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Plot Summary:
A couple's life becomes complicated when people get involved with their troublesome son.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 118 min
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Parents (2007)
Plot Summary:
The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When he finds out that his wife has been deceiving him all these years he decides it's time for a change. Einar is a stockbroker who is very successful at work but not in his personal life. For the last couple of months Einar has been living at a hotel waiting for his wife to realize the terrible mistake she made by throwing him out. Katrin Rose returns from Sweden where she has lived for eight years. In Iceland Katrin has an eleven-year-old son, brought up by his grandmother and now Katrin wants him back. Katrin gets a job as a dentist's assistant intending to make a fresh start but her troubled past catches up with her.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 87 min
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Katja's Adventure (1999)
Plot Summary:
Danish Katja looks for a lost falcon while on vacation in Italy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Family
Country: Denmark, Norway, Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 80 min
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Nature's Warrior (1997)
Plot Summary:
13 year old Kim feels at home in the wilderness. One night, nature's soul appears to him in the form of an Indian, and designates him nature's protector.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Family, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 96 min
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Forgiven (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Lieutenant Morgan (Kevin Sorbo) and his armed force arrive on the scene of a church hostage situation, James (Casey Fuller) weighs his options for an escape while Elizabeth (Jenn Gotzen) makes it her mission to save his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Peranbu (2018)
Plot Summary:
A single father tries to raise his daughter, who has cerebral palsy, even as she is beginning to wake up to her sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: mad
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Alba (2016)
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Alba, 11 years old, passes her days in silence. She loves little animals. She has learned to cope with her mother's illness, helping her to use the bathroom. Alba plays silently so that her mother can rest during the day. One night Alba's mother gets worse, and has to be taken to the hospital. With no one else to take care of her, Alba is sent to live with her father, who she hasn't seen since she was three years old. Living with her father is almost unbearable. Embarrassment, her first kiss, visits to mother in the hospital, Edgar's tender efforts to get close to her, and bullying at school; these are some of the experiences that pave Alba's journey to puberty and to self-acceptance.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Ecuador, Mexico, Greece
Duration: 98 min
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The Beautiful Girl (1969)
Plot Summary:
A movie transcends totalitarian realities of a post-war Soviet-occupied town to address the most important eternal questions faced by children and their parents alike: self-identity, value human relations, love, vulnerability of a human being, meaning of innocence.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 71 min
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American Girl: Corinne Tan (2023)
Plot Summary:
13-year-old Corrine deals with her parents' recent divorce while everyone else is already adapted to their new roles as a blended family, challenging herself to train a rambunctious puppy as she discovers her new purpose.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 61 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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Last Desk (1976)
Plot Summary:
A story about a gipsy girl Kati who moves from Hungarian province to Budapest and starts going to school.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Hungary
Duration: 57 min
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Our Struggles (2018)
Plot Summary:
While Olivier, a 39 year-old foreman gives his job everything he’s got, Laura, his wife and the mother of their two children, abandons the family home, leaving Olivier alone to face his responsibilities. Lost and completely thrown, Olivier is going to have to come to terms with his new status as a single father raising his children alone. Because Laura’s not coming back.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 98 min
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Lost Birds (2015)
Plot Summary:
It is 1915 in an Armenian village in Anatolia. Bedo and Maryam return from their secret dovecote only to find an empty house and a ghost village. The children embark on a journey to search for their mother, along with their bird 'Bacik.'.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Wallah Be (2002)
Plot Summary:
Life is not easy when you are a Danish kid called Aksel who loves meatballs. Especially when you would much rather want to be one of the cool Muslim boys who wear those golden necklaces and say cool stuff in Arabic. To worsen things, during the holidays Aksel gets teamed up with two girls, Fatima and Annika, to perform a song to the local youth club's song contest, Melodi Grand Prix. The girls want to do a girly pop song, and the entire jury panel consist of Muslim boys! Meanwhile the kids find a stray dog who needs a home. This leads to nothing but trouble, and one of the girls, Fatima, is grounded by her parents for the entire holiday season. Now she can't perform the song, and Aksel realizes he must take action! He enters an unknown world of rituals and cultural perceptions, and fixes everything in his own unique way.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Little Crumb (1999)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the popular Dutch childrens book by Chris van Abkoude. In a Dutch port in 1921 lives a 10-year-old orphan boy known to everyone simply as Little Crumb (Ruud Feltkamp). His poverty-stricken mother Lize van Dien (Thekla Reuten) filled with shame was forced to turn him over to Mrs. Koster (Sacha Bulthuis) soon after he was born. Foster mother Mrs. Koster, who has cared for him since he was a baby, is very poor too, unable to support him by herself and proves to be a cruel taskmaster who insists Crumb bring her money before shell feed him. Somehow he must earn his keep out on the streets and can only go home after he has earned enough money. Crumb becomes an urchin stealing from the streets barrows and the shops to stay alive, sleeping in churches or huddled in doorways. Sometimes he has to run off from the police and he has earned the enmity of the most grownups around him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 119 min
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Hugo and Josephine (1967)
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Josefin is a six year old girl who lives isolated in the countryside, where her father is a priest. She has no friends until she meets Hugo. He is a carefree boy who rather walk in the forest than goes to school. Together with the gardener they make up fun things to do.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min
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Only Clouds Move the Stars (1998)
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Eleven year old Maria has lost her little brother to cancer. Having disappeared into herself, her mother is no longer there for Maria and her father struggles to keep the family together. Maria meets Jacob, who is the same age as she, but with a completely different attitude. Jacob is outgoing, exciting, funny and has wisdom way beyond his tender years. He gradually pulls Maria out of her shell and enables her to come to decisions which will affect her entire life.Only Clouds Move the Stars tackles a serious subject with humour and wit. With its strong emotional content, the film leaves no one untouched. Based on an award-winning novel, this film shares the sensibilities of the Swedish hit, My Life as a Dog.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min
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Negerkys og labre larver (1987)
Plot Summary:
Dette er en historie om to piger på 11 år. Nana, som har en hund, men som egentlig bare drømmer om være en anset ballerina, og Conny, der er tvunget til at gå til ballet, men som har et brændende ønske om at være berømt dyrlæge. Hvad vil der blive af de to? Og hvad vil der ske, når de endelig møder det verdensberømte pop-idol Michael Jackson? Og hvad med Anders, drengen, som bliver efterladt med tvillingebørn og netop har fået en billet til VM i Mexico? Er du forvirret? Det er pigerne ikke. De har fundet den perfekte løsning på rodet – bare se med her og tag del i løjerne!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 62 min
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How Old Are You (2014)
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36 year-old Nirupama Rajeev (played by Manju Warrier) is an UD clerk in Revenue Department. The role of her husband is played by Kunchaka Boban. There is nothing interesting about her life as she leads a life which is determined by her usual daily activities. The movie focusses on the society's obsession with the age and how individual's ability is overlooked by the fact how old he or she is.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating
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Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)
Plot Summary:
In rural Sweden of the early 1950s, little Elina goes to school again after recovering from tuberculosis, the same illness that has killed her father a few years earlier. Elina's family belongs to Finnish-speaking Finns frowned upon by a staunch schoolmistress who starts hounding Elina for questioning her authority. Elina's mother, sister, and a liberal young male teacher all try to mediate the ensuing battle of wills between Elina and Miss Holm. Elina finds consolation in wandering out on the dangerous marshlands to have imaginary conversations with her dead father. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious, stylized
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Home for the Holidays (2005)
Plot Summary:
After their parents are killed in a terrible accident, the four McMurrin children live with their loving Aunt Martha. Martha wants to adopt the children but the town's bitter old banker stands in their way. However, the children's courage and ingenuity triumph and they become a family just before the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 272
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, melancholic
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The Christmas Star (1986)
Plot Summary:
Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dressed as Santa Claus due to his uncanny resemblence to St. Nick resulting from his long white beard and heavyset features. McNickle hides out from the police in a nearby suburban neighborhood where he is befriended and helped by two local children who think he is the real Santa Claus. McNickle takes advantage of the kids naive ness to help him get his counterfeit money hidden somewhere in a local department store while he develops kind-hearted feelings for his two con victims that make him slowly understand the true nature of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, vintage
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Tom Thumb (2001)
Plot Summary:
Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon them in the forest. Their, the brothers try to find their way out making fantastic encounters. This film is based on the French fairy tale "Le petit poucet" by Charles Perrault.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Family, Fantasy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, serious, stylized, captivating, exciting, psychotronic
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Baduk (1992)
Plot Summary:
A boy and his sister are abducted from the streets of Tehran and sold into slavery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Iran
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Way Home (2010)
Plot Summary:
An inspirational true story about how a rural community rallied around a distraught family to search for their missing two year-old boy and through doing so changed the lives of many of those involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, christian film, uplifting, emotional, serious, realistic
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We Can Be Heroes! (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two kids - about 11 years old - Marcello and Fatima, meet and like each other very much. Both have dreams and problems. Marcello wants to fly but feels like an absolutely useless human being, Fatima wants to play soccer - which is not acceptable for her Muslim family. But then they start to support each other in a very delicate and subtle manner.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 999
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, contemplative
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Bridge to Terabithia (1985)
Plot Summary:
Jess Aarons and new girl Leslie Burke create a world of their own and call it Terabithia and pretend to be the king and queen. They return to their magical kingdom every day after school.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film
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Alan & Naomi (1992)
Plot Summary:
When Naomi, a young refugee from Nazi-occupied Paris, moves into Alan Silverman’s building in New York, he does his best to avoid her. But despite Naomi's strange behavior and the language barrier, they slowly develop a deep and touching friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychological, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, crying
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The Railway Children (1970)
Plot Summary:
The Waterbury family are completely happy until mysterious men take their father away and they have to move up to Yorkshire without him. The three open-hearted children soon make many friends including their Old Gentleman whom they regularly wave to on his morning train journey. Bobbie, the eldest girl, makes contact with him to try and get help for the problems they are facing. Meanwhile the children find themselves involved in several unexpected dramas on the railway.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: emotional, touching, feel good, semi serious, family saga, sad, sentimental, light, inspirational, romantic
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Alabama Moon (2009)
Plot Summary:
After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven year old boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, exciting, serious, inspirational, feel good
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Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Plot Summary:
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: motivational, touching, inspirational, captivating, emotional, educational, sad, realistic, feel good, entertaining