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Avatar: The Way of Water(2022)

K12
| 3h 10min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
3.8/5 (with 5,097 votes)

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.

Knock at the Cabin(2023)

K15
| 1h 40min | Thriller, Mystery, Horror
3.2/5 (with 991 votes)

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

Joy Ride(2023)

1h 32min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 94 votes)

When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.

Directed by Adele Lim - With Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, Sabrina Wu, Desmond Chiam, Alexander Hodge, ...

Paranormal Activity 4(2012)

1h 28min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 837 votes)

It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness strange events in their neighborhood when a woman and a mysterious child move in.

TÁR(2022)

K12
| 2h 38min | Drama, Music
3.6/5 (with 480 votes)

Renowned musician Lydia Tár is days away from recording the symphony that will elevate her career. However, Lydia's elaborate facade begins to unravel, revealing dirty secrets and the corrosive nature of power.

Directed by Todd Field - With Cate Blanchett, Nina Hoss, Noémie Merlant, Mark Strong, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, ...

Red River(1948)

3.7/5 (with 213 votes)

Headstrong Thomas Dunson starts a thriving Texas cattle ranch with the help of his faithful trail hand, Groot, and his protégé, Matthew Garth, an orphan Dunson took under his wing when Matt was a boy. In need of money following the Civil War, Dunson and Matt lead a cattle drive to Missouri, where they will get a better price than locally, but the crotchety older man and his willful young partner begin to butt heads on the exhausting journey.

Penny Serenade(1941)

1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 43 votes)

While listening to a recording of Penny Serenade, Julie Gardiner Adams begins reflecting on her past. She recalls her impulsive marriage to newspaper reporter Roger Adams, which begins on a deliriously happy note but turns out to be fraught with tragedy. Other songs remind her of their courtship, their marriage, their desire for a child, and the joys and sorrows they have shared. A flood of memories come back to her as she ponders on their present problems and how they arose.

Mommie Dearest(1981)

2h 9min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 83 votes)

Renowned actress Joan Crawford, at the height of her career, adopts two orphans — Christina and Christopher — to fill the lonely gap in her personal life. However, as her professional and romantic relationships sour, Joan's already callous and abusive behavior towards Christina intensifies. Christina leaves home to pursue an acting path of her own, only to find her mother's presence still overshadowing her.

Any Day Now(2012)

1h 37min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 44 votes)

In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.

Kids on the Slope(2018)

3.7/5 (with 12 votes)

Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—form a friendship through their love of jazz music.

Two Stepmoms(2016)

1h 32min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 69 votes)

What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of their ex-husband?

Lovely & Amazing(2001)

3.1/5 (with 33 votes)

An intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bittersweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses. Each of the women seeks redemption in her own haphazard way, but whatever salvation they find is illusory and short-lived.

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Lezioni di volo(2007)

1h 46min | Drama, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicken falls for an older doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières.

Shakti(2011)

2h 41min | Action, Fantasy
2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

The central minister's daughter who secretly goes on a trip is targeted by some evil Egyptians who want her and a holy diamond in their custody, while a guide gets linked to the fight as he protects her from all possible dangers.

The Stranger Who Looks Like Me(1974)

1h 14min | Drama, TV Movie

A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping adoption records sealed.

Directed by Larry Peerce - With Meredith Baxter

My Father(2007)

1h 47min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A U.S. soldier comes to Korea and tracks down his biological father in jail.

No More Love No More Death(1993)

1h 29min | Drama, Action

The prequel to Taylor Wong's With or Without You finds Prince being raised as a trained assassin by his "father." Meanwhile, he falls in love with Tweedy, a singer who teaches him how to love.

Directed by Herman Yau - With Jacky Cheung

The Scamp(1957)

1h 27min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.

Directed by Wolf Rilla - With Richard Attenborough

Tales of the Third Dimension(1984)

1h 25min | Comedy, Horror
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

This movie is made-up of three tales, the first one is, "Young Blood" it is about a married pair of vampires who adopt a child. In "The Guardians," a pair of avaricious grave robbers make a terrible mistake when they visit the St. Francis Abbey cemetery to do a little pillaging. The final episode, "Visions of Sugar-Plum" is set at Christmas time and is set at the home of a loving grandmother.

Directed by Todd Durham, Worth Keeter, Thom McIntyre, Earl Owensby Studios

Overseas and Under Your Skin(2009)

1h 26min | Drama, Comedy
2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

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 activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?

Directed by Lenka Hellstedt

No Place to Run(1972)

1h 13min | Drama, TV Movie
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.

The Dark Matter of Love(2012)

1h 33min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

Eleven year old Masha Kulabokhova is about to be adopted into fourteen year old Cami Diaz's family. Masha grew up in a Russian orphanage; Cami was born and raised in Wisconsin and has been the exclusive focus of her parents' love her whole life. The process of Masha becoming part of the Diaz family is going to change both girls forever. The Dark Matter of Love follows Masha as she leaves Russia to the spend her first year as part of the Diaz family, who have also adopted five year old twin boys Marcel and Vadim. When the reality of bonding with children who have grown up in institutions turns out to be more difficult than they ever imagined, the Diaz's hire two of the world's best developmental psychologists to help them build their new family - through science. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, The Dark Matter of Love melds the story of the Diaz family learning to love, with rare archive footage of science experiments exploring parent-child love.

Directed by Sarah McCarthy

Girl Finds Out She's Adopted(2021)

1h 1min | Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

On her 15th birthday, her parents give her news she has been adopted. She then embarks on a quest to find her biological parents.

Aurora(2014)

1h 23min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

After reading in the newspaper that a newborn baby was found in a dumpster, a teacher becomes obsessed with giving it a proper burial.

Sluníčko na houpačce(1981)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Spermicide(2014)

1h 32min | Thriller, Comedy, Crime
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Glen, a former sperm donor and recently diagnosed sociopath, takes his daughter on a murder spree of his sperm-donated offspring in the dark comedy, 'Spermicide.'.

Traces of Sandalwood(2014)

1h 35min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Despite her fame and fortune, Mina, a successful Indian actress in Mumbai, can't forget her little sister Sita, from whom she was forced to separate after their mother's death in a village. Thirty years later she will finally find out that Sita is alive and well in Barcelona. However, Sita's adoptive parents have erased all traces of her past. She is now called Paula, works as a researcher in Biology and has no recollection of her Indian background, let alone of Mina. Faced with the shocking truths of her past, Paula begins a long journey of self-discovery, aided along the way by her budding romance with the handsome Indian immigrant Prakash. A story of hope and love across Mumbai and Barcelona; from India to the Mediterranean and all the way back.

Directed by Maria Ripoll - With Nandita Das, Aina Clotet, Naby Dakhli, Rosa Novell, Godeliv Van den Brandt

Pinulot Ka Lang sa Lupa(1987)

1h 57min | Drama

It is a story of Angeli (Maricel Soriano), an orphan girl raised by a wealthy widower, Diony (Eddie Garcia). Angeli's hardships as a child left her to be a possesive and selfish woman. Diony has an only son, Efraim (Gabby Concepcion). Angeli adores Efraim since childhood. Efraim and his dad have made Angeli the apple of their eyes. Santina (Lorna Tolentino) comes later in the picture and leaves Angeli vying head to head for the attention of his dad and the man he loves. Will Angeli win over Santina's delicate charm? Or will she be forced to accept where she really came from? Will Efraim pick Angeli over Santina?

Wo Ai Ni Mommy(2010)

1h 30min | Documentary

From 2000 to 2008, China was the leading country for U.S. international adoptions. There are now approximately 70,000 Chinese adoptees being raised in the United States. Ninety-five percent of them are girls. Each year, these girls face new questions regarding their adopted lives and surroundings. This is a film about Chinese adopted girls, their American adoptive families and the paradoxical losses and gains inherent in international adoption. The characters and events in this story will challenge our traditional notions of family, culture and race.

Directed by Stephanie Wang-Breal

Sentimental Journey(1984)

1h 37min | Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A precocious child has a profound effect on the lives of a successful Broadway producer and her husband.

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