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51. Room for One More (1952)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose become foster parents to several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into serious trouble.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle, Randy Stuart
Votes: 2,943
52. The Clown at Midnight (1998)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Seven teenagers are stalked by a murderous clown while refurbishing an old opera house.
Director: Jean Pellerin | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Margot Kidder, Sarah Lassez, James Duval
Votes: 2,372
53. A Family Torn Apart (1993 TV Movie)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
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.
Director: Craig R. Baxley | Stars: Neil Patrick Harris, Johnny Galecki, Linda Kelsey, John M. Jackson
Votes: 731
54. Jaanwar (1999)
Not Rated | 172 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A ruthless criminal mends his criminal ways after he meets an abandoned child and takes utmost care of him. However, the shadows of the past continues to haunt him.
Director: Suneel Darshan | Stars: Akshay Kumar, Karisma Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Mohnish Behl
Votes: 3,021
55. Why Would I Lie? (1980)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
Cletus is a compulsive liar, though he prefers the term 'fabrication' to 'lie.' When he becomes a social worker, he's assigned the case of a boy named Jeorge (with a 'J') who was taken from... See full summary »
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Gabriel Macht, Susan Heldfond
Votes: 306 | Gross: $1.18M
56. My Sister (2014)
Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Family
After Susan is tragically widowed, she can no longer care for Niki, her delinquent daughter. Niki is sent to live with her brother Billy, and the two begin forging a healthy bond until her mental troubles persist.
Director: David Lascher | Stars: Reid Scott, Serinda Swan, Grace Kaufman, Illeana Douglas
Votes: 359
57. Aftershock (2010)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, History
The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Yi Lu, Fan Xu
Votes: 9,745 | Gross: $0.06M
58. Vel (2007)
Not Rated | 160 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
On the search of his missing brother, Vasu finds out that Vel is his twin brother and risks his life to clear his brother's problem given by Sakarapandi an X-MLA .
Director: Hari | Stars: Suriya, Asin Thottumkal, Vadivelu, Kalabhavan Mani
Votes: 2,197
59. My Blue Heaven (1950)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Musical
Betty Grable and Dan Dailey are a married song and dance team who cannot have children. The movie follows the travails as they try and adopt and keep the kids they adopt while performing on their TV show.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, David Wayne, Jane Wyatt
Votes: 567
60. Fallen Angel (2003 TV Movie)
G | 120 min | Drama, Romance
A high-powered Los Angeles lawyer returns to his estranged father's home in Maine where he faces tragedy, haunting memories and someone from his past.
Director: Michael Switzer | Stars: Gary Sinise, Joely Richardson, Gordon Pinsent, Jordy Benattar
Votes: 1,414
61. The Travelling Cat Chronicles (2018)
118 min | Drama
Nana is the cutest girl. She is also smart and aware of her talents. She has paws and purrs. Her father Satoru cannot take of her anymore and must give her up. He searches for someone to ... See full summary »
Director: Kôichirô Miki | Stars: Sôta Fukushi, Mitsuki Takahata, Nana, Alice Hirose
Votes: 549
62. Tobacco Roody (1970)
84 min | Comedy
A southerner comforting his buxom stepdaughter, his young wife seducing a sheriff and getting sexually blackmailed by a banker, their sleeping daughters approached by drunk farmers. Just another standard day on a hillbilly farm.
Director: Bethel Buckalew | Stars: Dixie Donovan, Johnny Rocco, Debbie Osborne, Wendy Winders
Votes: 255
63. Amar Akbar Anthony (1977)
Not Rated | 184 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Three brothers are separated and united after many years - one is brought up a Hindu, another a Muslim and the last (and most memorable) a Christian. Hilarity and adventure ensues.
Director: Manmohan Desai | Stars: Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Shabana Azmi
Votes: 8,230
64. Anything Is Possible (2013)
TV-Y7 | 93 min | Drama, Family, Music
Ethan Bortnick plays the leading role as Nathan, a young boy who's separated from his mother when she goes missing during a trip to Japan to help after the tsunami. The movie explores ... See full summary »
Director: Demetrius Navarro | Stars: Ethan Bortnick, Jonathan Bennett, Lacey Chabert, Fatima Ptacek
Votes: 512
65. Ricky 6 (2000)
111 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on the true story of drugs, satanism, and murder in the upper class town of Northport, Long Island in 1984.
Director: Peter Filardi | Stars: Vincent Kartheiser, Chad Christ, Sabine Singh, Richard M. Stuart
Votes: 719
66. Seasons of the Heart (1993)
G | 99 min | Drama, Family
Martha and Jed Richards live in Oregon in 1862. They and their two daughters moved there to make a new life, but the daughters died of cholera along the way. This has left Martha an ... See full summary »
Director: T.C. Christensen | Stars: Leigh Lombardi, Sam Hennings, Claude Akins, Logan Hall
Votes: 233
67. Petrang kabayo (2010)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Peter Kasimsiman was once a submissive son to his parents. But losing his mother at a tender age, left him with an abusive father who only knew of tending to his carriage horse, Brown ... See full summary »
Director: Wenn V. Deramas | Stars: Vice Ganda, Luis Manzano, Gloria Romero, Eugene Domingo
Votes: 165
68. Wild Roses (2009)
43 min | Drama, Romance
David McGregor's family owns an oil firm and the vast Rivercross estate in Alberta. His late father however donated the original land to the Henrys. The heiress and her all-female offspring... See full summary »
Stars: Steve Byers, Michelle Harrison, Gary Hudson, Kim Huffman
Votes: 261
69. That Hagen Girl (1947)
Passed | 83 min | Drama
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there have been whispers, rumors and gossip about who her real parents are. After Tom Bates returns to... See full summary »
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Shirley Temple, Rory Calhoun, Lois Maxwell
Votes: 724
70. G.I. Baby (1987)
Drama
AN AMERASIAN STUGGLES FOR RECOGNITION AND SELF-RESPECT.
Directors: Cesar Aquino, Francis Posadas | Stars: Myrna Castillo, Bobby Benitez, Mark Joseph, Sheila Muñoz
Votes: 11
71. Sentimental Journey (1946)
Approved | 94 min | Drama
An actress, Julie Beck, finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon decides to adopt the child so... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 487
72. The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (1968)
82 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Extremely fun Daiei adaptation of two shojo horror manga into a single, crazily FX-laden story about two rival, shape-shifting sisters who are on less than good terms. However, when an evil... See full summary »
Director: Noriaki Yuasa | Stars: Yûko Hamada, Sachiko Meguro, Yachie Matsui, Mayumi Takahashi
Votes: 521
73. The Perfect Wedding (2012)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
Home for the Christmas holiday, a gay man starts falling for his ex-boyfriend's lover, not knowing that the relationship is a mere pretense.
Director: Scott Gabriel | Stars: Eric Aragon, Jason T. Gaffney, Apolonia Davalos, Brendan Griffin
Votes: 985
74. Bekikang: Ang nanay kong beki (2013)
PG | 110 min | Comedy
Bekikang is left and abandoned with a baby boy by his friend Fortunato. He loves and raises the child as his own flesh and blood. Years later, when things are going quite well between ... See full summary »
Director: Wenn V. Deramas | Stars: Joey Paras, Tom Rodriguez, Tirso Cruz III, Lassy
Votes: 84
75. The Gift of Love (1958)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Romance
Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Evelyn Rudie, Lorne Greene
Votes: 532
76. Jungle Book (1990 Video)
28 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A caring she-wolf adopts a lost human baby. He's named Mowgli and raised by Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. One day, impish monkeys snatch Mowgli away and take him to their city. Baloo and Bagheera ask Kaa the snake for help.
Director: Jim Simon | Stars: Jim Cummings, Jeannie Elias, Kath Soucie
Votes: 56
77. God of Lost Fantasy (2019– )
TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Qin Wentian is born as a sickly child and his adopted parents are forced to send him to the Bai's family to marry their daughter. However the Bai family tries to back out of the marriage proposal and kill Wentian.
Stars: Jessie Wong, Yang Tun, Yilun Sheng, Ziwen Wang
Votes: 28
78. The Baby Formula (2008)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A family uproar is caused when a scientific breakthrough allows lesbian couple Athena and Lilith to have each other's child.
Director: Alison Reid | Stars: Angela Vint, Megan Fahlenbock, Rosemary Dunsmore, Jessica Booker
Votes: 309
79. Two Weddings and a Funeral (2012)
106 min | Comedy, Romance
To keep their sexual orientation a secret, a gay man and a lesbian woman gets married. Now they have to juggle their identities to fool parents and co-workers, all while trying to find real love.
Director: Jho Kwang-soo Kim | Stars: Dong-Yoon Kim, Ryu Hyun-kyung, Jeong Ae-yeon, Kim Joon-bum
Votes: 518
80. Camp Harlow (2014)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
Camp Harlow is a faith-based drama about a teenage bully who finds redemption through her faith in God at a local summer camp.
Director: Shane Hawks | Stars: Aj Olson, Monique Hurd, Andrew Dyer, Jasmin Savoy Brown
Votes: 139
81. Nirvana in Fire 2 (2017–2018)
TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
They killed his brother and destroyed his family. They thought he was too weak to do anything. They thought wrong.
Stars: Huiwen Zhang, Haoran Liu, Xianxu Hu, Hui-Wen Chang
Votes: 248
82. Murder in Martigues (2016 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Elisabeth Richard, a district attorney, and Paul Jansac, a police officer are in charge of the investigation of the death of Pierre Saint-Florent whose corpse was found in a beach near Martigues.
Director: Claude-Michel Rome | Stars: Florence Pernel, Vincent Winterhalter, Florence Coste, Bernard Crombey
Votes: 127
83. Mathias Sandorf (1979– )
90 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 1867, at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the adventures of the revolutionary count Mathias Sandorf who, having escaped an attack which cost the life of his wife, returns years later to take revenge on his political enemies.
Stars: István Bujtor, Claude Giraud, Giuseppe Pambieri, Monika Peitsch
Votes: 320
84. I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
Given up for adoption as a toddler, troubled teenager Thomas becomes obsessed with tracking down his birth mother. After years of searching, Thomas finds her single, with a small child, ... See full summary »
Directors: Claude Miller, Nathan Miller | Stars: Vincent Rottiers, Sophie Cattani, Christine Citti, Yves Verhoeven
Votes: 581 | Gross: $0.01M
85. Mom Squad (2019)
99 min | Comedy, Drama
Newly mom Line lives the jet-set life in Hong Kong. But when she catches her husband, the arrogant businessman Bjørn, in an affair with the nanny, she flies home to Denmark.
Director: Charlotte Sachs Bostrup | Stars: Danica Curcic, Anders W. Berthelsen, Julie Agnete Vang, Lærke Winther
Votes: 726
86. Lies Between Friends (2010 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Mystery
Fourteen years after graduating from college, a group of friends get together for a weekend to celebrate one of them getting married. When one of them dies, old secrets, wounds and lies emerge.
Director: Walter Klenhard | Stars: Gabrielle Anwar, Susan Hogan, Thea Gill, Venus Terzo
Votes: 212
87. Joel (II) (2018)
99 min | Drama
Unable to have kids of their own, Cecilia and Diego get a call from the adoption agency they registered to some time ago. The sudden arrival of Joel, a nine-year-old with a troubled history, will change the course of their lives.
Director: Carlos Sorin | Stars: Victoria Almeida, Diego Gentile, Joel Noguera, Gustavo Daniele
Votes: 342
88. Approved for Adoption (2012)
Not Rated | 70 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
Comic-book artist Jung returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of 5.
Directors: Laurent Boileau, Jung Henin | Stars: Maxym Anciaux, Mahé Collet, Christelle Cornil, William Coryn
Votes: 628 | Gross: $0.00M
89. The Disguiser (2015)
40 min | Action, Drama, History
Story of resistance, espionage, familial ties, friendship and romance in the Japanese-occupied Shanghai.
Stars: Ge Hu, Kai Wang, Mintao Liu, Dong Jin
Votes: 469
90. Pretty Hattie's Baby (1991)
Biography, Drama
An unreleased film about a white girl adopted by a black family in 1950s Nevada. Based on the early life of Fauna Hodel whose grandfather is prime suspect in the Black Dahlia murder case.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Charles S. Dutton, Jill Clayburgh, Bobby Hosea
Votes: 63
91. Anibal (2000 TV Movie)
Drama
Twelve year old Edgar, nicknamed 'Sweetie' has one, all consuming passion: flowers and plants. His parents, both of them rich film producers, consider him neurotic. This irritates Sweetie ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Boutron | Stars: Angelo Rosso-Aguirre, Enguerran Demeulenaere, Isabelle Gélinas, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 67
92. The Escape (1939)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
From the slums emerge a policeman (Richmond) and a criminal (Norris) whose sister (Duff) loves the policeman who father has been murdered.
Director: Ricardo Cortez | Stars: Kane Richmond, Amanda Duff, June Gale, Edward Norris
Votes: 44
93. Wherever You Are (2005)
TV-PG | 107 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
The story of two sisters, Lilia and Trining, who have adopted three children (Lilia adopted Pilar and Joven, Trining adopted Ito). Trouble, lies and violence ensue as Lilia's children fall ... See full summary »
Director: Cholo Laurel | Stars: Claudine Barretto, Jericho Rosales, Diether Ocampo, Hilda Koronel
Votes: 102
94. Tropique de la violence (2022)
92 min | Drama
Moïse, a boy who was abandoned at birth and adopted by a nurse in Mayotte who raised him alone and cherished him until she died when he was 15.
Director: Manuel Schapira | Stars: Gilles-Alane Ngalamou Hippocrate, Céline Sallette, Dali Benssalah, Fazal Bacar-Moilim
Votes: 100
95. The Restless Breed (1957)
Approved | 86 min | Western
A very bright young lawyer with a very quick temper travels to Mission, a small Texas border town to even the score for the murder of his father, a secret service operator at the hands of gun-runners.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Scott Brady, Anne Bancroft, Jay C. Flippen, Jim Davis
Votes: 442
96. Creditors (2015)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A love triangle is unraveled when a young painter is approached by an admirer who eases him into making sense of his relationship with his wife.
Director: Ben Cura | Stars: Christian McKay, Andrea Deck, Ben Cura, Tom Bateman
Votes: 60
97. Sentimental Journey (1984 TV Movie)
97 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A precocious child has a profound effect on the lives of a successful Broadway producer and her husband.
Directors: William Cosel, James Goldstone | Stars: Jaclyn Smith, David Dukes, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Rene Carroll
Votes: 35
98. La vergüenza (2009)
90 min | Drama
A young married couple, not knowing how to deal with their new adopted son's behavior, decides to give him back.
Director: David Planell | Stars: Natalia Mateo, Alberto San Juan, Marta Aledo, Norma Martínez
Votes: 334
99. Le temps des porte-plumes (2006)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Director: Daniel Duval | Stars: Jean-Paul Rouve, Anne Brochet, Annie Girardot, Raphaël Katz
Votes: 228
100. Holy Lola (2004)
128 min | Drama
The trials and tribulations of a French couple's efforts to adopt an orphan baby in Cambodia.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Jacques Gamblin, Isabelle Carré, Bruno Putzulu, Lara Guirao
Votes: 760