A Daughter's Deception

2019

English

5.6

♡ 2

Devon Downs Director

David Starzyk as Arthur Bishop

Marland Burke as Detective Banks

Kate Connor as Eleanor Bishop

Dan Gauthier as Tom Caldwell

Forced to give up her daughter for adoption when she's underage, a woman is thrilled to welcome her back into her life as an adult. She discovers her daughter is a sociopath who has murderous tendencies and poses a danger to everyone.

The Hillsdale Adoption Scam

2023

English

5.2

♡ 4

Asia Youngman Director

Keshia Knight Pulliam as Bethany

Saul Elias as Gavin

David Tomlinson as Puck

Sarah-Lynne Otsuji as Worker

Desperate for a child, a couple welcome a surrogate mother into their lives, only to discover she's a con artist who's out to steal their money.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

2014

English

6.7

♡ 102

81%

parent child relationship

Sci-Fi

time travel

Rob Minkoff Director

Scott Menville as Additional Voices

Al Rodrigo as Ajax

Stanley Tucci as Leonardo da Vinci

Leslie Mann as Patty Peterson

A young boy and his dog, who happens to have a genius-level IQ, spring into action when their time-machine is stolen and moments in history begin to be changed.

Remember Me, Mommy?

2020

English

5.0

♡ 1

adoption

Thriller

woman director

Michelle Ouellet Director

Sydney Meyer as Elena Johns

Amalia Williamson as Janie Wade

Vivianne Collins as Ms. Neal

Natalie Brown as Rebecca Barton

Rebecca, a respected teacher at a private girls school, has her life turned upside down when a new scholarship student arrives who might be the daughter she gave up for adoption seventeen years ago.

Like Dandelion Dust

2009

English

7.0

♡ 14

88%

76%

Action

adoption

based on novel or book

Drama

foster care

Jon Gunn Director

L. Scott Caldwell as Allyson Bower

Abby Brammell as Beth Norton

Cole Hauser as Jack Campbell

Kate Levering as Molly Campbell

A compelling drama that explores the different meanings of being a parent through the gritty, realistic lives of a struggling family, and a privileged family. Their lives intersect, intertwine and collide, all for the love of a little boy. This film bravely exposes the humanity in each character reminding us that we each have the potential to be the best and worst versions of ourselves at any time.

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

2003

English

3.5

♡ 10

10%

Troy Miller Director

Shia LaBeouf as Lewis

Eugene Levy as Principal Collins

Luis Guzmán as Ray

Julie Costello as Twin

This wacky prequel to the 1994 blockbuster goes back to the lame-brained Harry and Lloyd's days as classmates at a Rhode Island high school, where the unprincipled principal puts the pair in remedial courses as part of a scheme to fleece the school.

Gracie's Choice

2004

English

7.4

♡ 8

86%

Peter Werner Director

Kristen Bell as Gracie Thompson

Roberta Maxwell as Judge

Roger Dunn as Paul Gottfredson

Anne Heche as Rowena Lawson

For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled apart, Gracie will have to do the impossible and make the ultimate sacrifices to keep her family together.

Six Weeks

2022

Hungarian

7.2

♡ 2

Action

adoption

Drama

Noémi Veronika Szakonyi Director

Zsuzsa Járó as Bea

Mónika Balsai as Emma

Lajos Ottó Horváth as Fülöp doktor

Gusztáv Molnár as Shop assistant

Zsófi, a rebellious teenager, lives in a tiny flat with her little sister, Mesi, and her unstable mother, Bea. Zsófi discovers late that she is pregnant and decides to give up her baby through open adoption to an infertile couple. Bea cannot accept her daughter’s decision, but she does not realize that neither Zsófi, nor the circumstances, are suitable to welcome a newborn. Zsófi has always had to behave like a grown-up, working and making sensible decisions, instead of her mother and for her sister. She is still in high school and her only advantage is her table tennis career, for which she works assiduously. She plans the adoption thoroughly with the help of a social worker. Following the birth, she is given six weeks by law to change her mind and ask for her child back. She seems to be able to control her feelings ruthlessly and continue towards the goals she has set. At the same time, her maternal feelings intensify, doubts arise, and she slowly begins to question her decisions.

Little Man

2006

English

4.6

♡ 80

12%

Keenen Ivory Wayans Director

Marlon Wayans as Calvin

Rob Schneider as Dinosaur Rex

Lochlyn Munro as Greg

Glenn Ennis as Hockey Player

After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins to his moron brother Percy to steal an expensive huge diamond in a jewelry for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of the executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. Percy convinces Calvin to dress like a baby and be left in front of the Edwards's house to get inside the house and retrieve the diamond. Darryl and Vanessa keep Calvin for the weekend and decide to adopt him, while Walken threatens Darryl to get the stone back.

Woman at War

2018

Icelandic

7.4

♡ 21

97%

Benedikt Erlingsson Director

Jörundur Ragnarsson as Baldvin

Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir as Halla / Ása

Helga Braga Jónsdóttir as Prison guard

Hilmir Snær Guðnason as Taxi driver

Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.

The Waiting City

2009

English

6.1

♡ 2

75%

Claire McCarthy Director

Joel Edgerton as Ben Simmons

Radha Mitchell as Fiona Simmons

Isabel Lucas as Scarlett

Tillotama Shome as Sister Tessila

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, the intoxicating mystic power of the Indian city pulls them in separate and unexpected directions, and the vulnerability of their marriage begins to reveal itself.

Mommie Dearest

1981

English

6.7

♡ 11

50%

Frank Perry Director

Diana Scarwid as Christina Crawford

Margaret Fairchild as Mother Superior

Cathy Lind Hayes as Nurse

Peter Jason as Pepsi Executive #4

Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

1994

German

7.1

♡ 5

67%

Michael Haneke Director

Axel Sichrovsky as 2. Wachmann

Sebastian Stan as Kid

Claudia Martini as Maria

Michael Jackson as Self

71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.

3 Godfathers

1948

English

7.0

♡ 14

88%

John Ford Director

Hank Worden as Deputy Curly

Ward Bond as Perley 'Buck' Sweet

John Wayne as Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower

Mildred Natwick as The Mother

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.

Lion

2016

English

♡ 441

84%

based on a true story

based on novel or book

biography

Biography

Drama

Garth Davis Director

David Wenham as John Brierley

Rooney Mara as Lucy

Dev Patel as Saroo Brierley

Nicole Kidman as Sue Brierley

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Broker

2022

Korean

7.1

♡ 35

94%

Hirokazu Koreeda Director

Dong-won Gang as Dong-soo

IU as Moon So-young

Kang-ho Song as Sang-hyeon

Doona Bae as Soo-jin

Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.

Swift

2019

English

5.4

♡ 37

14%

Christian Haas Director

Kate Winslet as Blanche

Julie Nathanson as Francoise

Nolan North as Yusuf

Willem Dafoe as Yves

The little swift Manou grows up believing he's a seagull. Learning to fly he finds out he never will be. Shocked, he runs away from home. He meets birds of his own species and finds out who he really is. When both seagulls and swifts face a dangerous threat, Manou becomes the hero of the day.

True Mothers

2020

Japanese

7.0

♡ 4

91%

based on novel or book

Naomi Kawase Director

Kokoro Morita as

Rio Yamashita as

Ryûya Wakaba as

Gô Rijû as Takeshi Hamano

After suffering through a long and unsuccessful series of fertility treatments, Satoko and her husband Kiyokazu make the decision to adopt a child. Six years after adopting a boy they named Asato, Satoko has quit her job to concentrate fully on her husband and son. The family lives a peaceful existence until the arrival of a stranger.

Happy Endings

2005

English

6.3

♡ 7

54%

Don Roos Director

Eric Jungmann as Charley at 16 / Tom

Bobby Cannavale as Javier

Lisa Kudrow as Mamie

Laura Dern as Pam

Filmmaker Nicky offers to track down the son that Mamie gave up for adoption nearly two decades before. Meanwhile, Mamie's stepbrother (and the father of her child), Charley, along with his boyfriend, Gil, try to find out what became of the sperm Gil donated to a lesbian couple. Finally, singer Jude becomes entangled in a love triangle with androgynous drummer Otis and his conservative father.

He Even Has Your Eyes

2016

French

6.2

♡ 1

60%

Lucien Jean-Baptiste Director

Aaron Begusic as Enfant square

Marie-Sohna Conde as Fatou

Sara Mortensen as Kristina

Aïssa Maïga as Salimata Aloka

Paul is married to Sali. Everything would be fine if they could get a child. Until the day when Sali receives the call that they have been waiting for so long: their adoption file is approved. He is adorable, he is 6 months old, his name is Benjamin. He is blond with blue eyes and white. They - are black.

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A Daughter's Deception

The Hillsdale Adoption Scam

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

Remember Me, Mommy?

Like Dandelion Dust

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

Gracie's Choice

Six Weeks

Little Man

Woman at War

The Waiting City

Mommie Dearest

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

3 Godfathers

Lion

Broker

Swift

True Mothers

Happy Endings

He Even Has Your Eyes