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Plot Summary:
A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her infant daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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P.K. and the Kid (1987)
Plot Summary:
P.K. runs away from home because her step-father keeps on harassing her sexually and her mother is ignoring the problem. She hides in the loading space of Kid Kane's pickup, who's on the way to the world championships in arm-wrestling. When he discovers her, he wants to send her home at first, but after he knows the story he takes her with him - and gets himself into big trouble: her step-father is behind them furiously, trying to kidnap her and take revenge for the stress he got from her mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Circle of Violence - A Family Drama (1986)
Plot Summary:
Georgia Benfield's, at her wit's end, loses control and begins physically abusing her elderly mother, just as Georgia had been abused herself as a child. As family and friends slowly begin to learn of the abuse, and long buried family secrets come to light, both mother and daughter must learn to accept the past, to change what is happening at present, in order to face a better future.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Trapped In Silence (1986)
Plot Summary:
A compelling drama about a silent, violent teenager. Kevin suffers from elective mutism and no one has ever heard him utter a word.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries to contact her son, she learns that he died, under questionable circumstances when he was three years old.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: depressing
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A Child's Cry for Help (1994)
Plot Summary:
A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Littlest Victims (1989)
Plot Summary:
Tim Matheson play a doctor that treats children with AIDS. He tries to convince his colleagues that the children got the disease from their parents. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Nurse Sisters (2003)
Plot Summary:
NURSE SISTERS is a drama about relationships and commitment that stars the oh-so-hot Sasaki Sisters (yes! They are real-life sisters!).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: captivating, sexy, entertaining
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The Fishing Trip (1998)
Plot Summary:
In this moving drama, three young Canadian women embark upon a journey to face and lay to rest their painful pasts. Though Kirsti (Jhene Erwin) is twenty-one and living independently as a college student, she remains haunted by horrible memories of being raped by her stepfather Harold (Jim Kinney). He also performed this vile act on her little sister Jessie (Melissa Hood). Unable to bear the psychological anguish, Kirsti decides to confront her abuser and so visits her mother (Diana Tabak) only to find that Harold and his son Jacob (T.J. Grist) are at their fishing cabin up north, the very place where the attacks first occurred.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Not in My Family (1993)
Plot Summary:
A new mother is haunted by postpartum depression. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Breaking the Silence (1992)
Plot Summary:
Defending a teen charged with patricide drudges up dark memories for a lawyer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Don't Touch My Daughter (1991)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is kidnapped and molested by a classmate's father. The man she identifies is arrested and jailed, but is later released on bail. He calls the girl's mother and threatens to kidnap her daughter again, and this time kill her and make sure her body will never be found. She goes to the authorities for help, but there's nothing they can do until he actually tries something. Afraid for her daughter's life, the mother decides to take matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Surrogate (2008)
Plot Summary:
Eli is a 32 year old man who has problems with relationships with women. Hagar is a surrogate, an alternative partner for practical, sexual therapy. They meet once a week and practice a relationship and intimacy in laboratory conditions. The fictitious relationship between them exposes them both physically and emotionally and brings to surface repressed fears from the real world. The changes Eli goes through during the therapy, along with the secrets revealed, not only shake his own life, but also the life of his family. Between clinic walls, due to an "artificial" process, Eli learns how to love for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspense, sexy, queer cinema
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The Girl, the Body, and the Pill (1967)
Plot Summary:
A suburban high school teacher is fired from her job for teaching sex education. But she continues to give private sessions at her home to her former students leading to rumors and complications around town.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Homesick (2005)
Plot Summary:
17-year-old Sami has an accident which resulted in him reluctantly sent to closed psychiatric hospital. Sami refuses to speak or show his feelings, even when the nurse Taneli is trying everything in order to understand how the crash really happened. While Sami's and his roommate's Rude's eccentric friendships gradually increases, the truth of past events begin to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, touching, suspenseful, sexy
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Untamed Love (1994)
Plot Summary:
A badly abused girl of 6 is saved from having to be admitted to an institution by a dedicated Special Education teacher whose class she's been placed in until there is an opening in the hospital. In that time they form a strong bond and the child begins to heal. The teacher begins to think an institution is not what this child needs.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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Like Normal People (1979)
Plot Summary:
A mentally-challenged man and woman meet, fall in love and are determined to get married, despite the initial objections of their families and friends. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, thought provoking, suspense
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Nocturnal Agony (2011)
Plot Summary:
A highly successful upper middle class woman with a loving family has her seemingly “perfect” world turned upside down when the hidden secrets from her past suddenly resurface, forcing her and her beloved mother into a painful examination of their lives, their relationship with one another, and their faith in God.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, christian film
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Little Girl Lost (1988)
Plot Summary:
This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl they took in when she was in a foster care program. Clara and Tim Brady are in for the fight of their lives as they find that adopting Tella will not be so easy -- especially when social services puts her back into the care of her abusive father.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, contemplative
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Hands of a Mother (2016)
Plot Summary:
A family reunion aboard a ship becomes a turning point in the life of 39-year-old engineer Markus. When his son Adam (4) gets a little cut after going to the bathroom with his grandmother Renate, Markus recalls for the first time what his mother did to him when he was a little boy. Markus and his wife Monika find themselves confronted with an ugly truth of the kind you wouldn’t think a mother capable of.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspense
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Aurore (2005)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, realistic, depressing, heartbreaking, sad, art house, crying, bleak
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A Family Upside Down (1978)
Plot Summary:
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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White Rabbit (2013)
Plot Summary:
A bullied student sees visions of a rabbit he was forced to kill as a child, and those visions propel him into a state where his imagination causes him to carry out violent acts.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, disturbing, dark, grindhouse, action thriller, poetic, realistic, comic
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Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (2009)
Plot Summary:
A small child is trapped in a tug-of-war battle between his frivolous, but loving mother and an emotionally abusive neurotic grandmother, who wants to "shelter" her beloved grandson at all cost.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: rough, heartbreaking, depressing, emotional, serious, crying, campy
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For the Love of a Child (2006)
Plot Summary:
1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally neglected as outcasts. Thus originates Childhelp, which later runs multi-disciplinary centers for abused and/or neglected children in the States. Among them is bright Jacob Fletcher, whose stepfather, a lawyer, terrorized him into utter trauma and reclaims him shortly after 10 months in jail. Jacob's peers have distressing stories of their own, but competent, devoted staff helps most of them decisively on the former farm, using animal therapy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, disturbing, rough, thought provoking, tense, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic
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Paper Spiders (2020)
Plot Summary:
A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Paper Covers Rock (2008)
Plot Summary:
Samantha is recovering from a suicide attempt and ready for a fresh start in life. She has to fight for the custody of her daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, psychological, touching, emotional, serious, realistic, gloomy
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Una (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, cynical, thought provoking, sad, disturbing, suspense, art house, independent film, psychological thriller
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Sharing the Secret (2000)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends secretly binges and purges.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, realistic, touching, serious, teen
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Plot Summary:
The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife style and is introduced to booze and drugs and mentally, physically and sexually abused by Sarah, her lovers and her religiously fanatic family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, depressing, realistic, art house, controversial, stylized, intense
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
Plot Summary:
Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance. The film won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries or a Special" and was nominated for "Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special", "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special", and "Outstanding Made for Television Movie". It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, emotional, realistic, touching, suspense, thought provoking, serious, heartbreaking, depressing, gothic