Movies: Broken home

After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart meets 12-year-old Niki and her drug-addicted mother, Wanda. Heart finds relief from heartache and a renewed sense of purpose when he steps in as a father figure to Niki and wel...

A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town....

A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble - but they also get him into it....

When adults are ineffectual, children have to grow up quickly. Ola is 14 and she takes care of her dysfunctional father, autistic brother and a mother who lives apart from them and is mainly heard the phone. Most of all she wants to reunite a family ...

When a little girl gets called a whore for the first time, she discovers her place in the world but also her power to define herself....

Not quite a religious film, not quite a coming-of-age story, not quite a kiddie flick, and not quite a supernatural horror movie, Taliesin Jones's identity crisis nonetheless reveals a sweet examination of one child and his thoughts on God....

Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings....

When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon shipped him off to one of the toughest youth welfare institutions in Freistatt. This was followed by a ...

Dark, tragic comedy about a judgmental mother who learns her teenage daughter is into much older men, testing relationships and perceptions as one woman's denial leads to 'exceptance.'...

To escape her overprotective drug-dealing stepfather, an introvert flees to NYC with her pet pocket squirrel. After successfully reinventing herself through the help of some "found family," she realizes she must return home and confront her dark past...

In 1940, a French lady commits suicide after the death of her boyfriend, a clock engineer. Her soul was not at peace and it became a spirit, carried by a beautiful but deadly timepiece, that would torment the sufferers of depression for generations. ...

Soekie is a family drama which focuses on the destructive effect of an impending divorce on family life. It is based on the book "Die Hele Dorp Weet" [translates to " The Whole Town Knows"] written by Santie Grosskopf....

Since the mother left, the relationship between Aksa and his father, Anton becomes tenuous. Anton still have deep worries over his wife's left and becomes apathetic to Aksa. Their cold and full of tension relationship makes Aksa can't communicate wit...

Two girls in the bloom of youth meet at a vocational training program. Afterwards, their lives move in completely different directions....

Tells the story of Andrew, a 13-year-old whose mother dies and leaves him with an indifferent step-father. Andrew, receiving only hostility from his classmates and step-father, begins to steal. An understanding counselor at school helps Andrew reform...