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- DirectorMichael Ray RhodesStarsSarah Jessica ParkerSally StruthersLexi RandallFact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.
- DirectorDon McBreartyStarsSusan ClarkPeter MacNeillCatherine FitchA couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story.
- StarsBeau BridgesRoy DupuisCéline BonnierThe true story that shocked 1930's Canada. When a poor rural Ontario family gives birth to quintuplet, the town doctor doesn't waste a second in taking over the family. He helps to take care of the babies but soon turns them into a freak show. By the time the government finally gets involved, the babies are a multi-million-dollar industry. How can the desperate, uneducated parents regain their babies and bring their family back together?
- DirectorLarry PeerceStarsMel HarrisDwight SchultzAshley PeldonA pastor and his wife adopt a brother and a sister, but the girl has terrible outbursts of rage. They get her in treatment and try to find out the reason for this.
- DirectorPaul SchneiderStarsTracey GoldJill ClayburghCameron BancroftThe parents of an anorexic woman fight to save her life.
- DirectorLinda OttoStarsBill SmitrovichKathleen YorkRobert JoyGregory Kingsley is placed in a boys' ranch after his mother can't take care of him and his two brothers; there he meets a lawyer who wants to adopt him.
- DirectorRanda HainesStarsTed DansonGlenn CloseOlivia ColeCounseling helps a family deal with the discovery that their daughter was sexually abused by a close relative.
- DirectorJorge MontesiStarsArt HindleRosemary DunsmoreSusan HoganA young Canadian girl accuses her father of child molestation. She's upset to discover that most of the people in her life believe that she's lying about it, and struggles with the public backlash.
- DirectorNorma BaileyStarsSean YoungKimberlee PetersonRobert WisdenDawn Cottrell (Peterson) seems like a typical sixteen-year-old girl, but she has a very dangerous secret. Unable to express her true feelings, whenever Dawn is upset she grabs a knife and cuts herself.
- DirectorSteve DiMarcoStarsTerra VnesaAndrew Martin-SmithStephanie NikolaidisOne night at a party, three teenagers start a friendship that becomes the most important of their lives. As the they grow closer to each other, we begin to see the root of each of their hurts. Stevie's father refuses to deal with the suicide of Stevie's mother and ignores Stevie's need to deal with it. Darla is forced to deal with surviving on her own after her mother abandons them and her sister commits suicide. Boy's heroin addicted father tries to force Boy into procuring his drugs at any cost. These ever-escalating problems push Stevie, Darla and Boy into a darker corner than they've ever been. They decide to fight their way out together.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsCecilley CarrollBen SieglerNigel BennettDifferent is the story of a woman with a traumatic brain injury, (Annabeth Gish), and her mentally challenged husband, who have a child of normal intelligence, and how the larger family comes to terms with the parents being 'different.' Gish plays Hope, who is left mentally disabled after a car accident when she was 11. Her mother, played by Lynn Redgrave, is unable to come to terms with her daughter's imperfections sends her away to special schools. After a twenty-year separation, the two are forced to reunite and confront their emotional issues in an attempt to reclaim their lost relationship. It explores the human desire to be accepted and valued just as we are. Hollywood Reporter called it "the best of the best." It was a finalist for a Pen West writing award.
- DirectorGregg ArakiStarsBrady CorbetJoseph Gordon-LevittElisabeth ShueTwo pre-adolescent boys both experienced a strange event and later it affects their lives in different ways. One becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous prostitute, while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.
- DirectorJames L. BrooksStarsShirley MacLaineDebra WingerJack NicholsonFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
- DirectorTim HunterStarsNicollette SheridanMichael O'KeefeErnie LivelyA young and busy mother places her trust in the friendly next-door neighbors, unaware that there's something sinister at work behind their deceiving kindness.
- DirectorMichael M. ScottStarsFaith FordKyle SecorHanna HallJody is convinced, but unable to prove, that her ex-husband has been molesting their daughter Samantha. When the courts order joint custody for Samantha, Jody takes her and heads underground. The underground is a well protected system that moves her from town to town to keep her out of the hands of the courts. Her husband is relentless in having detectives try to find Jody and Sam, but after a time, Jody begins to feel comfortable and even begins to date a veterinarian she meets in a small town.
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsTom HanksRobin WrightGary SiniseThe history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
- DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsKirsten DunstJosh HartnettJames WoodsA group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.
- DirectorTodd SolondzStarsJennifer Jason LeighEllen BarkinStephen Adly GuirgisAviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
- DirectorTodd SolondzStarsHeather MatarazzoChristina BrucatoVictoria DavisAn awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsJeremy IronsDominique SwainMelanie GriffithAn English professor falls for a minor, and has to face the consequences of his actions.
- DirectorTommy O'HaverStarsElliot PageHayley McFarlandNick SearcyThe true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
- DirectorTony BillStarsKathy BatesEdward FurlongClarissa LassigAn overwhelmed but persevering widow relocates her six children to a new town in the hope that it will afford them a better life.
- DirectorPeter LevinStarsThora BirchMichael RileyRobert BockstaelBased on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
- DirectorMichael Caton-JonesStarsRobert De NiroLeonardo DiCaprioEllen BarkinThe story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff.
- DirectorJames MangoldStarsWinona RyderAngelina JolieClea DuVallA directionless teenager, Susanna, is rushed to Claymoore, a mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt. There, she befriends a group of troubled women who deeply influence her life.
- DirectorTom McLoughlinStarsAlexa PenaVegaLisa VidalLeah PipesA teenager is bullied by her former friends when they discover that she has a crush on the same boy as the most popular girl in school does.
- DirectorJessica SharzerStarsKristen StewartElizabeth PerkinsRichard HagermanAfter a blurred trauma over the summer, Melinda enters high school a selective mute. Struggling with school, friends, and family, she tells the dark tale of her experiences, and why she has chosen not to speak.
- DirectorDouglas BarrStarsKaley CuocoMelissa HalstromMichael PhenicieAs part of a film project, a physically fit teenager dons a fat suit to gain experience of the hardships facing overweight high school students.
- DirectorKatt SheaStarsMare WinninghamAlison LohmanLawrence MonosonA teenage girl who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends secretly binges and purges.
- StarsFarrah FawcettRyan O'NealGordon ClappA peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.
- StarsBonnie BedeliaBrian KerwinJohn M. JacksonThis is the story of two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later, when one of the girls dies, tests reveal that she was not the child of the couple who raised her.
- DirectorPeter KosminskyStarsBrooke KinsellaColin SalmonBilly GeraghtyA British schoolgirl struggles to come to terms with the horrific and disgusting sexual abuse inflicted upon her by the adults in her life. When she resorts to self-harm to escape her troubles, a caring teacher tries to get her some help.
- DirectorJohn ErmanStarsJulie HarrisJena MaloneTed LevineAfter her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.
- DirectorTony BillStarsSissy SpacekAlfre WoodardJodelle FerlandA troubled foster child with an affinity for drawing and artwork, becomes attached to her eccentric and forgetful new foster mother, also an artist.
- DirectorPeter KosminskyStarsMichelle PfeifferRenée ZellwegerRobin WrightA teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
- DirectorJeffrey BloomStarsLouise FletcherVictoria TennantKristy SwansonChildren are hidden away under an attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.
- DirectorPeter MullanStarsEileen WalshDorothy DuffyNora-Jane NooneThree young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
- DirectorRodrigo GarcíaStarsNaomi WattsAnnette BeningKerry WashingtonA drama centered around three women: A fifty-year-old woman, the daughter she gave up for adoption thirty-five years ago, and a woman looking to adopt a child of her own.
- DirectorJohn Cameron MitchellStarsNicole KidmanAaron EckhartDianne WiestLife for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.