Films and programs like Little Orphans

Come Down Molly

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 6.3

New mother Molly (Eléonore Hendricks) is overcome with the need to run away. Feeling abandoned by her husband and unable to connect with her infant son, she takes up an invitation from her old high sc...

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MacShayne: Winner Takes All

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1994 IMDB Rating: 5.9

MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to Las Vegas to see his son, but when he gets there, his ex-wife is no longer where she use to live and wo...

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Don't Take My Baby

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Factual drama which tells the story of a disabled couple's agonising struggle to keep their newborn baby. Based on real-life testimony, this emotional tale will call viewers' prejudices and beliefs ab...

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Heidi

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder charge. Heidi soon takes to the wild country, especiall...

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The Almond and the Seahorse

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 5.4

For Gwen, it's always 1999. The face in the mirror is unfamiliar and her partner isn't recognizable to her despite waking up together every day. Joe's past is coming undone and his partner, Sarah, fea...

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Speak Like a Child

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Speak Like a Child, the feature film debut of documentary director John Akomfrah, explores the intense friendship that evolves between three troubled teenagers growing up in an isolated children's hom...

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Empire of Dirt

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Like many Native families, Lena Mahikan grew up in the cycle of abuse. Her father, a residential school survivor, was an alcoholic until he killed himself when Lena was 10. Her mother, only 14 years h...

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The Longest Weekend

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 6

Three disconnected siblings find themselves living once again under the same roof when the father who abandoned them returns to their lives.

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The Wronged Man

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhoo...

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