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71
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70
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4.1
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78
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87
/38/

Caché (2005)
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.
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Kanopy
78
7.4
/31465/
72
/661/
70
/378/
3.5
/18618/
87
/143/
86
/1233/
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
76
7.2
/2244/
69
/105/
69
/24/
3.6
/6501/
97
/39/
82
/4/

A House Made of Splinters (2023)
A temporary house for abandoned children near the front line in eastern Ukraine is run by a small group of social workers determined to provide comfort and safety. It may be humble and somewhat run-down, but this house is filled with love and offers up to nine months of refuge to kids whose fate will be determined by the system. During this short time, the caretakers try to nurture within them a sense of stability and normalcy.
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Kanopy
68
6.9
/4057/
72
/187/
72
/480/
3.5
/6123/
81
/37/
76
/5/
59
/19/

Standing Tall (2015)
The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
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Hoopla
67
7.0
/7478/
70
/167/
64
/110/
3.3
/1534/
64
/116/
78
/297/
55
/30/

Evelyn (2002)
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 this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
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79
51
7.3
/2311/
72
/85/
69
/90/
3.8
/8941/
95
/19/
89
/1/

Love According to Dalva (2023)
One evening, Dalva is suddenly taken away from her father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.
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50
6.2
/13383/
66
/343/
66
/315/
3.0
/5208/
14
/14/
50
/193/
40
/18/
cc age 13+

Three Fugitives (1989)
On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank to raise money so that he can keep his daughter, Meg, and get her the treatment she needs. Dugan, a detective, assumes Lucas helped plan the robbery, and hence Lucas, Perry and Meg become three fugitives.
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Criterion Channel
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48
7.2
/1657/
64
/47/
67
/48/
3.8
/4649/
100
/5/
83
/2/

Adoption (1975)
When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses to comply. But by developing an unlikely friendship with the angst-ridden teenage orphan Anna, who is also involved in a controversial relationship, Kata discovers aspects of herself, and her role as a woman, that have gone unexamined throughout her entire, lonely life.
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MGM Plus
73
47
7.3
/1620/
60
/34/
70
/38/
3.6
/1111/
87
/209/

Sparrows (1926)
Molly, the eldest child of a group of orphans being used as slaves on a farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.
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40
5.7
/6894/
60
/144/
55
/130/
2.7
/1867/
22
/9/
32
/174/

Irresistible (2006)
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
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Amazon Prime Video
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39
5.6
/9415/
59
/209/
55
/184/
2.5
/2845/
38
/2/

The Gathering (2003)
Itinerant traveler Cassie Grant comes out of a car accident in Glastonbury, England, with partial memory loss. The deeply regretful driver allows her to convalesce at a large rural home, where she becomes friends with the woman's stepson, Michael. As Cassie delves into Michael's research about an old, newly discovered area church, it triggers some strange premonitions and offers gradual clues about her deeper links to this British community.
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Amazon Prime Video
59
33
5.9
/1426/
57
/65/
59
/22/
3.1
/2253/

Howard’s Mill (2021)
An abandoned piece of farmland in rural Tennessee may hold the key to multiple missing person cases spanning over forty years.
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67
29
7.0
/1483/
63
/33/
62
/36/
3.0
/568/
82
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The Devils (2002)
The story of the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents.
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69
26
7.2
/717/
63
/6/
73
/13/
3.6
/440/
67
/10/

The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004)
A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
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23
7.8
/834/
67
/12/
73
/21/
80
/10/

Little Criminals (1995)
Des is an eleven year old kid who has had a really bad deal in life. Crime and mischief are the main staples of his life and he and his friends cruise around the city and do things like vandalize, steal, light fires, and mug people. He thinks that he is untouchable because he cannot be charged until he is twelve. Cory becomes Des' best friend and they carry on like nothing can stop them; however, Des ends up at an assessment centre for troubled youths and may begin a new life without crime.
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66
20
6.6
/1123/
68
/9/
66
/25/
3.3
/266/
cc age 9+

Tom & Thomas (2002)
A young boy thinks he's got a lookalike around him, but nobody believes him. Then, he meets Thomas and they switch homes.
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53
16
5.8
/371/
37
/15/
46
/17/
3.6
/751/

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section One (1968)
A visualization of the inner world of foetal beginnings, the infant, the baby, the child - a shattering of the "myths of childhood" through revelation of the extremes of violent terror and overwhelming joy of that world darkened to most adults by their sentimental remembering of it ... a "tone poem" for the eye - very inspired by the music of Oliver Messiaen.
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59
12
5.9
/479/
56
/19/
56
/13/
3.3
/335/

Mr. Blot in Space (1988)
It's Christmas, and children at an orphanage in Maliszewo receive a computer that was given to them by another orphan who used to live there many years ago. During the night, the computer awakes itself and tells the children a story that will happen in 25 years...
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51
11
4.4
/273/
51
/6/
52
/5/
3.1
/954/

Suffer, Little Children (1983)
A mute child arrives at a children's home and starts terrorizing the other children with her demonic powers.
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73
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7.9
/4573/
71
/168/
72
/106/
3.9
/6066/

Seven Up! (1964)
A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. The filmmakers plan to re-interview them at 7 year intervals to track how their lives and attitudes change as they age.
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?
8.3
/71/
83
/5/

Groomed: A National Scandal (2025)
Five young women who survived unimaginable abuse and rape tell their stories of a gang grooming spanning 20 years. Failures of police and social services continue to this day.
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Amazon Prime Video
?
7.2
/18/

Justo a Tiempo (2024)
An egocentric young businessman and his secretary end up stranded in a trip to the countryside, getting in an odyssey that will test their faith and patience.
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?
5.2
/7/
10
/1/

Kesä kartsalla (1982)
N/A
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?
7.7
/21/

Tonia and her Children (2011)
11-year-old Werka and her 9-year-old brother Marcel wind up at the front door of a children's home in Wroclaw. Asked who they are, Werka replies, "We are children of communists." In return the teacher yells, "Why do they only send us Judeo-communists?!!!" It is 1949. Werka and Marcel's mother, a pre-war communist, is arrested and charged with collaborating with American intelligence. She will do five and half years. Her children will spend these years in other children's homes. A film about a brother and a sister marked with the ideological choices of their parents.
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?
3.6
/16/
40
/1/

Pasiáns (1977)
Student Eva is dashing up a steep slope to try to catch a bus, but she twists her ankle and the bus doesn't wait. There won't be another bus until the next day, and so Eva returns to her parents' cottage where she has been studying by herself for several days. She finds the door open, and inside a young man, Dusan, who behaves as if he were at home. Eva is a little scared and so she pretends to be a chance passerby who can't go any further because of her injured ankle. The boy offers her a bed for the night. He also fetches some plum brandy, they drink toasts to each other, and Eva starts to play Patience.
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?
6.9
/31/

C'est mieux la vie quand on est grand (2008)
A young boy accidentally kills his alcoholic mother and is sent to live in a foster home.
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?
6.5
/85/
23
/3/
33
/3/

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Four (1970)
Section IV is the longest of the four parts and the one in which the photographic material from the past plays the most prominent role. We see more of Brakhage and his wife than in previous sections, both in everyday activities and in the grip of intense emotion; a long sequence shows Jane weeping intercut with stills from her past; another shows Brakhage in anger. The children are seen in varying moods: fighting, crying, delighting in water, absorbed by the grass or their own bodies. The most banal surroundings, such as the bathroom, are totally transformed before our eyes into nearly abstract compositions of form and color, and a mundane activity like dishwashing becomes the occasion for an exploration of pure color. (Artforum)
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?
6.3
/78/
36
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45
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Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Three (1969)
Section Ill is the most abstract section of the four, and the only one which does not contain old photographic material. The means used in previous sections to achieve abstraction and transformation of the realistic image are here employed in the extreme so that texture, color, and shape predominate. We can recognize some realistic images, such as shots of the family walking in the woods, or the children reading comics and riding in a car, but the overall impression given by this section is one of abstraction. (Artforum)
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?
7.7
/27/
40
/2/
60
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Soft Sand, Blue Sea (1998)
13 year-old David and nine year-old Danni live in a children's home, where despite the best of adult intentions, there is conflict and sudden tragedy. When the pair escape the home, they embark upon a daring adventure in search of the beach.
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?
6.0
/36/
45
/2/

Great Sorrow (1975)
Jana is forced to live in a foster home and always dreams about family reunion.
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?
5.6
/22/
10
/1/

Bez grzechu (1988)
Marta leaves the orphanage and goes to her hometown. The flat left by the girl's parents is occupied by the girl's relatives.
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?
6.0
/21/
10
/1/

Boys (1972)
Zhenya Prokhorov, a pupil of an orphanage, draws the attention of the director of the capital's choir school. The professor strongly advises Zhenya to study. Having become a soloist in the boys' choir, Zhenya does not refuse from "left" concerts organized by the enterprising Victor Victorovich - and one day tears his voice. The young hero bears the first loss with dignity, and after graduating from the school enters the conservatory at the faculty of composition.
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?
6.5
/57/
65
/4/
45
/2/

Gisberta (2009)
Again and again, Elisha finds himself confronted by Alex, Timo, Sascha, and Mika – all 14-year-olds living in the boys’ orphanage with him. Their worlds ought to be similar and yet they are completely different.
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?
10
/1/

What Hedwig Didn't Tell Us (1995)
A sad story about a young girl who is forced to move from one foster home to another.
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?
6.3
/56/
80
/3/
65
/2/

Indians from Vetrov (1979)
In the frontier village Vetrov boys from the children's home called Indians lead a bitter "war" with the local Símáks. Before a battle the Indians have a meeting in the sandpit with a smoke signaling. The smoke brings to the sandpit a frontier guard Tomás with a police dog Ranek. The children learn from Tomás that Rank served out and that it shall be destroyed. The nine-year old Fanda writes a letter to the "minister of the frontier guards" in which he asks to let Ranek live. To save Ranek's life he also visits the local frontier guard commander. In the end it is decided that children from the children's home may keep Ranek.
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?
6.5
/39/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Escape Home (1980)
A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.
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73
?
7.1
/175/
70
/1/
80
/1/

Dark Secrets of a Trillion Dollar Island: Garenne (2020)
A documentary that examines the repercussions of the child abuse scandal that erupted on Jersey in 2007 and the role played by two bloggers in forcing the island to confront its past.
poster
58
?
4.6
/192/
70
/2/
60
/1/

Safe Harbor (2006)
Detective Carly Segan,( Tracy Gold), is investigating the Satanic murders of young women who all seem to have one thing in common... their time at a place called 'Safe Harbor'. Little does Joe Avery, her partner know, that she too has her own history with 'Safe Harbor'. As her past begins to unravel Carly is torn between two loyalties, should she trust her heart or trust her instincts.
poster
59
?
7.6
/306/
51
/5/
50
/4/

Care (2000)
A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.
poster
?
7.2
/38/
10
/1/
40
/1/

In Search of the Magical Bird (1964)
A fantasy story about the young boy Lutz who is looking, with two friends, for a missing magical bird.
poster
?
6.5
/83/
33
/3/
38
/4/

Scenes from Under Childhood, Section Two (1969)
In Section II we see a series of discrete sequences showing the children, now somewhat older, in different types of play. They manipulate tiny objects, doll furniture and miniature figures, dress up in costume, play outdoors, watch TV. We see them eating, sleeping, crying . . . A repeated image in this section, used both alone and in superimposition, is a moving, glittery golden dazzle which resembles tinselly pinpoints of light. There are golden dazzle images that look more like small bubbles than pinpoints. These glitter images, along with the occasional solid color frames, are recurrent threads connecting the separate sequences of this section. (Artforum)
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57
?
6.5
/242/
35
/2/
72
/6/

A Cry from the Streets (1958)
Bittersweet story about London's unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose contract with the local care home introduces him to the children and Ann. Events start to escalate out of control when a child takes possession of a loaded gun.
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47
?
6.6
/147/
26
/3/
51
/5/

No Place for Jennifer (1950)
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
poster
?
7.8
/49/
20
/1/
70
/2/

The Book of Great Wishes (1998)
Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of regrets at the end of his life.
poster
The Roku Channel
67
?
5.5
/262/
67
/14/
80
/80/

El fantasma de mi novia (2018)
N/A
poster
60
?
6.6
/141/
60
/2/
56
/5/

Screen Tests (1977)
Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.
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56
?
5.6
/145/
63
/3/
50
/3/

Vanechka (2007)
A young girl dreaming to become an actress goes through hell with an orphan baby on her hands. The whole world seems to be against her. She meets the love of her life when there is no one to stand by her.
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70
?
6.8
/222/
73
/14/
70
/16/

At Eye Level (2016)
11-year-old Michi lives in a children's home, every day fighting to win the respect of the other kids, till the day he finds his real dad, Tom - who happens to be a dwarf, even shorter than Michi is, the opposite of his idea of manliness and strength. When the kids find out, Michi's life becomes hell and he flees. With nowhere to go, he moves in with Tom, who is new to this fatherhood thing, while Michi tried to hide his embarrassment and shame from his fellow school kids. This forces Tom, who had coped well till now, to confront his handicap head on. As time passes, they discover they have more in common than other sons and fathers, until their relationship is again suddenly put to the hard test...


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