Paramount, 1981

FeralChildren.com says This movie pays attention to what it was like, psychologically, for Jason to raise himself in the woods.

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The Blue Lagoon

Kleiser, Randal

Sony Pictures, 1980

Lucan

Greene, David

1977

FeralChildren.com says The dramatic story of a young boy who was raised by wolves in the wilderness of North Minnesota. Found at ten, he is cared for by a University Research Centre. After being seriously injured in an accident, he is advised to find his real parents. Numerous adventures occur as he tries to find his past.

Stalk the Wild Child

Hale, William

Charles Fries Productions, Worldvision, 1976

FeralChildren.com says A made-for-TV movie about a boy raised by wild dogs. A behavioural psychologist attempts to civilise him and in the process learns more about society. Released on VHS by Republic Pictures Home Video, but now out of print. One of Rhea Perlman's first screen appearances.