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Movies: Best "adopted daughter" Movies


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Knock at the Cabin(2023)

R
| 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.

White Oleander(2002)

PG-13
| 1h 49min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 159 votes)

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

The Official Story(1985)

NR
| 1h 52min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 79 votes)

Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.

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

Mi campeón(1952)

1h 54min | Comedy, Drama
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Catita is a simple and poor woman who dreams of that her son stands out on something important to help her out of his humble. But she opposes to him being boxer, therefore constantly fighting with her husband.

Tumsa Nahin Dekha(1957)

2h 36min | Romance / Love, Drama

Twenty years ago, after killing his brother, Sardar Rajpal flees from his hometown in Shillong and re-locates in the rural area of Assam along with his adopted daughter, Meena. He asks his wife, Kamla, to send their son, Shankar, so that he can employ him and get him married to Meena. Shankar arrives and he is welcomed by Sardar who employs him and introduces him to Meena. A few days another young man shows up at his door claiming that he is Kamla's son. A baffled Sardar also welcomes him, and puts both the young men under observation in order to find who the real Shankar is. The question remains why would anyone want to impersonate Shankar, and what will happen to Sardar himself after the Police catch up with him for killing his brother 20 years ago.

Directed by Nasir Hussain - With Shammi Kapoor, Ameeta, Pran

One Street Organ, One Life(1958)

1h 17min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

An organ grinder (Orestis Makris) loses his wife from complications during birth. Distraught by her death, he refuses to take care of the baby and gives it to a family (Lavrentis Dianellos and Nitsa Tsaganea) to raise. The child (Jenny Karezi) is raised comfortably, and her natural father is too embarrassed to meet her - until she falls in love with a poor musician (Petros Fysoun), and her foster parents refuse to accept their relationship.

Lily Topples The World(2021)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Follow 20-year-old Lily Hevesh — the world’s greatest domino toppler and the only woman in her field — in a coming-of-age story of artistry, passion, and unlikely triumph.

Directed by Jeremy Workman

Poppy(1936)

NR
| 1h 15min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.

Rozina the Love Child(1945)

1h 34min | History, Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Prague, the beginning of the 17th century. Rozina falls in love with Italian glass worker Nikolo, but after returning home, she gets a message that will never come to Prague. She falls for the promise of an older man to marry her, but when Nikolo does return, the tragic fate of Rozina is sealed.

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.