Child neglect movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant child neglect movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, bleak, psychological, touching and disturbing films and TV shows about / with child neglect, family relations, youth, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, child abuse, life is a bitch, children and parents and children plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres shot in USA, Sweden, UK and other countries.
child neglect
TOP 10 movies tagged as child neglect: Capernaum (2018), Jet Boy (2001), Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001), Treeless Mountain (2008), Tideland (2005), Crows (1994), Mother's Heart (1969), The Angel (2009), Autumn Sonata (1978), Snow Angels (2021).
Best films
List of child neglect movies
93K
Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France, Cyprus, Qatar, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.
Style:
social, sad, thought provoking, rough, cynical ...
Plot:
poverty, traumatic childhood, slum, misery, child abuse, refugee, neglected child, child protagonist, child labor, low lives, life is a bitch, child neglect ...
Time:
2010s, future
Place:
lebanon, beirut lebanon
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dave Schultz' feature debut Jet Boy is a drama about a boy attempting to figure out his future. Nathan (Branden Nadon) goes on a search to find his father after his mother dies of a drug overdose. Nathan has been prostituting himself in order ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sexy ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, man boy relationship, orphan, child neglect, gay, youth, prostitute, teenage prostitution, coming of age, lifestyle, young heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On November 4, 1970 on The CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite reported on a true, horrific story that was about to rock the country. A 13-year-old girl was discovered in the small Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia who was still in diapers, barely able to ...
Style:
uplifting, psychological, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
disability, human spirit, life is a bitch, family problems, self discovery, social misfits, hopes, society, isolation, mental illness, parents and children, doctors and patients ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In Seoul, Korea, two sisters must look after each other when their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father.
Style:
psychological, sincere, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
youth, children, single parent, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, family in crisis, when the parents are away, sister sister relationship, child's point of view, child protagonist, absent mother, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Place:
seoul
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34K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, bleak, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
heroin, isolation, imagination, mental illness, surrealism, mentally challenged, imaginary friend, child neglect, addiction, insanity, drug addiction, abandoned house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austin texas, denmark, texas, usa
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674
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
A thin child of about 10, nicknamed "Crow" because she mimics the bird, has no friends and rejects a teacher's hug. At home, she is left on her own, her mom locks her out while entertaining a lover or is asleep. One morning, Crow sees ...
Style:
surreal
Plot:
children, woman, coming of age, childhood, family relations, nude, daydreamer, female nudity, boy, mother daughter relationship, beach, father daughter relationship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Lorenz has three young children who are victims of a media who wishes to turn out terrorists. She contends with her monstrous offspring and student revolts until she can't take it anymore. Lorenz takes matters into her own hands by planting a ...
Plot:
death of child, communism, child neglect, fascism, terrorism, single mother, nanny, children, boy, lgbt, oedipus complex, erotica ...
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860
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A drug addict becomes a mother and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, non-linear ...
Plot:
child neglect, alcohol abuse, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, family problems, solitude, downfall, life is a bitch, youth, human nature, destructive relationship, coping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, norway
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In an apartment a single and psychotic mother locks in herself and her daughter. Here, the demons are in control. Ti can hear her mother talking to the demons, and she sees her changing and confined face. But the demons that the mother speaks with ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, captivating
Plot:
mental illness, mother daughter relationship, child abuse, child neglect, schizophrenia, abusive mother, malnutrition, paranoia, begging, isolation, social services, parent child relationship ...
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.
Style:
sad
Plot:
adoption, children, youth, love, mother and daughter, neglected child, school, teacher, husband wife relationship, little girl, child abuse, single mother ...
Place:
iowa
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: West Germany, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a career as a classical pianist. Over an emotional ...
Style:
art house, emotional, depressing, reflective, sexy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, marriage, autumn, mother daughter relationship, pianist, reconciliation, child neglect, mother daughter estrangement, family relations, women, existentialism, character study ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
sweden, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland
Duration: 341 min.
TV show
Story:
Two days before Christmas, while Sweden is paralyzed by a heavy snowstorm, five-week-old baby Lukas inexplicably disappears from his home. Experienced police officer Alice thinks that something is not right in the parents' stories.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, clever
Plot:
winter, missing person, police officer, deaf child, child neglect, social realism, murder investigation, police, family relations, track down, partners, partners against crime ...
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, sweden, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adoptive parents.
Plot:
adoption, child rape, coming of age, orphan, children, child abuse, hell, erotica, torture, love, brutality, poisoning ...
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314K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Style:
serious, art house, lgbt cinema, inspirational, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, drug dealer, african american, gay, forgiveness, coming of age, drug addict, dysfunctional family, bullying, beach, revenge, absent father ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
florida, atlanta georgia, miami
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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, emotional, sad, atmospheric, talky ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
divorce, childhood, dysfunctional family, unsupportive parent, step parent, child, marriage, crumbling marriage, starting over, family in crisis, family problems, lawyer ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, california, manhattan new york city
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650
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A 12 year old boy and his single mother live separate lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. The boy’s solitude is both a source of freedom and a cause for grief. His explorations slowly bring to ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
coming of age, working class, small town, family problems, parents and children, mother son relationship, youth, single parent, society, dysfunctional family, realism, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
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346K
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Sick, twisted, politically incorrect and Freakin' Sweet animated series featuring the adventures of the dysfunctional Griffin family. Bumbling Peter and long-suffering Lois have three kids. Stewie (a brilliant but sadistic baby bent on killing ...
Style:
adult animation, humorous, cynical, witty, funny ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
dark humor, eccentric family, family relations, social satire, dysfunctional family, adolescence, goofy hero, dog, family life, parents and children, sexual innuendo, small town ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2010s, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place:
rhode island, usa
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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, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, bully, coming of age, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, criminal, fight, misfit, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, southern california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
"Prosecuting Casey Anthony" reveals Florida prosecutor, Jeff Ashton’s inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony’s mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing her daughter, despite ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
court, courtroom drama, investigation, murder, dedicated lawyer, obsession, legal, courtroom, life is a bitch, true crime, criminal, one last case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.
Style:
anamorphic, realistic, serious, gloomy, touching ...
Plot:
prostitute, sailor, u.s. navy, female protagonist, pregnancy, dentist, child neglect, love and romance, babies and infants, life is a bitch, society, youth ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
seattle
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161K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 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, touching, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
school, children, mischievous children, supernatural ability, parents and children, adoption, teachers and students, dysfunctional family, young heroes, telekinesis, child protagonist, elementary school ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 90s
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11K
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. ...
Style:
bleak, gloomy, thought provoking, depressing, disturbing ...
Plot:
heroin, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, childhood trauma, drug addiction, haunted by the past, redemption, estrangement, loneliness, adaptation, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, denmark, europe, copenhagen
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property involving a friend's child, the town turns against her and Alice finds herself fighting ...
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
sex crime, women, family relations, testimony, false accusation, small town, drowning, friendship, sexual abuse, dairy farm, tantrum, nurse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, minnesota, milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin
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40K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young teacher discovers that her troubled student's father and younger brother harbor a deadly supernatural secret. Taking the boy into her care, the teacher must fight for their survival against horrors beyond imagination.
Style:
scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, slasher, suspenseful ...
Plot:
monster, creature, native american, fear, suspense, supernatural, superstition, myth, sheriff, supernatural power, school bully, cannibalism ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is befriended by Robert, whose undemanding companionship ...
Style:
bleak, art house, sincere, gloomy, serious ...
Plot:
youth, child neglect, lgbt, autobiography, neglect, friends, hopes, juvenile delinquency, military, redemption, society, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
egypt, scotland, middle east, europe, africa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany, Belgium, UK, France, Sweden
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Style:
erotic, disturbing, sexual, sexy, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, sex addict, lust, explicit sex, sexual perversion, nymphomaniac, bdsm, nymphomania, sex scene, erection, sexual relations, strong sexual content ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Ai, a young girl with shut-in tendencies, who tries not to interact with others. She keeps one of her eyes hidden behind her hair. One day, she happens to stop by a deserted arcade, where she meets "Acca." Spinning the gacha at their ...
Style:
anime, psychological, surreal, surprise ending, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
friendship, magical creature, self harm, teen suicide, bullying, slice of life, alternate reality, suicide, tragic past, moral dilemma, dream, school ...
Time:
future
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486
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman is haunted by flashbacks of her dead mother and visions of dead people floating.
Style:
cult film, weird
Plot:
female nudity, hallucination, exploitation, child abuse, musician, cult, satanism, naivete, devil, ghost, life after death, hell ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
Style:
bloody, perverse, mind blowing, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, gangsters, hitman, gang, organized crime, killer, samurai, prostitute, family relations, parents and children, introspection, mute or deaf ...
Time:
90s
Place:
taiwan, asia, taipei
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13K
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her
Style:
sexy, intense, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
chase, gunfight, female lawyer, suspense, on the run, fbi, hostage, spy, kgb, police detective, conspiracy, police protection ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
miami, florida, usa
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