Despicable Me: Minion Madness

2010

English

♡ 4

68%

Three new mini-movies from the creators of Despicable Me. Orientation Day: Three freshly cloned minions go through the wacky orientation process at the evil laboratories of Gru. Home Makeover: The minions "assist" Edith, Margo & Agnes in a home makeover when they find out a social worker is going to pay them a visit. Watch the crazy antics ensue! Banana: A minion finds a banana in his lunch bag. To what lengths will the other minions go through to steal away that coveted yellow goodness?

Orangutan

♡ 2

A vivacious aspiring social worker brings together five peculiar strangers to help solve their existential problems but finds herself in way over her head.

Born Guilty

2017

English

3.8

♡ 5

50%

Max Heller Director

Stewart Steinberg as Bennny

John Lavelle as Grant

Rosanna Arquette as Judith

Anna Lore as Summer

What happens when you secretly pay someone to romance your Mom?

Past Midnight

1991

English

5.6

♡ 10

34%

Action

Drama

Mystery

police officer killed

Jan Eliasberg Director

Rutger Hauer as Ben Jordan

Paul Giamatti as Larry Canipe

Clancy Brown as Steve Lundy

Guy Boyd as Todd Canipe

A man gets out of prison after 15 years for stabbing his wife to death, and his social worker becomes convinced he was innocent. As she researches his case, and interviews other people who were involved, she begins to fall in love with him, as her friends warn her that he's dangerous.

Closer to Home

2016

English

5.2

♡ 1

Lamarcus Tinker Director

Jemma Evans as Chloe

Nick W. Nicholson as Det. Robert Gray

Cacilie Hughes as Faith

Al Hayter as Mr. Grimes

When a social worker named (FAITH) begins to investigate a series of in depth cases,she begins to become emotionally involved. Which is breaking the number one Cardinal rule of her job. This pandora box of emotions begins to unravel & pull back the layers on FAITHS own past. Leading her down a path of discovery,that no one is expecting.

A Thousand Clowns

1965

English

7.3

♡ 7

72%

Fred Coe Director

Martin Balsam as Arnold

Barry Pearl as Nick Burns' Double

Barry Gordon as Nick Burns / Wilbur Malcome Burns / Theodore Burns / Raphael Sabatini / Dr. Morris Fishbein / Woodrow Burns / Chevrolet Burns / Big Sam Burns / Lefty Burns

Barbara Harris as Sandra

Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.

Dead Awake

2016

English

4.6

♡ 6

11%

Phillip Guzman Director

Jeffrey Reddick as Anthony

Lori Petty as Dr. Sykes

Jocelin Donahue as Kate Bowman / Beth Bowman

Brea Grant as Linda Noble

Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is an average social worker who, after the sudden death of her twin sister, is investigating the mysterious deaths of other people who died in their sleep. Shortly before their deaths, the victims all reported a supernatural force that appeared to them while they were suffering from sleep paralysis. When Kate investigates further into the case, she opens herself up to the creature's wrath and soon finds herself and her family suffering from an ancient evil.

Savage Messiah

2002

English

6.3

♡ 3

66%

Mario Azzopardi Director

Terry Haig as Judge at Roch's Trial

Isabelle Blais as Lise

John Dunn-Hill as Old Man at Farm

Polly Walker as Paula Jackson

As a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling himself Moses, she discovers a dead child, sadistic rituals, and ruthless mental and physical abuse.

The Boys Next Door

1996

English

7.2

♡ 1

88%

John Erman Director

Martha Burns as

Michael Jeter as Arnold Wiggins

Robert Sean Leonard as Barry Klemper

Courtney B. Vance as Lucien P. Singer

Kind-hearted social worker Jack Palmer feels guilty about not spending enough time with his wife due to the pressures of his job taking care of four developmentally disabled men: obsessive-compulsive Norman, bipolar Arnold, childlike Lucien, and schizophrenic Barry. When Jack announces his decision to leave his job, his four charges react quite unexpectedly to the news.

The Baby

1973

English

6.1

♡ 12

88%

Ted Post Director

Michael Pataki as Dennis

Tod Andrews as Doctor

Marianna Hill as Germaine Wadsworth

Joseph Bernard as Mr. Foley

A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. The problem is, the baby is twenty-one years old.

R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only

1983

English

6.4

♡ 14

Jane Howell Director

Su Elliot as Assessment Centre - House Parent

Roland Oliver as Assessment Centre - Superintendent

Arthur Nightingale as School - Caretaker

Peter Halliday as School - Headmaster

An isolated, overweight girl with a penchant for shoplifting, gets pushed from pillar to post as the authorities struggle to know what to do with her.

Bad Blood

2021

English

3.2

♡ 2

Eric Steele Director

Johnny Topping as Doctor

Adrian Palmer as George

Alisha Osman as Nina

Michael Kehoe as Valentin

A social worker takes a withdrawn homeless boy into her care, not suspecting that he is a vampire. As she she gets closer to him, his thirst for human blood increases and to protect him, she must help lure his next kill to satisfy his cravings.

Urban Hymn

2015

English

6.6

♡ 1

58%

Michael Caton-Jones Director

Shaun Parkes as Charlie

Caroline O'Neill as Fiona

Matthew Steer as Michael

Peter Vollebregt as Principle Council Officer Rob Nicholls

Set against the backdrop of the 2011 UK summer riots, Jamie, a young female offender who possesses a remarkable voice, meets a determined social worker who inspires her to use it.

Fourteen

2019

English

6.7

♡ 2

98%

52%

Action

Drama

elementary school teacher

female friendship

mental illness

social worker

Dan Sallitt Director

Norma Kuhling as Jo Mitchel

Tallie Medel as Mara

Caroline Luft as Mrs. Mitchel

Virginia Ahern as Wake Attendee #2

Twentysomething Brooklynites Mara and Jo have been close friends since middle school. Gradually, it becomes apparent that the increasingly unstable Jo has troubles that may be the result of substance abuse, or an even deeper problem. Over the course of a decade, the more stable Mara tries to help.

Paulina

2015

Spanish

6.5

♡ 7

90%

Santiago Mitre Director

Oscar Martínez as Fernando

Dolores Fonzi as Paulina

Verónica Llinás as Victoria

Andrea Quattrocchi as Viví

Paulina is a young lawyer with a promising career in Buenos Aires, who chooses to go back to her home town. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. Against his will, Paulina decides to teach in a suburban high school as part of an inclusion program. One night, after the second week working there, she's brutally assaulted by a gang. With the disapproval of the people around her, she decides to go back to work, in the neighborhood where she was attacked, without realizing that her attackers may be even closer than she thought.

The Unloved

2009

English

6.8

♡ 1

95%

Samantha Morton Director

Craig Parkinson as Ben

Johann Myers as Johann

Robert Carlyle as Lucy's Father

Michael Socha as Michael

Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow her struggle to cope with the system; her only saving being her self-belief and certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit.

Second Best

1994

English

6.8

♡ 3

100%

Chris Menges Director

Jodhi May as Alice

Jane Horrocks as Debbie

Prunella Scales as Margery

John Hurt as Uncle Turpin

The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.

Alanis

2017

Spanish

6.2

♡ 10

100%

Anahí Berneri Director

Sofía Gala Castiglione as Alanis / Maria

Jonathan Da Rosa as Dealer / Drug dealer

Marina Cohen as Madama / Madam

Estela Garelli as Trabajadora social / Social worker

A young Buenos Aires mother finds employment as a sex worker and struggles to live under the same laws that are supposed to protect her.

Case 39

2009

English

6.2

♡ 93

22%

Christian Alvart Director

Daniel Bacon as Businessperson

Ian McShane as Detective Barron

Renée Zellweger as Emily Jenkins

Bill Mondy as Interviewer

In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily assumes custody of Lilith while she looks for a foster family. However, Emily soon finds that dark forces surround the seemingly innocent girl, and the more she tries to protect Lilith, the more horrors she encounters.

The Specials

2019

French

7.4

♡ 8

82%

87%

Action

affectation

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd)

Olivier Nakache Director

Vincent Cassel as Bruno Haroche

Frédéric Pierrot as Inspecteur IGAS

Suliane Brahim as Inspectrice IGAS

Lyna Khoudri as Ludivine, l'orthophoniste

For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.

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Despicable Me: Minion Madness

Orangutan

Born Guilty

Past Midnight

Closer to Home

A Thousand Clowns

Dead Awake

Savage Messiah

The Boys Next Door

The Baby

R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only

Bad Blood

Urban Hymn

Fourteen

Paulina

The Unloved

Second Best

Alanis

Case 39

The Specials