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101. Allen v. Farrow (2021)
TV-MA | 64 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
A look behind the years of sensational headlines to reveal the private story of the accusation of sexual abuse against Woody Allen involving his 7-year-old daughter with Mia Farrow.
Stars: Mia Farrow, Fletcher Previn, Dylan O'Sullivan Farrow, Casey Pascal
Votes: 7,870
102. 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
103. The Last of Robin Hood (2013)
R | 94 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The last days in the life of legendary Hollywood actor Errol Flynn.
Directors: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland | Stars: John Hudson Messerall, Brian Bascle, Daniel J. Clancy, Kelly O'Neal
Votes: 2,418 | Gross: $0.27M
104. Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
R | 88 min | Drama, Romance
A Lower East Side teen-ager struggles to find some sanity while surrounded by an eccentric grandmother, a crazy new girlfriend, and a longing younger brother.
Director: Peter Sollett | Stars: Victor Rasuk, Donna Maldonado, Kevin Rivera, Krystal Rodriguez
Votes: 5,702 | Gross: $2.07M
105. Any Day Now (I) (2012)
R | 98 min | Drama
In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof.
Director: Travis Fine | Stars: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher
Votes: 6,580 | Gross: $0.20M
106. Paper Flowers (1959)
Unrated | 148 min | Drama, Romance
Suresh Sinha, a famous director, discovers star potential in Shanti, a woman he stumbled into one rainy evening, and casts her as the lead in a film. In a twist of fate, Shanti becomes a superstar and Suresh faces a decline in his career.
Director: Guru Dutt | Stars: Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt, Kumari Naaz, Johnny Walker
Votes: 2,783
107. Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 2,966
108. Ticket Out (2012)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A mother takes her children and flees an abusive ex-husband.
Director: Doug Lodato | Stars: Ray Liotta, Alexandra Breckenridge, Colin Ford, Ciara Bond
Votes: 1,202
109. One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
92 min | Drama
In his wanderlust, Joe Cullen moves from the US to South America to work in a mining camp, he leaving behind his wife Julie and their infant daughter, Ellen Mary. After Joe stops writing ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, Harry Bellaver
Votes: 944
110. In the Best Interest of the Children (1992 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes | Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Sally Struthers, Lexi Randall, Gary Graham
Votes: 500
111. The Invisible Thread (2022)
109 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A teenage son of two fathers makes a documentary about his parents but is surprised when a real-life plot twist occurs in his family.
Director: Marco Simon Puccioni | Stars: Filippo Timi, Francesco Scianna, Francesco Gheghi, Giulia Maenza
Votes: 2,497
112. For Ellen (2012)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
A struggling musician takes an overnight long-distance drive in order to fight his estranged wife for custody of their young daughter.
Director: So Yong Kim | Stars: Paul Dano, Margarita Levieva, Jon Heder, Jena Malone
Votes: 2,310 | Gross: $0.01M
113. The Breach (1970)
124 min | Drama
A father injures his son. He moves in with parents who blame the child's mother. They hire someone to find info about her for an upcoming custody hearing. He and girlfriend secretly lodge at her boarding home to undermine her life.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Annie Cordy
Votes: 1,942
114. The Sea of Grass (1947)
Passed | 123 min | Drama, Western
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Robert Walker, Melvyn Douglas
Votes: 2,449
115. Roommates (1995)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
An elderly yet young-at-heart man moves in with his grandson and both their lives turn upside-down.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney, Julianne Moore, Ellen Burstyn
Votes: 2,001 | Gross: $12.10M
116. Everybody in Our Family (2012)
107 min | Drama, Thriller
Marius is a divorced man in his late thirties. His five year-old daughter Sofia lives with her mother, which causes Marius a deep frustration. On the day Marius arrives to take his daughter... See full summary »
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Gabriel Spahiu, Mihaela Sirbu
Votes: 1,730
117. Confessions of a Lap Dancer (1997)
R | 96 min | Drama
A woman must give up her stripping and prostitution job to get custody of her daughter.
Director: Mike Sedan | Stars: Blake Pickett, James Patrick Keefe, Amy Lindsay, Doug Jeffery
Votes: 230
118. Amish Abduction (2019 TV Movie)
87 min | Thriller
Amish wife and mother Annie's life turns upside down after her husband leaves to live among "normal Americans," however, things turn more dire when he returns, seeking custody of their son by any means necessary.
Director: Ali Liebert | Stars: Sara Canning, Steve Byers, Liam Hughes, Ryan Bruce
Votes: 312
119. Standing Tall (2015)
R | 120 min | Drama
A juvenile judge and a special educator are convinced that they can save the young delinquent Malony from himself and his violent ways.
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Rod Paradot, Benoît Magimel, Sara Forestier
Votes: 3,863 | Gross: $0.02M
120. Menashe (2017)
PG | 82 min | Drama
Within Brooklyn's ultra-orthodox Jewish community, a widower battles for custody of his son. A tender drama performed entirely in Yiddish, the film intimately explores the nature of faith and the price of parenthood.
Director: Joshua Z Weinstein | Stars: Menashe Lustig, Anna Gansburg Nahmani, Ariel Vaysman, Sophie Vaysman
Votes: 2,552 | Gross: $1.70M
121. Carbon (2017)
104 min | Crime, Thriller
Danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
Director: Olivier Marchal | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Gringe, Idir Chender, Laura Smet
Votes: 3,067
122. Turn the River (2007)
R | 92 min | Drama
A pool shark takes the ultimate gamble when she kidnaps her own son and flees her ex-husband.
Director: Chris Eigeman | Stars: Famke Janssen, Jaymie Dornan, Rip Torn, Matt Ross
Votes: 1,925
123. Rishtey (2002)
Not Rated | 164 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Suraj Singh (Anil Kapoor) is in love with the beautiful and wealthy Komal (Karisma Kapoor). They dream of their perfect family together but her arrogant father Yashpal Chaudhary (Amrish ... See full summary »
Director: Indra Kumar | Stars: Anil Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Kaivalya Chheda
Votes: 1,077 | Gross: $0.12M
124. Daddy or Mommy (2015)
85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Florence and Vincent Leroy are successful in business, marriage, and children. Today they want to succeed in getting a divorce.
Director: Martin Bourboulon | Stars: Laurent Lafitte, Marina Foïs, Alexandre Desrousseaux, Anna Lemarchand
Votes: 4,830
125. Tarnation (2003)
Unrated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture of snapshots, Super-8 film, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, and more - culled from nineteen years of his life.
Director: Jonathan Caouette | Stars: Jonathan Caouette, Renee Leblanc, Adolph Davis, Rosemary Davis
Votes: 6,711 | Gross: $0.59M
126. The Scarlet Letter (1926)
Passed | 115 min | Drama
After having a child out of wedlock, a young Puritan woman is pressured to reveal the name of her lover.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane
Votes: 1,946 | Gross: $0.67M
127. The Kindergarten Teacher (2014)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama
A kindergarten teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
Director: Nadav Lapid | Stars: Sarit Larry, Avi Shnaidman, Lior Raz, Hamuchtar
Votes: 1,403
128. His (2020)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Shun and Nagisa first meet and fall in love during high school. However, despite strong feelings, they go their separate ways. Years later, Shun is now living alone in a rural area when Nagisa arrives with his six-year-old daughter, Sora.
Director: Rikiya Imaizumi | Stars: Hio Miyazawa, Kisetsu Fujiwara, Wakana Matsumoto, Honoka Matsumoto
Votes: 760
129. Last Exit (2006 TV Movie)
89 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Shattered windshields. Twisted wreckage. Last Exit is an action-suspense drama that tells the parallel stories of two ordinary women - one, a single mother barely supporting her handicapped... See full summary »
Director: John Fawcett | Stars: Kathleen Robertson, Andrea Roth, Noah Bernett, Linden Ashby
Votes: 1,050
130. The Perfect Mother (1997 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama
A woman marries into a family of self-made immigrants, but discovers that her new mother-in-law is bizarre and still babies her grown-adult son while covering up the family's financial crimes and domestic abuse.
Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Tyne Daly, Ione Skye, Louis Ferreira, Tuesday Knight
Votes: 350
131. Frozen Land (2005)
130 min | Drama
One bad event begins a chain reaction of misery as problems transfer from one person to another. It starts when a schoolteacher is fired and projects his issues onto his teenage son.
Director: Aku Louhimies | Stars: Jasper Pääkkönen, Mikko Leppilampi, Pamela Tola, Petteri Summanen
Votes: 6,349
132. In the Best Interest of the Child (1990 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Jennifer's daughter is having nightmares and acting violently. It dawns on Jennifer that Mandy might be sexually abused by her father. What will she do when the court isn't favourable in Mandy's hour of need?
Director: David Greene | Stars: Meg Tilly, Ed Begley Jr., Michael O'Keefe, Michele Greene
Votes: 127
133. Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
PG | 92 min | Drama
A divorced factory worker in 1967 Buffalo fights for custody of his children after his ex-wife marries a low-level mobster who enters the witness protection program, battling with government officials who seem to have little sympathy.
Director: James Caan | Stars: James Caan, Jill Eikenberry, Robert Viharo, Joe Grifasi
Votes: 1,012
134. Finding Love in Mountain View (2020)
89 min | Romance
After she learns that she's been entrusted to take care of her deceased cousin's children, an architect is torn between focusing on her career and honoring her cousin's wish.
Director: Sandra L. Martin | Stars: Danielle C. Ryan, Myko Olivier, John-Paul Lavoisier, Skyler Elyse Philpot
Votes: 759
135. In the Shadow of Iris (III) (2016)
TV-MA | 99 min | Drama, Thriller
Iris, young wife of a banker, disappears in Paris. Maybe a mechanic with many debts is involved in the strange affair. A really complicated job for the police.
Director: Jalil Lespert | Stars: Romain Duris, Charlotte Le Bon, Jalil Lespert, Camille Cottin
Votes: 4,708
136. Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A successful nightclub singer weds a struggling songwriter, but when his fame eclipses hers, she delves into alcoholism.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman, Marsha Hunt, Eddie Albert
Votes: 1,708
137. Captain January (1936)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A little girl named Star lives with the lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 1,503
138. On Borrowed Time (1939)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs with the help of an agent of Death and a magical apple tree.
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Cedric Hardwicke, Beulah Bondi, Una Merkel
Votes: 2,253
139. A Regular Woman (2019)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
Aynur, a German woman of Kurdish-Turkish descent, struggles for a free, self-determined life in the face of her family's opposition. Her brothers insult and threaten her until she finally reports her oldest brother to the police.
Director: Sherry Hormann | Stars: Almila Bagriacik, Rauand Taleb, Merve Aksoy, Aram Arami
Votes: 2,452
140. Heaven (1998)
R | 103 min | Crime, Thriller
Robert's wife is divorcing him for gambling etc. A strip club owner offers him work redesigning his club. Robert befriends a dancer there, who has premonitions.
Director: Scott Reynolds | Stars: Martin Donovan, Daniel Edwards, Richard Schiff, Joanna Going
Votes: 891 | Gross: $0.00M
141. Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
PG | 110 min | Drama
His mother dead, PS lives in Sydney with working-class Aunt Lila and Uncle George. When he's six or eight, his posh Aunt Vanessa descends from England. Named a co-guardian by PS's feckless,... See full summary »
Director: Carl Schultz | Stars: Wendy Hughes, Robyn Nevin, Nicholas Gledhill, John Hargreaves
Votes: 869
142. Akele Hum Akele Tum (1995)
Not Rated | 160 min | Drama, Romance
An estranged couple battle for the custody of their only son.
Director: Mansoor Khan | Stars: Aamir Khan, Manisha Koirala, Master Adil, Deven Verma
Votes: 5,485
143. Just, Melvin: Just Evil (2000)
96 min | Documentary
An in-depth look at the director James Ronald Whitney's family history of incest spanning at least three generations and the devastating consequences that include drug abuse and alcoholism.
Director: James Ronald Whitney | Stars: James Ronald Whitney, Melvin Just, Denise Benson, Jean Benson
Votes: 1,783
144. Custody (I) (2016)
TV-14 | 104 min | Drama
The lives of three women are unexpectedly changed when they cross paths at a New York Family Court.
Director: James Lapine | Stars: Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Tony Shalhoub
Votes: 1,252
145. Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
180 min | Biography, Drama
The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.
Stars: Angela Lansbury, Maureen Stapleton, Martin Balsam, Glynis Johns
Votes: 878
146. The Toll of the Sea (1922)
Unrated | 54 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship.
Director: Chester M. Franklin | Stars: Anna May Wong, Kenneth Harlan, Beatrice Bentley, Priscilla Moran
Votes: 901
147. One Desire (1955)
Passed | 94 min | Drama, Romance
In early 1900s, an Oklahoma gambler-casino dealer teams up with a saloon dancer and together they seek a new life in a Colorado mining town where their relationship and respectability are tested.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Anne Baxter, Rock Hudson, Julie Adams, Carl Benton Reid
Votes: 305
148. What Makes a Family (2001 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 91 min | Drama
When an artificially-inseminated woman dies, her partner must fight to regain custody of their child.
Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Brooke Shields, Cherry Jones, Anne Meara, Al Waxman
Votes: 818
149. Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015)
Not Rated | 114 min | Documentary, Biography
A captivating look behind the scenes of the remarkable life of a young Swedish girl who became one of the most celebrated actresses of American and World cinema.
Director: Stig Björkman | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Pia Lindström, Robertino Rossellini, Isotta Rossellini
Votes: 2,499 | Gross: $0.14M
150. Have You Seen My Son (1996 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama
A woman fears for her son's health when her ex-husband kidnaps him.
Director: Paul Schneider | Stars: Lisa Hartman, William Russ, Anne Francis, Scott Hylands
Votes: 185