Movies (128) tagged by 'Adoption'
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Star Wars Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith (2005)
A maturing Anakin Skywalker goes to the dark side of The Force and becomes Sith Lord Darth Vader. We experience the transformation in a dark, scary yet thrillin...
Bella (2007)
An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multi-million dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. A waitress, ...
Sexual Chronicles of a French Family (2012)
A family begins to discuss the subject of sex among themselves for the first time after their teenage son is caught in a provocati...
Instant Family (2018)
A couple find themselves in over their heads when they foster three children.
Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
20 years since their first adventure, Lloyd and Harry go on a road trip to find Harry's newly discovered daughter, who was given up for adoption.
The Gymnast (2006)
The talented Jane Hawkins (Dreya Weber, Lovely & Amazing) was an impressive gymnast at the top of her game until a devastating injury ended her career. Now she...
Crossing Over (2009)
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desper...
Martian Child (2007)
What's the nature of being a parent and of being a child? David is a widower grieving for two years. He writes science fiction and was considered weird as a bo...
Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)
Damien Thorn is dead, but his prophecy is reborn in a mysterious girl named Delia, who is adopted by two attorneys, Gene & Karen York. When Karen realizes her ...
Happy Endings (2005)
An ensemble cast telling 10 stories with intertwining characters. One story is about a father and son who are dating the same woman . Another features a woman ...
Three Times (2006)
The film features three different stories of love and memory through three time periods, 1966, 1911 and 2005. The first, "A Time for Love," hinges on the meet...
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Lenny and Amanda have an adopted son Max who turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding Max's real parents because he believes that they too...
Mother and Child (2009)
Almost forty years ago, a young girl of 14 has sex, gets pregnant, and gives her baby up for adoption. Fast-forwarding to the present day, we meet three very di...
Patrik 1,5 (2008)
Goran and Sven have been cleared for adoption and they have a possibility to adopt a Swedish orphan, Patrik 1,5. But when Patrik arrives he turns out to be som...
The Fox and the Hound (1981)
A fox named Tod and a hound named Copper become such good friends and they play together. But Copper's owner, Amos Slade, wants to kill Tod and he'll do anythin...
Mom at Sixteen (2005)
Mom at Sixteen is about pregnant 16-year-old Jacey, whose well-meaning mother, after finding out she is pregnant, forces her to keep the birth a secret and both...
Dustbin Baby (2008)
The film follows the story of young teen April whose troubled life began in a dustbin - a new born baby, abandoned and alone, not celebrated, not wanted but dis...
Flirting with Disaster (1996)
An adoption-agency psychologist (Tea Leoni) tempts a new father (Ben Stiller) while they and his wife (Patricia Arquette) search for his birth...
Happy, Happy (2010)
A couple with an adopted child move to rural Norway, after the husband discovers his wife’s infidelity. They are welcomed into the community by their n...
Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1989)
In this sequel to the 1981 hit movie, Arthur manages to lose his entire $750 million fortune. Will the former millionaire playboy be able to survive as a broke...
Shared Rooms (2016)
A new romantic comedy feature film that brings together three interrelated tales of gay men seeking family, love and sex during the holiday season.
Gigantic (2010)
Mattress salesman Brian Weathersby (Dano) finds his plan to adopt a Chinese baby augmented by the arrival of a young woman, Happy (Deschanel), who comes into hi...
Crawlspace (1972)
A childless middle-age couple adopt a troubled youth they find living in their crawlspace and attempt to get him to rejoin society with tragic results.
Philomena (2013)
A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was...
Murder in the Hamptons (2005)
After multi-millionaire Ted Ammon is found bludgeoned to death at his East Hampton estate, the fingers point to his estranged wife, Generosa Rand, and her lover...
Homie Spumoni (2006)
All his life, African-American Renato has been raised in an Italian-American family. Completely unaware that he is Black, his life is upended when his birth par...
Superman Requiem (2011)
When the Man of Steel is rendered almost powerless by an evil mastermind, he must find a way to prove to the world that he is still a super man.
Chestnut - Hero of Central Park (2004)
When Sal and Rae found on an abandoned road dog baby, they decide to take this with their new adoptive parents.Unfortunately, there exists an absolute ban on do...
Little John (2002)
The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away from home. Without her knowledge, ...
Missing Children A Mother's Story (1982)
A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new home, but returns to find that they have been adopted out wit...
You Lucky Dog (2010)
After her mother's death, New York City fashion designer Lisa Rayborn (Natasha Henstridge) returns to her hometown and family farm. Due to a weak economy her br...
The Waiting City (2009)
An outwardly happy Australian couple journey to Calcutta to collect their adopted baby, but on arrival find that the arrangements have yet to be finalized. Soon...
As Luck Would Have It (2002)
Jean-Pierre Muller is an intellectual with a quiet life. One day he receives a letter of the Government saying he's been appointed tutor of troubled kid Antoine...
October Baby (2011)
As the curtain rises, Hannah hesitantly steps onto the stage for her theatrical debut in college. Yet before she can utter her first lines, Hannah-unscripted-co...
Tamanna (1998)
The year is 1975, the place is Mahim, Bombay, and this is the story of Tikku, a eunuch, the only child of yesteryear Bollywood actress Nazneen Begum, who has fa...
Butter (2011)
In small-town Iowa, an adopted girl discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their town's annual con...
Janani (2006)
Rahul is the only child of a wealthy family in the toy manufacturing business, consisting of his dad, Raj, and mom, Urmila. He attends college, meets with Neha ...
Rocky (1981)
Rocky is the story of the nefarious activities of men, who live a life of torment and create evil in the world. Rocky becomes the victim of one such man, who ...
To Find My Son (1980)
A young man wishes to adopt a problematical eight-year-old boy being kept in an institution. Simply because he is single, he has an uphill battle with the gover...
Homeland (2010)
In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.
A Deadly Adoption (2015)
A successful couple house and care for a pregnant woman with the hopes of adopting her unborn child.
A Long Way Home (1981)
Many years after being abandoned by his parents, Donald sets out in search of his siblings. His biggest challenge is cutting through layers of bureaucratic red ...
Jack Be Nimble (1994)
Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic...
Penny Serenade (1941)
A woman contemplating divorce from her husband recalls their early years together and the tragedies that ensued.
Marley & Me: The Puppy Years (2011)
More fun from Marley and this time he speaks! The worlds worst dog now has an attitude and a frisky voice. He and his summer pal, Bodi Grogan cause mayhem at th...
Terror in the Shadows (1995)
Five years ago, Christine went after the baby she gave up for adoption, claiming he'd been stolen, and wound up killing Alex Williams' wife and the baby the Wi...
Ground Under Water (2009)
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her act...
Mystery Woman At First Sight (2006)
After dating hot doctor Ben, cued by Cassie, mystery woman sets out to discover in a tiny town her birth mother trough Victor Short, the diner-managing adopted ...
Torch Singer (1933)
Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. The father, Michael Gardner, leaves for China not knowing abo...
The Bigamist (1953)
Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. He soon discovers Harry h...
Dakota's Summer (2014)
Dakota's Summer tells the story of Dakota Rose's personal journey navigating life and the rodeo circuit after she receives surprising news about her birth almos...
Adopted (2009)
The Fantanas visit the Middle East peace process. E.T. finally returns home, but it's less cool than he remembered. The secret life of jack-o'-lanterns is fin...
A Family Torn Apart (1993)
A teenage boy finds his mother and father murdered in their home but as the story goes on he reveals he knows more than he is letting on.
After the Wedding (2019)
A manager of an orphanage in Kolkata travels to New York to meet a benefactor.
Birthmarked (2018)
Two scientists raise 3 children contrarily to their genetic tendencies to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.
All the World's a Stooge (1941)
The stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the run, they are hired by a millio...
Private Life (2018)
An author (Hahn) is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting her relationship with her husband (Giamatti) on edge.
A Child Lost Forever The Jerry Sherwood Story (1992)
In the 1970's, a teenager staying in an unwed mothers' institution is forced to give up her baby. Eighteen years later, she discovers that her child is dead, an...
Christmas Child (2004)
A life-sized nativity leads a man to learn about his past and lost family.
Twinsters (2015)
Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anaïs believe that they are twin sisters separated at birt...
No Hard Feelings (2008)
Cameron Hastings is just like any other fifteen-year-old. Unfortunately, his carefree existence is shattered when his parents, Charlotte and Craig, burden him w...
The Lady Is Willing (1942)
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Lisa Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has...
I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story (2019)
Regina Louise, an abandoned black child, is placed in a home where she demonstrates anger issues. Jeanne Kerr, a white counselor, empathizes with her and they f...
Traffic (2014)
The real truth behind the child protection system. Social workers, Judges, Lawyers and Guardians of the court all working together to secure the removal of chil...
Deep in My Heart (1999)
A white woman who was raped by a black man gives the baby up for adoption. The film follows the life of the child as she grows up and has children of her own.
A Mother's Prayer (1995)
Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, bu...
The Eclipse (2009)
A widower sees and hears peculiar things in his house. His life crosses paths with a beautiful author of supernatural fiction and an egotistical pop novelist a...
The Italian (2005)
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.
For the Love of a Child (2006)
1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally neglected ...
Three Secrets (1999)
Three women each cling to the hope that an 8 year old boy that survives an airplane crash is their son that was put up for adoption as a baby. This is a remake ...
Baby Blues Part1 (1998)
Six months pregnant and living in a beat-up tiny mobile home with her family in a grungy trailer park, Wanda Le Fauve thinks she has found the solution to her p...
I Could Go on Singing (1963)
Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious d...
For Keeps? (1988)
After she gets pregnant, a teenage girl must decide whether she should keep the baby or not.
The Storyteller (2017)
The love of an enchanted young girl brings wonder and healing to a broken family.
Woman at War (2018)
Halla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.
Saint Janet (2014)
When Janet Turner comes to believe God has given her the power to heal, her two grown children wrestle with how to react.
On Probation (1935)
A corrupt politician adopts a young girl. A few years later he finds himself falling in love with her, but discovers that she in turn loves a rich young bachelo...
Her Own Rules (1998)
A woman starts a new romance while struggling with nightmares from her upbringing.
Detours (2016)
A newly single New Yorker must re-locate to Florida; she drives south with her widowed dad and her mom's ashes in a coffee can.
The Tie That Binds (1995)
John Netherwood and his wife Leann are fugitives who are both wanted for murder. They have a young daughter named Janie. John and Leann are in the process of ro...
Parker's Anchor (2017)
Krystal Parker's life fell apart when she discovered she couldn't have children. Everything she knew was gone, - but Letting Go Is Just The Beginning.
Where Are My Children (1994)
Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year s...
Track 29 (1988)
A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While eating at a r...
Funny About Love (1990)
When Duffy Bergman, a New York City cartoonist, meets Meg Lloyd, a gourmet chef, he discovers the love of his life and they marry, yet love alone isn't enou...
Stablemates (1938)
A washed up, alcoholic Vet and a dreamer stable boy help nurse a sick race horse back to health.
Gallant Sons (1940)
Two childhood friends have a falling out because of their fathers' occupations, which lands one father in jail.
"Mystery Woman" Mystery Woman (0)
Amically divorced from art gallery keeper Elliot McCallister, Samantha Kinsey, who always dreamed of being a detective, like her prosecutor's office friend ...
To the Moon and Back (2016)
The shocking chronicle of the Russian Adoption Ban and the American father targeted by Vladimir Putin; A story of scandal, murder and innocent orphans held host...
Kevyn Aucoin Beauty & the Beast in Me (2017)
Never-before-seen footage, archival videos and celebrity interviews provide insight into the life, career and legacy of makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin.
Relative Strangers (2006)
On a mission to locate his biological parents, a tightly wound professional (Livingston) is befuddled to find that the couple who conceived him aren't exactly u...
How to Commit Marriage (1969)
Young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give the baby up for adoption. The baby's Mother's parents wind up ...
Come on Cowboys (1937)
When the circus owner friend of the Mesquiteers is framed for counterfeiting by his unscrupulous partner, the trio pledges to maintain his interests and care fo...
Little Girl Lost (1988)
Based on a true story, The Brady family fight to adopt a little girl they fostered. But then social welfare decide to send Tella back to her natural father, who...
When the Cradle Falls (1997)
An adoption service is kidnapping healthy white babies an adopting them to infertile couples for a price. Meanwhile Brian and Donna have a bouncing baby boy.
Adera (2009)
The story of an Ethiopian woman's plight in South Africa as she struggles to earn enough money to support and return to her children in Ethiopia.
Kimurake no hitobito (1988)
Comedy about a family and their obsession for making money.
Next of Kin (1984)
Twenty-three year old Peter Foster, who still lives at home, used to find it entertaining to hear his parents continually argue in not liking each other very mu...
Born to Be Sold (1981)
A social worker tries to break up a ring of crooks who buy new-born babies from teen-aged mothers and sell them to couples who can't obtain them through le...
Kyoto (1963)
Two twin girls are separated at birth. One grows up in a loving family. The other one doesn't. They finally meet by complete accident on a town fair. No one eve...
All She Ever Wanted (1996)
The Stockmans are the perfect couple...young, successful, and deeply in love...but they have one problem: They want children. Since Rachel suffers from severe b...
Flesh and Blood (2002)
A man who was adopted at birth traces his real parents, and discovers that they have severe learning disabilities and do not know he exists.
The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974)
A young girl who is looking for the birth parents who gave her up hooks up with a young man who has also been adopted and is looking for his real parents.
The Gift of Love (1958)
Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts.
That Certain Feeling (1956)
Divorced comic strip cartoonist Francis X. Dignan is hired as a ghost-writer by pompous client Larry Larkin who happens to be the fiancé of Dignan's ex-wife.
The Sleepy Time Gal (2001)
A young woman, played by Martha Plimpton learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job in NYC and goes on a journey to find her birth mother - pl...
Il a déjà tes yeux (2017)
When French-African couple Paul and Sali discover the longed-for baby they are about to adopt is white, family chaos and confrontation ensue.
Three Secrets (1950)
Three women who secretly gave their new-born sons up for adoption in 1945, wonder if the 5-year old survivor of a plane crash, named in the local newspapers, is...
America (2009)
In "America," Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America. Through t...
The Prodigal (1983)
Greg Stuart is unhappy with his middle class family and their Christian values. In an attempt to estrange himself from the life he knows, he ends up in a spiral...
Scandal at Scourie (1953)
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at S...
Stage to Thunder Rock (1964)
An aging sheriff is put in the position of having to arrest the outlaw father and two sons with whom he was raised.
Celebration Family (1987)
When James and Janet Marston find, after the birth of their second son, that they can have no more they decide to adopt. The result is a huge family of up to si...
Pirates of the North Coast (2022)
Trevor and his buddies rally to save the town's iconic lighthouse. Sparks fly between Trev's girlfriend and his returning Ana. Trev struggles with adu...
Unwed Mother (1958)
Betty (Norma Moore) moves from a farming community to Los Angeles. She falls into the clutches of a super-cad (Robert Vaughn) and ends up abandoned and pregnant...
Gallant Lady (1934)
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
Daddy Duck (1948)
Donald adopts a baby kangaroo. It's more than he bargained for.
A Quiet Girl (2024)
When filmmaker Adrian Wills sets out to discover the story behind his adoption, his voyage reveals startling truths he could never have imagined, and shocking d...
Madame Ida (2024)
Pregnant fifteen-year-old orphan Cecilia is sent to Ida's secluded mansion to hide pregnancy. Ida and maid Alma provide Cecilia maternal care, forming bond...
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