Highest-Rated Movies about 'Neglect', Sort by Popularity

Flight of the Red Balloon (2007), The Lunchbox (2013), Abandoned (2001), The Secret Garden (1993), Fish Tank (2009), Adoption (1975), Of Human Hearts (1938), The Best of Me (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Neglect movies.

#2. The Lunchbox (2013)

Storyline: The film, set in Mumbai, revolves around a mistaken delivery by the Dabbawalas (lunchbox service) of Mumbai, which leads to a relationship between Saajan, a lonely widower close to retirement, and Ila, an unhappy housewife, as they start exchanging notes through the daily lunchbox.

Plot Keywords: housewife, husband, widower, charming, endearing, positive, india ...

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#3. Abandoned (2001)

Storyline: Aron Soprani (Tamas Meszaros) is a young boy abandoned by his father and given up to a state-run orphanage. His new home is run by cruel, abusive people, and young Aron finds little solace. Slowly forging relationships with the few allies he can find, including another boy, Attila (Szabolcs Csizmadia), and two orphanage workers, Aron and his circle rely on each other to survive the brutal conditions, both of the orphanage and their country, Hungary, ravaged by the spread of communism.

Plot Keywords: young boy, best friend, father, teacher, professor, bleak, brutal ...

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#4. The Secret Garden (1993)

Storyline: Living in India, Mary Lennox, a young, privileged girl, is left orphaned when her parents are killed in an earthquake. She is sent back to England where she goes to live on her uncle's estate. It is a fairly isolated existence and she has to find things to keep herself occupied. She finds a sickly young boy...and a secret garden.

Plot Keywords: orphan, uncle, servant, friend, creative, emotional, dreamy ...

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#5. Fish Tank (2009)

Storyline: Mia, an aggressive fifteen-year-old girl, lives on an Essex estate with her tarty mother, Joanne, and precocious little sister Tyler. She has been thrown out of school and is awaiting admission to a referrals unit and spends her days aimlessly. She begins an uneasy friendship with Joanne's slick boyfriend, Connor, who encourages her one interest, dancing.

Plot Keywords: teen girl, mother, sister, boyfriend, bleak, gritty, emotional ...

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#6. Adoption (1975)

Storyline: Single factory worker Kata, 43, wants to have a child with her long-time secret lover, a married man called Joska. He doesn't like the idea. Kata befriends teenage schoolgirl Anna, abandoned by her parents at the age of six. Anna runs away from the local children's home and moves in with Kata so that she can keep on seeing her boyfriend Sanyi. Kata goes to see Anna's parents and persuades them to give the young lovers their permission to marry. Through Anna, Kata becomes interested in neglected children and decides to adopt a baby from the children's home.—Markku Kuoppamäki

Plot Keywords: factory worker, teenager, married man, boyfriend, orphan, middle-aged woman, sad ...

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#8. The Best of Me (2014)

Storyline: Amanda and Dawson are soul mates who met as teens and were from different backgrounds. But circumstances would force them to part ways. 20 years later they are brought back together by the passing of a mutual friend. So they go back home to fulfill his final wishes and they run into each other. While Amanda is married, albeit unhappily, she still has feelings for Dawson but can't forgive him for pushing her away.

Plot Keywords: former lover, friend, father, co-worker, classmate, brooding, emotional ...

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#9. Tideland (2005)

Storyline: Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah dead in his chair, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads enter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens.

Plot Keywords: young girl, father, mother, taxidermist, mentally challenged boy, friend, dreamy ...

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#10. Winter Passing (2005)

Storyline: Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.—IMDb Editors

Plot Keywords: actress, bartender, agent, musician, young woman, father, tense ...

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#11. Kathleen (1941)

Storyline: Kathleen is a 12 year old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true. Kathleen and her nanny, Mrs. Farrell do not get along, so her father hires a psychologist name Dr. Kent to be her new nanny for the summer. Her father has a new girlfriend, named Lorraine, who he is considering for his wife and mother to Kathleen. Kathleen does not like her and Lorraine is cold to Kathleen. Kathleen envisions Dr. Kent as the perfect mother for her and wife for her father.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>

Plot Keywords: girl, father, governess, friend, fiancée, psychologist, charming ...

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