The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

Lewis Barnavelt, a shy but indomitable ten-year-old orphan, goes to live with his uncle Jonathan, a former entertaining magician, who hides too many creepy secrets, in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart which Jonathan is obsessed to find with the assistance of his enigmatic next-door neighbor Mrs. Zimmerman.

• 1950s
• based on novel or book
• clock
• haunted house
• magician
• orphan
• secret passageway
• uncle