Child custody movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant child custody movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, emotional, captivating, serious and sentimental films and TV shows about / with child custody, family relations, family problems, father daughter relationship, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, dancing and divorce plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as child custody: Applause (2009), Custody (2017), Evelyn (2002), For Ellen (2012), Daddy's Little Girls (2007), The Book of Henry (2017), Mom or Dad? (2017), Real Steel (2011), Kotoko (2011), Gifted (2017).

List of child custody movies

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 6.7
 1K
Applause (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking period she divorced and lost custody of her two boys. Now she wants them to be a part of her life ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, estrangement, starting over, family relations, family problems, hopes, actor's life, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, parents and children, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.5
 10K
Custody (2017)
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, captivating, disturbing, touching, smart ...
Plot: custody battle, divorce, lie, child custody, lawyer, child, violent father, parent child relationship, boy, divorced parents, husband wife relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, year 2013
Place: france
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 7.0
 7K
Evelyn (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Ireland, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that ...
Style: sentimental, touching, sincere, feel good, intense ...
Plot: children, court, lawyer, mercy, family problems, unemployment, against the odds, parents and children, fighting the system, courtroom drama, 007, single father ...
Time: 50s, year 2002, 1950s, 20th century, year 1953
Place: ireland, sydney australia, scotland, europe, dublin ireland
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 6.0
 2K
For Ellen (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite tattoos, slimy hair, goatee, and his head firmly floating in the clouds, Joby hasn’t been around to be a ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot: parents and children, rivalry, hopes, family problems, custody, babies and infants, family relations, estrangement, family gatherings, child custody, musician, soul searching ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Daddy's Little Girls (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady ex-wife, Monty desperately tries to win them back with the help of Julia, a beautiful, Ivy ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sentimental, feel good, hood ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: father daughter relationship, custody, black, lawyer, looking for love, love and romance, society, legal, fall in love, human spirit, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, atlanta georgia
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The Book of Henry (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry ...
Style: touching, emotional, sad, entertaining, crime thriller ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: boy genius, genius, boy, single mother, friendship, suicide, mother son relationship, child prodigy, small town, fear, sick child, child abuse ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
Place: new york state
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 5.5
 1K
Mom or Dad? (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, funny, feel good ...
Plot: divorce, custody battle, humour, family relations, father son relationship, troubled marriage, male female relationship, family problems, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, relationship problems, father daughter relationship ...
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 7.1
 353K
Real Steel (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA, India
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In the near-future, Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After Charlie's robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.
Style: futuristic, feel good, exciting, sentimental, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: boxing, robot, father son relationship, underdog, androids and robots, technology, against the odds, parents and children, boy, contests and competitions, artificial intelligence, arena ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, near future, 2020s ...
Place: usa, iran, detroit, austin texas, brazil
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 6.8
 2K
Kotoko (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Suffering from double vision, a single mother (Cocco) tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifying hallucinations. Experiencing a nervous breakdown, she is deemed unfit to take care of her child and has it taken away from her. The only ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, slasher ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: depression, mental illness, single mother, child custody, nightmare, hallucination, mental breakdown, violence, rivalry, danger, asian prostitute, psychology ...
Place: japan
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 7.6
 129K
Gifted (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, sweet, light ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot: mathematics, genius, child prodigy, childhood, school, friendship, happiness, teacher, girl, children, child custody, uncle niece relationship ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, year 1998
Place: persia, boston, florida
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 7.0
 5K
Herself (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ...
Style: depressing, anamorphic, interesting
Plot: woman, women, feminism, feminist, hardship, migration, little girl, child custody, building a house, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence, man hits a woman ...
Time: 2020s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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 6.0
 38K
Raising Helen (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, feel good, touching, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot: adoption, happy ending, custody, orphan, couple relations, couples, parents and children, fashion, love, teenage girl, parenthood, opposites attract ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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A Thousand Clowns (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child ...
Style: spiritual, funny, semi serious, realistic, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: child custody, social worker, clown, hippie, spirituality, democracy, psychologist, uncle nephew relationship, illegitimate child, precocious child, nonconformity, library ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 4.5
 48K
Striptease (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Bounced from her job, Erin Grant needs money if she's to have any chance of winning back custody of her child. But, eventually, she must confront the naked truth: to take on the system, she'll have to take it all off. Erin strips to ...
Style: sexy, erotic, touching, sexual, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: striptease, strip club, stripper, dancing, nudity, blackmail, female nudity, erotica, congressman, custody, mother daughter relationship, yacht ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, usa, miami
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 6.7
 4K
Rails & Ties (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: orphan, train, family relations, friendship, terminal illness, family problems, father figure, grief, coming of age, parents and children, collision, suicidal ...
Time: year 2007
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 7.6
 155K
I Am Sam (2001)
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: inspirational, touching, emotional, tear jerker, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lawyer, father daughter relationship, mentally challenged, disability, single father, social services, custody, custody battle, child custody, parents and children, parenthood, mental illness ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Two Is a Family (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.
Style: feel good, touching, funny, inspirational, sad ...
Plot: single father, parenting, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, terminal illness, child care, responsibility, childhood, abandoned by mother, absent mother, parents, single parent ...
Time: year 2016
Place: africa, france, london
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Children of Love (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shows us a weekend in the life of a family torn by disputes and disappointments.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sexual ...
Plot: youth, family relations, custody, starting over, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, couples, single parent, love and romance, child custody, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, brussels, europe, brussels belgium
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All the Money in the World (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK, China
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
Style: captivating, rough, tense, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot: kidnapping, ransom demand, billionaire, rich, mafia, kidnapped boy, violence, escape attempt, money, greed, wealth, rich man ...
Time: year 2017, 70s, 2010s, year 1971, year 1973
Place: rome italy, italy, saudi arabia
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 5.7
 118
Mile Zero (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mile Zero is a story about a father with a remarkable capacity to love.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, gloomy
Plot: kidnapping, estrangement, couples, family problems, family relations, crumbling marriage, breakup, wilderness, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, parents and children, utopia ...
Time: 21st century
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Murder in the Hamptons (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After multi-millionaire Ted Ammon is found bludgeoned to death at his East Hampton estate, the fingers point to his estranged wife, Generosa Rand, and her lover, an electrician named Danny Pelosi.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, mind bending
Plot: murder, adoption, family relations, love affair, family problems, estrangement, couples, terminal illness, infidelity, legal, crumbling marriage, legal action ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
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 7.0
 19K
Thunder Road (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Officer Arnaud raises his daughter as a love letter to his late Mom.
Style: humorous, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: father daughter relationship, judge, police, lawyer, school, divorce, family relations, friendship, child custody, love and romance, couples, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, austin texas, texas
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 6.1
 931
Trench Road (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Simply put, this is a movie about the identity crisis of a modern man.
Style: brutal, psychotronic, psychological thriller, neurotic
Plot: real estate, marital separation, dysfunctional marriage, blackmail, desperation, dark humor, marital problem, family relations, obsession, marriage, husband wife relationship, real estate agent ...
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 6.4
 809
Age of Panic (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters. It's a manic Sunday in Paris: two agitated girls, a frazzled babysitter, a needy ...
Style: realistic, humorous, emotional, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: politics, family relations, parents and children, state affairs, journalist, election, ex husband ex wife relationship, child custody, love, rivalry, society, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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The Nanny Diaries (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, emotional, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: nanny, dysfunctional family, family relations, adult child friendship, mischievous children, obnoxious boss, parents and children, love and romance, little boy, fish out of water, fall in love, babysitting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa, connecticut ...
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 6.1
 1K
Return (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
Style: captivating, realistic, contemplative, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: homecoming, soldier, introspection, redemption, human nature, family problems, unfulfillment, military, small town, child custody, hot and sexy, iraq war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.4
 100
Dad or Mom (2023)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Florencia and Vicente are getting divorced. When both are promoted at their jobs, they will do anything in order to do not keep custody of their children.
Style: satirical, funny, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: divorce, relationship vs career, child custody, satire, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, male female relationship, relationships, family relations ...
Time: year 2007, 2020s, 2000s
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It's Your Turn, Honey! (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Toni and Marc want to divorce, because the great passion seems to be extinguished after 15 years of marriage. It should be a consensual separation, but the new beginning is not so easy: Both have just the chance of a job abroad.
Style: touching, captivating, tense, humorous, semi serious
Plot: parents and children, husband wife relationship, parent child relationship, family problems, child custody, breakup, love and romance, rivalry, life turned upside down, family feud, family crisis, family relations ...
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Deiva Thirumagal (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story: A mentally retarded man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his opponent lawyer the value of love and family.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: handicapped, courtroom drama, father daughter relationship, mental illness, lawyer, mental retardation, child custody, disability, court, family relations, social problems, physical disability ...
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 6.6
 14K
Paper Lives (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the streets of Istanbul, ailing waste warehouse worker Mehmet takes a small boy under his wing and must soon confront his own traumatic childhood.
Style: tense, sincere, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: help, street kid, life is a bitch, child custody, guardian, protector, changing lives, troubled past, care, assistant, haunted by the past, tragic past ...
Time: 2020s
Place: middle east, turkey
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