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51. Citadel (I) (2012)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
An agoraphobic father teams up with a renegade priest to save his daughter from the clutches of a gang of twisted feral children who committed an act of violence against his family years earlier.
Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: Aneurin Barnard, James Cosmo, Wunmi Mosaku, Jake Wilson
Votes: 7,340
52. All the Invisible Children (2005)
124 min | Drama
Through the plights of seven different children, seven cruel destinies unfold, as the unknown innocents who share the same sensitivities and desires struggle for survival, understanding--and above all--love, in an apathetic grown-up world.
Directors: Mehdi Charef, Emir Kusturica, Spike Lee, Kátia Lund, Jordan Scott, Ridley Scott, Stefano Veneruso, John Woo | Stars: Adama Bila, Elysée Rouamba, Rodrigue Ouattara, Uros Milovanovic
Votes: 4,291
53. Big Shots (1987)
PG-13 | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Ivan Reitman brings you Big Shots, a slam-bang comedy-adventure with a heart as big as Chicago.
Director: Robert Mandel | Stars: Ricky Busker, Darius McCrary, Robert Joy, Robert Prosky
Votes: 906 | Gross: $3.39M
54. Fiona (1998)
85 min | Drama
Despite the fact that Fiona has lived apart from her mother, they lead parallel lives as bi-sexual prostitutes. The meeting of the two women spells tragedy for the mother and hope for the daughter.
Director: Amos Kollek | Stars: Anna Thomson, Felicia Maguire, Alyssa Mulhern, Anna Grace
Votes: 647
55. Instant Daddy (2023)
112 min | Comedy, Drama
Valentin Roxas was raised by his Tatay Lito alone, when his mother left them to work abroad when he was seven. To maintain a sense of normalcy, Lito wrote young Val letters supposedly from his mother promising that she would come back.
Director: Crisanto Aquino | Stars: Ryza Cenon, Althea Ruedas, Jerald Napoles, Danita Paner
Votes: 131
56. 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: 1,113
57. Happy Sugar Life (2018)
TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Crime, Drama
This is a psychopathic horror story of pure trembling love of a girl named Satou Matsuzaka.
Stars: Kana Hanazawa, Misaki Kuno, Natsuki Hanae, Yumiri Hanamori
Votes: 797
58. A Brand New Life (2009)
92 min | Drama
Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her.
Directors: Lee Jong Eon, Ounie Lecomte | Stars: Kim Sae-ron, Ko Ah-sung, Sol Kyung-gu, Baek Hyun-joo
Votes: 2,543
59. The Circle (2000)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Maryiam Palvin Almani, Nargess Mamizadeh, Mojgan Faramarzi, Elham Saboktakin
Votes: 6,698 | Gross: $0.67M
60. Teenage Seductress (1975)
R | 86 min | Drama
A woman who never got over the fact that her father abandoned her as a child tracks him down with only one desire - to ruin his life just as he ruined hers. A tragic incestuous game of deceit and seduction begins.
Director: Chris Warfield | Stars: Sondra Currie, Chris Warfield, Elizabeth Saxon, John Trujillo
Votes: 297
61. Deep Crimson (1996)
114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.
Director: Arturo Ripstein | Stars: Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Sherlyn, Giovani Florido
Votes: 2,091
62. Hideaway (2009)
Unrated | 88 min | Drama
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling ... See full summary »
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Isabelle Carré, Louis-Ronan Choisy, Pierre Louis-Calixte, Melvil Poupaud
Votes: 2,974 | Gross: $0.03M
63. Hardcore (2001 TV Movie)
Documentary
Hard hitting documentary about an 25-year-old English woman, Felicity trying to break into the American pornography industry to support her daughter.
Director: Stephen Walker | Stars: Lee-anne McQueen, Max Hardcore, Dick Nasty, Robert Black
Votes: 109
64. Tulennielijä (1998)
100 min | Drama
Twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother Sirkka leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old Communist, and runs ... See full summary »
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo | Stars: Elina Hurme, Tiina Weckström, Elena Leeve, Elsa Saisio
Votes: 368
65. Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)
Not Rated | 76 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A series of grisly events that took place in the state of Wisconsin between 1890 and 1900 is dramatized as reported in the Black River Falls newspaper.
Director: James Marsh | Stars: Ian Holm, Jeffrey Golden, Jo Vukelich, Marcus Monroe
Votes: 1,613
66. The Little Thief (1988)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
In a small town in post-World-War-II France, an unhappy sixteen-year-old (Janine Castang) tries to escape her dreary situation by any means at her disposal. Three successive friends (Michel... See full summary »
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Didier Bezace, Simon de La Brosse, Clotilde de Bayser
Votes: 2,329 | Gross: $1.06M
67. Seasons of the Heart (1994 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A high powered, female publisher who becomes responsible for her young grandson when her daughter becomes involved with drugs.
Director: Lee Grant | Stars: Carol Burnett, George Segal, Eric Lloyd, Jill Teed
Votes: 186
68. Jack Be Nimble (1993)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, whose life has ... See full summary »
Director: Garth Maxwell | Stars: Alexis Arquette, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Bruno Lawrence, Tony Barry
Votes: 663
69. The Favourite Game (2003)
101 min | Drama
To live in the Here and Now, and write poems, that is what Leo wants - unlike the women who fall in love with him.
Director: Bernar Hébert | Stars: JR Bourne, Michèle-Barbara Pelletier, Cary Lawrence, Sabine Karsenti
Votes: 208
70. Inner Senses (2002)
100 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Yan is haunted by fleeting images of what she believes to be dead people. Soon, her suspicions are confirmed when her therapist Jim begins seeing the same things and the two begin to unravel a mystery that leads to a forgotten past.
Director: Chi-Leung Law | Stars: Leslie Cheung, Karena Kar-Yan Lam, Maggie Poon, Waise Lee
Votes: 1,895
71. Adoption (1975)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A lonely middle-aged woman wants to give birth to a child, but her acquaintance with dysfunctional teenagers leads her to the idea of adoption.
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vigh, Péter Fried, László Szabó
Votes: 1,498
72. Swamp Girl (1971)
GP | 78 min | Drama
Abandoned by her mother, teenage girl Janeen lives deep in the Okefenokee swamp. When an escaped female convict and her boyfriend try to flee through the swamps, it leads to a deadly duel for survival between Janeen and the criminals.
Director: Donald A. Davis | Stars: Ferlin Husky, Claude King, Steve Drexel, Lonnie Bower
Votes: 157
73. The Staple of News (I) (2013)
94 min | Drama
The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.
Director: Katell Quillévéré | Stars: Sara Forestier, François Damiens, Adèle Haenel, Paul Hamy
Votes: 1,864
74. The Little Kidnappers (1953)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Family
A Scotsman, Jim MacKenzie, living on a primitive homestead in Nova Scotia, is raising his two grandsons, Harry and Davy, following the death of their father in the Boer War. His son's death... See full summary »
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Adrienne Corri, Duncan Macrae
Votes: 551
75. A Long Way Home (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
Three children were separated at a young age. The oldest, Donald, searches for his younger brother and sister.
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro, Rosanna Arquette, Paul Regina
Votes: 341
76. That Brennan Girl (1946)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A mother encourages Ziggy, her teen daughter, to grow up quickly, and her boyfriend recruits Ziggy into his racket. Living fast and loose, Ziggy is soon a single mother herself.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: James Dunn, Mona Freeman, William Marshall, June Duprez
Votes: 361
77. Angoor (1982)
Not Rated | 131 min | Comedy
Based on Shakespeare's 'A Comedy of Errors', this is a story of identical twins (2 pairs) and mistaken identities.
Director: Gulzar | Stars: Sanjeev Kumar, Moushumi Chatterjee, Deven Verma, Aruna Irani
Votes: 5,833
78. 75 (2017)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.
Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith
Votes: 60
79. Country Justice (1996 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
A tough grandfather tries to protect his granddaughter from the man who raped her.
Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: George C. Scott, Rachael Leigh Cook, Don Diamont, Ally Sheedy
Votes: 352
80. Tamanna (1998)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
In 1975 Mahim, Bombay, eunuch Tikku is the only child of yesteryear Bollywood actress Nazneen Begum, who has fallen upon hard times, is virtually destitute, and is dependent on Tikku, who ... See full summary »
Director: Mahesh Bhatt | Stars: Paresh Rawal, Pooja Bhatt, Sharad S. Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee
Votes: 368
81. Alone in the T-Shirt Zone (1986)
PG | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Michael Mikaele is a young man in a catatonic state living in a psychiatric ward where his doctor thinks her sympathies for him justify raping him. It's all part of his mad world, and we ... See full summary »
Director: Mike B. Anderson | Stars: Michael Barrack, Bruce Parry, Evan Lopez, Daniel Patrick
Votes: 103
82. The Cold Lands (2013)
Unrated | 100 min | Drama
When his self-reliant mother dies unexpectedly, Atticus flees deep into the forests surrounding his Catskills home. Wandering the woods in shock, relying on what meager food and shelter he ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Gilroy | Stars: Lili Taylor, Silas Yelich, Maggie Low, Deb Monteith
Votes: 505
83. Kismat (2004)
Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Drama
Tony works as a hit-man for a gangster, Vikas Patil, who owes his alliance to the wealthy Raj Mallya. Raj Mallya is involved in marketing out-dated drugs.
Director: Guddu Dhanoa | Stars: Bobby Deol, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Kabir Bedi, Sanjay Narvekar
Votes: 544
84. Brick and Mirror (1966)
126 min | Drama
Hashem (Zakariya Hashemi) is a cab driver who finds an infant child in the back seat of his cab one night after he gives a ride to a young woman. He and his girlfriend, Taji (Taji Ahmadi), ... See full summary »
Director: Ebrahim Golestan | Stars: Taji Ahmadi, Zackaria Hashemi, Goli Bozorgmehr, Masoud Faghih
Votes: 896
85. Jellyfish (2007)
Unrated | 78 min | Drama
Meduzot (the Hebrew word for Jellyfish) tells the story of three very different Israeli women living in Tel Aviv whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life... See full summary »
Directors: Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret | Stars: Sarah Adler, Nikol Leidman, Gera Sandler, Noa Raban
Votes: 2,748 | Gross: $0.34M
86. My Super Psycho Sweet 16: Part 2 (2010 TV Movie)
Unrated | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Following the murders at the Rollerdome, Skye Rotter leaves town in search of a normal life. Reunited with the mother who abandoned her as a child, Skye's dream of a happier life starts to ... See full summary »
Director: Jacob Gentry | Stars: Lauren McKnight, Chris Zylka, Matt Angel, Stella Maeve
Votes: 912
87. Holy Lola (2004)
128 min | Drama
The trials and tribulations of a French couple's efforts to adopt an orphan baby in Cambodia.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Jacques Gamblin, Isabelle Carré, Bruno Putzulu, Lara Guirao
Votes: 760
88. Benaam Badsha (1991)
Action, Crime, Drama
Abandoned as a baby in a garbage bin by his biological parents; a boy faces the harsh realities of life and years later grows up to be a young man as a paid assassin, blackmailer, kidnapper... See full summary »
Director: K. Ravi Shankar | Stars: Rakesh Bedi, Juhi Chawla, Seema Deo, Rohini Hattangadi
Votes: 328
89. Grown Up Movie Star (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.
Director: Adriana Maggs | Stars: Shawn Doyle, Tatiana Maslany, Julia Kennedy, Jonny Harris
Votes: 434
90. Quelques jours en septembre (2006)
116 min | Drama, Thriller
On September 1st, 2001 a spy receives information that something terrible will happen soon.
Director: Santiago Amigorena | Stars: Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, Sara Forestier, Tom Riley
Votes: 1,870
91. Treeless Mountain (2008)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In Seoul, Korea, two sisters must look after each other when their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father.
Director: So Yong Kim | Stars: Chae Gil Byoung, Jung Gil Ja, Shin Hyun Je, Kim Mi Jung
Votes: 1,924 | Gross: $0.06M
92. The Demon (1978)
110 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After a married man stops providing for his mistress, she abandons their three young children with him and his wrathful wife.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Ken Ogata, Hiroki Iwase, Miyuki Yoshizawa
Votes: 973
93. Boot Polish (1954)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Preteen brother and sister, abandoned by their father, to be taken care of, by an abusive prostitute aunt, survive life in an Indian squatters' camp, aided by a friendly cripple, by learning to shine shoes instead of begging.
Director: Prakash Arora | Stars: Kumari Naaz, Ratan Kumar, David Abraham, Chand Burke
Votes: 885
94. Dungeon Girl (2008 Video)
R | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A shocking story of captivity and survival inspired by actual events.
Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Gwen Trevathan, Wendi Jean Linn, Gunter Ziegler, Marcia James
Votes: 945
95. The Milky Waif (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Jerry finds himself in charge of a foundling mouse called Nibbles, who is eager to steal milk from Tom's bowl and oblivious to the danger.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Mel Blanc, William Hanna, Lillian Randolph
Votes: 1,328
96. The Son of the Shark (1993)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of ... See full summary »
Director: Agnès Merlet | Stars: Ludovic Vandendaele, Eric da Silva, Sandrine Blancke, Maxime Leroux
Votes: 340
97. The Giants (2011)
Not Rated | 84 min | Adventure, Drama
Two teenage brothers spend summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their busy mother, and running low on cash. To make some money they rent out the house to a local drug dealer.
Director: Bouli Lanners | Stars: Zacharie Chasseriaud, Martin Nissen, Paul Bartel, Karim Leklou
Votes: 1,909
98. Red Without Blue (2007)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary
The intimate bond between two identical twin brothers is challenged when one decides to transition from male to female; this is the story of their evolving relationship, and the resurrection of their family from a darker past.
Directors: Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills, Todd Sills | Stars: Clair Farley, Jennie Farley, Mark Oliver Farley, Scott Farley
Votes: 505
99. Past Imperfect (2017)
110 min | Drama
Alice leads a routine life as an escort and dodges social contact. When she's forced to take care of her son after the death of her ex, her apparent indifference seems to fade away and she gets confronted with her emotional emptiness.
Director: Nathalie Teirlinck | Stars: Evelyne Brochu, Eriq Ebouaney, Noa Loucheur, Marijke Van Der Kelen
Votes: 273
100. Looking for Palladin (2008)
R | 115 min | Comedy
A young Hollywood player is drawn into a remote place looking for a quick deal and instead finds a sanctuary, a community, and ultimately himself.
Director: Andrzej Krakowski | Stars: Ben Gazzara, David Moscow, Talia Shire, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Votes: 199