A bullied adolescent who has spent his life bouncing from foster home to foster home finds new hope with the help of a Tae Kwon Do master and his paraplegic granddaughter.

The Harvesters

2018

Afrikaans

6.5

♡ 6

91%

Etienne Kallos Director

Benré Labuschagne as Hennie

Jakkie Groenewald as Older Afrikaans man

Danny Keogh as Oupa

Louis Minnaar as Tienus

South Africa, Free State region, isolated stronghold to the Afrikaans white ethnic minority culture. In this conservative farming territory obsessed with strength and masculinity, Janno is different, secretive, emotionally frail. One day his mother, fiercely religious, brings home Pieter, a hardened street orphan she wants to save, and asks Janno to make this stranger into his brother. The two boys start a fight for power, heritage and parental love.

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...

2001

Hindi

7.4

♡ 73

100%

parent child relationship

reunion

Romance

Karan Johar Director Kajol

Kajol as Anjali Sharma

Achala Sachdev as Daadi

Johnny Lever as Haldiram

Shah Rukh Khan as Rahul Raichand

Years after his father disowns his adopted brother for marrying a woman of lower social standing, a young man goes on a mission to reunite his family.

Tarzan

1999

English

♡ 138

90%

Chris Buck Director

Danny Mann as

Lily Collins as

Rick Miller as Crocodiles

Mary Kay Bergman as Elephants

Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...

Return to Seoul

2022

French

♡ 13

97%

international adoption

journey

Davy Chou Director

Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as André

Kwang-rok Oh as Freddie's Korean Father Jin Heo

Jin Heo as Grandmother

Mi-Kyung Cha as The Father's Wife

After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.

Domestic Disturbance

2001

English

5.6

♡ 12

23%

Harold Becker Director

Jim Meskimen as Bob Lerner

John Travolta as Frank Morrison

Rebecca Tilney as Laurie

Steve Buscemi as Ray Coleman

Frank Morrison is a divorced father with a 12-year-old son, Danny. His ex-wife Susan and son Danny now live with Rick Barnes, Susan's new husband. Danny, who has a reputation for telling lies, accuses his stepfather of committing a murder. Initially, no one believes his accusations, but then Frank becomes convinced and is the only one who believes him. Now, the father Danny trusts must protect him from the stepfather he fears.

Martian Child

2007

English

6.7

♡ 14

35%

Menno Meyjes Director

John Cusack as David

Amanda Peet as Harlee

Oliver Platt as Jeff

Joan Cusack as Liz

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

The Blind Side

2009

English

7.6

♡ 171

66%

based on a true story

John Lee Hancock Director

Lily Collins as Collins Tuohy

Adriane Lenox as Denise Oher

Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy

Catherine Dyer as Mrs. Smith

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

Lilo & Stitch

2002

English

7.4

♡ 115

86%

extraterrestrial technology

Dean DeBlois Director

Ving Rhames as Cobra Bubbles

Amy Hill as Mrs. Hasagawa

Tia Carrere as Nani

Rick Miller as Planet

Danny Mann as Skippy

As Stitch, a runaway genetic experiment from a faraway planet, wreaks havoc on the Hawaiian Islands, he becomes the mischievous adopted alien "puppy" of an independent little girl named Lilo and learns about loyalty, friendship, and ʻohana, the Hawaiian tradition of family.

Secrets & Lies

1996

English

8.0

♡ 41

95%

parent child relationship

reunion

secret

socially deprived family

Mike Leigh Director

Alison Steadman as Dog Owner

Clare Perkins as Hortense's Sister-in-Law

Phyllis Logan as Monica Purley

Lesley Manville as Social Worker

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.

Patrik, Age 1.5

2008

Swedish

6.9

♡ 10

72%

Ella Lemhagen Director

Gustaf Skarsgård as Göran Skoogh

Jacob Ericksson as Lennart Ljung

Anette Sevreus as Louise Ljung

Anders Lönnbro as Urban Adler

Göran 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 someone else, not the little boy they were expecting. A comma had been misplaced, and in comes a 15-year-old homophobic with a criminal past.

Permission

2017

English

5.4

♡ 61

67%

relationship problems

romance

Romance

sexual frustration

Brian Crano Director

Rebecca Hall as Anna

Jason Sudeikis as Glenn

Gina Gershon as Lydia

Dan Stevens as Will

Anna and Will, were each other’s first every-things: first kiss, first love, first and only relationship. Now, 10 years in, at Anna’s 30th birthday party, as Will is about to propose, the couple’s best friend makes a drunken toast, suggesting that they should sleep around before their inevitable marriage. The joke lands like a lead balloon, but the thought lingers until Anna proposes that they try opening their relationship – as a sexual experiment.

The Cat o' Nine Tails

1971

Italian

6.6

♡ 12

81%

Dario Argento Director

Rada Rassimov as Bianca Merusi

Horst Frank as Dr. Braun

Karl Malden as Franco Arnò

Margherita Horowitz as Lori's Babysitter

A newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to uncover a deadly conspiracy linked to a genetic research facility.

The Flintstones

1994

English

5.0

♡ 51

23%

Brian Levant Director

John Goodman as Fred Flintstone

Richard Moll as Hoagie

Halle Berry as Miss Stone

Neil Barton as Quarryman

Modern Stone Age family the Flintstones hit the big screen in this live-action version of the classic cartoon. Fred helps Barney adopt a child. Barney sees an opportunity to repay him when Slate Mining tests its employees to find a new executive. But no good deed goes unpunished.

Stuart Little

1999

English

6.0

♡ 112

66%

based on novel or book

Rob Minkoff Director

Steve Zahn as Monty the Mouth

Hugh Laurie as Mr. Fredrick Little

Julia Sweeney as Mrs. Keeper, the Orphanage Owner

Jeffrey Jones as Uncle Crenshaw Little

When the Littles adopt Stuart, the mouse, George is initially unwelcoming to his new brother, and the family cat, Snowbell, is even less enthusiastic. Stuart resolves to face these difficulties with as much pluck and courage as he can muster.

A Father for Brittany

1998

English

6.0

♡ 3

Alan Metzger Director

Chuck Shamata as Bob Minkowitz

Sugith Varughese as Doctor Panou

Panou as Howie

Teri Polo as Kim Lussier

Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of the adoption process, leaving Keith to fight for Brittany's custody alone.

Wolves

2014

English

5.3

♡ 41

16%

David Hayter Director

Lucas Till as Cayden Richards

Jason Momoa as Connor

Melanie Scrofano as Gail Timmins

Philip Maurice Hayes as Kino

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 to hunt down the truths of his history. But in the end| who's really hunting whom?

Then She Found Me

2007

English

5.9

♡ 6

50%

Helen Hunt Director

John Benjamin Hickey as Alan

Edie Falco as Edie Falco

Colin Firth as Frank

Robert LuPone as Ted

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 the father of one of her students.

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