Adopted daughter movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant adopted daughter movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, psychological and serious films and TV shows about / with adopted daughter, family relations, adoption, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, danger, brother sister relationship, girl and murder plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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adopted daughter movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as adopted daughter: Life Unexpected (2010), Christmas Princess (2017), The Bad Twin (2016), Stolen Child (2012), No Good Nick (2019), The Others (2019), Knock at the Cabin (2023), V.C. Andrews' Heaven (2019), Silent Hill (2006), Sarah's Key (2010).

List of adopted daughter movies

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Life Unexpected (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Life Unexpected is a coming-of-age family drama that centers around 16-year-old Lux, who was given up for adoption at birth but never adopted. When she is put back into the custody of her estranged-since-high-school birth parents, Cate and Baze, the ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, foster child, adolescence, adolescence vs adulthood, foster home, teenage life, parents and children, teenage girl, immature, adopted daughter, proposal, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portland oregon
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Christmas Princess (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Against the backdrop of Christmas in Southern California comes Christmas Princess, a heart-warming story inspired by true events about one brave high school girl who overcomes her difficult past to become one of the elite princesses in the ...
Style: touching, entertaining, thought provoking, sweet, psychological
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, adopted daughter, against the odds, coping, mother daughter relationship, charity, teenager, moral dilemma, contest, parents and children, dilemma, sister sister relationship ...
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 5.2
 607
The Bad Twin (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A radio host takes in her troubled sister’s twin daughters, unknowingly putting her family, her friends, and herself at risk.
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller
Plot: twins, sister sister conflict, adopted daughter, niece, two sisters, identical twins, psychiatric patient, twin sister, aunt niece relationship, teenage girl, teenager, assassination plot ...
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 5.1
 312
Stolen Child (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Amanda and Jason are happy marriage now, after years of frustration have finally managed to take a beautiful girl from a country in Eastern Europe through an international adoption agency. But when the doctor will perform a DNA test to small, finds ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot: adoption, kidnapping, kidnapped child, uncover truth, investigation, suspicion, couples, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.1
 4K
No Good Nick (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A family finds their lives turned upside down when a young, street-smart grifter shows up on their doorstep, claiming to be a distant relative.
Style: light, captivating, children's program, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: adopted daughter, deception, parents and children, brother sister relationship, problem child, gay, teenage girl, lgbt, relatives, teenage protagonist, gay teenager, impersonating ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.1
 15
The Others (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot: paranormal, supernatural, adopted daughter, paranormal phenomena, supernatural power, supernatural ability, foster home, paranormal activity, mother daughter relationship, foster child, family problems, superhuman powers ...
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Knock at the Cabin (2023)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must ...
Style: thrilling, apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: home invasion, moral dilemma, vacation gone wrong, father daughter relationship, adopted daughter, tsunami, prediction, self sacrifice, prophecy, sacrifice, race against time, premonition ...
Time: 2020s
Place: philadelphia, nashville tennessee, hawaii, china, oregon ...
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V.C. Andrews' Heaven (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story: Heaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers a dark secret that changes everything she thought she knew about her ...
Plot: incest, sex with a minor, corporal punishment, poor family, shakespeare, death of grandmother, grandmother granddaughter relationship, new student, poverty, birthday, marriage proposal, brother sister relationship ...
Place: atlanta georgia
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 6.5
 243K
Silent Hill (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric ...
Style: scary, dark, surreal, gothic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, monster, demon, survival, supernatural horror, macabre, insanity, torture, ghost town, ghost, good versus evil, missing child ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, america, usa
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 7.5
 18K
Sarah's Key (2010)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being send to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother ...
Style: emotional, captivating, disturbing, serious, powerful ...
Plot: holocaust, nazism, jewish family, secret past, separation from family, investigation, journalism, family secret, haunted by the past, introspection, confined, against humanity ...
Time: year 1942, 20th century, 1940s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, manhattan new york city, france, new york, middle east ...
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Then She Found Me (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with ...
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, romantic comedy, humorous ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: midlife crisis, depression, eccentricity, loneliness, love and romance, betrayal, jewish american, unfulfillment, parents and children, birth mother, love, pregnancy ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Anne of Green Gables (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A retelling of L.M. Montgomery's story of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is accidentally sent to a couple looking to adopt a boy instead
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, uplifting, compassionate ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: adoption, orphan, friendship, foster parent, foster child, family drama, anne of green gables, parent child relationship, family relations, parents and children, girl, happy ending ...
Time: 19th century, edwardian era
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Return to Seoul (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium, South Korea, Romania, Cambodia, Qatar
Duration: 119 min.
Story: On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born, before being adopted and raised in France. The headstrong young woman starts looking for her biological parents in a country she ...
Style: captivating, exciting, dramatic, thought provoking, interesting
Plot: journey, adoption, adopted daughter, life, foster parent, interracial adoption, parents and children, adoptive father, foster home, biological father, birth mother, adoptive mother ...
Place: seoul, south korea
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Das Geheimnis des Königssees (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The owner of a hotel at the river of a lake lives deeply embittered since his girlfriend disappeared in mysterious circumstances more than 20 years ago. But when one day he sees on television a young woman with a remarkable resemblance to her, he ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: adopted daughter, investigation, search for mother, uncover truth, secret, hotel owner, family secret, secret revealed, private investigation, birth mother, underwater, rural setting ...
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A Tale of Two Sisters (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Choi Seyoung is the adopted daughter of Choi Jin Sa and dreams of becoming an announcer like her idol Kim Ju Hui. Her oldest sister, Choi Il Young (Im Ji Eun), is a writer at a broadcasting company and has been trying to get her a job in her ...
Style: captivating
Plot: mother daughter relationship, family relations, adopted daughter, love affair, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, newscaster, changing lives, lifestyle change, sister, relationships, foster child ...
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Pelican Blood (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Bulgaria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Wiebke, a professional horse trainer, faces a unique challenge when she adopts Raya, a five-year-old girl, who is prone to violent outbursts because of her traumatic past.
Style: psychological, sincere, disturbing, captivating
Plot: foster child, foster home, mother daughter relationship, single mother, mother, social problems, adopted daughter, family problems, adoptive mother adopted daughter relationship, foster parent, family relations, relationship problems ...
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Birthmother's Betrayal (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman becomes suspicious when her adopted daughter's birth mother reenters her life and starts to display increasingly erratic behavior.
Style: captivating, suspense
Plot: birth mother, bad influence, suspicious wife, suspicion, mother daughter relationship, adopted daughter, family in danger, foster child, mistreatment, life, adoptive mother, family relations ...
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Listen to Me, Girls. I'm Your Father! (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Segawa Yuta is a freshman of a university. He lost his parents when he was small and was raised by his sister Yuri. Yuta has been living alone since Yuri got married to a middle aged man when Yuta was a junior high student.  One day, Yuri visited ...
Style: anime, humorous, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: orphan, family relations, youth, hopes, life turned upside down, friendship, uncle niece relationship, sister sister relationship, family life, humour, kids and family, life ...
Place: japan
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 8.4
 12K
A Small Light (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 402 min.
TV show
Story: Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight ...
Style: historical drama, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: world war two, holocaust, family relations, world war, hiding place, diary, survival, cover up, neo nazi, female protagonist, nazi, hidden ...
Time: 1930s, year 1933, 1940s
Place: amsterdam, netherlands
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 4.2
 2K
June (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: June is different from all other nine-year old girls. She is an orphan hiding a secret. Bad things happen when she gets upset, supernatural things. June has been in many foster homes usually leaving them destroyed. But this time it will be ...
Style: bleak, rough, suspense, scary
Plot: supernatural, exorcism, little girl, girl, orphan, obsession, danger, demon, psychic power, freak, psychic, youth ...
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min.
Story: Twelve years after exploring Pandora and joining the Na’vi, Jake Sully has since raised a family with Neytiri and established himself within the clans of the new world. Of course, peace can only last so long. Especially when the military ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, breathtaking, epic, colorful ...
Audience: family outing, teens, date night, adult
Plot: fantasy world, fight, underwater, good versus evil, planet, ocean, alien, mother son relationship, escapades, hopes, water, alien civilization ...
Time: future, 2020s, 20th century, distant future, 22nd century
Place: space western
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 7.1
 373K
The Ring (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
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October Faction (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 39 min.
TV show
Story: Monster hunters Fred and Deloris Allen tangle with evil ... and family drama with their teenage twins. From the comics by Steve Niles and Damien Worm.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, bleak, dark fantasy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: evil, monster, curses spells and rituals, superhero, gay, danger, investigation, salvation, twists and turns, witch, black american, love ...
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Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 149 min.
Story: As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six ...
Style: epic, exciting, saga, surprise ending, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: superhero, super powers, fight scenes, invasion, power, supernatural power, universe, tragedy, good versus evil, end of the world, alien, superhero team ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, africa, manhattan new york city, scotland
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Alone Yet Not Alone (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Fleeing religious persecution in Germany, the Leininger family seeks a new start in uncharted country - America. It is the mid-1700s and British and French forces are struggling for control over the abundant resources of this new territory. Carving ...
Style: serious, captivating, emotional, epic, realistic ...
Plot: native american white relationships, faith, captivity, family relations, immigrant, religions or cults, society, danger, family in danger, political unrest, native american attack, christian ...
Time: 18th century
Place: ohio, usa, germany, delaware, philadelphia ...
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 7.0
 250K
Orphan (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: adoption, orphan, killer child, murder, serial killer, fear, female psychopath, mysterious character, twists and turns, family in danger, insanity, murderer ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, estonia
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Anne of Avonlea (1987)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 230 min.
TV show
Story: Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She makes the acquaintance of a handsome, rich, bachelor, chases a cow, and wins (to her chagrin) a baking soda company's writing contest. She acts as ...
Style: touching, period piece, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: friendship, coming of age, school, mentor, corporal punishment, teachers and students, love, heartwarming, anne of green gables, bittersweet, orphan, family relations ...
Time: 1800s, 1900s
Place: canada, chicago, usa, boston
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 6.4
 6K
Glorious 39 (2009)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy Keyes maintain a confident façade in the British countryside until daughter Anne becomes an ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, clever ...
Plot: world war two, adoption, spy, disorder, life turned upside down, uncover truth, secret movement, war, betrayal, confined, world war, conspiracy ...
Time: year 1939, 1930s, year 2009, 20th century, pre world war two
Place: england, london, europe
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 6.2
 2K
The Shunning (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Beautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence -- until a mysterious "Englisher" comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago.
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, serious, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: amish, adoption, family relations, identity crisis, family problems, religions or cults, youth, hopes, dishonesty, self discovery, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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Adopting Terror (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tim and Cheryl Broadbent are excited to finally adopt Mona, a beautiful baby girl. But when the baby's biological father starts stalking them, their world turns upside down: through intimidation, manipulation, and violence, he is determined to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: psychopath, stalking, murder, family in danger, family problems, danger, adoption, parents and children, husband wife relationship, child, wrestling, parents ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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