| For Michelle (2017) | 8.3 | |
| Let Go (2017) | 7.6 | |
| Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) | 7.8 | |
| Wildcats (1986) | 6.1 | |
| Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) | 7.1 |
Custody battle movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant custody battle movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, emotional, serious, touching, feel good and sincere films and TV shows about / with custody battle, family relations, divorce, custody, lawyer, family problems, courtroom, family drama, court and child custody plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, Spain, Sweden and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as custody battle: Whose Daughter Is She? (1995), Charter (2020), Losing Isaiah (1995), Custody (2017), Black or White (2014), The Good Father (1985), Hollow Reed (1996), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Gracie's Choice (2004), You Keep the Kids (2021).
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List of custody battle movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Whose Daughter is She?
Style:
tear jerker, sentimental, realistic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
custody battle, child custody, family drama, parent child relationship, protective mother, blended family, 13 year old, moral dilemma, women, betrayal, jealousy, manipulation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a recent and difficult divorce, Alice hasn't seen her children in two months as she awaits a custody verdict. When her son calls her in the middle of the night, Alice takes action, abducting the children on an illicit charter trip to the ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
custody battle, abduction, boy, children, family relations, on the run, family conflict, husband wife conflict, father son relationship, resort, mother daughter conflict, teenage girl ...
Place:
canary islands, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, ...
Style:
sexy, emotional, heartbreaking, touching, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
adoption, custody battle, courtroom drama, racist, custody, justice, single parent, parents and children, family problems, legal action, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
cuba
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the midst of a divorce, Miriam Besson decides to ask for exclusive custody to her son, in order to protect him from a father that she is accusing of violence. The judge-in-charge of the file grants a shared custody to the father whom it considers ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
custody battle, divorce, lie, child custody, lawyer, violent father, boy, divorced parents, parent child relationship, child, sexualized violence, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, year 2013
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
Style:
sincere, touching, compassionate, colorful, happy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
interracial relations, custody, family drama, custody battle, courtroom, culture clash, adoption, lawyer, widower, family problems, father daughter relationship, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, new orleans
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bill Hooper -- bitter after a messy divorce -- tries to help a friend gain custody of his child any way he can.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
battle of the sexes, family relations, family problems, courtroom drama, breakup, legal action, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, dysfunctional marriage, custody battle, divorce, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Following the break-up of his marriage after revealing his homosexuality, GP Martin Wyatt loses custody of his son Oliver to his now ex-wife Hannah and her new partner Frank. It is not long, however, until Oliver appears at the house of Martin and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
homosexuality, gay, gay relationship, custody battle, child abuse, divorce, lgbt, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, hospital, lawyer, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, clever, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
courtroom, divorce, lawyer, marriage, custody battle, father son relationship, single father, family drama, courtroom drama, legal, family relations, court ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, california, usa, persia, new york state ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
custody battle, teenage girl, coming of age, custody, youth, responsibility, abusive mother, teenager, family values, dysfunctional family, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nova scotia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Flora and Victor are fun, modern, caring parents. That is, until they decide to get a divorce, and the perfect job opportunity turns up for them. They now have one problem: custody.
Style:
satirical, feel good, funny, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
custody battle, child custody, divorce, satire, social satire, family problems, family relations, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, parents and children, parenting, dark humor ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the Henry James novella, the story frames on 7-year-old Maisie, caught in a custody battle between her mother – a rock and roll icon – and her father. What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos of adult life seen entirely ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sad, talky, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
childhood, divorce, child, dysfunctional family, unsupportive parent, custody battle, marriage, family in crisis, family problems, crumbling marriage, starting over, crumbling relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, california
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, South Africa
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Dr. Lila Colleti is divorcing her husband and is devastated when he wins custody of their two little girls, whom he gets largely because Lila's job, being a psychiatrist for the criminally insane at the local prison, is a ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, neo noir ...
Plot:
police investigation, obsession, murder, false accusation, ex husband ex wife relationship, prison, woman in danger, police detective, family problems, custody, dangerous attraction, custody battle ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Recently released from prison, Beth is working with her public defender to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth was incarcerated for ten years. Soon after, Beth forms an unlikely alliance with Jess, an ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, melancholic, romantic drama, tense
Plot:
custody battle, mother daughter estrangement, rehabilitation, sister sister relationship, public defender, ex convict, motherhood, family drama, female protagonist, character study, women's issues, family conflict ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
courtroom drama, divorce, sex, children, women, love, friendship, lawyer, father daughter relationship, passion, mother daughter relationship, piano ...
Time:
80s
Place:
connecticut, maine, boston
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two ...
Style:
psychological, clever, harsh, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
revenge, lawyer, vengeance, feud, court, drug addict, brutality, destiny, justice, courtroom, coincidence, vigilante ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
Style:
depressing, sincere, talky, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
divorce, dysfunctional family, coming of age, father son relationship, infidelity, boy, adultery, marriage, drinking, cat, underage drinking, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, near future, year 2005, 80s, 2000s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A househusband (Martin Donovan) serves his wife (Lorraine Bracco) with divorce papers and charges her with being an unfit mother.
Plot:
basketball, custody battle, award, businesswoman, divorce, separation, best friend, loss of job, working mom, married couple, couples therapy, anger ...
Place:
boston
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A love story between a female bodyguard who used to be a Taekwondo athlete and her tall, rich and handsome client.
Someone has broken into Hou Jue's (Johnny Huang) house. In the face of inexplicable death threats, Hou Zhirong (Wang Ce) who ...
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, disturbing, heartfelt, suspense
Plot:
female bodyguard, taekwondo, custody battle, rich man poor woman, female protagonist, fight, female fighter, martial arts, divorced woman, male female relationship, rich man, family problems ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as an English ...
Style:
feel good, touching, funny, sweet, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
cross dressing, divorce, comedy of errors, nanny, gender, kids and family, children, custody battle, transvestism, transvestite, childhood, parenting ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
bay area, san francisco, california, usa, north america
Is relevant?
16K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
american football, football, high school football, high school, coach, rivalry, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle, sport team, ambition, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Poor painter helps a paralysed child.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, independent film, period piece ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
custody battle, paralysis, poverty, disabled child, underdog, social commentary, compassion, struggle, character study, social realism, bonding, family drama ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When his husband Gabriel files for divorce, Nicky fights for custody of their eight year-old son Owen, as he struggles to come to terms with what it means to love someone and what it means to be a father.
Style:
serious, social, captivating, dramatic
Plot:
gay couple, gay father, couples, gay parent, gay interest, gay, father son relationship, custody, custody battle, son, interracial relations, family relations ...
Is relevant?
161K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, sad, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
lawyer, mentally challenged, father daughter relationship, single father, child custody, social services, custody, custody battle, disability, parents and children, foster child, love ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Pedro, a gay man with an active social life and big circle of friends, takes in his nephew Bernardo for a couple weeks. When it appears as though it might become a permanent arrangement, however, Pedro turns to his friends for guidance as he and ...
Style:
sincere, touching, sentimental, semi serious, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay interest, lgbtq, custody battle, gay parent, lgbt, gay bear, youth, gay sex, uncle nephew relationship, male nudity, gay adoption ...
Place:
spain, asia, india
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, period piece, tear jerker
Plot:
child custody, lesbian mother, lesbian, custody battle, family drama, mother love, motherhood, courtroom, single mother, gay slur, parent child relationship, discrimination ...
Time:
70s
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min.
TV show
Story:
A true story about a woman who fights her brother-in-law's parents for custody of her deceased sister's baby upon learning that her brother-in-law murdered her sister.
Style:
emotional, suspenseful, intense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
custody battle, murder, family conflict, mother love, determination, grief, female protagonist, justice, courtroom, investigation, bereavement, moral dilemma ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This heart-wrenching story inspired by real events depicts the trials of the Brady family, who are trying desperately to adopt a helpless little girl they took in when she was in a foster care program. Clara and Tim Brady are in for the fight of ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, tear jerker, sad, controversial ...
Plot:
child abuse, foster home, custody battle, social services, family drama, child molestation, trauma, domestic abuse, empathy, moral dilemma, family values, courtroom drama ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young widow, supporting herself and her son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds the place turned into a strip joint.
Style:
emotional, period piece, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
custody battle, single mother, widow, female protagonist, striptease, motherhood, burlesque, female exploitation, survival, exploitation, sexual content, moral dilemma ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A hypno-therapist in midlife crisis must tackle his own personal challenges before helping others and getting joint custody of his kids.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, captivating, satirical, comedy drama ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, satire, doctor, family relations, custody battle, hypnosis, relationship problems, social problems, family problems, hypnotist, relationships, self discovery ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young woman fights to keep her rapist from gaining custody of her daughter.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, violence, rape victim, female protagonist, custody battle, family relations, life is a bitch, social problems, rape and revenge, sexual abuse, rape, relationship problems ...
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