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51. Forty Little Mothers (1940)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his... See full summary »
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Judith Anderson, Ralph Morgan, Rita Johnson
Votes: 367
52. Bearly Asleep (1955)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Park ranger Donald sends his bears off to hibernate, but Humphrey would rather stay in his hammock, run out for a glass of water, etc., than sleep; when he does get to sleep, his snoring ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hannah | Stars: Art Gilmore, Jack Hannah, James MacDonald, Clarence Nash
Votes: 828
53. Two Gophers from Texas (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
A theatrical dog decides to answer the call of the wild and hunt for his food. He targets two polite twin gophers as his first conquest and tries to kill them with a falling-rock trap ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Davis | Stars: Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg
Votes: 236
54. Doctor, Beware (1941)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Teresa, a young orphan, falls in love with Pietro, a health inspector. She will try to bring order to his reckless life full of debts and lies.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Adriana Benetti, Irasema Dilián, Anna Magnani, Clara Auteri Pepe
Votes: 567
55. Close to My Heart (1951)
Approved | 90 min | Drama
A columnist and his wife deal with obstacles when they try to adopt an abandoned baby.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Ray Milland, Gene Tierney, Fay Bainter, Howard St. John
Votes: 542
56. Baby Butch (1954)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An alley cat disguises himself as an abandoned baby in order to con his way inside the house of Tom and Jerry.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Star: Stan Freberg
Votes: 942
57. Miracle on Main Street (1939)
Approved | 78 min | Drama
The discovery of an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve brings new meaning to a lonely and depressed Los Angeles dancer.
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Margo, Walter Abel, William Collier Sr., Jane Darwell
Votes: 198
58. Banty Raids (1963)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Family, Short
A horny hipster rooster, attracted to the hens in Foghorn Leghorn's barnyard, disguises himself as a baby foundling on Foghorn's doorstep. Foghorn adopts the girl-crazy rooster as his son, giving him access to all the chickens on the farm!
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg
Votes: 349
59. Awful Orphan (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Porky Pig's quiet life in his high-rise apartment building is rudely disrupted when an obnoxious mutt sneaks in and refuses to leave.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,104
60. Kayikçi (1999)
88 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A charming girl, in her dress reminiscent of the sea breeze, comes to the main square of a small town. An old song begins and enchants the heart of a young man. A deaf-mute fisherman from Smyrna falls in love with a singer from Chios.
Director: Biket Ilhan | Stars: Memet Ali Alabora, Katerina Moutsatsou, Mustafa Avkiran, Eleni Philippa
Votes: 211
61. Lost and Foundling (1944)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
Sniffles hatches an egg that's rolled into his home, and raises the chick, naming him "Orville." Then he finds out the bird is really a mouse-eating hawk. Unfortunately, Orville finds out also.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Marjorie Tarlton
Votes: 208
62. Every Child (1979)
6 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
An abandoned baby is repeatedly left on a series of doorsteps in a well-to-do community, only to be rejected by each in turn until the infant arrives at the one social group that shows any concern and compassion.
Director: Eugene Fedorenko | Stars: Bernard Carez, Sophie Cowling, Raymond Pollender
Votes: 1,016
63. Mickey Plays Papa (1934)
Approved | 8 min | Comedy, Family, Animation
Mickey Mouse and Pluto find themselves in charge of a baby who was left on their doorstep.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Marcellite Garner, Walt Disney
Votes: 302
64. On Air (2012)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
A well known radio talk show host lives as a recluse during the day, until she found her real mother.
Director: Pierre Pinaud | Stars: Karin Viard, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Nadia Barentin, Catherine Hosmalin
Votes: 875
65. Alice's Orphan (1926)
Not Rated | 7 min | Animation, Short
Julius the cat is skating on a pond when he espies a young lady break through the ice. He saves her, only to realize she's not particularly attractive, and so throws her back. Meanwhile, a ... See full summary »
Director: Walt Disney | Star: Margie Gay
Votes: 194
66. Casper the Friendly Ghost - Boo Hoo Baby (1951)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Steve Muffati | Stars: Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Sid Raymond
Votes: 51
67. Abbasso la miseria! (1945)
90 min | Drama
The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of ... See full summary »
Director: Gennaro Righelli | Stars: Anna Magnani, Nino Besozzi, Virgilio Riento, Marisa Vernati
Votes: 190
68. The Orphan Egg (1953)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Family
As usual, little Dinky Duck gets no cooperation as he goes about his usual rounds doing good deeds. He finds an orphan egg, and, unable to get anyone else to care for it, he takes it home ... See full summary »
Director: Eddie Donnelly
Votes: 25
69. The Grouch (1952)
108 min | Comedy, Drama
A grumpy old man finds a baby on his doorstep and decides to adopt it, much to the amazement of the people in his neighborhood.
Director: Giorgos Tzavellas | Stars: Orestis Makris, Mimis Fotopoulos, Dinos Iliopoulos, Georgia Vasileiadou
Votes: 132
70. The Untamed (1920)
50 min | Western
Rancher Joe Cumberland finds "Whistling Dan" in the desert and gives the boy a home, rearing him with his daughter Kate. Dan, grown to manhood, remains untamed, possessing a hot temper ... See full summary »
Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: Tom Mix, Pauline Starke, George Siegmann, Philo McCullough
71. Strife with Father (1950)
7 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Two English sparrows adopt the homely hayseed, Beaky Buzzard. Later, his adoptive father tries to teach the dolt to catch chickens.
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce, Marian Richman
Votes: 288
72. Little Mary Sunshine (1916)
46 min | Drama
Just after Bob's fiancée breaks off their engagement, he meets young Mary, whose mother has just died, and the two of them comfort each other.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Marie Osborne, Henry King, Marguerite Nichols, Andrew Arbuckle
Votes: 59
73. Mouse-Placed Kitten (1959)
Approved | 6 min | Family, Animation, Short
Matilda and Clyde, a mouse couple, adopt a baby cat who was left out on the street. When he grows up they leave him for a lady so she will take care of him.
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, June Foray, Hal Smith
Votes: 215
74. Forget Me Not (1922)
70 min | Drama
Young mother Mary Gordoon is too poor to take care of her infant daughter, Ann, and leaves the child at an orphanage. Ann grows up with a crippled leg in the orphanage, and has fallen in love with a fellow orphan, Jimmy.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Irene Hunt, Will Machin, Bessie Love, Gareth Hughes
Votes: 18
75. Drusilla with a Million (1925)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
Drusilla Doane is a charity inmate at an old-ladies' home who inherits a million dollars. Someone leaves a baby on the porch. Someone else leaves another, and soon Drusilla, who always ... See full summary »
Director: F. Harmon Weight | Stars: Mary Carr, Priscilla Bonner, Kenneth Harlan, Henry A. Barrows
76. Miss Innocence (1918)
50 min | Drama
After her lover, Kale Loomis, has had her husband sent to prison on a false charge, Fay Gonard leaves her little daughter, Dolores May, on the steps of a convent. Reared in an atmosphere of... See full summary »
Director: Harry F. Millarde | Stars: June Caprice, Marie Shotwell, Robert Walker, Frank Beamish
77. Pieni pyhiinvaellus (2000)
62 min | Drama
In a religious rural community in the 1950s, Ritva, a young woman has kept her pregnancy a secret. Helped by her sister, she gives birth but soon abandons the baby. The next day the infant ... See full summary »
Director: Heikki Kujanpää | Stars: Saana Hyvärinen, Esko Nikkari, Maria Järvenhelmi, Panu Vauhkonen
Votes: 154
78. Puzzled Pals (1933)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Tom and Jerry are solving a jigsaw puzzle when the stork, frustrated by all the quarantine and "not welcome" signs, leaves a foundling on their doorstep. The tot proves to be more than a ... See full summary »
Directors: Frank Sherman, Vernon Stallings
Votes: 31
79. Strangled Eggs (1961)
6 min | Animation, Family, Short
Foghorn Leghorn courts Miss Prissy when a foundling is left on her doorstep. It is Henery the Chicken Hawk. Prissy decides to keep little Henery even though he has a natural appetite for ... See full summary »
Director: Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Julie Bennett
Votes: 313
80. Rose of the Bowery (1927)
Passed | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Some of the stories of the six-million citizens of New York City are depicted her, including: a Judge, sworn to protect society, has to send his own son to prison; a tenement girl is ... See full summary »
Director: Bertram Bracken | Stars: Edna Murphy, Johnnie Walker, Crauford Kent, Mildred Harris
Votes: 17
81. Papà per una notte (1939)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Mario Bonnard | Stars: Sergio Tofano, Clelia Matania, Carlo Romano, Leonardo Cortese
Votes: 9
82. The Criminal (1916)
Passed | 55 min | Drama
A young Italian immigrant girl, uneducated and superstitious, finds an abandoned baby on the stairs of her tenement, with a note attached explaining the baby is illegitimate. A young ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Clara Williams, William Desmond, Enid Willis, Joseph J. Dowling
83. The Blind Foundling; or, Alone in the World (1908)
Short, Drama
Director: Viggo Larsen | Stars: Viggo Larsen, Gustav Lund, Lauritz Olsen, Holger Rasmussen
84. The Ne'er-Do-Well and the Baby (1908)
Short, Drama
A window cleaner takes a foundling to a hospital where its mother, saved from suicide, is a nurse.
Director: Lewin Fitzhamon
85. The Cat's Tale (1951)
7 min | Animation, Short
Baby Mighty Mouse appears on the doorstep of a loving couple and quickly gains a fearsome reputation.
Director: Mannie Davis | Star: Dayton Allen
Votes: 22
86. Trial Marriage (1928)
Drama
Director: William Hughes Curran | Stars: Jack Richardson, Corliss Palmer, Paul Power, Ruth Robinson
87. A Crooked Romance (1917)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Mary's supposed father, Syd, trains her to believe theft is justifiable. Caught robbing a man's house, Mary escapes and Syd is jailed. Mary begins working as a locksmith. When she meets the man again, will he believe she's changed?
Director: William Parke | Stars: Gladys Hulette, Paul Clerget, William Parke Jr., J.H. Gilmour
88. The Winter's Tale (1910)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama
The kings of Bohemia and Sicilia, monarchs of adjoining kingdoms, have been close friends since boyhood. But after each has assumed his regal duties, they find that they are unable to see ... See full summary »
Directors: Theodore Marston, Barry O'Neil | Stars: Anna Rosemond, Martin Faust, Frank Hall Crane, Amelie Barleon
Votes: 52
89. Her New York (1917)
50 min | Drama
Phoebe Lester, a little country girl, whispers to her pet hen, "You've laid an egg for a man from New York. Ain't you proud?" and while taking breakfast to Philip, the new boarder, who came... See full summary »
Directors: O.A.C. Lund, Eugene Moore | Stars: Gladys Hulette, William Parke Jr., Riley Chamberlin, Carey L. Hastings
90.
A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002)
Episode:
Motherhunt: Part 1
(2002)
TV-PG | Action, Drama, Mystery
When a baby, allegedly fathered by her late husband, is abandoned on the doorstep of his rich, beautiful widow, she hires Nero Wolfe to locate the mother.
Director: Charles B. Wessler | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Maury Chaykin, Colin Fox, Bill Smitrovich
Votes: 124
91.
The Flintstones (1960–1966)
Episode:
Little Bamm-Bamm
(1963)
Not Rated | 25 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After the childless Rubbles wish upon a star for a baby of their own, Barney finds a basket containing the world's strongest foundling. However, someone else wants to adopt little Bamm-Bamm, and he's rich.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Votes: 201
92.
Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode:
The Case of the Borrowed Baby
(1962)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Perry and Della find a baby in his office leading Della to be a mom and Perry trying to find the mother. He finds another man is also trying to sell information about the baby. When he is found dead, the mother looks to be guilty.
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman
Votes: 278
93.
The Waltons (1972–1981)
Episode:
The Foundling
(1972)
TV-G | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The family takes in a deaf girl who was abandoned by her mother.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite, Michael Learned, Ellen Corby
Votes: 336
94.
Top Cat (1961–1962)
Episode:
T.C. Minds the Baby
(1962)
TV-G | 26 min | Animation, Comedy, Crime
The gang finds an abandoned baby and decide to care for it, but they find parenthood a lot harder than they thought it would be...
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Arnold Stang, Allen Jenkins, Maurice Gosfield, Marvin Kaplan
Votes: 92
95.
Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode:
Episode #1.639
(1968)
TV-G | 23 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Elizabeth brings Amy to stay at Collinwood. Amy and David explore the west wing.
Director: Lela Swift | Stars: Joan Bennett, Grayson Hall, David Henesy, Denise Nickerson
Votes: 38
96.
Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode:
The Pieces of the Puzzle
(1968)
TV-PG | 25 min | Western
"The Baron of Arizona," James Reavis, files a claim against the government.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Robert Taylor, Russell Johnson, Garry Walberg, Anna Navarro
Votes: 28
97.
The Mandalorian (2019– )
Episode:
Chapter 9: The Marshal
(2020)
TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The Mandalorian is drawn to the Outer Rim in search of others of his kind.
Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Pedro Pascal, John Leguizamo, Amy Sedaris, Timothy Olyphant
Votes: 29,158
98.
Lark Rise to Candleford (2008–2011)
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(2008)
TV-PG | 53 min | Drama, Romance
Having secured a month's work at the manor house, Laura's father takes in a homeless family. It's only meant to be for one night but when they wake the next morning, they find the family ... See full summary »
Director: John Greening | Stars: Linda Bassett, Claudie Blakley, Brendan Coyle, Ruby Douglas
Votes: 149
99.
The Mandalorian (2019– )
Episode:
Chapter 10: The Passenger
(2020)
TV-14 | 40 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The Mandalorian must ferry a passenger with precious cargo on a risky journey.
Director: Peyton Reed | Stars: Pedro Pascal, Amy Sedaris, Misty Rosas, Richard Ayoade
Votes: 25,356
100.
The Mandalorian (2019– )
Episode:
Chapter 11: The Heiress
(2020)
TV-14 | 35 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The Mandalorian braves high seas and meets unexpected allies.
Director: Bryce Dallas Howard | Stars: Pedro Pascal, Misty Rosas, Mercedes Varnado, Katee Sackhoff
Votes: 25,156