Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "separated-from-family"

1. The Color Purple (2023)

PG-13 | 141 min | Drama, Musical

A woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

Director: Blitz Bazawule | Stars: Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo

Votes: 16,177

2. The Borrowers (1997)

PG | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A secret family of four-inch people living inside the walls of a house must save their home from an evil real estate developer.

Director: Peter Hewitt | Stars: John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark Williams, Celia Imrie

Votes: 23,661 | Gross: $22.36M

3. Take Care of Maya (2023)

TV-14 | 103 min | Documentary

As a medical team tries to understand 10-year-old Maya Kowalski's rare illness, they begin to question her parents. Suddenly, Maya is in state custody - despite a family desperate to bring their daughter home.

Director: Henry Roosevelt | Star: Maya Kowalski

Votes: 9,802

4. The Visitor (2022)

89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

After a series of tragedies, Robert moves with his wife back to her childhood home. After he discovers an old portrait of a man who looks like him, he goes down a rabbit hole to discover the identity of this mysterious doppelganger.

Director: Justin P. Lange | Stars: Finn Jones, Jessica McNamee, Thomas Francis Murphy, Dane Rhodes

Votes: 2,922

5. A Bag of Marbles (2017)

Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History

In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.

Director: Christian Duguay | Stars: Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial, Patrick Bruel, Elsa Zylberstein

Votes: 6,459 | Gross: $0.41M

6. Natural Selection (2011)

R | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Having discovered that her dying husband has an illegitimate child living in Florida, a devout Christian housewife leaves her sheltered world on a mission to reunite father and son.

Director: Robbie Pickering | Stars: Matt O'Leary, Rachael Harris, John Diehl, Gayland Williams

Votes: 1,477 | Gross: $0.05M

7. Cousins (III) (2021)

98 min | Drama

Entwines the very different lives of three Maori girls, cousins, through tumultuous decades, after one of them is taken from her family and raised in an orphanage.

Directors: Ainsley Gardiner, Briar Grace Smith | Stars: Rachel House, Chelsie Preston Crayford, Cohen Holloway, Miriama Smith

Votes: 674

8. Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines (2002)

48 min | Documentary, History, War

A documentary history of the development and deployment of the Cold War's ultimate weapon: the nuclear missile submarine. Features interviews with Navy veterans and footage never-before-seen by the public.

Director: Nick Spark | Star: Roy Scheider

Votes: 41

9. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Lisa the Treehugger (2000)

TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Lisa's crush on an environmental activist inspires her to live in a tree threatened by loggers.

Directors: Jim Reardon, Steven Dean Moore | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 1,995

10. Land of the Lost (1991–1992)
Episode: Siren's Song (1992)

Not Rated | Adventure, Family, Comedy

The song of a Siren attracts the Porters to a cave.

Director: Ernest Farino | Stars: Tom Allard, Timothy Bottoms, Shannon Day, Jenny Drugan

11. Unsolved Mysteries (2020– )
Episode: Abducted by a Parent (2022)

TV-MA | 39 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

Two different single parents were blindsided when their children were abducted by their non-custodial parent. They cannot and will not stop searching for their children, who could be anywhere in the world.

Director: Joie Jacoby | Stars: Rebecca Downing, Daphney Frederique, Abdul Khan, Rubina Khan

Votes: 286