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 6.9
 1K
Wildhood (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Link and his brother flee their abusive father and embark on a journey where Link discovers his sexuality and rediscovers his Mi’kmaw heritage.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, road movie, crying ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay slur, outdoor sex, teenager, skinny dipping, dysfunctional family, family relations, travel, parents and children, search for mother, friendship ...
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 6.4
 515
Nefes Nefese (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: In Berlin, her father Ayaz Kiran lives a quiet life. Ruya finds out that her mother, whom she has never seen one day, is in Syria. The only way to enter the occupied congregation for Ruya, which learns that her mother is alive, is to make a fake ...
Style: tense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense
Plot: mother daughter relationship, family relations, family problems, search for mother, father daughter relationship, secret society, marriage of convenience, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, family secret, relationships ...
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Touch the Sun: Princess Kate (1988)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Kate McLelland's life is a normal one of a girl her age in the eastern suburbs, until her discovery that she is adopted. This is the story of her search for her natural mother and the resulting relationship.
Plot: search for mother, teenage girl, parent child relationship, adoptive father adopted daughter relationship, adoptive mother adopted daughter relationship, girl, father daughter relationship, adoption, mother daughter relationship, family secret, adopted daughter, birth mother ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
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 7.6
 249
Mary Lou (2009)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Meir and his mother Miriam are living a hum drum life in rural Israel. The opening scene has them dusting in matching head scarfs, our first hint that this young boy might grow up to bat for the other team. My favorite quote from the film is spoken ...
Plot: gay, search for mother, transsexual, drag queen, psychiatric hospital, lgbt, gay couple, gay subtext, abandoned by mother, burial, gay relationship, gay club ...
Place: israel, tel aviv israel
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Death in the Shadows (1985)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is on her way home, she is killed in a car accident in the street they live in.
Style: suspense, neo noir, detective, serious, realistic ...
Plot: accident, teenage girl, striptease, search for mother, hit and run, murder, teenage life, countryside, village life, missing child, village, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: holland, amsterdam
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See You On Venus (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mia and Kyle, two misfit American teens, travel to Spain searching for Mia's birth mother. As the pair road trip through the picturesque cities of Andalusia and fall in love, they discover that the most important question isn't who gave ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: young adult, road trip, suicidal thoughts, teen romance, search for mother, hopes, girl, car accident, death of best friend, disease, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love ...
Place: spain, andalusia
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Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: As Scott Lang awaits expiration of his term of house detention, Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym involve him in a scheme to rescue Mrs. van Dyne from the micro-universe into which she has fallen, while two groups of schemers converge on them with ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, humorous, action adventure, psychotronic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: superhero, ant, giant, female villain, tough girl, female warrior, superheroine, truth serum, fight, house arrest, flying, school ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: san francisco
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 7.5
 3K
The Italian (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, breathtaking, inspirational ...
Plot: orphan, children, orphanage, youth, boy, adoption, coming of age, friendship, adolescence, family relations, self discovery, hopes ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union, europe, italy
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe – for a time when he’s no ...
Style: independent film, sad, surreal, emotional, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: poverty, climate change, children, global warming, father daughter relationship, childhood, community, magic realism, child protagonist, coming of age, flood, single father ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa, southern usa
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 7.4
 111K
August Rush (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.
Style: touching, inspirational, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: music, musician, childhood, prodigy, orphan, child prodigy, dancing, child protagonist, genius, youth, chance meeting, children ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 80s, year 1995, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, chicago, xian, san francisco ...
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Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: 34-year-old virgin loser is kicked out of his home by his family and realized that his life is completely over. As he regrets wasting his life, a truck runs him over and he died. When he wakes up... He’s in a world of sword and sorcery! Reborn as ...
Style: anime, captivating, ecchi, intense, tense ...
Plot: reincarnation, starting over, new life, magic, magical, peril, second chance, impersonation, isekai, harem, unlikely partners, obsessive quest ...
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 5.6
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St. Pauli Girl (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A reporter who goes to San Francisco to write about romance has an affair with a stripper from an all-women's club.
Style: sexy, independent film, black and white, erotic, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, sex, porn, sleaze, freudian, voice over narration, stripper, bisexual, incest, art gallery, feminism ...
Time: 80s
Place: san francisco
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 6.6
 216K
Enola Holmes (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
Style: detective, costume drama, period piece, suspense, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: sherlock holmes, strong female lead, victorian england, feminism, amateur detective, female detective, female protagonist, teenage protagonist, private detective, fight, runaway teen, obsessive quest ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 2020s, edwardian era, future
Place: london, england, scotland yard
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 6.1
 204
Eva & Leon (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A privileged woman and an orphan boy meet and somehow become friends.
Style: sincere, unusual plot structure, psychological, light, feel good
Plot: orphan, search for mother, boy, train, disguise, friendship, friends, youth, atmosphere, breakup, police officer, cafe ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, rome italy
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My Mother's Wound (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Upon turning eight-teen, Salih leaves the orphanage to find his lost family and begins working in a Serbian farm. Suddenly, at the most unexpected moment he has found a home. Will he ever be able to let go of the ghosts of his past and be happy in ...
Style: captivating
Plot: bosnian war, child born of rape, revenge, rape, war crime, revenge plot, secret, family problems, uncover truth, orphan, family secret, confronting the past ...
Place: turkey
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 5.8
 2K
Track 29 (1988)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Years after a desperate teenage Linda gives up her baby for adoption, she finds herself face-to-face with Martin, a young man claiming to be her long-lost son. Linda embraces Martin and in him finds a welcome reprieve from her unhappy marriage to ...
Style: erotic, grindhouse, non-linear, surreal, mind bending ...
Plot: obsession, incest, mysticism, hitchhiker, adoption, haunted by the past, surrealism, extramarital affair, small town, teenage life, pregnancy, parents and children ...
Time: 80s
Place: north carolina
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 5.4
 2K
Angie (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Angie lives in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, N.Y. and dreams of a better life than everyone she knows. When she finds that she is pregnant by her boyfriend Vinnie, she decides that she will have the baby, but not Vinnie as a husband. This ...
Style: intense, touching, sentimental, entertaining, anamorphic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: pregnancy, self discovery, love and romance, fall in love, love triangle, human nature, women, working class, female protagonist, eccentricity, twists and turns, girl ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Unnatural & Accidental (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Unnatural & Accidental is the feature length dramatic film adaptation of the stage play entitled, The Unnatural and Accidental Women by renowned Metis playwright Marie Clements and is based loosely around the "unnatural and ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, indigenous people, killer, slum, binge drinking, drunken sex, female protagonist, bare breasts, female nudity, search for mother, murder of a nude woman ...
Place: vancouver
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Life is to Whistle (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Cuba, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; Social-worker ...
Style: surreal, semi serious, realistic
Plot: parallel story, celibacy, orphan, petty theft, public nudity, male nudity, couples, family relations, pregnancy, sexual relations, twentysomething life, singleness ...
Time: 90s, 2020s
Place: cuba, latin america, havana cuba
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The Sleepy Time Gal (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to find her birth mother.
Style: independent film
Plot: job, mother, american revolutionary war, journey, writers, search for mother, remorse, black american, mortality, selfishness, regret, memory ...
Time: year 1982
Place: san francisco, new york, pennsylvania, manhattan new york city
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Not of This World (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
Style: semi serious, psychological, realistic, touching, spiritual
Plot: christian, newcomer, family relations, nun, hospital, adoption, lost child, friends, religions or cults, couples, unfulfillment, redemption ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy, milan italy
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 5.8
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Trans (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ryan Kazinski, 16, is in juvenile detention in Fort Myers, Florida. He gets away one day, and the world is all before him: where should he go, what should he do? Should he try to find his mom? Should he head for Colorado, where he's daydreamed ...
Style: independent film, experimental, serious, realistic, atmospheric
Plot: escape, on the run, woods, urban ghetto life, bus, teenage life, prison life, prison, on the road, urban ghetto, kids in trouble, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, colorado, usa
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 7.2
 1K
Jack (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Although he is only ten years old, Jack is responsible for himself and his little brother Manuel and this fills him with pride. Their single mother works during the day and often goes out at night. There’s no father in sight. One day, Manuel burns ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious ...
Plot: boy, young heroes, teenage life, self discovery, youth, child as adult, coming of age, family relations, life turned upside down, child care, brother brother relationship, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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Meant to Be (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When 20-year old Nathan loses his career and his girlfriend, he questions his purpose in life. Compounding his struggle, Nathan grew up in a foster home and never met his birth mother. He sets out on a quest to find his mother and somehow come to ...
Style: psychological, contemplative, thought provoking, captivating, surprise ending ...
Plot: faith, god, mother, crisis, christian, research, depression, journey, self discovery, belief in god, forgiveness, abortion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Mysteries of Lisbon (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 317 min.
TV show
Story: Follows a jealous countess, a wealthy businessman, and a young orphaned boy across Portugal, France, Italy and Brazil where they connect with a variety of mysterious individuals.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, atmospheric, period piece ...
Plot: aristocracy, intrigue, forbidden love, storytelling, heir, orphan, self discovery, love and romance, love affair, dishonesty, society, vengeance ...
Time: 1800s, 19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 18th century
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal, iberian peninsula, europe, venice ...
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 6.1
 6K
Sleepwalking (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When her boyfriend is arrested for marijuana possession, Joleen Reedy and her 11-year-old daughter, Tara, take refuge with Joleen's aimless brother, James. Joleen soon runs off with a truck driver, and James is unable to meet his ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, foster home, road trip, haunted by the past, family problems, introspection, child abuse, friendship, mother daughter relationship, loss of job, single parent, coming of age ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, california, utah
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 7.7
 22K
Kikujiro (1999)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a ...
Style: road movie, sad, uplifting, surreal, stylized ...
Plot: on the road, boy, summer, friendship, violence, child, children, road trip, yakuza, bittersweet, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
Style: surreal, touching, sentimental, compassionate, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: transvestism, transgender, gay slur, gay, transsexual, gender, adoption, coming of age, gender bending, lgbt, priest, ira ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 20th century, 60s
Place: ireland, england, europe, big ben london, london
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 5.8
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Steal Me (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Chasing his wayward mother to Montana, fifteen year old Jake finds the picture perfect Tucker family instead who photoshop him into their lives, despite his questionable past. Too bad Jake can not stop himself from stealing, being seduced by the ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film, crying
Plot: family relations, older woman younger man relationship, small town, forbidden love, love affair, teenage life, couples, love and romance, starting over, youth, parents and children, coming of age ...
Place: montana, usa
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 7.0
 3K
Breathing (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A 19-year-old is coming out of prison and trying to build a new life but he can't deal with his guilt.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot: teenage boy, prison life, guilt, youth, going straight, self discovery, starting over, redemption, haunted by the past, human nature, juvenile delinquency, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, europe
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