Movies (55) tagged by 'Social Worker'
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Case 39 (2009)
"Case 39" centers on an idealistic social worker who saves an abused 10-year-old girl from her parents only to discover that the girl is not as innocent as she ...
Lilo & Stitch (2002)
In a place far, far away, illegal genetic experiment #626 is detected: Ruthless scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba has created a strong, intelligent, nearly indestruct...
Losing Isaiah (1995)
The story of an African-American baby who was abandoned by his crack addicted mother. The baby was adopted by a white social worker, but several years the lat...
In Gods Country (2007)
In God's Countryis a modern day story of slavery. Young women ignored by the police and protected by "freedom of religion" are trapped in polygamous communities...
Free Willy (1994)
Fishermen separate a young orca whale (Willy) from his parents and he ends up in a fish bowl at a marina. Meanwhile, a street kid runs afoul of the law and gets...
Secrets & Lies (1996)
Cynthia lives in London with her sullen street-sweeper daughter. Her brother has been successful with his photographer's business and now lives nearby in a mor...
Twilight Portrait (2011)
Three policemen rape Marina, a well-to-do social worker with a doting husband, and the crime alters her life immeasurably. ...
Made in Britain (1982)
Trevor is a 16 year old, sometimes-violent skinhead with no regard for authority, and would rather spend his time stealing cars than sitting in the detention c...
Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird (1985)
Big Bird is the central character in this film. A social worker, upon seeing that Big Bird doesn't live with other birds, sets him up with a Dodo family to be a...
The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
In the 1986 film The Boy Who Could Fly, Jay Underwood plays Eric Gibb, an autistic boy who lives with his alcoholic uncle Hugo Gibb (played by Fred Gwynne) and...
Appropriate Adult (2011)
Part 1:- Trainee social worker Janet Leach is asked by Gloucester police to be the appropriate adult at the interrogation of a simple-minded suspect. He is Fred...
Happy Go Lucky (2008)
Just how hard is it to be happy? In the effervescent new comedy from writer/director Mike Leigh ("Vera Drake," "Secrets & Lies"), Sally Hawkins stars as Poppy, ...
The Unloved (2009)
Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow Lucy's stru...
The Hamiltons (2006)
The Hamiltons seem to be the picture-perfect American family. They are hardworking community members; giving to their local charities, attending town hall mee...
Requiem For A Heavyweight (1962)
This big-screen adaptation of Rod Serling's landmark television drama is about an aging boxer whose controlling manager leads him to consider throwing fights ...
The Baby (1973) (1973)
A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first -...
Chor Machaye Shor (1974)
Vijay is a happy go lucky engineer in love with Rekha, the charming daughter of Seth Jagdish Prasad a multimillionaire who is not so happy with his daughter's l...
The Night Listener (2006)
Gabriel Noone (Robin Willaims), the host of a late-night radio show, receives a mysterious manuscript chronicling the abuse of a 14-year-old (...
The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
12-year-old wisecracking Gilly Hopkins finds herself shuffled from foster home to foster home until she meets Maime Trotter.
The UFO Incident (1975)
Through memory flashbacks accessed by hypnotic regression, depicts the alleged UFO abduction of Betty and Barney Hill on September 19, 1961 in the White Mountai...
Savage Messiah (2002)
Based on real-life events in Canada in the late 1980's, social worker Paula Jackson investigated a commune run by a messiah-like figure who referred to himself ...
Stone Pillow (1985)
Florabelle befriends a naive young college graduate working at a homeless shelter to learn about the homeless. Taking her into the streets, she teaches her abou...
A Thousand Clowns (1965)
A woman convinces an unemployed writer to get his job back and marry her so he won't lose custody of his nephew.
White Elephant (2012)
While working alongside his long-time friend and colleague in building a hospital for the residents of a Buenos Aries shantytown, a troubled priest finds solace...
Bill On His Own (1983)
Bill Sackter struggles to cope after his best friend and guardian, Barry Morrow and his wife Beverly move away. Bill moves into a group home run by Mae Driscoll...
Least Among Saints (2012)
Writer, director and actor Martin Papazian's debut film LEAST AMONG SAINTS movingly illustrates a man's hard-fought road towards reconciling with his better sel...
Amy (1999)
A family drama focused on three generations of women living together in Hartford, Connecticut. Amy Brenneman plays Amy Gray, who left New York City behind and n...
Wild Thing (1987)
A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area wh...
Traffic (2014)
The real truth behind the child protection system. Social workers, Judges, Lawyers and Guardians of the court all working together to secure the removal of chil...
Two Men in Town (1973)
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Body and Soul (1947)
Charley Davis wins an amateur boxing match and is taken on by promoter Quinn. Charley's mother doesn't want him to fight, but when Charley's father is accidenta...
The Boys Next Door (1996)
Jack Palmer is a social worker whose job has taken precedence over his personal life. Mainly, his job is to help four mentally challenged men live regular lives...
They Come Back (2007)
A psychologist reluctantly takes on a child patient whose parents died when the three of them were in a car accident. The girl has become somewhat disassociated...
Home Makeover (2010)
A social worker is coming to Gru's house to check if it's suitable for children. Margo, Edith, Agnes and the Minions must take care of the situation.
Boy #5 (2021)
A social worker takes a withdrawn homeless boy into her care, not suspecting that he is a vampire.
Christmas Eve (1947)
To save her fortune from a designing nephew, Matilda Reid must locate her three long-lost adopted sons in time for a Christmas Eve reunion.
You and Your Stupid Mate (2005)
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Chains of Gold (1990)
A Miami social worker, Scott, helps a fatherless boy. When the boy goes missing, Scott looks for him everywhere, incl. in a crack dealing gang.
In the Best Interest of the Children (1992)
Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.
Fourteen (2019)
Over the course of a decade, a young woman becomes increasingly dysfunctional due to undiagnosed mental illness, or perhaps to drugs, while her more stable frie...
The Silent Child (2017)
A deaf 6-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate.
Camp Slaughter (2004)
A bunch of kids go to the woods to party. At the same time a freak known as The Bunny Man has escaped from his nest...
Born to Be Sold (1981)
A social worker tries to break up a ring of crooks who buy new-born babies from teen-aged mothers and sell them to couples who can't obtain them through le...
Second Best (1994)
Graham, a lonely Welsh postal worker, adopts James, a troubled ten-year-old boy. Graham always wanted a son, but James loves his biological father too much to g...
Roommates (1995)
An elderly yet young-at-heart man moves in with his grandson and both their lives turn upside-down.
300 Miles to Heaven (1989)
Based on a true story dating back to 1985 when two Polish boys, a teenager and his little brother, escaped from communist Poland all the way to Sweden, hidden u...
Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted (1992)
A down-syndrome boy is left in an institute by his parents. Ginny, who works in the institute wants to have custody over Jonathan but has to fight the system an...
Tous les dieux du ciel (2019)
30-year-old factory worker Simon lives a solitary existence on a decrepit farm in the remote French countryside. Devoting his time to caring for his sister Este...
Obce niebo (2015)
A family of Polish immigrants lives in Sweden. One innocent lie triggers suspicions and leads to their daughter being placed with a foster family by social serv...
Breaking Through (1996)
Laura is a 20 year old deaf girl who has never been taught sign language. She is rescued from neglect and physical abuse by Pam, a social worker. Pam teaches he...
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