The Florida Project (2017), I Am Sam (2001), Sleepers (1996), Ben X (2007), What Will People Say (2017), Leave No Trace (2018), T2 Trainspotting (2017), White Oleander (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Social Services movies.
Storyline: Halley lives with her six year old daughter Moonee in a budget motel along one of the commercial strips catering to the Walt Disney World tourist clientele outside Orlando, Florida. Halley, who survives largely on welfare, has little respect for people, especially those who cross her, it an attitude that she has passed down to Moonee, who curses and gives the finger like her mother. Although the motel's policy is not to allow long term rentals, Bobby, the motel manager, has made arrangements for people like Halley to live there while not undermining the policy as he realizes that many such tenants have no place to go otherwise. Halley, Moonee and Moonee's friends, who live in the motel or others like it along the strip and who she often drags into her disruptive pranks, are often the bane of Bobby's existence, but while dealing with whatever problem arises, Bobby has a soft spot especially for the children and thus, by association, their parents, as he knows that Moonee and others ...
Plot Keywords: poverty, little girl, motel, child swearing, innocence, single mother, waitress ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song) and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love and whether it's really all you need.
Plot Keywords: child custody, single father, custody battle, foster parent, father daughter relationship, f rated, kiss ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As children, Lorenzo Carcaterra - Shakes to his friends - Michael Sullivan, Tommy Marcano, and John Reilly were inseparable. They grew up in Hell's Kitchen, a far from perfect neighborhood, one filled as Shakes says with scams and shake downs, but one where the rules were known by its residents. The one adult who they admired was Father Bobby Carelli, who understood them as kids more than most adults and more than he himself would like to admit. In 1967, their lives would change forever when a typical teenage prank went wrong which led to the four of them being sentenced to various terms at Wilkinson Home for Boys, a reformatory. There, they were physically, emotionally and sexually abused primarily by Sean Nokes, the head guard of their cell block, and fellow guards Ralph Ferguson, Henry Addison, and Adam Styler, although there were other caring figures of authority at the home including other guards. Their time at the home affected the four, not all who were able to emerge from the ...
Plot Keywords: sexual abuse, kicked in the crotch, gang rape, library, bar, coffin, cocaine ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ben is different. His life is a universe to itself, where he plays his favorite on line computer game Archlord avidly, trying hard to train himself for the real world he lives in. The harsh world of a technical school is for him a daily kind of hell. As the horror of being a daily subject to bullying grows, Ben devises a plan. Then Scarlite comes into his life, the girl he has met in his on-line game. That wasn't part of the plan...
Plot Keywords: faked death, surprise ending, autism, internet, asperger's syndrome, high school, assisted suicide ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. When her father catches her in bed with her boyfriend, Nisha's two worlds brutally collide. To set an example, Nisha's parents decide to kidnap her and place her with relatives in Pakistan. Here, in a country she has never been to before, Nisha is forced to adapt to her parents' culture.
Plot Keywords: female protagonist, crooked cop, police violence, police brutality, police, praying, classroom ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Will (Ben Foster) and his teenage daughter, Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), have lived off the grid for years in the forests of Portland, Oregon. When their idyllic life is shattered, both are put into social services. After clashing with their new surroundings, Will and Tom set off on a harrowing journey back to their wild homeland. The film is directed by Debra Granik from a script adapted by Granik and Anne Rosellini.
Plot Keywords: father daughter relationship, post traumatic stress disorder, veteran, forest, girl, homelessness, hiding place ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: First there was an opportunity......then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud (Ewen Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle). Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him, ready to join the dance.
Plot Keywords: drugs, sequel, escape from prison, snorting cocaine, forgery, anal sex, punched in the face ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madly in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid's gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid's gift is to teach her Mother about love.
Plot Keywords: classroom, photograph, police officer, painting, teenage girl, school, police ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Goran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and are given the option to adopt Swedish orphan "Patrik 1,5," but when Patrik arrives, he turns out not to be the little boy they were expecting. A comma was misplaced, and the boy they receive is a 15-year-old homophobe with a criminal past.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: adoption, homophobia, alcoholic, skateboarder, gay sex, gardener, gay couple ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Pete, a boy, is found in a forest. Apparently he's been living there for six years after an accident took the lives of his parents. A ranger named Grace decides to take him in and when she asks him how he survived all by himself, he says he had a friend, Elliot, with him. He draws a picture of Elliot and it's a picture of a dragon. Grace takes the picture to her father who claims that years ago, he encountered a dragon in the forest. Grace takes Pete back to the forest and he shows them where he lives and Elliot. A man sees Elliot and when he tells about his experience and is not believed, he sets out to prove it by capturing the dragon.
Plot Keywords: orphan, dragon, car crash, campfire, climbing a tree, hospital, invisibility ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend, declines, but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: disabled person, hospital, gun, graveyard, goggles, friendship, food ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd star as Erasmus and Paul, a bickering gay couple whose life is turned inside-out when a 10-year old boy shows up at their door claiming to be Erasmus' grandson. Neither Paul nor Erasmus is ready to give up their extravagant lifestyle to be parents, but maybe this young boy has a thing or two to teach them about the value of family.
Plot Keywords: laughter, humiliation, anxiety, ambulance, holding hands, saving a life, humming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The lives of three women are unexpectedly changed when they cross paths at a New York Family Court.
Plot Keywords: child abuse, latina, immigrant, class differences, extramarital affair, face slap, thanksgiving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A drama centered on three people who are haunted by mortality in different ways. George Lonegan (Matt Damon) is a blue-collar American who has a special connection to the afterlife. On the other side of the world, French journalist, Marie Lelay (Cécile de France) has a near-death experience which shakes her reality, and when London schoolboy Marcus (identical twins Frankie McLaren and George McLaren) loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each looking to understand the one thing all life has in common, but can never share, their lives will cross, changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.
Plot Keywords: near death experience, reference to google, pharmacy, theft, social services, photographer, drug addict ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Luis" tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who makes friends with three lovable little aliens, who crash their spaceship at an abandon gas station near his house. In return for Luis' help in finding the home-shopping channel stuff they came for, they save Luis from boarding school - and an exciting adventure follows.—variety
Plot Keywords: character name in title, cow, tear, crying girl, crying, supermarket, dream sequence ...
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