Child Custody Movies

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

Twinkle is a single queer mother whose dream of officially adopting her son gets shaken when the boy's biological mother, Mara, unexpectedly...

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's...

A young American painter and his French wife move with their small daughter to the US when the husband's father dies. His mother takes an instant...

A lesbian mother fights to keep her son when a custody suit is brought by her ex-husband.

Journalist Meredith Redmond is a battered Canadian woman who flees Canada to escape her abusive husband, Robert. She settles in Seattle, but her...

Kelsey finds herself fighting a legal battle with her ex-husband Ben when he sues for full custody of their daughter believing that she's no longer...

What lies in the hearts of men.

Patty Nowakowski already has three children, but decides to be a surrogate mother. Fully confident of being able to give up her baby, she is...

Study of interracial marriage in the 1960s. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues...

A 10-year-old's happy life is shattered when his parents are divorced.

Rich, bisexual Thomas makes his way through a swath of lovers of both sexes in Paris. His parents have died, and he doesn't have to work to earn a...

A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.

This follow-up to the 1989 documentary ONE YEAR IN A LIFE OF CRIME revisits three of the original subjects in New Jersey during a five-year period in...

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

In moving interviews, four fathers describe their suffering and efforts to keep contact with their children. A mother justifies the refusal of...

Freewheeling wanderer Jerry Day and his beautiful wife Toni are at odds over their lifestyle. Jerry can't accept responsibility, but Toni yearns for...

An actor and his wife have a tumultuous relationship. It ends in separation and a child custody battle.

A perennial bachelor's carefree life is upended when he unexpectedly inherits his cousin’s infant child. Just as he gets a grip on life as a...

Based on the infamous "Baby Jessica" case, A heated custody battle between her biological and adoptive parents leaves a little girl caught in the...