| Like Dandelion Dust (2009) | 7.0 | |
| The Tunnel (2013) | 7.9 | |
| Precious (2009) | 7.3 | |
| The Maxx (1995) | 8.2 | |
| Trade (2007) | 7.3 |
Social worker movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant social worker movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, emotional, independent film and disturbing films and TV shows about / with social worker, life is a bitch, society, youth, friendship, child abuse, family relations, coming of age, teenage girl and teenager plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as social worker: Standing Tall (2015), Short Term 12 (2013), 10½ (2010), The Unloved (2009), Punish Me (2006), Precious (2009), The Baby (1973), Case 39 (2009), The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015), Oranges and Sunshine (2010).
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, touching, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
social worker, juvenile delinquent, teen angst, juvenile delinquency, teenage boy, judge, pregnant teenager, teenage pregnancy, juvenile detention, mother's boyfriend, truancy, nervousness ...
Time:
year 2015, 90s, year 1997
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Style:
compassionate, sad, sweet, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
child abuse, social worker, depression, troubled teen, teenager, foster child, adolescence, suicide attempt, coming of age, mental illness, problem child, self harm ...
Time:
year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Tommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
boy, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquent, child abuse, social worker, isolation, youth, danger, precocious child, police, redemption, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Unloved is film that gives a child's eye view of the U.K.'s government-run care system for orphans and children in danger. Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
child care, foster child, social worker, abandonment, orphanage, isolation, life is a bitch, hopes, abusive father, youth, estranged mother, abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Deals with the obsessive relationship between a confused teenager and an elder woman. Elsa Seifert successfully works as probation officer, but the relationship to her longtime companion is in trouble since their common daughter moved out. Then she ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sexual, erotic, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
old woman, sex game, dominant woman, juvenile delinquent, teenage boy, submissive, masochist, fetishism, age difference, sex slave, male nudity, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, sao paulo brazil, hamburg germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style:
depressing, emotional, inspirational, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rape, dysfunctional family, coming of age, poverty, teacher, sexual abuse, illiteracy, african american, domestic violence, aids, child abuse, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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. ...
Style:
grindhouse, psychotronic, controversial, sexual, cult classic ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
abusive mother, social worker, dysfunctional family, cattle prod, brother sister sex, birthday party, domineering mother, mental retardation, punishment, incest, sex with sister, exploitation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
99K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, evil child, demon, supernatural horror, social worker, creepy child, child abuse, macabre, twists and turns, uncover truth, mysterious character, mental institution ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, Canada, Poland, Latvia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Irena Sendler is a Catholic social worker who has sympathized with the Jews since her childhood, when her physician father died of typhus contracted while treating poor Jewish patients. When she initially proposes saving Jewish children from the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, period piece, suspense ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
holocaust, nazi germany, world war two, ghetto, social worker, rescue, wartime life, nazi, historical figure, world war, against humanity, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the ...
Style:
entertaining, sincere, captivating, feel good, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
foster home, foster child, birth mother, bully, social services, friendship, soul mate, brother sister relationship, secret, mother daughter relationship, social worker, name calling ...
Place:
maryland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, captivating, motivational ...
Plot:
child abuse, deportation, social worker, against the odds, uncover truth, fighting the system, injustice, society, state affairs, life is a bitch, rebellion, family reunited ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, united kingdom, australia, europe, south australia ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the ...
Style:
disturbing, dark comedy, bloody, black comedy, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, dysfunctional family, disfigurement, road trip, murder, little red riding hood, brutality, police investigation, juvenile delinquent, strangulation, prostitution, perversion ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, san diego california
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Scott Barnes is an alcoholic turned social worker hellbent on saving a young boy named Tommy from self-destructing when he finds out he has begun selling crack in an organization called YIP, run by Carlos.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, psychotronic, crying
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, social worker, juvenile delinquent, rescue, undercover cop, missing person, teenage boy, kidnapping, drug lord, gang, falling from height, shootout ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
miami, florida, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
sincere, social, sentimental, touching, disturbing ...
Plot:
autism, social worker, autist, social services, empathy, hospital, society, life philosophy, rescue, hopes, lifestyle, friendship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Daniel - a recent university graduate with Down's Syndrome - falls in love on his first day at work in the Department of Social Services. Laura is an outsider who spends her nights in the city's crowded clubs and singles' bars, ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
mentally challenged, disability, love, fall in love, hopes, love and romance, looking for love, society, unfulfilled love, friendship, friends, college graduate ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story focuses on the life of an 11-year old boy surrounded by criminality and poverty in the suburbs of Naples.
Style:
disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, youth, friends, danger, society, life is a bitch, coming of age, social worker, social decay, urban ghetto life, teaching the ways of the world, street life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Basia and Marek have been on the run their whole lives. Along with their nine-year-old daughter Ula, they experience what it’s like to be an immigrant in Sweden. When a Swedish social worker visits their home, she witnesses Ula’s everyday ...
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, rough, emotional ...
Plot:
foster home, social worker, children, soccer, kidnapping, family drama, social services, immigrant, immigration, parent child relationship, child custody, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
poland
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Lilya lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilya hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working ...
Style:
sad, bleak, depressing, harsh, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
poverty, human trafficking, prostitution, friendship, sexual abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, suicide, teenage prostitution, teenage life, depression, rape ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
denmark, estonia, europe, russia, eastern europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
youth, motocross, father son relationship, juvenile delinquent, social worker, death of mother, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, dysfunctional family, family relations, estrangement, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
britain, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic
Plot:
orphan, social worker, man boy relationship, child abuse, adoption, single parent, absent father, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
england, europe, wales
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Nick Fallin is a hotshot lawyer working at his father's ultrasuccessful Pittsburgh law firm. Unfortunately, the high life has gotten the best of Nick. Arrested for drug use, he's sentenced to do 1,500 hours of community service, somehow to ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, sensitive
Plot:
lawyer, legal, child in peril, closeted homosexual, law firm, friendship, society, rivalry, father son relationship, social worker, dysfunctional family, law ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Leading up to Christmas, marketing executive, Lauren, is visited by the ghosts of four ex-boyfriends. She must learn to open her heart or risk losing her best friend, Nate.
Style:
thrilling, romantic, captivating, psychological, christmas special ...
Plot:
marriage proposal, christmas, christmas party, community center, gay couple, social worker, mother daughter estrangement, unrequited love, marketing, couple relations, love interest, love affair ...
Place:
boston
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them ...
Style:
atmospheric, feel good, sentimental, cute, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, boy scout, children, adolescence, first love, camp, youth, island, summer camp, orphan, search party, childhood ...
Time:
60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1965, 2010s
Place:
new england, rhode island, nebraska, usa, england ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who ...
Style:
sexy, rough, detective, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, missing child, sexual abuse, child molestation, sex slavery, slavery, child rape, rescue, child molester, forced prostitution, humiliation ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, mexico city, poland, texas, el paso texas ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
East Side/West Side is an American drama series starring George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, and later on, Linden Chiles. The series aired for only one season and was shown Monday nights on CBS.
TV Guide ranked it #6 on their 2013 list ...
Style:
suspense, tension, period piece, vintage
Plot:
social worker, social issues, child abuse, drug abuse, racial tension, realism, social commentary, compassion, black, urban decay, bureaucracy, grief ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Denis struggles to raise his boisterous daughters Janine and Mercredi on his own while holding down two jobs. Everything goes sour when Denis forgets Mercredi one too many times at the school gates. Séverine, a cheerful social worker, is appointed ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, entertaining, satirical
Plot:
social worker, sister sister relationship, single father, family relations, kids and family, parents and children, family life, family problems, parenthood, father, lifestyle, child custody ...
Time:
year 2016
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A compelling drama that explores the different meanings of being a parent through the gritty, realistic lives of a struggling family, and a privileged family. Their lives intersect, intertwine and collide, all for the love of a little boy. This film ...
Style:
sincere, sexy, touching, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
custody, hopes, adoption, starting over, parents and children, social worker, family life, wife abuse, adopted son, christian, family in crisis, faith ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ohio, florida
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of social welfare workers led by their new director tries to provide necessary aid to people struggling with various problems.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
social issues, social worker, flood, assistant, workplace, community service, workplace situations, coworker, social problems, society, urban, empathy ...
Place:
poland
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Kate Brasher is an American dramatic television series that was broadcast by CBS. It premiered at 9:00pm ET/PT on Saturday, February 24, 2001 and was cancelled after six episodes.
The title character was the single mother of teenaged sons Daniel ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot:
single mother, female protagonist, family relations, social worker, family drama, parents and children, needing money, life is a bitch, family problems, money problems, single parent, lifestyle ...
Place:
los angeles, santa monica california, california
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Wendell, a neurotic, aimless twentysomething, struggles to figure out which girl he really belongs with: Joanna, the best girl he's ever known, or Vicky, the worst. His friend, Dave, helps him sort through his thoughts as Wendell discovers not ...
Style:
humorous, mumblecore, semi serious, feel good, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, social worker, looking for love, self discovery, couples, wooing, fall in love, lifestyle, battle of the sexes, photographer, stand up comedian ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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