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1. Erased (2016)

TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Crime, Drama

29-year-old Satoru Fujinuma is sent back in time 18 years to prevent the events leading to his mother's death, which began with a series of kidnappings while he was in 5th grade.

Stars: Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Tao Tsuchiya, Minami Takayama, Ben Diskin

Votes: 58,039

2. Monster's Ball (2001)

R | 111 min | Drama, Romance

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard re-examines his attitudes while falling in love with the African-American wife of the last prisoner he executed.

Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Taylor Simpson, Gabrielle Witcher

Votes: 94,027 | Gross: $31.27M

3. An American Crime (2007)

R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

Director: Tommy O'Haver | Stars: Elliot Page, Hayley McFarland, Nick Searcy, Romy Rosemont

Votes: 36,947

4. Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

R | 98 min | Drama

A mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture. Will their family ever be what they expect?

Director: Anjelica Huston | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ron Eldard, Glenne Headly, Lyle Lovett

Votes: 4,804

5. Hope (2013)

Not Rated | 122 min | Drama

Story of an 8-year-old girl who faces a horrible rape that damages her internally and affects her emotionally, trying to overcome all the obstacles following the incident with the good support of those around her.

Director: Joon-ik Lee | Stars: Lee Re, Sol Kyung-gu, Uhm Ji-won, Kim Hae-sook

Votes: 9,635

6. Tank (1984)

PG | 113 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

Sergeant Major Zack arrives at a new army base with his wife, son and Sherman tank. One night at a bar he "stops" a pimp/deputy from beating a girl. The corrupt sheriff uses Zack's son for revenge and Zack uses his tank.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: James Garner, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Herrier

Votes: 4,678 | Gross: $14.13M

7. The Great Santini (1979)

PG | 115 min | Drama

As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated Marine pilot.

Director: Lewis John Carlino | Stars: Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe, Lisa Jane Persky

Votes: 6,938

8. Jane Eyre (1943)

Approved | 97 min | Drama, Romance

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, Peggy Ann Garner

Votes: 9,490 | Gross: $3.82M

9. The Little Princess (1939)

Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, when her father fights in the Second Boer War. Later, when he is presumed dead she is forced to become a servant.

Directors: Walter Lang, William A. Seiter | Stars: Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter

Votes: 6,731

10. The Red Pill (2016)

TV-14 | 108 min | Documentary

The Red Pill chronicles filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey following the mysterious and polarizing Men's Rights Movement. The Red Pill explores today's gender war and asks the question "what is the future of gender equality?"

Director: Cassie Jaye | Stars: Cassie Jaye, Paul Elam, Attila Vinczer, Dean Esmay

Votes: 12,042

11. Personal Velocity (2002)

R | 86 min | Drama, Romance

Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.

Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk, John Ventimiglia

Votes: 3,934 | Gross: $0.77M

12. Dominick and Eugene (1988)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama

Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due to an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical ... See full summary »

Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert Levine

Votes: 3,281 | Gross: $3.08M

13. Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard

Votes: 11,054

14. 14+ (2015)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance

A teenage boy feels infatuation for the first time.

Director: Andrey Zaytsev | Stars: Gleb Kalyuzhnyy, Ulyana Vaskovich, Olga Ozollapinya, Dmitry Barinov

Votes: 2,149

15. Now and Then, Here and There (1999–2000)

TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A young boy named Shuzo rushes to the defense of a stranger who is being attacked for her magic pendant, only to find himself transported into another world where water is a scarce commodity and he is forced to join an army of children.

Stars: Crispin Freeman, Dan Green, Lisa Ortiz, Ted Lewis

Votes: 1,922

16. Back to Bataan (1945)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, War

In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli

Votes: 4,368

17. Blind Alley (1939)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Gangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak, Joan Perry

Votes: 815

18. Last Ride (2009)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama

A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law for committing a violent crime.

Director: Glendyn Ivin | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Tom Russell, Anita Hegh, John Brumpton

Votes: 2,607 | Gross: $0.01M

19. The Italian (2005)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama

Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.

Director: Andrey Kravchuk | Stars: Nikolay Spiridonov, Mariya Kuznetsova, Nikolay Reutov, Yuriy Itskov

Votes: 3,337 | Gross: $0.55M

20. They Shall Have Music (1939)

Passed | 102 min | Drama, Family, Music

A boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Gene Reynolds

Votes: 499

21. The Lost Village (2016)

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Drama, Mystery

A group of 30 individuals go on a bus tour to Nanaki Village in order to leave behind their normal lives but arrive to find that the village is hiding many secrets.

Stars: Shin'ya Takahashi, Kodai Sakai, Tarusuke Shingaki, Yoshiaki Hasegawa

Votes: 517

22. Men of Boys Town (1941)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama

Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. This time the school faces financial trouble as Father Flanagan tries to help every little boy he meets. ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson, Larry Nunn

Votes: 1,235

23. Les malheurs de Sophie (1998– )

30 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

The series recounts five difficult years in the life of young Sophie who goes on the conquer the world, endowed with exceptional character and vivacity. By overcoming numerous trials and tribulations, she will reveal her best qualities.

Stars: Mélanie Laurent, Donald Reignoux, Barbara Tissier, Daniel Gall

Votes: 136

24. Stella Maris (1918)

Unrated | 84 min | Drama

Two young women - a paraplegic girl sheltered by her wealthy guardians and a more experienced orphan - fall in love with a man separated from his violent wife.

Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Mary Pickford, Ida Waterman, Herbert Standing, Conway Tearle

Votes: 1,562

25. Santiago (1956)

Not Rated | 93 min | Adventure, Romance

A gun runner, dishonorably discharged from the military, is swept deeper into a revolution in Cuba when he crosses paths with an enemy from the past and a beautiful revolutionary and her son.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Alan Ladd, Rossana Podestà, Lloyd Nolan, Chill Wills

Votes: 320

26. Dino (1957)

Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama

A juvenile delinquent (Sal Mineo) on parole receives support from a social worker (Brian Keith) and a girl (Susan Kohner) from a slum.

Director: Thomas Carr | Stars: Sal Mineo, Brian Keith, Susan Kohner, Frank Faylen

Votes: 199

27. Iraq in Fragments (2006)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary, War

Stories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension.

Director: James Longley | Stars: Marmar Alhilali, Mohammed Haithem, Suleiman Mahmoud, Mohamed Qasim Sainakh

Votes: 1,546 | Gross: $0.20M

28. The Fairy and the Waif (1915)

50 min | Drama

Major Drayton, an Englishman living in America with his daughter Viola, goes to England on business leaving his attorney Nevinson to look after Viola. When war is declared, Drayton joins ... See full summary »

Directors: Marie Hubert Frohman, George Irving | Stars: Mary Miles Minter, Percy Helton, Will Archie, William T. Carleton

Votes: 15

29. Frankie (2006)

Not Rated | 7 min | Short, Horror, Thriller

A boy named Frankie digs himself into a hell that he can't get out of.

Director: Eric Yang | Stars: Frankie G. Foti, Valerie Gorsuch, David Schroeder, Ryan Cannon

Votes: 56

30. Kitty MacKay (1917)

50 min | Comedy, Drama

Sweet Kitty suffers the cruelty of her adopted aunt and uncle in Scotland, until taken to England by her guardian, Lord Inglehart, where she falls in love with his son. Learning that ... See full summary »

Director: Wilfrid North | Stars: Lillian Walker, Jewell Hunt, Charles Kent, Donald Cameron

31. Little Miss No-Account (1918)

50 min | Comedy, Drama

Patty Baring will lose the fine old Washington Square house she is to inherit if her scheming stepfather Josiah Wheeler's plan to acquire it for himself is successful. Cruelly abused by ... See full summary »

Director: William P.S. Earle | Stars: Gladys Leslie, Frank O'Connor, William Calhoun, Eulalie Jensen

32. Colorado (1915)

50 min | Drama, Western

Frank Austin, a soldier, one day sees Colonel Kinkaid, his superior officer, abusing a little lame newsboy, and in a passion knocks the coward down. He is court-martialed for this and given... See full summary »

Director: Norval MacGregor | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Anna Lehr, Louise Baxter, Carl von Schiller

33. Heredity (1918)

50 min | Drama

Nedda Trevor, a little street urchin from New York's Lower West Side, is hit by Paul Winslow's car. Paul takes the shaken but unhurt girl for a ride through the countryside to make amends, ... See full summary »

Director: William P.S. Earle | Stars: Madge Evans, Barbara Castleton, Jennie Ellison, Ann Warrington

34. From the Valley of the Missing (1915)

50 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A baby is left on the Brinbecombes' yacht while they are sailing up the Hudson River, and they adopt him and name him Everett. They are neighbors of Governor Floyd Vandecarm whose twin ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Powell | Stars: Jane Miller, Vivian Tobin, Harry Spingler, William Bailey

Votes: 23

35. The Sealed Envelope (1919)

50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Peter James Slaney, just released from prison, is the only boarder who is kind to Lena, the maid at the cheap Paris Hotel. So that Lena can leave her abusive landlady, Slaney accepts $2,500... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Gerrard | Stars: Fritzi Brunette, William Sheer, Joseph W. Girard, Charles Dorian

36. Into the Light (1920)

Drama

A simple country girl, brutally mistreated by her stepfather, awakens first the sympathy, then the love, of The Boy. The Spider, who lusts after The Girl, makes a bargain with the ... See full summary »

Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Patricia Palmer, Edward Hearn, William Lion West, Gertrude Claire

37. Max (II) (2009)

Short, Drama

Ten year old Anthony thinks that his school friend Max is battered by his father and wonders what to do.

Director: Bruno Canredon | Stars: Luigi Lacides, Guillaume Foucquart, Elisabeth Masse, Jimmy Pagneux

38. Heritage (1920)

Drama

When Tony, an unscrupulous stable hand, is fired from his job, he decides to wreak vengeance upon his employer, theatrical producer Charles Suydam, by kidnapping Suydam's infant son Jit. ... See full summary »

Director: William L. Roubert | Stars: Matty Roubert, Herbert Standing, Augusta Perry, Joseph Burke

39. The High Road (1915)

50 min | Drama

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Director: John W. Noble | Stars: Valli Valli, Frank Elliott, C.H. Brenon, Fred L. Wilson

40. A Woman's Daring (1916)

Drama

"The Woman" is brought up on a farm by a miserly uncle who denies her the company of other young people. It is no wonder then that she is introduced by a traveling mining stock broker. When... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Winifred Greenwood, George Field, Edward Coxen, Charles Newton

41. Dpj (2017)

116 min | Documentary

A frontal look without complacency in the dizzying machine of the Department of Youth Protection of Quebec (DPJ).

Director: Guillaume Sylvestre

42. A Kentucky Cinderella (1917)

50 min | Drama

After the death of her father, a young girl goes to live with her uncle in Kentucky. She immediately comes into conflict with her uncle's shrewish wife.

Director: Rupert Julian | Stars: Rupert Julian, Ruth Clifford, Harry Carter, Aurora Pratt

43. The Shuttle (1918)

50 min | Romance, Drama

Bettina Vanderpoel, the charming daughter of New York millionaire Reuben Vanderpoel, departs for England to visit her sister Rosalie, who is married to Sir Nigel Anstruthers, an ... See full summary »

Director: Rollin S. Sturgeon | Stars: Constance Talmadge, Alan Roscoe, Edith Johnson, Edwin B. Tilton

44. A Man's Law (1917)

Drama

Ruth, a young orphan living with her foster father, Jim Vance, a rough mountaineer, who had no idea of life and how it should be lived. Jules La Clerc, also a mountaineer, of whom nature ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Davenport | Stars: Ruth Cummings, Irving Cummings, Arthur Morrison, Roy Applegate

45. The Scoffer (1920)

Drama

God-fearing Dr. Stannard Wayne marries Alice Porn, the former mistress of his friend, unethical Dr. Arthur Richards. When Richards performs an illegal abortion, he makes it look like Wayne ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Mary Thurman, James Kirkwood, Philo McCullough, Rhea Mitchell

46. Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode: When the Bough Breaks (1971)

75 min | Comedy, Drama

An ultra-realistic procedural drama of a social worker's investigation into the case of a battered infant received critical acclaim.

Director: James Ferman | Stars: Hannah Gordon, Cheryl Kennedy, Neil McCarthy, Donald Burton

Votes: 16

47. The High Chaparral (1967–1971)
Episode: Fiesta (1970)

PG | 60 min | Western

On the way to a wild time at Fiesta in Mexico, Buck runs into the sport of boy fighting in a cantina. He rescues the losing boy from the fight and his owner but finds the boy and himself in danger from the men he took the boy from.

Director: John Florea | Stars: Leif Erickson, Cameron Mitchell, Henry Darrow, Linda Cristal

Votes: 55

48. The Incredible Hulk (1977–1982)
Episode: A Child in Need (1978)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Working as a groundskeeper at an elementary school, David 'Baxter' suspects one schoolboy of being a victim of child abuse.

Director: James D. Parriott | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, Sandy McPeak

Votes: 251

49. Quincy M.E. (1976–1983)
Episode: A Good Smack in the Mouth (1977)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Asten's wife Melissa picks up a young boy wandering at the side of the road at night. Soon afterwards they are involved in an automobile accident.

Director: Jackie Cooper | Stars: Jack Klugman, Garry Walberg, John S. Ragin, Val Bisoglio

Votes: 152

50. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: Conflicted (2009)

TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Male college students on spring break are being raped and murdered, presumably by a man and a woman working together. The BAU are called in and suspect a shy hotel cleaner and a receptionist.

Director: Jason Alexander | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler

Votes: 3,207