Highest-Rated Movies about 'Custody Battle'

American Gangster (2007), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Gifted (2017), I Am Sam (2001), Immortal Beloved (1994), Custody (2017), What Maisie Knew (2012), Bright Eyes (1934) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Custody Battle movies.

#16. It Started in Naples (1960)

Storyline: Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an eight-year old little boy named Nando, who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. Mike immediately disapproves of Nando's Italian-style (in other words "lax") education. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be ... a sexy nightclub dancer. This is too much for a puritan like Mike and the only solution in his eyes is to have the boy brought up in the States...—Guy Bellinger

Plot Keywords: american abroad, tourist, american in europe, flower, naples italy, death of brother, loss of brother ...

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#17. Wildcats (1986)

Storyline: Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When the football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite expecting sniggers from fellow staff members and her former husband.

Plot Keywords: coach, goat, mother daughter relationship, custody battle, ex husband ex wife relationship, high school football, doberman ...

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#18. Kidnap (2017)

Storyline: In the US, a child goes missing every 40 seconds. You never think it will happen to you. Until it does. Alone and scared, Karla Dyson (Halle Berry) is unwilling to leave the fate of her son's life in someone else's hands. When she catches a glimpse of the abductors speeding away, she decides to fight back. In a heart pounding race against time, Karla begins a high speed pursuit and will stop at nothing to save her son's life.

Plot Keywords: kidnapping, hit and run, female protagonist, one word title, carnival, abduction, scene during opening credits ...

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#19. Over the Top (1987)

Storyline: Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who arm wrestles on the side to make extra cash while trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind 10 years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son does not think too highly of him until he enters the World Arm Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas. His hope is to receive the grand prize of $100,000 and an expensive current custom semi-truck and thus start his own trucking company.

Plot Keywords: arm wrestling, truck driver, strength, muscular, working out, exercise, estranged father ...

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#20. Dark Water (2005)

Storyline: Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. She is currently in the midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. From the time she arrives, there are mysterious occurrences and there is a constant drip from the ceiling in the only bedroom. There are also noises coming from the apartment directly above hers, though it would appear to be vacant. Is the apartment haunted or is there a simpler explanation?

Plot Keywords: water tank, evil child, art class, stairwell, single mother, self sacrifice, rooftop ...

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#21. Bless the Child (2000)

Storyline: Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O'Connor's well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York City hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, F.B.I. Agent John Travis, an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply "special". She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one ...

Plot Keywords: evil man, cgi, scene of the crime, female protagonist, single parent, easter, subway station ...

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#22. The Next Best Thing (2000)

Storyline: A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.

Plot Keywords: man wearing a tank top, child custody, love triangle, friendship, gay parent, breaking up, best friend ...

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