Child Custody Movies

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

Using the 'real life' documentary style, this drama observes two years in the life of the Byrne family as they become involved in the complicated...

Two orphans named Jory and Tess live with their grandparents. However, their cousins Bart and Bertha try to take them away because the two kids have...

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

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

A divorced journalist Marko Požgaj starts his working day by taking his son to the school. During the day many thoughts and images pass through...

What lies in the hearts of men.

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

This documentary recounts the difficult choice actress Mary Astor had to make after learning her personal, very intimate, diaries had been stolen....

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

Divorced café owner Kayan lives with her daughter Tung. Her life is renewed after meeting her lesbian partner Shuting who becomes part of the...

A little girl enlists the aid of an attorney to obtain a divorce from her parents. Breezy B comedy was loosely remade as Irreconcilable Differences.

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 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...

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...

When Paula’s painful breakup with Raúl causes her to stop seeing his son Dani, Paula will have no choice but to challenge a hypocritical...

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...

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

During the time of the Stolen Generations, thousands upon thousands of Aboriginal girls were taken from their families and pressed into domestic...