The Unloved is a British television film starring Molly Windsor, Robert Carlyle, Susan Lynch and Lauren Socha.

It is about an eleven-year-old girl called Lucy (Windsor) growing up in a children's home in the UK's care system, and shown through her perspective.

It is the directorial debut of Golden Globe Award-winning and two-time Academy Award-nominated actress Samantha Morton.

[7] The title of the film was inspired by a newspaper article Morton had read about children in the foster care system.

[8] Morton spent time in other cities such as Newcastle, Glasgow and around London although decided it was best to make a film about the world she knew and grew up in.