Here we've displayed a list of the best Child Custody films : The 400 Blows(1959), Auntie Mame(1958), A Thousand Clowns(1965), What Maisie Knew(2012), Bright Eyes(1934), Pack Up Your Troubles(1932), Man of a Thousand Faces(1957), Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm(1938), Hollow Reed(1996), Captain January(1936), Evelyn(2002), Careful, He Might Hear You(1983) ... ...
Crime, Drama
France
1959
93 Minutes
Jean-Pierre Léaud Claire Maurier Albert Remy Guy Decomble Patrick Auffray Georges Flamant Yvonne Claudie Robert Beauvais
son mother father friend teacher bleak disheartening france paris apartment school childhood child custody troubled youth rebellion growing up underdog 1950s
A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
Comedy
USA
1958
143 Minutes
Rosalind Russell Forrest Tucker Coral Browne Fred Clark Roger Smith Patric Knowles Peggy Cass Jan Handzlik Joanna Barnes Pippa Scott Lee Patrick
aunt nephew executive businessperson amusing heartwarming quirky new york city apartment childcare child custody family independence feminism eccentricity adventure growing up 1940s
An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.
Comedy
USA
1965
118 Minutes
Jason Robards Barbara Harris Martin Balsam Barry Gordon Gene Saks William Daniels
writer nephew social worker brother amusing spirited witty new york city apartment conformity family child custody growing up quest discovery underdog 1960s
A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward.
Drama
USA
2012
98 Minutes
Julianne Moore David Siegel Alexander Skarsgård Onata Aprile Joanna Vanderham Steve Coogan Diana García Emma Holzer James Colby Joel Marsh Garland
rock star art dealer daughter lover nanny disheartening moving new york city apartment divorce child custody parent/child relationship selfishness rivalry growing up 2010s
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
Comedy
USA
1934
83 Minutes
Shirley Temple James Dunn Judith Allen Lois Wilson Charles Sellon Walter Johnson Jane Withers Theodore von Eltz Dorothy Christy Brandon Hurst George Irving
orphan maid pilot family patriarch dog young girl charming sad playful airport house plane courtroom child custody aviation tragic death rivalry sacrifice 1930s
An orphaned girl is taken in by a snobbish family at the insistence of their rich, crotchety uncle, even as her devoted aviator godfather fights for custody.
Comedy
USA
1932
68 Minutes
Stan Laurel Ray McCarey Oliver Hardy Don Dillaway Mary Carr Tom Kennedy Grady Sutton Jacquie Lyn Billy Gilbert C. Montague Shaw Muriel Evans
soldier friend father grandfather groom banker campy madcap playful military base jail battlefield small town church bank child custody war friendship abandonment imprisonment
Two war veterans help an orphaned child find her grandfather.
Biography
USA
1957
122 Minutes
James Cagney Dorothy Malone Jane Greer Marjorie Rambeau Jim Backus Robert Evans Celia Lovsky Jeanne Cagney Jack Albertson Roger Smith Robert Lyden
actor wife son movie star father mother emotional powerful stage hollywood, calif. family home backstage san francisco show business marriage child custody mental illness lon chaney love transformation
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
Musical
USA
1938
80 Minutes
Shirley Temple Randolph Scott Jack Haley Gloria Stuart Phyllis Brooks Helen Westley Slim Summerville William Demarest
young girl advertising executive announcer cousin aunt farmer charming lighthearted winsome city radio station apartment farmhouse office studio advertising radio singing child custody romance
Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.
Drama
UK|Germany|Spain|France
1996
106 Minutes
Martin Donovan Joely Richardson Ian Hart Jason Flemyng Sam Bould Edward Hardwicke Douglas Hodge Annette Badland
doctor ex-wife boyfriend son tense powerful emotional england child abuse child custody court battles homosexuality father/son relationship rivalry love rescue 1990s
Following the break-up of his marriage after revealing his homosexuality, GP Martin Wyatt loses custody of his son Oliver to his now ex-wife Hannah and her new partner Frank. It is not long... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1936
75 Minutes
young girl orphan sailor captain truant officer lighthearted playful maine lighthouse boat child custody shipwreck school separation growing up rivalry rescue love 1930s
A little girl named Star lives with a lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school but she's rescued by relatives.
Drama
USA|Germany|Ireland|UK|Netherlands
2002
93 Minutes
Pierce Brosnan Aidan Quinn Julianna Margulies Stephen Rea Sophie Vavasseur Alan Bates Niall Beagan Hugh MacDonagh Claire Mullan
daughter father son lawyer judge emotional ireland family home courtroom child custody abandonment divorce alcoholism quest 1950s
Desmond's wife leaves him and their 3 kids after Christmas 1953. Unemployed in Dublin, the authorities place the kids in orphanages. Employed again, Desmond tries to get his kids back.
Drama
Australia
1983
116 Minutes
Wendy Hughes Robyn Nevin Nicholas Gledhill John Hargreaves Geraldine Turner Peter Whitford Colleen Clifford Jacqueline Kott Julie Nihill
young boy aunt uncle father emotional touching sydney australia suburbia childhood child custody family feud coming of age wealth growing up rivalry 1920s
His mother dead, PS lives in Sydney with working-class Aunt Lila and Uncle George. When he's six or eight, his posh Aunt Vanessa descends from England. Named a co-guardian by PS's feckless,... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
UK
1966
99 Minutes
James Mason Lynn Redgrave Alan Bates Charlotte Rampling Bill Owen Claire Kelly Rachel Kempson Denise Coffey Dorothy Alison Peggy Thorpe-Bates Dandy Nichols
wealthy man musician employee baby boyfriend emotional endearing quirky london household hospital abandonment child custody love triangle marriage growing up love rescue 1960s
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.
Drama, Romance, History
UK
2012
129 Minutes
Keira Knightley Aaron Taylor-Johnson Jude Law Domhnall Gleeson Alicia Vikander Matthew Macfadyen Kelly Macdonald Oskar McNamara Olivia Williams Ruth Wilson Emily Watson
wife count husband son farmer princess passionate striking emotional russia estate countryside resort infidelity doomed romance child custody social standing nobility forbidden love transformation
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.
Drama
USA
1995
106 Minutes
Jessica Lange Halle Berry David Strathairn Cuba Gooding Jr. Daisy Eagan Marc John Jefferies Samuel L. Jackson Joie Lee Regina Taylor LaTanya Richardson Jacqueline Brookes
drug addict social worker husband baby attorney emotional gripping courtroom abandoned building rehabilitation program apartment drug addiction poverty child custody race relations pursuit transformation 1990s
The biological and adoptive mothers of a young boy are involved in a bitter, controversial custody battle.
Biography
USA
1940
81 Minutes
Miriam Hopkins Claude Rains Richard Ainley Laura Hope Crews Helen Westley John Litel Victor Jory
actress actor producer socialite ex-husband son melodramatic powerful chicago new york city courtroom theater boarding house divorce child custody adultery theater ambition mother/son relationship love
A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown in a ... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1952
92 Minutes
Gower Champion Marge Champion Monica Lewis Dennis O'Keefe Dean Miller Eduard Franz John Gallaudet Diane Cassidy Elaine Stewart Jonathan Cott Robert Burton
dancer wife producer understudy nanny showgirl lighthearted cheery spirited broadway theater stage household barbecue studio boston broadway performance marriage jealousy child custody
Pregnancy forces one half of a married song- and- dance team to find a new Broadway partner.
Drama, Romance
1995
160 Minutes
Aamir Khan Manisha Koirala Master Adil Deven Verma Tanvi Azmi Rohini Hattangadi
young man young woman aspiring singer aspiring musician mother father emotional endearing sad moving gripping india city house music stage recording studio first love parental pressure failing marriage aspirations
After marrying a singer (Aamir Khan), a frustrated woman (Manisha Koirala) decides to pursue her musical aspirations.
Romance
2015
97 Minutes
Benoît Poelvoorde Virginie Efira François Morel Philippe Rebbot Pauline Serieys Calixte Broisin-Doutaz Édith Scob Nancy Tate
businessman single mother daughter son airy amusing hilarious emotional melodramatic heartwarming office house loneliness deal financial troubles child custody love rivalry discovery 2010s
A shy and introverted man concludes that having a family would fix his life. When he runs into a young woman with two children and a mountain of debt, the two strike up a bargain and form an odd sort of family.
Drama
1957
95 Minutes
Bing Crosby Inger Stevens Mary Fickett E.G. Marshall Malcolm Brodrick Richard Eastham Anne Seymour Dan Riss
businessperson wealthy man ex-wife son girlfriend husband tense emotional united states courtroom court battles child custody divorce father/son relationship revenge love discovery 1950s
A businessman's (Bing Crosby) lawyer (Inger Stevens) sees him through a custody battle with his ex-wife (Mary Fickett) over their son.
Drama
1994
97 Minutes
Sissy Spacek Mary-Louise Parker S. Epatha Merkerson Joan Plowright David Spielberg Richard Gilbert-Hill Stephen Mills Robin Pearson Rose Lauree Berger Linda Carlson Wendy Robie
drug addict nurse teenager baby physician emotional inspiring hospital household child custody hospital aids absolution drug addiction rescue sacrifice love 1990s
A nurse (Sissy Spacek) cares for her adopted HIV-positive infant and the dying mother (Mary-Louise Parker) who abandoned her.
Drama
1996
97 Minutes
Faith Ford Hanna Hall Kyle Secor Philip Williams Lynne Cormack Kirsten Kieferle Alex Carter Howard Hoover Mimi Kuzyk Corinne Conley Victoria Mitchell
mother daughter fugitive abusive father veterinarian volunteer bleak chilling dark disturbing sad tense america child abuse child custody protection spousal abuse new life difficult decision escape
A woman (Faith Ford) goes into hiding with her daughter (Hanna R. Hall) after kidnapping the child to protect her from her sexually abusive father.