Long lost daughter movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant long lost daughter movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, realistic, serious, touching, independent film and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with long lost daughter, mother daughter relationship, family relations, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, murder, female protagonist, friendship, parents and children and love plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Italy, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as long lost daughter: Way Back Home (2011), Journey to the Christmas Star (2012), Between Strangers (2002), After the Wedding (2019), Once Upon a Time (2011), Mothers and Daughters (2016), Here's My Plan (2021), Girl Missing (2015), The Dressmaker (2015), A Wife's Nightmare (2014).

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 7.1
 101
Way Back Home (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jessica Santiago & Ana Bartolome are two sisters who have lived in separate lives for 12 long years. Jessie, though an excellent student, has grown to feel sorrow of Ana’s lost while Ana, not knowing that she’s an orphan, grew up in a ...
Style: touching, suspense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: siblings, sister sister relationship, missing person, long lost daughter, sibling rivalry, fisherman, missing sister, fishing village, mother daughter relationship, jealousy, young adult, dog ...
Place: the philippines
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Journey to the Christmas Star (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 13 year old kind-hearted Sonja arrives at a tiny village together with a company of bandits. But there is a curse on the village. A long time ago, the King’s only daughter Goldhair disappeared while searching for the Christmas Star. The Queen died ...
Style: fairy tale, captivating, mysterious, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing, teens, preschool
Plot: winter, imaginary kingdom, friendship, curses spells and rituals, little girl, long lost daughter, xmas, snow, christmas, nordic, new year, christmas season ...
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Between Strangers (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, exciting, sentimental ...
Plot: vengeance, family relations, forbidden love, hopes, haunted by the past, human nature, love and romance, unfulfillment, introspection, parents and children, friend, long lost daughter ...
Time: year 2002, year 2001
Place: canada, angola, toronto ontario canada
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After the Wedding (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignites a series of events in which the past collides with the present while mysteries unravel.
Style: disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating
Audience: chick flick
Plot: wedding, society, businesswoman, donation, love triangle, couple relations, unfulfillment, past, couples, illness, benefactor, charity ...
Place: india, new york, america
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Once Upon a Time (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector ...
Style: fairy tale, offbeat, stylized, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, teen fantasy, adult
Plot: magic, fantasy world, magical, power of love, true love, good versus evil, imaginary kingdom, hopes, prince, fairy, curses spells and rituals, princess ...
Time: 2010s, medieval times, 21st century
Place: maine, idaho, fictional island, seattle, new england ...
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Mothers and Daughters (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Interwoven stories of what it is to be a mom seen through the lens of photographer Rigby Gray.
Style: anthology, captivating, touching, sincere, rom com
Audience: girls' night
Plot: mother daughter conflict, mother daughter relationship, mother, daughter, holiday, photographer, mother and daughter, pregnancy, paternity revealed, photograph, pregnant woman, money problems ...
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Here's My Plan (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A girl believes her whole life has been miserable. She dreams of revenge on people who are responsible for her misery.
Style: mindfuck, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: strong female character, female protagonist, revenge, teenager, childhood trauma, dysfunctional family, fight, double life, betrayal, brutality, escape, small town ...
Place: south korea
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 5.0
 530
Girl Missing (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 15 yrs after she was left in a ditch, a young woman is contacted by a millionaire from NYC who claims to be her mother. When she arrives at the family estate, she finds herself in the middle of a mysterious plot.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: woman, daughter, missing daughter, millionaire, family relations, long lost daughter, conspiracy, family secret, mansion, wealthy family, family drama
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 7.0
 65K
The Dressmaker (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Style: romantic, period piece, melancholic, satirical, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: fashion, bullying, women, dressmaker, small town, mother daughter relationship, seamstress, memory, illegitimate daughter, accidental death, murder mystery, false accusation of murder ...
Time: 1950s, 1900s, year 1951
Place: australia, oceania, france, new york, milan italy ...
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A Wife's Nightmare (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Liz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.
Style: emotional
Plot: woman seduces a man, long lost daughter, age difference, mental breakdown, impostor, psychiatric hospital, suburbs, jealousy, teenage angst, best friend, school suspension, anxiety ...
Place: washington state
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Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Damon Runyon's fairytale, sweet and funny, is told by director Frank Capra. Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for ...
Style: sentimental, touching, light, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: gangster, prohibition, high society, deception, christmas, couples, disorder, dishonesty, social differences, homeless, aging, gangster boss ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place: new york, spain, europe
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My Golden Life (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: A hardworking contract worker desperate for a full-time job finds her life turning upside down after an unexpected revelation about her family.
Style: captivating, romantic, sincere
Plot: love and romance, lifestyle, male female relationship, love affair, romantic relationship, relationships, looking for love, couple relations, life, happiness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, poor ...
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 7.3
 18K
Trade (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, detective ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, slavery, missing child, sexual abuse, sex slavery, child molestation, sexual assault, rape victim, forced prostitution, child rape, rescue ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new jersey, mexico city, el paso texas, poland, texas ...
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Forgotten Love (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.
Style: period drama
Plot: surgeon, memory loss, love, father daughter reunion, romantic rivalry, father daughter relationship, class differences, surgery, steam train, professor, wedding ring, long lost daughter ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: poland
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The Wrong Daughter (2018)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Kate and Joe have longed to be parents and are considering in vitro options... when Danica, a child Kate gave up 17 years ago, appears on Facebook. Danica comes to live with them, but she's not their real child. She's an impostor who will ...
Plot: woman with a gun, mental disorder, daughter, female psychopath, lie, liar, husband wife relationship, adoption, stolen identity, laptop, murder, facebook ...
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 5.2
 388
Blue Jeans (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Tells the story of young Daniela ‘Blue Jeans’ Anselmi, a free-spirited drifter who makes her way in life by selling sexual favors and practicing petty-crime. After Daniela is arrested, the man who might be her long-lost father is called into her ...
Style: sex comedy, erotic, sexy
Plot: age-gap relationship, motorcycle, prostitute, murder, female nudity, sexploitation, con artists, maid, retribution, false accusation, genealogy, husband wife sex ...
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 4.7
 2K
Butterfly (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Orson Welles, as judge Rauch, holds a lengthy trial against Jess Tyler, a caretaker deserted by his wife ten years before, who's accused of improper relations with his daughter Kady. Complications follows when Wash, father of Kady's baby, ...
Style: sexy, neo noir, erotic, independent film, sincere ...
Plot: father daughter incest, incest, sex with daughter, voyeur, incestuous desire, seduction, nudity, lust, forbidden love, sex scene, desert, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 1930s, year 1982, year 1937
Place: arizona, nevada, usa
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Keeping Up with the Joneses (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: After the death of patriarch Theodore Jones, his second wife Robin and Theodore's daughters work to protect their family and business after they are threatened.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: strong female lead, heir, family business, family problems, inheritance, money, conspiracy, family relations, problem, businesswoman, money problems, business ...
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Ever After High: Way Too Wonderland (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With the Storybook of Legends still in Wonderland, Raven attempts to teleport her friends there despite still getting the hand of her powers. Apple, Raven, Briar, Lizzie, Kitty and Maddie end up in Wonderland in just days away from the Queen of ...
Style: independent film, fairy tale, crying
Plot: teenager, fantasy world, evil queen, female protagonist, wonderland, sword duel, magic, shapeshifting, birthday party, fairy, hugging, teenage girl ...
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 6.9
 72K
The Woman King (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: USA, South Africa, Ireland
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of ...
Style: dramatic, harsh, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: female warrior, fight, slave trade, military training, female soldier, female protagonist, queen, warrior, kingdom, military, soldier, battles ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, 2020s, victorian era, 1800s ...
Place: africa, west africa, atlantic ocean
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Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before, Charlie is ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, tense, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, on the run, danger, rivalry, special agent, police corruption, law enforcement, vengeance, swat team, armed forces, violent content, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
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 4.1
 126
Pandemonium (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Azaria Chamberlain was not killed by a dingo but saved and raised by said dingos. She is raised in an incestuous dingo environment and travels back to Sydney transformed as the second coming... a new messiah for a new age.
Style: surreal, absurd, dark comedy, black comedy, independent film ...
Plot: bestiality, surrealism, human sacrifice, mad scientist, koala, twins, dwarf, female pubic hair, evil, girl, lesbian, feral child ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia
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Heeralaal Pannalaal (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: India
Story: The movie starts with two innocent and kind hearted guys named Heeralal (Shashi Kapoor) and Pannalal (Randhir Kapoor). They are famous among criminals as they have helped police in capturing them several times. Heeralal is in search of his ...
Plot: boy, secret, past, long lost son, long lost daughter, car bomb, brothel madam, orphanage, orphan, black market, rescue, tiger ...
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 6.5
 239
The Shadow Box (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
Plot: mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, death, husband wife relationship, love, marriage, letter, cancer, gay, homosexual, ex husband ex wife relationship, terminal illness ...
Place: california
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 6.2
 15K
Powder Blue (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.
Style: bleak, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: stripper, striptease, oral sex, sexy woman, redemption, panic attack, exotic dancer, life is a bitch, self discovery, haunted by the past, female nudity, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, paris france
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Heart and Souls (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A businessman is reunited with the four lost souls who were his guardian angels during childhood, all with a particular purpose to joining the afterlife.
Style: feel good, touching, sentimental, humorous, light ...
Audience: kids
Plot: afterlife, angel, ghost, supernatural, fear of commitment, imaginary friend, love, friendship, redemption, reincarnation, life philosophy, happy ending ...
Time: year 1959, 90s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: san francisco
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 5.8
 1K
Blastfighter (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Former cop Jake 'Tiger' Sharp returns to his old hometown after having been in prison for the murder of his wife's killer. Illegal hunting seems to be widespread and inbred rednecks control the city with an iron fist. Jake manages to ...
Style: cult classic, action adventure, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: revenge, rape, redneck, rape and revenge, murder, small town, poacher, vengeance, released from prison, police, nightmare, hunting ...
Time: 80s
Place: hong kong, usa, asia, georgia, southern usa ...
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 6.0
 4K
Afterglow (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A handyman with marital problems meets a housewife with the same.
Style: talky, clever, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: depression, infidelity, obsession, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, adultery, loneliness, marriage, polygamy, open relationship, jazz, age-gap relationship ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: montreal, canada
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To Love and Die (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A fun-loving 30-something (Shiri Appleby) with abandonment issues becomes convinced that her dating problems will be resolved if she can only track down the father she never knew. When she finds him (Tim Matheson), she discovers that he's an ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Plot: family relations, danger, parents and children, female protagonist, murder, friendship, escapades, rivalry, female killer, domineering mother, long lost daughter, female assassin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco
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Crazy for Christmas (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A girl loses her parents and husband and is left driving a limo trying to get by raising her young son. An interesting but strange rich man hires her limo on Christmas eve and has her drive him to various ice rinks where he gives out $100 bills to ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, single parent, family gatherings, journalism, neighbor neighbor relationship, christmas romance, xmas, family relations, generosity, chauffeur, limousine driver ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
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