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Plot Summary:
The court has given custody of Emma Hayes' child to the baby's father, a man who raped Emma when she was only fifteen years old. It's up to the baby's grandfather, Clayton Hayes to prevent the child from being handed over until Emma can convince the court to reverse the order.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker (1979)
Plot Summary:
The girl by the side of the road. You've seen her standing there. Thumb out. Smiling. There are thousands like her all over America. And you've heard about what happens to some of them when they get in the wrong car. This movie is about one of these kids. And about her family. But it could be about your family. Where is your daughter tonight?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Something Wild (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the mercy of a would-be rescuer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: social, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, crying
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Love Lives On (1985)
Plot Summary:
A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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My Little Girl (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and tries to help them, but only gets herself into trouble with her parents and supervisor.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Night Comes On (2018)
Plot Summary:
Angel LaMere is released from juvenile detention on the eve of her 18th birthday. Haunted by her past, she embarks on a journey with her 10 year-old sister that could destroy their future.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, rough, independent film, queer cinema
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Sitting in Limbo (1986)
Plot Summary:
The National Film Board of Canada was one of the guiding forces behind Sitting in Limbo. Fabian Gibbs plays a black Montreal college student forced to leave school when his girlfriend Pat Dillon becomes pregnant. Gibbs resents this interruption in his plans, but he becomes a very good provider. The responsibilities of parenthood, alas, irreparably damage the boy-girl relationship. Filmed in a quasidocumentary manner, Sitting in Limbo seems predestined to win film festival awards--as indeed it has.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Baby Carriage (1963)
Plot Summary:
A tale of young woman, Britt, who has two flings, but finds herself with difficult decisions when she finds herself pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971)
Plot Summary:
It's 1956 in the beach town of Trilby. After asking the questions pertaining to the situation, sixteen year old working class Robert Joseph Jones - who prefers to be called Bo Jo - asks his same aged girlfriend, upper middle class Julie Greher, to marry him in doing what he believes to be the right thing after she tells him that she is ten weeks pregnant from their one and only sexual encounter, the secret wedding which happens the following day. These are only the first steps in both Bo Jo and Julie doing and saying what they believe are the right things under the circumstance regardless of what they may actually feel. Their life inexperience is shown in the process, which includes each finding out what little he/she really knows of the other. They both to some extent realize that being married means the loss of their innocence and the loss of their individual planned futures - which for both was college and Bo Jo working toward a football scholarship on the hopes of becoming All.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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La diosa del puerto (1989)
Plot Summary:
After being convicted of killing her rapist, a woman gives birth to a baby in jail. Regrettable accidents cause her to lose contact with her son. Twenty years later.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Kuessipan (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two childhood friends from the same Quebec Innu community begin to realize that they face very different futures.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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Sin & Redemption (1994)
Plot Summary:
Taking a short-cut home from work, high-schooler Billie Simms is raped. Not only does the incident cause an unwanted pregnancy that damages her college expectations, but it also outrages her smugly religious father who pressures her to give up the baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Child Murders (1993)
Plot Summary:
A melodrama about children, the child murders that the film’s title refers to are the million and one ways that children’s souls are ravaged by neglect, unkindness and cruelty, even though several physical deaths take place in the story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: thought provoking
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There Was a Little Boy (1993)
Plot Summary:
Julie and Gregg are about to become parents again, but they feel conflicted since their first child was kidnapped and never seen again. But the couple soon faces an even bigger shock. Julie's new bad-boy (really bad-boy) student may actually be her long-lost son! Based on Claire R. Jacobs's book.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Evergreen (2004)
Plot Summary:
A young girl seduced by a boy's affluent seemingly idyllic family and goes to extremes to gain acceptance.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crying
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A Mother's Justice (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young girl named Debbie is attacked by a bus stop one evening and is blindfolded and raped. Her mother, Lila, who is consumed with guilt is determined to catch the rapist.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Weekend Nun (1972)
Plot Summary:
True story of Jane Duco, a young nun who also had a job as a probation officer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: juvenile
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Johnny Belinda (1982)
Plot Summary:
While attempting to set up a communal garden in the poverty stricken rural community of Hatcher, Bill Richmond becomes aware of a silent, mute, disheveled girl by the name of Belinda. He soon learns that she is considered mentally handicapped by the community, and by her harsh father and aunt, who initially rebuff all attempts at communication and assistance from Bill. He persists in making contact, and discovers that Belinda is actually deaf. He realizes that he can communicate with her using sign language, and teaches her to sign. Gradually, Belinda's world opens up but life is not all smooth sailing, however, as Bill deals with the sneers and jeers of the town's bad boy, Kyle Hager and his group of rowdy friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Many Trials of One Jane Doe (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story about an extraordinary woman, who after a traumatizing rape, refuses to remain a victim. Wendy Crewson stars as Jane Doe (as she must legally be called), a woman who discovers she was the fifth victim of a serial rapist terrorizing a two-block area surrounding her home. When she learns that the police department was aware of this dangerous criminal yet decided not to issue a public warning, she feels that she and all the women in the neighbourhood were offered up as bait. Driven to take action, she investigates not only her own case, but also police procedures with regard to rape and its victims, and is shocked by what she discovers: a legal system that is sexist and uncaring. It is then that she decides to take on the Toronto Police Department. What follows for Jane Doe is a grueling 10-year legal battle, which becomes vicious, all-consuming and personal.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy (1994)
Plot Summary:
Kristin (Danica McKellar), daughter of upper middle class parents, can hardly stand the immense pressure to fulfill her mother's (Dee Wallace Stone) dream of success in sports and high school. In this tense situation she gets emotional support by Kenny, who secretly plans to make her pregnant and sell the baby for adoption. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Zooey & Adam (2009)
Plot Summary:
Adam and Zooey have been trying to have a baby for several months, only to end up pregnant after a rape. Unsure of the parentage of their child, they decide to have the baby anyway.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, disturbing, sexy, experimental
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A Friend's Betrayal (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two childhood friends grow up. One has a family and the other has a career. One relationship may make or break a family. Paul, the teenage son, must decide what he wants for his future. While family would like to make that decision for him. Watch as all the truth unravels in this drama/ romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, ridiculous
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Left to Die (2012)
Plot Summary:
With help from U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, Tammi Chase (Rachael Leigh Cook) fights to free her mother (Barbara Hershey) from an Ecuadorean prison.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Return to Sender (2015)
Plot Summary:
A nurse living in small town goes on a blind date with a man who is not the person he says he is.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, psychological thriller, powerful
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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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Stolen from the Heart (2000)
Plot Summary:
A former prostitute kidnaps a baby boy at birth to satisfy her drug-dealing husband, who has told her that he is going to divorce her and put her out on the streets if she cannot produce him a son. Obviously the real mother becomes emotionally wrought and determined to get her baby back. Barbara Mandrell gets thrown into all of this mess as the mother's mother, who just happens to be beset with heart problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Plot Summary:
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sad, social, meditative, rough, serious, inspirational, controversial, aesthetic, crying, independent film
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The Pregnancy Project (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, thought provoking, independent film
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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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Gracie's Choice (2004)
Plot Summary:
For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic
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Girl in the Bunker (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in 2006 and based on the true story of Elizabeth Shoaf, this powerful film explores the tension-filled ten days Elizabeth was kidnapped and held prisoner by Vinson Filyaw. Imprisoned in a secret underground bunker hidden deep in the woodland, Elizabeth finds herself at the mercy of an erratic and dangerous fantasist who dreams of one day making her his wife... While a massive police hunt unfolds above ground, it falls to Elizabeth to somehow outwit her captor if she is to survive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, rough, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, disturbing, dark