Honey Boy (
2019) | IMDb:
7.2
The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.
Beasts of No Nation (
2015) | IMDb:
7.7
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
Starring:
Abraham Attah
,
Idris Elba
,
Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye
,
Opeyemi Fagbohungbe
,
Emmanuel Affadzi
,
Richard Pepple
What Maisie Knew (
2013) | IMDb:
7.4
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
Starring:
Julianne Moore
,
Steve Coogan
,
Alexander Skarsgård
,
Joanna Vanderham
,
Onata Aprile
,
Diana García
Goats (
2012) | IMDb:
5.8
Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father has meant 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called 'Goat Man'. When Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store.
Directed by:
Christopher Neil
Dirty Girl (
2010) | IMDb:
6.4
When Danielle is banished to special education because of her misbehavior, she joins Clarke on a road trip to discover themselves.
Starring:
Juno Temple
,
Jeremy Dozier
,
Milla Jovovich
,
Mary Steenburgen
,
Dwight Yoakam
,
William H. Macy
Directed by:
Abe Sylvia
Motherhood (
2009) | IMDb:
4.6
In Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event.
Starring:
Uma Thurman
,
Minnie Driver
,
Anthony Edwards
,
David Schallipp
,
Matthew Schallipp
,
Daisy Tahan