Not strictly be a children's movie, but one of the most loved of Charlie Chaplin film classics. The story of the tramp that gets landed with an abandoned child and raises him as his son after unsuccessfully having tried to land him on someone else. Together they life a tough life in the poor quarters in the town, scamming housewives.
The kid is sent to break house windows, that the tramp repairs as he just happens to pass by. Life moves on happily until the boy falls ill and is taken away by the authorities. The scenes of the separation of father and son are heart wrenching. During the whole story, the boy's mother is always looking for the son she had to abandon as an unwed mother.
The movie's moral teachings are not what is typical of today's children's movies, rather than preaching it just focuses on that love for family goes beyond what society prefers as standard. A unwed mother, forced to give up her child, will still love him forever, and blood does not make a family. The movie was done in another era, which will be noticeable in scenes with the tramp smoking or giving his son instructions in how to pound another boy in a fight. Most children will not even realise that the monologue is silent, the music and Chaplin's physical comedy cannot be compared to anything.
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