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A Deadly Adoption (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Things go awry when an author and his wife welcome a pregnant woman into their home, with plans to adopt her baby.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: pregnant woman, adoption, baby, family in danger, pregnancy, obsession, child in peril, surrogate mother, loss of child, little girl, murder, mother daughter relationship ...
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 5.4
 2K
Rent-a-Kid (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family, Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Harry Habert, owner of a rent office has an original idea: To rent babies from a nearby orphanage to the local families. He rents the Ward brothers to his first customers...
Style: humorous, funny, light, melancholic, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: adoption, children, dog, orphan, siblings relations, mischievous children, nothing goes right, disorder, family relations, parenthood, new year, child hero ...
Time: 90s
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Goodnight, Mister Tom (1998)
Genre: Drama, Family, War
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: We're in an English village shortly before Dunkirk. "Mr. Tom" Oakley still broods over the death of his wife and small son while he was away in the navy during WWI, and grief has made him a surly hermit. Now children evacuated from ...
Style: touching, sad, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Plot: world war two, coming of age, orphan, adoption, youth, childhood, children, small town, asexual, legion, foreign legion, parent child relationship ...
Time: 1940s
Place: britain, london, england, europe, dunkirk
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Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who’s trying to get ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, harsh, political, brutal ...
Plot: journalism, adoption, bosnian war, civil war, journalist, genocide, family relations, military, anti war, rescue, danger, politics ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: bosnia, england, sarajevo, former yugoslavia, europe ...
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Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A story of encounters and partings interwoven between people; this is a human drama with feelings that touch one's heart gradually, which everyone has experienced at least once.
Style: anime, touching, thought provoking, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: date night
Plot: life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, teenager, orphan, love, baby, female protagonist, friendship, military, adoption, mother son relationship ...
Time: 2010s
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 7.5
 142K
The Book Thief (2013)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens, adult
Plot: world war two, holocaust, nazi, childhood, adoption, war, nazi germany, human spirit, life is a bitch, against humanity, teenage girl, youth ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, ancient times, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: germany, europe
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 7.4
 11K
Woman at War (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, France, Ukraine
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A middle aged woman declares war on the heavy industry in her town. She resorts to sabotage and is willing to risk everything for nature and these virgin highlands… until a Ukrainian orphan enters her life.
Style: scenic, feel good, humorous, visually appealing, sincere ...
Plot: environmental activist, adoption, climate change, dog, twins, tourist, sister sister relationship, environmentalism, sabotage, strong female character, feminist, women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, ukraine, sarajevo, reykjavik iceland
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The Lost & Found Family (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When her husband dies, Mrs. Ester Hobbes (Ellen Bry, TV's St. Elsewhere) learns that his wealth was just an illusion. Her only real inheritance is a run-down Southern home occupied by a foster family. Slowly, Mrs. Hobbes finds herself making ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: adoption, family relations, family problems, orphan, society, youth, introspection, religions or cults, parents and children, redemption, self discovery, blood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
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 7.7
 16K
Kolya (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Czech Republic Director Jan Sverák tells in this Oscar winning film the story of the disillusioned Prague man named Cellisten Louka, who after a fictitious marriage with a Russian emigrant must suddenly take responsibility for her son. However ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: adoption, communism, coming of age, friendship, musician, single father, revolution, cellist, child, boy, culture clash, storytelling ...
Time: 80s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1989
Place: czech republic, prague, eastern europe, balkan, europe ...
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 6.2
 190K
Mama (2013)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that ...
Style: scary, suspense, gothic, frightening, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, children, haunted house, mother daughter relationship, afterlife, macabre, adoption, danger, revenge, redemption ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
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Childish Games (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When flaky novelist Mario turns up one day at the school where Daniel teaches, the educator is convinced the writer is a spirit from his repressed past, buried deep in his subconscious. As children, the two might almost have been brothers. But the ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: adoption, haunted by the past, disorder, parents and children, losing-it hero, hidden identity, fear, dishonesty, danger, murder, violence, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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 7.0
 11K
Indochine (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 160 min.
Story: The story starts in the 1930s at one of the largest rubber-tree plantations in Indochine (Vietnam). This plantation is owned by the French colonist Eliane, a proud woman who lives with her father and her native adoptive daughter Camille. She ...
Style: visual, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental, stylized ...
Plot: adoption, colonialism, women, vietnam war, love story, politics, dictatorship, dictator, sexual content, war, interracial relations, naval officer ...
Time: 1930s, year 1992, 20th century, 50s, 1940s ...
Place: southeast asia, vietnam, indochina, france, asia ...
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 8.3
 517
Mother (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story: Mother is a Japanese television drama that aired on Nippon TV between 14 April and 23 June 2010, starring Matsuyuki Yasuko.
Style: suspense, touching, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: motherhood, bad mother, kidnapping, adoption, child abuse, custody, journey, child custody, family relations, family problems, parents and children, help ...
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 5.6
 147
The Adopters (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Martín, a TV host of 42, has the urgent need of becoming a father. Leonardo, an agronomist of 45 and Martín’s partner for the past ten years, has doubts since he himself was adopted by his parents.
Style: feel good, entertaining, humorous, captivating, unusual plot structure
Plot: gay, adoption, lgbt, tv host, gay interest, male objectification, gay couple, love and romance, nude, homosexual, couples, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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 5.3
 10K
Wolves (2014)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The coming-of-age story of Cayden Richards. Forced to hit the road after the murder of his parents, Cayden wanders lost without purpose... Until he meets a certifiable lunatic named Wild Joe who sets him on a path to the ominous town of Lupine Ridge ...
Style: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, scenic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, female werewolf, lycanthropy, good versus evil, adoption, murder, female nudity, rivalry, deadly creature, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, paternity revealed ...
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Style: funny, touching, feel good, humorous, scenic ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, nature, adoption, wilderness, boy, hunting, juvenile delinquent, childhood, manhunt, dog, fat boy, countryside ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: new zealand, indiana, oceania, persia
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 6.9
 69K
The Rescuers (1977)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: What can two little mice possibly do to save an orphan girl who's fallen into evil hands? With a little cooperation and faith in oneself, anything is possible! As members of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society, Bernard and Miss ...
Style: light, touching, feel good, colorful, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, toddlers, preschool ...
Plot: childhood, mouse, good versus evil, orphan, friendship, kidnapping, rescue, chase, little girl, anxiety, happy ending, talking animal ...
Time: 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: madagascar, new york, usa, louisiana, new orleans
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 7.3
 149K
Raising Arizona (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Coen Brothers tell the story of a absurd yet likable family with an unproductive couple as the focal point. The couple has gotten themselves into some trouble while kidnapping a baby and give Hollywood one of the most memorable chase scenes to ...
Style: witty, humorous, funny, dark comedy, surreal ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing
Plot: kidnapping, screwball, baby, robbery, adoption, american football, parenthood, missing child, policewoman, crime gone awry, redemption, blackmail ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
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Robot Stories (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Four stories including: "My Robot Baby," in which a couple must care for a robot baby before adopting a human child; "The Robot Fixer," in which a mother tries to connect with her dying son; "Machine Love," in which an ...
Style: futuristic, melancholic, surreal, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot: androids and robots, robot, adoption, existentialism, imaginary, family life, parents and children, society, estrangement, human nature, immortality, bittersweet ...
Time: future, 80s, 90s, 2000s
Place: tokyo
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Meet the Robinsons (2007)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this animated adventure, brilliant preteen inventor Lewis creates a memory scanner to retrieve his earliest recollections and find out why his mother gave him up for adoption. But when the villainous Bowler Hat Guy steals the machine, Lewis is ...
Style: sweet, touching, computer animated, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: time travel, inventor, time machine, adoption, redemption, runaway, kids and family, father son relationship, sent to the past, scientist, love, eccentric family ...
Time: future, year 2007, 2030s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: canada, usa
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The Magic Christian (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless boy, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought with money.
Style: humorous, semi serious, witty, captivating, light ...
Plot: surrealism, adoption, satire, disorder, self discovery, friendship, family relations, supernatural, family business, the beatles, inheritance, swing ...
Time: 20th century, year 1969, 60s
Place: big ben london
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 5.7
 623
Get Your Stuff (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a difficult foster child needs a home, a gay couple is thrown into parenthood.
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, witty, realistic ...
Plot: gay parent, gay, adoption, youth, family life, eccentric family, dysfunctional family, family problems, addiction, custody, orphan, lgbt ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, beverly hills, san francisco
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 6.9
 44K
Suffragette (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
Style: inspirational, political, factual, educational, bleak ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: feminism, women, feminist, sexism, girl power, activism, women's suffrage, human rights, rebelliousness, women's rights, sexual harassment, women's liberation ...
Time: 1900s, year 1912, 1910s, edwardian era, victorian era ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe, united kingdom
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What Makes a Family (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Brooke Shields believes she has finally found happiness, now that she and her lesbian partner (Cherry Jones) have a child. But when Jones passes away five years later and her scheming parents apply for custody behind Shields' back, an affecting ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, uplifting, sexual ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, terminal illness, gender, custody, lesbian, pregnancy, family problems, family life, couples, death in the family, dysfunctional family, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
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Approved for Adoption (2012)
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, Family
Country: France, Belgium, South Korea, Switzerland
Duration: 70 min.
Story: This remarkable animated documentary traces the unconventional upbringing of the filmmaker Jung Henin, one of thousands of Korean children adopted by Western families after the end of the Korean War. It is the story of a boy stranded between two ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, stylized, touching, adult animation ...
Audience: kids
Plot: adoption, adopted son, self discovery, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, hopes, introspection, homecoming, parent child relationship, korean war, children, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, seoul, korea, asia
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 7.6
 155K
I Am Sam (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the ...
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, tear jerker, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lawyer, father daughter relationship, mentally challenged, disability, single father, social services, custody, custody battle, child custody, parents and children, parenthood, mental illness ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 5.2
 1K
The Godsend (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children make them consider whether the little girl is more than she ...
Style: bleak, scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot: adoption, babies and infants, demon, pregnancy, supernatural, danger, mentally unstable, family problems, family life, murder, teenager, evil child ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: london
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Just Like the Son (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: adoption, friendship, family relations, custody, on the road, introspection, petty criminal, redemption, hopes, road trip, foster home, boy ...
Place: new york, usa, texas
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 7.3
 132K
Paddington (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, USA, China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, a young bear makes his way to England in search of a new home. The bear, dubbed "Paddington" for the london train station, finds shelter with the family of Henry and Mary ...
Style: touching, feel good, sweet, colorful, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot: kids and family, bear, children, animal, adoption, talking animal, anthropomorphic animal, goofy hero, childhood, animal life, heartwarming, friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, london, europe, peru
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 7.6
 3K
Dearest (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Drawing on remarkable true stories, Peter Chan delivers a moving drama about child abduction in China. Huang Bo stars as a father whose young son disappears in the streets of a big city. He sets out on a search across China, stopping at nothing to ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, tense
Plot: kidnapping, life turned upside down, uncover truth, family problems, parents and children, missing child, danger, couples, adoption, couple relations, family in crisis, village ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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