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1. The Florida Project (2017)
R | 111 min | Drama
Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.
Director: Sean Baker | Stars: Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Rivera
Votes: 128,395 | Gross: $5.90M
2. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt
Votes: 741,336 | Gross: $56.67M
3. Capernaum (2018)
R | 126 min | Drama
While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.
Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad
Votes: 105,408 | Gross: $1.66M
4. Sophie's Choice (1982)
R | 150 min | Drama, Romance
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin
Votes: 52,771 | Gross: $30.04M
5. Blackfish (2013)
PG-13 | 83 min | Documentary
A documentary following the controversial captivity of killer whales, and its dangers for both humans and whales.
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite | Stars: Tilikum, Dave Duffus, Samantha Berg, Dean Gomersall
Votes: 72,449 | Gross: $2.07M
6. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
PG | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Kenneth Branagh, Laura Monaghan
Votes: 30,258 | Gross: $6.17M
7. Dominion (2018)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Horror
Dominion uses drones, hidden and handheld cameras to expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture, questioning the morality and validity of humankind's dominion over the animal kingdom.
Director: Chris Delforce | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Sia, Sadie Sink
Votes: 4,538
8. The Sapphires (2012)
PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1968, four talented young Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertains the US troops in Vietnam.
Director: Wayne Blair | Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens
Votes: 15,173 | Gross: $2.45M
9. Sarah's Key (2010)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, War
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942.
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot
Votes: 17,928 | Gross: $7.69M
10. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama
In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô
Votes: 18,232
11. Fort Bliss (2014)
TV-14 | 116 min | Drama, War
After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.
Director: Claudia Myers | Stars: Pablo Schreiber, Michelle Monaghan, Ron Livingston, Emmanuelle Chriqui
Votes: 3,554
12. Import Export (2007)
Not Rated | 141 min | Drama
A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in Central Europe, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Ekateryna Rak, Lidiya Oleksandrivna Savka, Oksana Ivanivna Sklyarenko, Dmytro Andriyovich Gachkov
Votes: 6,307
13. Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.
Director: Jim Loach | Stars: Emily Watson, Aisling Loftus, Stuart Wolfenden, Lorraine Ashbourne
Votes: 5,905
14. One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, History
The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès, Mona Mairesse
Votes: 2,535 | Gross: $0.02M
15. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama
After falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Edith Meinhard
Votes: 4,822
16. Thérèse (2012)
110 min | Drama
An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures.
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Catherine Arditi
Votes: 3,899
17. Live and Become (2005)
Unrated | 140 min | Drama
A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai, Moshe Abebe
Votes: 6,310
18. Two Lives (2012)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller
As the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow "war children."
Directors: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann | Stars: Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Sven Nordin, Ken Duken
Votes: 3,257 | Gross: $0.00M
19. In Safe Hands (2018)
G | 110 min | Drama
Theo was born an unwanted child. The social services set out to find the perfect home for his adoption.
Director: Jeanne Herry | Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Gilles Lellouche, Élodie Bouchez, Olivia Côte
Votes: 2,604 | Gross: $0.00M
20. The Beautiful Country (2004)
R | 125 min | Drama
After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.
Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Damien Nguyen, Bai Ling, Dang Quoc Thinh Tran, Thi Hoa Mai
Votes: 3,976 | Gross: $0.44M
21. Trouble at Timpetill (2008)
Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.
Director: Nicolas Bary | Stars: Raphaël Katz, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léo Legrand, Baptiste Bétoulaud
Votes: 1,111
22. The Missing Children (2021 TV Movie)
88 min | Documentary, Crime, History
A documentary about the Tuam mother and baby home in Galway, Ireland which closed in 1961.
Director: Tanya Stephan
Votes: 68
23. Sand Storm (2016)
87 min | Drama
When their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.
Director: Elite Zexer | Stars: Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal, Hitham Omari, Khadija Al Akel
Votes: 3,977 | Gross: $0.08M
24. The Ginger Tree (1989– )
240 min | Drama
In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married ... See full summary »
Stars: Samantha Bond, Daisuke Ryû, Fumi Dan, Joanna McCallum
Votes: 153
25. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1958)
96 min | Drama
A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who offers to reveal his wife's beauty.
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Bourvil, Ivan Desny, Georgette Anys
Votes: 361
26. The Rats (1955)
91 min | Drama
In the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. She meets the laundry owner Anna John (Heidemarie Hatheyer) who always yearned to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Gustav Knuth
Votes: 372
27. Therese (1962)
109 min | Drama
Unhappy in her marriage to a boring man who doesn't love her, a woman plans to get rid of him by slowly increasing the dosage of his medication.
Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Sami Frey
Votes: 644
28. Nightmare Street (1998 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 83 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a woman jumps in front of a truck to save her daughter's life, she wakes up in the hospital in a seemingly alternate reality where everyone and everything in her life are different, including her own name.
Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Sherilyn Fenn, Rena Sofer, Steve Harris, Matthew Walker
Votes: 422
29. Shirley (2011 TV Movie)
60 min | Biography, Drama
In 1938 mixed race baby Shirley Bassey, her mother and eight siblings are living in a poor area of Cardiff after her father is imprisoned for sexual offences. The teen-aged Shirley will ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Teague | Stars: Ruth Negga, Lesley Sharp, Babou Ceesay, Victoria Pugh
Votes: 203
30. The First, the Last (2016)
98 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Two bounty hunters (Albert Dupontel and Bouli Lanners) are looking for a cell phone in the french countryside. They meet cowboys, fools and Jesus.
Director: Bouli Lanners | Stars: Albert Dupontel, Bouli Lanners, Suzanne Clément, Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 1,064
31. Daughter of Deceit (1951)
78 min | Comedy, Drama
After discovering he's being cheated on by his wife María, Quintin kicks her out of the house. Upon leaving, his wife confesses that their daughter Martha is actually not Quintin'd daughter... See full summary »
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Soler, Alicia Caro, Fernando Soto, Rubén Rojo
Votes: 751
32. The Thief (1966)
88 min | Drama
Much to the detriment of his foster dad a middle class woman tries to reclaim her six years old boy she abandoned at birth.
Director: Jean Chapot | Stars: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Hans Christian Blech, Sonja Schwarz
Votes: 256
33. Chains (1949)
74 min | Crime, Drama
First in a series of Matarazzo melodramas: A happily married Naples woman, with two children ,is threatened by the reappearance of a man from her past. Her husband takes a drastic action which results in the family members being separated.
Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Aldo Nicodemi, Roberto Murolo
Votes: 470
34. Alias Maria (2015)
TV-MA | 91 min | Drama, War
A vision of Colombia's inhuman armed conflict, seen through the eyes of a young - and pregnant - girl soldier.
Director: José Luis Rugeles | Stars: Carlos Clavijo, Anderson Gomez, Carmenza González, Lola Lagos
Votes: 401
35. Gente de bien (2014)
86 min | Drama
Eric, 10, finds himself almost overnight living with Gabriel, his father, who he barely knows. The man has trouble keeping their heads above water and building a relationship with his son. ... See full summary »
Director: Franco Lolli | Stars: Brayan Santamarià, Carlos Fernando Pérez, Alejandra Borrero, Santiago Martínez
Votes: 494
36. My Monster Mom (2008)
98 min | Comedy
Single-mom Esme gives her daughter for adoption to her elder brother who immediately goes to America. Twenty-seven years later, daughter Abby goes back to the Philippines to meet her real ... See full summary »
Director: Jose Javier Reyes | Stars: Rhian Ramos, Cherrie Madrigal, Richard Gutierrez, Ces Aldaba
Votes: 35
37. Muddy Shoes
Drama, War | Pre-production
A Jewish teen must choose between saving herself or her brother when the Nazis invade. Decades later, consumed with guilt, she finally opens up to her grown daughter about her horrific experience.
Director: Patrik Krivanek | Stars: Jaroslav Plesl, Ivan Franek, Leona, Tip Cullen
38. Ombline (2012)
95 min | Drama
The journey of a young mother in a prison with her baby boy.
Director: Stéphane Cazes | Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Nathalie Bécue, Corinne Masiero, Catherine Salée
Votes: 306
39. Conflit (1938)
94 min | Drama
Director: Léonide Moguy | Stars: Annie Ducaux, Marguerite Pierry, Armand Bernard, Raymond Rouleau
Votes: 44
40. La fille de l'air (1992)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman, madly in love, decides to organize the escape of her husband who has received a sentence of 18 years in prison.
Director: Maroun Bagdadi | Stars: Béatrice Dalle, Thierry Fortineau, Hippolyte Girardot, Roland Bertin
Votes: 159
41. Breeders: A Subclass of Women? (2014)
52 min | Documentary
Surrogacy is fast becoming one of the major issues of the 21st century, celebrities and everyday people are increasingly using surrogates to build their families. But the practice is ... See full summary »
Directors: Matthew Eppinette, Jennifer Lahl | Stars: Marlane Angle, Cindy, Gail, Heather
Votes: 19
42. Spartacus & Cassandra (2014)
80 min | Documentary
Spartacus and Cassandra, the children of two homeless Roma, have been taken in by the young street worker Camille. In her little community she helps homeless and poor children and performs ... See full summary »
Director: Ioanis Nuguet | Stars: Cassandra Dumitru, Spartacus Ursu, Camille Brisson, Lamina Dumitru
Votes: 114
43. Why Me?: Stories from the Stolen Generation (2007 Video)
56 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Director: Rick Cavaggion | Stars: John Stanton, Sid Graham, Lyn Jones, Doris Kartinyeri
44. Theories of Human Development (2002 Video)
720 min | Documentary
Professor Malcolm W. Watson introduces six theories of human development, a field that is in large part about child development, and the people who devised each theory.
Director: Tom Dunton | Star: Malcolm W. Watson
45.
Barnaby Jones (1973–1980)
Episode:
Renegade's Child
(1976)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Barnaby helps reunite a mother with her daughter on the day the daughter is released from prison. Then they ask him to find the daughters little boy who on the run with the ex-boyfriend, and he also happens to be involved in arms dealing.
Director: Harry Falk | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether, Mark Shera, Don Johnson
Votes: 80
46.
Unreported World (2000– )
Episode:
Georgia's Baby Factory
(2021)
Documentary, News
Anja Popp went to Georgia for Unreported World, and found a largely unregulated surrogacy market, where wealthy couples can have multiple babies at the same time, and where there is no shortage of vulnerable women to meet the demand.
47.
Cutting Edge (1990–2017)
Episode:
Leaving Home at 8
(2010)
48 min | Documentary
Following four eight-year-old girls as they begin a new life starting boarding school.
Director: Charlie Russell | Star: Paul McGann
48.
Born in the USSR (1991– )
Episode:
Born in the USSR: 28 Up
(2012)
103 min | Documentary
Director: Sergei Miroshnichenko | Stars: James McAvoy, Almaz, Andrei, Anton
Votes: 212
49.
Show Me a Hero (2015)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2015)
TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, History
As 1988 begins, Nick tries to convince the Yonkers City Council to agree to the housing plan as the reaction from residents of the proposed new build sites turns nasty. Meanwhile, Carmen and Doreen face tough decisions.
Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Bob Balaban, Jon Bernthal, Ilfenesh Hadera
Votes: 481