The lives of a motherless young man, who's just starting to find interest in women, and his physically abused, poverty stricken friend, are mixed with more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges most their age experience.

Long Pigs

2007

English

♡ 4

Two desperate filmmakers began a documentary about a cannibalistic serial killer. What follows is their actual footage.

Annie

1999

English

♡ 2

based on comic

based on play or musical

child abuse

Comedy

Family

franklin delano roosevelt

holiday

musical

Musical

Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. It's an adventure that takes her from the cold, mean streets of New York to the warm, comforting arms of bighearted billionaire Oliver Warbucks - with plenty of mischief and music in between.

Please Don't Feed the Children

♡ 5

After a viral outbreak ravaged the country’s adult population, a group of orphans heads south in search of a new life, only to find themselves at the mercy of a deranged woman harboring a dangerous secret.

Aileen: Queen of the Serial Killers

2025

English

6.2

♡ 10

Aileen Wuornos remains a rarity: a female serial killer. From childhood abuse to death-row revelations, this documentary revisits her life and crimes.

Black Phone 2

2025

English

6.6

♡ 40

72%

Four years after escaping The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with his life after captivity. When his sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.

Noble

2014

English

6.8

♡ 18

82%

Stephen Bradley Director

Deirdre O'Kane as Christina Noble

Brendan Coyle as Gerry Shaw

Sarah Greene as Middle Christina

Eva Birthistle as Sister Laura

Christina Noble overcomes the harsh difficulties of her childhood in Ireland to discover her destiny on the streets of Saigon. A true story.

Oliver Twist

2005

English

6.8

♡ 54

61%

63%

Action

based on novel or book

Roman Polanski Director

Ophelia Lovibond as Bet

Ben Kingsley as Fagin

Mark Strong as Toby Crackit

Richard Durden as Unkind Board Member

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

The Foster Boy

2011

German

7.4

♡ 13

79%

Markus Imboden Director

Katja Riemann as Bösigerin

Heidy Forster as Grossmutter

Ernst C. Sigrist as Polizist

Christoph Gaugler as Störmetzger

Switzerland, 1955. The young orphan Max is sent as a foster child and contracted to work for the Bösiger family who lives on a farm. His foster parents treat him like a workhorse while their son seizes every opportunity to humiliate him. Playing the accordion is the one thing that is entirely his. But when the new teacher stands up for Max, it only makes a bad situation much worse. The only thing preserving his will to survive is his friendship with Berteli, who was also taken on to work at the farm. Max dreams of Argentina with her: a fantasy world, where allegedly even hayforks are made of silver.

A Dark Place

2018

English

6.2

♡ 49

Simon Fellows Director

Bronagh Waugh as Donna Reutzel

Denise Gough as Linda Connolly

Catherine Dyer as Mrs. Pomorski

Becky Wahlstrom as Tara

When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered.

Joe

2013

English

6.8

♡ 50

87%

68%

Action

based on novel or book

David Gordon Green Director

Tye Sheridan as Gary

Nicolas Cage as Joe

Ronnie Gene Blevins as Willie-Russell

Jonny Mars as Young Deputy

The rough-hewn boss of a lumber crew courts trouble when he steps in to protect the youngest member of his team from an abusive father.

For the Love of a Child

2006

English

7.1

♡ 3

87%

Douglas Barr Director

Maria del Mar as Annie

Jodi Stecyk as Johnny

Peri Gilpin as Sara

Teri Polo as Yvonne

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.

Mean Dreams

2016

English

6.3

♡ 34

80%

parent child relationship

Nathan Morlando Director

Richard Waugh as Bus Driver

Sophie Nélisse as Casey Caraway

Colm Feore as The Chief

Bill Paxton as Wayne Caraway

When two youngsters meet and fall for each other, they must go on the run from the girl's corrupt father, who is also the sheriff of the town.

Wildflower

1991

English

7.0

♡ 8

81%

Action

based on novel or book

Diane Keaton Director

Susan Blakely as Ada Guthrie

Patricia Arquette as Alice Guthrie

Reese Witherspoon as Ellie Perkins

Beau Bridges as Jack Perkins

One day Sammy and his younger sister Ellie happen upon a cabin where Alice, a young, partially deaf girl with epilepsy is being kept by her abusive stepfather. The three soon become friends and hope to get Alice an education and help her escape from the torture she undergoes daily. However, Alice's stepfather soon finds out about the friendship Alice has struck up and punishes her brutally. This story of friendship and youth shows that everyone is human and deserves to be treated so, no matter their disability or weakness.

Showbiz Kids

2020

English

7.0

♡ 10

92%

Alex Winter Director

Milla Jovovich as Self

Henry Thomas as Self

Cameron Boyce as Self

Finn Wolfhard as Self - Richie Tozier

A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a child.

One Night

2019

Japanese

6.5

♡ 6

Kazuya Shiraishi Director

Yûko Tanaka as Koharu Inamura

Kuranosuke Sasaki as Michio Doka

Mayu Matsuoka as Sonoko Inamura

Takeru Satoh as Yuji Inamura

A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago.

Sarah Plays a Werewolf

2017

French

6.3

♡ 2

Katharina Wyss Director

Lou Spring as Esther

Arcadi Radeff as Johannes

Loane Balthasar as Sarah

Sabine Timoteo as Schroeter

17-year old Sarah, filled with adolescent angst, is an extreme person who in her rehearsals with a theatre group is transformed until she is almost in a trance, and her performances at home or elsewhere verge on excess. A cold, intellectual father, a timid mother, a younger sister and an older brother who has left home complete the picture: a silent time bomb.

A Home of Our Own

1993

English

7.1

♡ 8

50%

Tony Bill Director

Tony Bill as Doctor

Kathy Bates as Frances Lacey

Frank Gerrish as Mr. Whitman

Edward Furlong as Shayne Lacey

In 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all the while facing numerous difficulties and obstacles during their journey.