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List of neglected child movies

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When Marnie Was There (2014)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a girl who lives there - a girl who may or may not be real.
Style: anime, touching, emotional, sentimental, scenic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, chick flick
Plot: friendship, self discovery, childhood, dream, countryside, loneliness, young girl, photograph, teenage life, imaginary friend, magic realism, orphan ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: japan, hokkaido, asia
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We the Animals (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
Style: captivating, psychological, sentimental, touching, indie film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: boy, lgbt, gay, coming of age, family relations, gay porn, father son relationship, teenage boy, husband wife relationship, theft, birthday, marriage ...
Place: new york state, philadelphia, spain, brooklyn new york city, new york
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Viper in the Fist (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 1920. Jean Rezeau and his elder brother were living happily in their family estate in Brittany, until the death of their grandmother. The return of their mother, a worthy descendant of fairytales' witches, brings an all new atmosphere to their ...
Plot: coming of age, brother brother relationship, bourgeoisie, death of grandmother, bad mother, mother son relationship, european, hate, power, family relations, flying, electricity ...
Time: 1920s
Place: brittany, france
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 7.3
 47
The Toy Shop (1996)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
Story: Locked in a deserted old English toy shop, Katherine and her stuffy cousin Matthew meet some very special friends. Their fantasy world becomes a nightmare when Master Jack, the evil jack-in-the-box casts a spell and shrinks Katherine to the size of ...
Style: crying
Plot: joke, fear, wealth, truck, tea, flashback, dog, good versus evil, chase, book, nervousness, water ...
Time: 1910s
Place: england
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story: This is a made for tv adaptation of Barbara Robinson's novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Loretta Swit of M*A*S*H stars as Grace Bradley who inherits the job of running her church's Christmas pageant when the woman who usually does it ...
Style: christmas special, christmas classics
Plot: christmas, christmas season, firefighter, bullying, child neglect, juvenile delinquent, petty theft, dysfunctional family, holiday, nativity, fireman, spying ...
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 7.2
 650
The Mutants (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The Mutants (Portuguese: Os mutantes) is a 1998 Portuguese film by director Teresa Villaverde, starring Ana Moreira and Alexandre Pinto. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Style: bleak
Plot: erotica, woman, friendship, police officer, homeless teenager, theft, brother, abused child, coming of age, surrogate brother, poverty, friendship between boys ...
Place: portugal
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Savannah Smiles (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The young daughter of a politician runs away due to lack of attention. She hides in the car of two not too bright crooks who are slowly converted into parent figures as the police web closes down on the supposed kidnappers.
Style: entertaining, touching, epic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: runaway, happy ending, youth, kidnapping, politician, memory, storytelling, police, ransom, child, neglect, family relations ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
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Troop Beverly Hills (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Beverly Hills housewife in the middle of a divorce tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop.
Style: family comedy, independent film, realistic, not serious, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: wilderness, divorce, female bonding, fish out of water, self discovery, friendship between girls, scout, wealth, female protagonist, competition, socialite, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: california, beverly hills, los angeles, usa, southern california
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 6.1
 2K
The Past (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Brazil
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After 12 years, Sofía and Rímini decided to separate. While Rímini finds it easy to move on and start a new life, Sofía stays stuck in the past and constantly harasses him. She reappears again and again on Rímini's horizon to reconquer ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, melancholic, erotic ...
Plot: couples, breakup, family problems, crumbling marriage, obsession, introspection, downfall, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, mentally unstable, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america
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Labyrinth of Passion (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A camp melodrama/comedy about Sexilia (a nymphomaniac), Sadec (a gay Islamic terrorist), Riza Niro (the son of the emperor of Tiran), and Queti (the daughter of a dry-cleaner).
Style: sex comedy, erotic, sexy, sexual, humorous ...
Plot: gay, kidnapping, viagra, drug, nymphomaniac, farce, lgbt, lgbtq, terrorism, gay interest, psychologist, truth ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: spain, middle east, iran, europe, madrid
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Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, humorous, funny, teen ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: large family, children, family relations, teenager, parenthood, dysfunctional family, chaos, parents and children, eccentric family, nothing goes right, siblings relations, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Aleksandr's Price (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The life of an illegal Russian boy who, after losing his family, is pushed into becoming an escort - ultimately trying to come to terms with who he thinks he is.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: male prostitution, male escort, gay rape, male prostitute, lgbt, immigrant, self discovery, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, gay, society, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.6
 11K
Suicide Room (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Dominik is an ordinary boy. He's got loads of friends, the hottest girl in school, rich parents and money to spend on brand-name clothes. But one innocent kiss with a mate changes everything. He begins to isolate himself from the outside world, ...
Style: bleak, tense, captivating, serious, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: suicide, gay, mental illness, escape from reality, youth, emo, addiction, internet, alienation, self destructing, teenage boy, fictional reality ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: poland, europe
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A Bag of Hammers (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the family they've always needed.
Style: feel good, touching, semi serious, humorous, indie film ...
Plot: youth, friendship, bully, coming of age, family relations, dysfunctional family, criminal, fight, misfit, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, southern california, usa
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 7.2
 2K
Stella (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 1977. Stella entre en sixième, dans un grand lycée parisien. Stella entre dans le monde... Un nouveau monde, à l'opposé de celui qu'elle connaît. Presque un miracle. Elle, elle vit dans un café, un café d'ouvrier, à la ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, working class, mischievous children, misfit, disorder, power relations, elementary school, teachers and students, school, parents and children, streetwise ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 7.0
 173K
Matilda (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
Style: feel good, fairy tale, humorous, sweet, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: school, children, mischievous children, supernatural ability, parents and children, elementary school, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, childhood, young heroes, child prodigy, telekinesis ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place: america
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 5.3
 8K
The Falling (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.
Style: serious, tense, psychological, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, mother daughter relationship, secret, epidemic, best friend, incest, mass hysteria, friendship, bare butt, girls' boarding school, schoolgirl, brother sister incest ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: england
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 8.3
 791K
Amelie (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, touching, sweet, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: loneliness, love, magic realism, fall in love, imagination, female protagonist, cafe, love and romance, optimism, lifestyle change, surrealism, life ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, 90s, year 1974, 20th century ...
Place: paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris, quebec
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Anne of Green Gables (1985)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, West Germany, USA
Duration: 199 min.
TV show
Story: At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, period piece, emotional, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: adoption, orphan, imagination, teaching the ways of the world, teenage love, coming of age, countryside, best friend, young heroes, love and romance, foster home, little girl ...
Time: 1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 1800s, year 1985 ...
Place: canada, america
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 7.6
 581K
Despicable Me (2010)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Villainous Gru lives up to his reputation as a despicable, deplorable and downright unlikable guy when he hatches a plan to steal the moon from the sky. But he has a tough time staying on task after three orphans land in his care.
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: adoption, imaginary, orphan, children, friendship, super villain, minion, escapades, kids and family, lifestyle change, chase, adoptive father ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 20th century, 60s, year 1969 ...
Place: usa, north korea, egypt
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Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 162 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: motivational, touching, inspirational, captivating, educational ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dyslexia, teachers and students, teacher, teaching the ways of the world, childhood, self discovery, dedicated educator, young heroes, coming of age, shyness, school, learning disability ...
Time: future, year 2007, 2010s, 21st century
Place: india, middle east, asia, mumbai india
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 6.8
 67K
Storks (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, computer animated, touching, colorful ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, preschool
Plot: baby, talking bird, stork, anthropomorphic animal, transformation, good versus evil, neglected child, bird, talking animal, animal, father, son ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: tokyo, new york, japan
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Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and ...
Style: emotional, tear jerker, sad, touching, heartbreaking ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, magical, fantasy world, loneliness, classmate, school, imaginary, friends ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
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 7.2
 3K
The Apple (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
Style: compassionate, serious, sincere, art house, contemplative ...
Plot: isolation, father daughter relationship, confined, family relations, religions or cults, society, human nature, life is a bitch, children, childhood, blindness, twins ...
Time: 90s
Place: iran, middle east
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 4.8
 15K
Shut In (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, twist ending, clever ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: held captive, single parent, boy, isolation, stepmother, murder, missing child, child in peril, doctor, little boy, obsession, nightmare ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: new england, usa
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American Fable (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When 11-year-old Gitty discovers that her father, Abe, a good and beloved farmer, is holding a wealthy man hostage in their abandoned silo in order to save their suffering farm, she befriends the captive in secret. As the truth unfolds about who he ...
Style: suspenseful, enigmatic, disturbing, suspense, tense ...
Plot: farmer, psychopath, child, hostage, moral dilemma, brother sister relationship, dark secret, child's point of view, child in peril, farm, children, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
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 8.0
 11K
Third Watch (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen, and paramedics, all working the same fictional 55th precinct during the 3pm to 11pm shift - the 'Third Watch'.
Style: medical drama, detective, action adventure, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: medical, firefighter, paramedic, police officer, police, nypd, rescue, law enforcement, die hard, police corruption, danger, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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Romulus, My Father (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, coming of age, isolation, family problems, hopes, impossible love, couples, couple relations, rivalry, love and romance, parents and children, teenage life ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 60s
Place: australia, melbourne
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 7.9
 86K
Shoplifters (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the ...
Style: independent film, sexual, art house, thought provoking, art film ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: poverty, shoplifting, father son relationship, social realism, poor family, family drama, secret, theft, domestic abuse, beach, child abduction, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 2010s, near future
Place: tokyo, east asia, japan, nebraska, sarajevo
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