Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "troubled-girl"

1. The Whale (2022)

R | 117 min | Drama

A reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.

Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins, Hong Chau

Votes: 212,751

2. American Pastoral (2016)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An All-American college star and his beauty queen wife watch their seemingly perfect life fall apart as their daughter joins the turmoil of '60s America.

Director: Ewan McGregor | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning, Peter Riegert

Votes: 18,083 | Gross: $0.54M

3. Crazy/Beautiful (2001)

PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Romance

At Pacific Palisades High, a poor Latino falls hard for a troubled girl from an affluent neighborhood.

Director: John Stockwell | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Jay Hernandez, Bruce Davison, Herman Osorio

Votes: 25,608 | Gross: $16.93M

4. Pinocchio's Revenge (1996)

R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A suburban defense lawyer mistakenly gives her troubled daughter, Zoe, a wooden puppet belonging to a deceased serial killer. The toy fills the void of friendship in Zoe's life, but Zoe begins to act increasingly strange and violent.

Director: Kevin Tenney | Stars: Candace McKenzie, Lewis Van Bergen, Ivan Gueron, Thomas Wagner

Votes: 2,404

5. School (2018–2019)

50 min | Drama

Successful businesswoman Katya finds out that her daughter tried to commit suicide. As it turned out, not the first time. To be closer to her daughter and understand what the kids really ...

Stars: Yanina Andreeva, Nikita Vakuluk, Olena Kurta, Iryna Kudashova

Votes: 363

6. What Kind of Mother Are You? (1996 TV Movie)

Unrated | 120 min | Drama

Kelly keeps getting into trouble with the police. Her mother agrees to her going into a juvenile detention centre overnight. She is kept there for much longer. During her incarceration she is assaulted by inmates and abused by the system.

Director: Noel Nosseck | Stars: Mel Harris, Nicholle Tom, Alex Carter, Jason Cadieux

Votes: 226

7. The Experience (2019)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

At a wilderness camp for troubled youth, two girls Scarlet and Dylan form a bond that gets tested by love, money, and experiences beyond their perceived realm of existence.

Director: Katerina Gorshkov | Stars: Allison Gold, Ravi Naidu, Brigitte Nielsen, Cameron Jebo

Votes: 197

8. Sex, Insta i ZNO (2020– )

25 min | Comedy

Vinnytsia school. Eleventh graders are preparing for their final exams, making friends, falling in love, competing, quarreling.

Stars: Hannusya Yarmolenko, Andrii Maksimov, Karina Cherchevych, Vitaliy Zelenyy

Votes: 179

9. Wild Seed (1965)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance

A 17-year-old girl runs away from her East Coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated... See full summary »

Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Michael Parks, Celia Milius, Ross Elliott, Woodrow Chambliss

Votes: 407

10. Dark Horse (1992)

PG | 98 min | Drama, Family

A troubled girl, sentenced to community service on a ranch, bonds with a horse there. Her folks suggest that she enters the championship, but both she and the horse get seriously injured in a car accident.

Director: David Hemmings | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., Mimi Rogers, Ari Meyers, Donovan Leitch Jr.

Votes: 909

11. Drawers (2015)

120 min | Drama, Mystery

Deniz ends up in hospital and has to face the ghosts of past. She manages to discover herself and the hidden secrets in her family drawers.

Directors: Caner Alper, Mehmet Binay | Stars: Ece Dizdar, Tilbe Saran, Taner Birsel, Nilüfer Açikalin

Votes: 1,530

12. Stefanies Geschenk (1995)

65 min | Drama, Thriller

Occasionally malignant and always very original black and white film about the delusion and reality of twelve-year-old Stephanie

Director: Mathieu Seiler | Stars: Soraya Da Mota, Paul Lohr, Aviva Joel, Werner Düggelin

Votes: 114

13. Horo-yoi no jôji: Himegoto wa kamidanomi (2019)

85 min | Drama

A voice is heard murmuring inside the shrine, it is Miwa's voice, then she stands up holding a paper with an inscription saying "Thank you for your help".

Director: Tetsuya Takehora | Stars: Nanami Kawakami, Yurina Aizawa, Kirie Kawasaki, Kenji Iwatani

14. A Stone's Throw (2018)

10 min | Short, Drama

After a truck driver is killed by a rock thrown from an overpass, teenage schoolgirl Hannah runs from the scene and is hit by a car.

Director: Luke Wissell | Stars: Patrick Graham, Lily Pearl, Anna Steen

Votes: 12

15. Sam (I) (2012)

Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

After being bullied and beaten for dressing like a boy at school, Sam escapes into the fields surrounding her house, where she's forced to spend the night and choose between who she is and who the world expects her to be.

Director: Sal Bardo | Star: Ever Prishkulnik

Votes: 57

16. Due South (1994–1999)
Episode: The Promise (1996)

TV-PG | 46 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Fraser and Ray attempt to track down a pair of pickpockets who stole an address book, that leads to everyone from the police to politicians to come after them in a cat and mouse chase with possibly deadly consequences.

Director: George Bloomfield | Stars: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Daniel Kash

Votes: 93

17. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: School of Thought (1999)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

After a shop teacher is almost killed by a car with no engine, the OSIR investigates antisocial teens with telekinetic powers in a high school for troubled youth. Also, the team's personal lives get more complicated.

Director: John Bell | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 16

18. Renegade (1992–1997)
Episode: Blood Hunt (1997)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A series of local murders and other strange occurrences are believed to be caused by a vampire. Although they are skeptical of it being a supernatural being, Reno and Bobby still must solve the murders and protect the local population.

Director: Bruce Kessler | Stars: Lorenzo Lamas, Branscombe Richmond, Stephen J. Cannell, Virginya Keehne

Votes: 42

19. Shameless (2004–2013)
Episode: Abduction (2004)

TV-MA | 48 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Debbie brings a wondering infant back to her house, but her family must conduct a plan to return him to his parents who believe he's been kidnapped.

Director: Mark Mylod | Stars: Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, James McAvoy, Maggie O'Neill

Votes: 256