social work movies

Free Willy (1993)
6.17 / 10

Family, Adventure, Drama

When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets...

The Specials (2019)
7.845 / 10

Comedy, Drama

For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit...

Losing Isaiah (1995)
6.4 / 10

Drama

Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he...

The Interrupters (2011)
6.783 / 10

Documentary

The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago...

A Crime (2006)
5.6 / 10

Crime

Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a...

Protection (2018)
0 / 10

Drama, Comedy

Made collaboratively with children from public housing areas in the Illawarra on the south coast of New South Wales, Protection uses a unique blend...

36 Vayadhinile (2015)
6.8 / 10

Drama, Family

A married woman, who has set aside her dreams for the sake of her husband and daughter, rediscovers her true self and becomes an achiever.

Cotton Wool (2017)
6 / 10

Drama

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold...

Kroko (2003)
6.4 / 10

Drama

Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me (2011)
5 / 10

TV Movie

Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me is a 2011 one-off Christmas special, made by STV Productions and broadcast by ITV on Tuesday 27 December 2011. The...

How Old Are You (2014)
6.6 / 10

Drama, Family

36 year-old Nirupama Rajeev (played by Manju Warrier) is an UD clerk in Revenue Department. The role of her husband is played by Kunchaka Boban....

Some Happy Day (2021)
0 / 10

Drama

Lives change when a homeless woman, in desperate search of a better life, meets a social worker with troubles of her own.

I Am Urban (2018)
9 / 10

Drama, Crime

A hard living, disillusioned, ex social worker becomes the unlikely savior to an anarchic gang of joy-riding, drug taking, thieving, out of control,...

Fritz Berger: The Photographer of Memories (2016)
0 / 10

Documentary, Drama

In the spring of 1962, members of the Christian Peace Service aid group flew in from Bern, Switzerland and settled in the poorest villages in all of...

Anandi Gopal (2019)
7.7 / 10

Drama

Anandibai Joshi, the First Indian woman who went against all odds to get herself educated and became a doctor to set an example and inspired...

A Shore Away (2022)
0 / 10

Drama

Newly employed in an emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness, Geneviève is shaken to meet a young woman there whom she believed to...

Bismuna - Ein Abenteuerfilm (1999)
0 / 10

Documentary

In the mid-1990s, Dieter Dubbert accidentally ends up with the Miskito Indians in Bismuna, Nicaragua. Here he begins to work with drug-addicted and...

Happy Birthday to You! (2006)
5.2 / 10

Crime, Horror, Thriller, Drama

A dark story about obsession, cats, and birthday presents.

Where's Foster? (1969)
0 / 10

Documentary

Social workers dispel myths about why children are removed from their biological parents, breaking down their overwhelming workload. Lawyers uncover...

The Infinite Present Ends (1969)
0 / 10

Drama

Based on a fictionalized 2015 memoir from psychiatric nurse Mary Dorsan, the text embeds within a teenage psychiatric ward over the course of a year,...