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Plot Summary:
With two children in foster care, Gia, a pregnant single mother pitted against the system, fights to reclaim her family. In her close-knit Bay Area community, she works to make a life for herself and her kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film
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Custody (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected of injuring her son, Ally Fisher, a recent law school graduate, is assigned to represent her case before Judge Martha Schulman, a veteran of the Family Court System.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, dark
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In the Best Interest of the Children (1992)
Plot Summary:
Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sad, crying
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Adam (2019)
Plot Summary:
Abla, a widow and mother to a 10-year-old girl, struggles to survive and give her child the best possible future. After the death of her husband, she starts a home-based business from her kitchen, which opens up on the street through a metal shutter. Every day, she makes and sells homemade bread and all types of traditional Moroccan pastries. Closed-off from life, leading an existence devoid of happiness and taking refuge in her work, Abla has become old before her time. Unable to manifest love towards her child, she has replaced tenderness with pragmatism. When Samia, a young woman who is heavily pregnant knocks on her door, seeking shelter and overwhelmed by the weight of her burden of giving birth to a child without a father, Alba is unaware that this chance encounter will change her forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Morocco, France, Belgium, Qatar
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022)
Plot Summary:
A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, interesting, beautiful
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Who's Child Am I? (1976)
Plot Summary:
Paul Freeman (of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK fame) and Kate O'Mara plays a couple who can't have a baby, so they go to the doctor to have an artificial insemination...blackmail, dark secrets and drama ensue.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Having Babies III (1978)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Julie Farr presides over three impending births and cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Having Babies II (1977)
Plot Summary:
The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Sole (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two very different teens involved in a surrogate motherhood scheme learn how to live.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, crying
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Lucky (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in an effort to free herself and gain independence and right to happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: social
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Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Plot Summary:
An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, touching, realistic, scenic, rough, philosophical, emotional, political, entertaining
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What Makes a Family (2001)
Plot Summary:
Brooke Shields believes she has finally found happiness, now that she and her lesbian partner (Cherry Jones) have a child. But when Jones passes away five years later and her scheming parents apply for custody behind Shields' back, an affecting struggle ensues. Written by.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, uplifting, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Wonderland (1999)
Plot Summary:
There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, touching, talky, erotic, emotional, cult classic, psychological, clever, serious
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Looking for Her (2015)
Plot Summary:
Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, touching, suspenseful
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Blue Bayou (2021)
Plot Summary:
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: thought provoking
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Mothers and Daughters (2016)
Plot Summary:
Interwoven stories of what it is to be a mom seen through the lens of photographer Rigby Gray.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, entertaining
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In Safe Hands (2018)
Plot Summary:
Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, touching, feel good
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Pieces of a Woman (2020)
Plot Summary:
A grieving woman embarks on an emotional journey after the Ioss of her baby.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, Hungary, USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, deep, existential, weird, beautiful
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Everything Put Together (2000)
Plot Summary:
Everything Put Together is a 2000 film directed by Marc Forster starring Radha Mitchell and Megan Mullally.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, touching, depressing, independent film, bleak, gloomy, neo noir
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Gimme Shelter (2013)
Plot Summary:
After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, rough, serious, sad, cult classic, teen, tear jerker, bleak, realistic
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A Place for Annie (1994)
Plot Summary:
Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she's deported to a home where they'd just wait for her to die, nurse Susan takes charge of Annie at her home. Two years later she plans too adopt her -- but suddenly Annie's mother reappears and demands her back. And under the law, Susan, as foster-mother, has no claim to the child.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Sherrybaby (2006)
Plot Summary:
After serving time in prison, former drug addict Sherry Swanson returns home to reclaim her young daughter from family members who have been raising the child. Sherry's family, especially her sister-in-law, doubt Sherry's ability to be a good mother, and Sherry finds her resolve to stay clean slowly weakening.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, emotional, bleak, depressing, serious, sexual, cult classic, realistic, scary, political
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The Lost Daughter (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Israel, Greece
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, art house, existential, grim, independent film, weird
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The Florida Project (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, captivating, social, aesthetic, inspirational, anamorphic, visually stunning, funny, political
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On the Outs (2004)
Plot Summary:
Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, touching, serious, emotional, anthology, bleak, realistic, independent film
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Losing Isaiah (1995)
Plot Summary:
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, touching, emotional, melancholic, serious, thought provoking, sexy, sad, hood, cult classic
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Precious (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is chaotic and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and a secret--she can't read.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 115000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: bleak, depressing, emotional, rough, sad, inspirational, disturbing, touching, independent film, harsh
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Parallel Mothers (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, middle-aged, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: dramatic, sincere, psychological, suspenseful, tear jerker, hispanic, postmodern, queer cinema, weird
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Short Term 12 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: compassionate, emotional, sad, touching, realistic, independent film, depressing, sweet, thought provoking, spiritual
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White Oleander (2002)
Plot Summary:
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: emotional, intense, touching, disturbing, serious, realistic, erotic, sentimental, gothic, social
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Thirteen (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before Tracy's new world and attitude finally takes a toll on her, her family, and old friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: teen, sincere, realistic, tense, disturbing, emotional, intense, serious, depressing, bleak