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poster
Criterion Channel
90
8.3
/19692/
80
/397/
81
/413/
4.4
/37200/
100
/20/
95
/266/
96
/17/

Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.
poster
Netflix
86
8.1
/781166/
80
/18876/
79
/11790/
4.2
/671248/
95
/376/
90
/6137/
96
/57/
cc age 15+

12 Years a Slave (2013)
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
poster
84
7.6
/145110/
75
/6151/
74
/3011/
4.1
/966368/
96
/318/
81
/958/
92
/44/
cc age 16+

The Florida Project (2017)
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
poster
84
8.4
/122360/
83
/2733/
81
/1915/
4.2
/120329/
90
/181/
93
/194/
75
/33/
cc age 16+

Capernaum (2018)
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him.
poster
Kanopy
84
7.8
/5133/
75
/91/
73
/120/
3.9
/5889/
100
/9/
87
/88/

Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
8.1
/76103/
80
/3470/
78
/1164/
4.0
/100466/
98
/132/
90
/1531/
83
/33/
cc age 14+

Blackfish (2013)
Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping such intelligent and sentient creatures in captivity.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.4
/31520/
72
/674/
69
/379/
3.5
/19266/
87
/143/
86
/1232/
80
/31/
cc age 10+

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
7.4
/3077/
76
/93/
71
/112/
4.1
/25289/
65
/49/
81
/1/

One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.
poster
The CW
77
7.5
/56479/
72
/1049/
73
/911/
3.6
/54132/
74
/43/
85
/1220/
68
/9/
cc age 16+

Sophie's Choice (1982)
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.1
/15895/
72
/522/
68
/216/
3.4
/10916/
91
/138/
76
/629/
67
/30/
cc age 13+

The Sapphires (2012)
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.
poster
Kanopy
81
72
7.8
/6532/
79
/116/
74
/191/
3.7
/2571/
88
/34/
93
/289/

Live and Become (2005)
In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
poster
71
6.8
/4048/
66
/114/
61
/105/
3.4
/2856/
93
/41/
79
/21/
74
/13/
cc age 13+

Sand Storm (2016)
A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
poster
Kanopy
71
7.5
/18612/
74
/444/
72
/704/
3.6
/8681/
72
/113/
82
/624/
59
/30/
cc age 14+

Sarah's Key (2010)
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
poster
Kanopy
69
7.1
/6169/
70
/130/
69
/87/
3.5
/1833/
71
/72/
70
/189/
60
/17/

Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
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 to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
poster
86
68
8.9
/5095/
84
/211/
84
/86/
4.3
/8284/
88
/11/

Dominion (2018)
Exposing the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture through drones, hidden & handheld cameras, the feature-length film explores the morality and validity of our dominion over the animal kingdom.
poster
73
67
7.0
/6716/
67
/151/
69
/118/
3.8
/5358/
84
/32/
76
/133/

Import/Export (2007)
A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...
poster
66
6.4
/3735/
65
/199/
64
/112/
3.3
/775/
75
/16/
66
/30/
68
/13/

Fort Bliss (2014)
After returning home from an extended tour in Afghanistan, a decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother struggles to rebuild her relationship with her young son.
poster
Kanopy
75
57
7.2
/2914/
74
/232/
74
/523/
3.8
/11920/
85
/13/
69
/1/

In Safe Hands (2018)
Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.
poster
Kanopy
71
55
7.1
/3385/
69
/75/
66
/69/
3.4
/941/
92
/13/
74
/26/
62
/5/

Two Lives (2012)
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?
poster
70
54
7.4
/4075/
70
/41/
59
/42/
3.5
/539/
78
/76/
79
/98/
64
/23/
cc age 17+

The Beautiful Country (2004)
After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.
poster
The Roku Channel
53
6.1
/3995/
61
/68/
57
/111/
3.0
/1547/
53
/59/
37
/33/
49
/15/

Thérèse (2012)
An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.
poster
Hoopla
60
37
5.8
/1188/
64
/96/
61
/388/
3.5
/7347/
49
/12/
cc age 10+

Trouble at Timpetill (2008)
The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.
poster
71
31
6.7
/523/
70
/12/
67
/20/
3.4
/771/
100
/6/
57
/2/

Gente de bien (2014)
Eric, a ten-year-old boy, finds himself living overnight with Gabriel, his father whom he barely knows. Seeing that the man is having a hard time building a relationship with his son and staying afloat financially, Maria Isabel, the upper-class woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to take the boy under her wing.
poster
70
30
6.3
/163/
53
/3/
78
/4/
3.2
/1272/
93
/14/

Mexico 86 (2025)
A Guatemalan activist battles a corrupt dictatorship in 1976 and flees to Mexico, leaving her son. Ten years later he joins her, forcing a choice between motherhood and her cause
poster
70
30
6.7
/323/
71
/6/
68
/20/
75

Ombline (2012)
Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for the first 18 months of its life, after which time the child must be given up and placed into state care. Ombline has no intention of surrendering her beloved little boy and is prepared to do anything to convince the authorities that she is capable of rearing the child after she has left prison. As her maternal instincts assert themselves, the young woman finds she has a cause worth fighting for, and an opportunity to rebuild her shattered life…
poster
67
25
7.1
/698/
60
/10/
66
/32/
3.6
/634/

Therese (1962)
Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only interest is preserving his family name and property. They live in an isolated country mansion surrounded by servants. Early in her marriage her only comforts are her fondness for Bernard's pine-tree forest, which was her primary reason for marrying him, and her love for her sister-in-law and Bernard's half-sister, Anne. The movie recounts in flashback the circumstances that led to her being charged with poisoning her husband.
poster
62
22
6.5
/789/
58
/10/
58
/27/
3.3
/758/

Daughter of Deceit (1951)
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
22
6.7
/550/
64
/12/
61
/27/
3.4
/958/
56
/11/

Chains (1949)
A family drama involving a wife torn between her husband and her criminal ex-lover.
poster
64
16
6.6
/400/
61
/11/
62
/23/
3.4
/368/

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1958)
A teacher runs an ad in the newspaper to find a wife. Afraid of beautiful ladies, he weds an ugly woman. After a car accident, he meets a doctor who offers to reveal his wife's beauty.
poster
56
11
6.5
/283/
35
/4/
56
/18/
3.4
/242/

La Voleuse (1966)
Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
7
6.3
/421/
67
/8/
50
/10/
3.3
/248/
67
/2/

Alias Maria (2015)
A vision of Colombia's inhuman armed conflict, seen through the eyes of a young - and pregnant - girl soldier.
poster
?
7.8
/81/
90
/2/
65
/2/

The Missing Children (2021)
At the Tuam mother and baby home in Ireland, 796 children born to unwed mothers disappeared. The Missing Children uncovers the truth of a shocking story of what happened to them.
poster
?
6.7
/21/
26
/3/

Breeders: A Subclass of Women (2014)
Surrogacy is fast becoming one of the major issues of the 21st century—celebrities and everyday people are increasingly using surrogates to build their families. But the practice is fraught with complex implications for women, children, and families. What is the impact on the women who serve as surrogates and on the children who are born from surrogacy? In what ways might money complicate things? What about altruistic surrogacy done for a family member or close friend? Is surrogacy a beautiful, loving act or does it simply degrade pregnancy to a service and a baby to a product? Can we find a middle ground? Should we even look for one? From The Center for Bioethics and Culture, producers of the award-winning Eggsploitation (2010, 2013), and Anonymous Father’s Day (2011), Breeders: A Subclass of Women? explores this important issue, talking with surrogates, physicians, psychologists, and activists across the political and ideological spectrum.
poster
?
5.0
/37/
50
/2/

My Monster Mom (2008)
Single-mom Esme gives her daughter for adoption to her elder brother who immediately goes to America. Twenty-seven years later, daughter Abby goes back to the Philippines to meet her real mom. But Abby's excitement is foiled upon knowing that Esme is loud mouthed and worst nightmare. Days spelled hell for Abby, as she discovers that she and her horrific mother are complete polar opposites.
poster
?
6.6
/47/
60
/2/

Conflit (1938)
Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
poster
58
?
6.0
/173/
52
/4/
64
/6/

The Girl in the Air (1992)
Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in a long line of surprising actions by the young woman. Somehow, she manages to get hooked to the young prisoner before realizing that he'll be locked up for another three or four decades. She decides that this is much too long to wait to spend time with her sweetheart and decides to learn how to fly a helicopter. Why? So she can fly in and take him out of his prison yard, which is exactly what she does, thrilling romantics all over France and seriously upsetting the authorities. This award-winning film is based on a true incident from 1986.
poster
Kanopy
?
7.9
/15/
10
/2/

Mom's Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mothers' Custody Movement (2006)
While the fight for LGBTQ Civil Rights movement was gaining momentum, the 1970s witnessed horrific custody battles for lesbian mothers. Mom's Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mothers’ Custody Movement revisits the early tumultuous years of the lesbian custody movement through the stories of five lesbian mothers and their four children. Narrated by Kate Clinton, the documentary interviews the sons and daughters who were separated from their mothers, the mothers themselves, and one woman who made the difficult decision to flee with her children.
poster
70
?
6.5
/211/
80
/3/
65
/6/

Shirley (2011)
Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of Splott and by the time she is 12 Shirley has discovered she has an extraordinary voice and can earn money singing in pubs around the docks after her father if jailed for sexual crimes. As a young teenager she begins singing and dancing in 'coloured review shows'. But it is a chance meeting with struggling agent Mike Sullivan that changes her life forever. He promises to make her a star, but has no idea of the personal sacrifice that will mean for the teenaged Shirley.
poster
54
?
5.6
/454/
66
/3/
53
/6/
44
/2/

Nightmare Street (1998)
After a woman jumps in front of a truck to save her daughter's life, she wakes up in the hospital in a seemingly alternate reality where everyone and everything in her life are different, including her own name.
poster
62
?
6.7
/409/
41
/8/
65
/9/
3.4
/248/

The Rats (1955)
Soon after World War II, a pregnant Polish refugee, Pauline, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfriend who abandoned her. She has no option but to sell her child to another woman, Anna. After the birth, Pauline decides she wants the baby back.
poster
?

Muddy Shoes
An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger brother's, still lives with the guilt until she finally shares her nightmare experience with her own adult daughter.


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