Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "mother-child-separation"

1. The Florida Project (2017)

R | 111 min | Drama

Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.

Director: Sean Baker | Stars: Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Rivera

Votes: 128,379 | Gross: $5.90M

2. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt

Votes: 741,300 | Gross: $56.67M

3. Capernaum (2018)

R | 126 min | Drama

While serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime, a 12-year-old boy sues his parents for neglect.

Director: Nadine Labaki | Stars: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawsar Al Haddad

Votes: 105,398 | Gross: $1.66M

4. Sophie's Choice (1982)

R | 150 min | Drama, Romance

Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.

Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin

Votes: 52,768 | Gross: $30.04M

5. Blackfish (2013)

PG-13 | 83 min | Documentary

A documentary following the controversial captivity of killer whales, and its dangers for both humans and whales.

Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite | Stars: Tilikum, Dave Duffus, Samantha Berg, Dean Gomersall

Votes: 72,442 | Gross: $2.07M

6. Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

PG | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.

Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Kenneth Branagh, Laura Monaghan

Votes: 30,256 | Gross: $6.17M

7. Dominion (2018)

Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Horror

Dominion uses drones, hidden and handheld cameras to expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture, questioning the morality and validity of humankind's dominion over the animal kingdom.

Director: Chris Delforce | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Sia, Sadie Sink

Votes: 4,536

8. The Sapphires (2012)

PG-13 | 103 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

In 1968, four talented young Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertains the US troops in Vietnam.

Director: Wayne Blair | Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens

Votes: 15,173 | Gross: $2.45M

9. Sarah's Key (2010)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, War

In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942.

Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Mélusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup, Frédéric Pierrot

Votes: 17,926 | Gross: $7.69M

10. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

Not Rated | 124 min | Drama

In medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Kyôko Kagawa, Eitarô Shindô

Votes: 18,228

11. Fort Bliss (2014)

TV-14 | 116 min | Drama, War

After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.

Director: Claudia Myers | Stars: Pablo Schreiber, Michelle Monaghan, Ron Livingston, Emmanuelle Chriqui

Votes: 3,554

12. Import Export (2007)

Not Rated | 141 min | Drama

A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in Central Europe, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.

Director: Ulrich Seidl | Stars: Ekateryna Rak, Lidiya Oleksandrivna Savka, Oksana Ivanivna Sklyarenko, Dmytro Andriyovich Gachkov

Votes: 6,307

13. Oranges and Sunshine (2010)

R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History

Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.

Director: Jim Loach | Stars: Emily Watson, Aisling Loftus, Stuart Wolfenden, Lorraine Ashbourne

Votes: 5,905

14. One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, History

The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.

Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès, Mona Mairesse

Votes: 2,535 | Gross: $0.02M

15. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

Not Rated | 79 min | Drama

After falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Edith Meinhard

Votes: 4,822

16. Thérèse (2012)

110 min | Drama

An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures.

Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Catherine Arditi

Votes: 3,898

17. Live and Become (2005)

Unrated | 140 min | Drama

A Christian boy escapes to Israel from famine-stricken Ethiopia by pretending to be Jewish.

Director: Radu Mihaileanu | Stars: Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem, Moshe Agazai, Moshe Abebe

Votes: 6,310

18. Two Lives (2012)

Unrated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller

As the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow "war children."

Directors: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann | Stars: Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Sven Nordin, Ken Duken

Votes: 3,257 | Gross: $0.00M

19. In Safe Hands (2018)

G | 110 min | Drama

Theo was born an unwanted child. The social services set out to find the perfect home for his adoption.

Director: Jeanne Herry | Stars: Sandrine Kiberlain, Gilles Lellouche, Élodie Bouchez, Olivia Côte

Votes: 2,603 | Gross: $0.00M

20. The Beautiful Country (2004)

R | 125 min | Drama

After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.

Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Damien Nguyen, Bai Ling, Dang Quoc Thinh Tran, Thi Hoa Mai

Votes: 3,976 | Gross: $0.44M

21. Trouble at Timpetill (2008)

Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.

Director: Nicolas Bary | Stars: Raphaël Katz, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léo Legrand, Baptiste Bétoulaud

Votes: 1,111

22. The Missing Children (2021 TV Movie)

88 min | Documentary, Crime, History

A documentary about the Tuam mother and baby home in Galway, Ireland which closed in 1961.

Director: Tanya Stephan

Votes: 68

23. Sand Storm (2016)

87 min | Drama

When their entire lives shatter, two Bedouin women struggle to change the unchangeable rules, each in her own individual way.

Director: Elite Zexer | Stars: Lamis Ammar, Ruba Blal, Hitham Omari, Khadija Al Akel

Votes: 3,977 | Gross: $0.08M

24. The Ginger Tree (1989– )

240 min | Drama

In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married ... See full summary »

Stars: Samantha Bond, Daisuke Ryû, Fumi Dan, Joanna McCallum

Votes: 153

25. The Mirror Has Two Faces (1958)

96 min | Drama

A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who offers to reveal his wife's beauty.

Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Bourvil, Ivan Desny, Georgette Anys

Votes: 361

26. The Rats (1955)

91 min | Drama

In the early Fifties Pauline Karka (Maria Schell) comes to Berlin. She is pregnant and totally penniless. She meets the laundry owner Anna John (Heidemarie Hatheyer) who always yearned to ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Maria Schell, Curd Jürgens, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Gustav Knuth

Votes: 372

27. Therese (1962)

109 min | Drama

Unhappy in her marriage to a boring man who doesn't love her, a woman plans to get rid of him by slowly increasing the dosage of his medication.

Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Philippe Noiret, Edith Scob, Sami Frey

Votes: 644

28. Nightmare Street (1998 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 83 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

After a woman jumps in front of a truck to save her daughter's life, she wakes up in the hospital in a seemingly alternate reality where everyone and everything in her life are different, including her own name.

Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Sherilyn Fenn, Rena Sofer, Steve Harris, Matthew Walker

Votes: 422

29. Shirley (2011 TV Movie)

60 min | Biography, Drama

In 1938 mixed race baby Shirley Bassey, her mother and eight siblings are living in a poor area of Cardiff after her father is imprisoned for sexual offences. The teen-aged Shirley will ... See full summary »

Director: Colin Teague | Stars: Ruth Negga, Lesley Sharp, Babou Ceesay, Victoria Pugh

Votes: 203

30. The First, the Last (2016)

98 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Two bounty hunters (Albert Dupontel and Bouli Lanners) are looking for a cell phone in the french countryside. They meet cowboys, fools and Jesus.

Director: Bouli Lanners | Stars: Albert Dupontel, Bouli Lanners, Suzanne Clément, Michael Lonsdale

Votes: 1,064

31. Daughter of Deceit (1951)

78 min | Comedy, Drama

After discovering he's being cheated on by his wife María, Quintin kicks her out of the house. Upon leaving, his wife confesses that their daughter Martha is actually not Quintin'd daughter... See full summary »

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Fernando Soler, Alicia Caro, Fernando Soto, Rubén Rojo

Votes: 751

32. The Thief (1966)

88 min | Drama

Much to the detriment of his foster dad a middle class woman tries to reclaim her six years old boy she abandoned at birth.

Director: Jean Chapot | Stars: Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Hans Christian Blech, Sonja Schwarz

Votes: 256

33. Chains (1949)

74 min | Crime, Drama

First in a series of Matarazzo melodramas: A happily married Naples woman, with two children ,is threatened by the reappearance of a man from her past. Her husband takes a drastic action which results in the family members being separated.

Director: Raffaello Matarazzo | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Yvonne Sanson, Aldo Nicodemi, Roberto Murolo

Votes: 470

34. Alias Maria (2015)

TV-MA | 91 min | Drama, War

A vision of Colombia's inhuman armed conflict, seen through the eyes of a young - and pregnant - girl soldier.

Director: José Luis Rugeles | Stars: Carlos Clavijo, Anderson Gomez, Carmenza González, Lola Lagos

Votes: 401

35. Gente de bien (2014)

86 min | Drama

Eric, 10, finds himself almost overnight living with Gabriel, his father, who he barely knows. The man has trouble keeping their heads above water and building a relationship with his son. ... See full summary »

Director: Franco Lolli | Stars: Brayan Santamarià, Carlos Fernando Pérez, Alejandra Borrero, Santiago Martínez

Votes: 494

36. My Monster Mom (2008)

98 min | Comedy

Single-mom Esme gives her daughter for adoption to her elder brother who immediately goes to America. Twenty-seven years later, daughter Abby goes back to the Philippines to meet her real ... See full summary »

Director: Jose Javier Reyes | Stars: Rhian Ramos, Cherrie Madrigal, Richard Gutierrez, Ces Aldaba

Votes: 35

37. Muddy Shoes

Drama, War | Pre-production

A Jewish teen must choose between saving herself or her brother when the Nazis invade. Decades later, consumed with guilt, she finally opens up to her grown daughter about her horrific experience.

Director: Patrik Krivanek | Stars: Jaroslav Plesl, Ivan Franek, Leona, Tip Cullen

38. Ombline (2012)

95 min | Drama

The journey of a young mother in a prison with her baby boy.

Director: Stéphane Cazes | Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Nathalie Bécue, Corinne Masiero, Catherine Salée

Votes: 306

39. Conflit (1938)

94 min | Drama

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Director: Léonide Moguy | Stars: Annie Ducaux, Marguerite Pierry, Armand Bernard, Raymond Rouleau

Votes: 44

40. La fille de l'air (1992)

103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A woman, madly in love, decides to organize the escape of her husband who has received a sentence of 18 years in prison.

Director: Maroun Bagdadi | Stars: Béatrice Dalle, Thierry Fortineau, Hippolyte Girardot, Roland Bertin

Votes: 159

41. Breeders: A Subclass of Women? (2014)

52 min | Documentary

Surrogacy is fast becoming one of the major issues of the 21st century, celebrities and everyday people are increasingly using surrogates to build their families. But the practice is ... See full summary »

Directors: Matthew Eppinette, Jennifer Lahl | Stars: Marlane Angle, Cindy, Gail, Heather

Votes: 19

42. Spartacus & Cassandra (2014)

80 min | Documentary

Spartacus and Cassandra, the children of two homeless Roma, have been taken in by the young street worker Camille. In her little community she helps homeless and poor children and performs ... See full summary »

Director: Ioanis Nuguet | Stars: Cassandra Dumitru, Spartacus Ursu, Camille Brisson, Lamina Dumitru

Votes: 114

43. Why Me?: Stories from the Stolen Generation (2007 Video)

56 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

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Director: Rick Cavaggion | Stars: John Stanton, Sid Graham, Lyn Jones, Doris Kartinyeri

44. Theories of Human Development (2002 Video)

720 min | Documentary

Professor Malcolm W. Watson introduces six theories of human development, a field that is in large part about child development, and the people who devised each theory.

Director: Tom Dunton | Star: Malcolm W. Watson

45. Barnaby Jones (1973–1980)
Episode: Renegade's Child (1976)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Barnaby helps reunite a mother with her daughter on the day the daughter is released from prison. Then they ask him to find the daughters little boy who on the run with the ex-boyfriend, and he also happens to be involved in arms dealing.

Director: Harry Falk | Stars: Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether, Mark Shera, Don Johnson

Votes: 80

46. Unreported World (2000– )
Episode: Georgia's Baby Factory (2021)

Documentary, News

Anja Popp went to Georgia for Unreported World, and found a largely unregulated surrogacy market, where wealthy couples can have multiple babies at the same time, and where there is no shortage of vulnerable women to meet the demand.

47. Cutting Edge (1990–2017)
Episode: Leaving Home at 8 (2010)

48 min | Documentary

Following four eight-year-old girls as they begin a new life starting boarding school.

Director: Charlie Russell | Star: Paul McGann

48. Born in the USSR (1991– )
Episode: Born in the USSR: 28 Up (2012)

103 min | Documentary

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Director: Sergei Miroshnichenko | Stars: James McAvoy, Almaz, Andrei, Anton

Votes: 212

49. Show Me a Hero (2015)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2015)

TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, History

As 1988 begins, Nick tries to convince the Yonkers City Council to agree to the housing plan as the reaction from residents of the proposed new build sites turns nasty. Meanwhile, Carmen and Doreen face tough decisions.

Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Bob Balaban, Jon Bernthal, Ilfenesh Hadera

Votes: 481