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Movies: Best "adopted son" Movies


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Avatar: The Way of Water(2022)

FSK: 12+ years
| 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.

There Will Be Blood(2007)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 38min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 3,036 votes)

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

The Big Wedding(2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 30min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 541 votes)

To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long-divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative Catholic biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future - and hopefully avoid killing each other in the process.

Relative Strangers(2006)

1h 24min | Comedy
2.7/5 (with 27 votes)

An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time.

Luce(2019)

1h 49min | Thriller
3.2/5 (with 126 votes)

A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum(1939)

2h 24min | Romance / Love, Drama
4.0/5 (with 47 votes)

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

Ator, the Fighting Eagle(1982)

1h 38min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
2.1/5 (with 35 votes)

The son of Torren learns of his heritage, goes to avenge the deaths of his fellow villagers, and rescue his sister/love interest from the evil Dakkar and his spider cult.

Second Best(1994)

1h 45min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.

Jilla(2014)

3h 2min | Action
3.0/5 (with 25 votes)

A cop decides to take on his godfather, who raised him from childhood, and make him realize the error of his ways.

Directed by R. T. Neason - With Kajal Aggarwal

To Each His Own(1946)

2h 2min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.

Dance of the Drunk Mantis(1979)

1h 34min | Action, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 23 votes)

A year after training young Jackie Chan in the Drunken Fist, Sam the Seed discovers he has a son, Foggy. He tries to train Foggy but to no avail. Foggy is then trained in Drunken Fist from his uncle as he must face his father's rival, Rubber Legs, another Drunken Fist master who combines it with Mantis Fist to create a deadly style.

Hello!(2017)

3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

Avinash/Seenu is a street urchin brought up by his loving adoptive parents Saru and Prakash. The love of his life is the girl he meets during childhood Junnu/Priya, whom fate had snatched away from him. Fourteen long years and they still wait for the day they will meet again. Will destiny help them?

Directed by Vikram Kumar - With Akhil Akkineni, Kalyani Priyadarshan, Jagapati Babu, Ramya Krishnan, Ajay
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries(1998)

2h 7min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.

Loggerheads(2005)

1h 35min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly draws out their secret losses and desires.

Anak ni Baby Ama(1990)

1h 30min | Drama, Action

A boy grows up not knowing his real identity. One day a mysterious lady, claiming to be his real mother, divulges the truth about his roots. He is caught between leaving his past and living his new life.

Sioux City(1994)

1h 42min | Drama, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller.

Kaali(2018)

1h 53min | Action, Drama
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

An Indian doctor in the US, haunted by a recurring nightmare, learns that he is adopted, and comes to India to know his real roots. Where does his search lead him to?

Directed by Udhayanidhi Stalin - With Vijay Antony

Stranger at the Door(2004)

1h 30min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with his about 18-year old daughter Tara. When suddenly a charming young man, who Tara first saw lurking around in the garden, turns up on their doorstep claiming he must be Jamie, the baby son she once gave up for adoption as a teenage mother on her parents' orders, the couple is delighted to meet him. They even take him in as they hear his adoptive parents have died in car accident and he's looking for a place to stay during his business studies just like Greg, to pay for which he held various jobs, even in Rio. The only one who remains suspicious is Tara, who doesn't want to be the kid sister and starts looking for holes is Jamie's story, going trough his things and having a friend examine his past- there are, since he didn't tell the Norris family about his lover who helps him unconditionally with his sinister hidden agenda.

White Apache(1987)

1h 40min | Western
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

This film is based on a true story of an Irish baby brought up by the Colorado Apaches. When a group of outlaws attack and destroy a wagon train, the only survivor gives birth to a baby, whom the Indian chief, White Bear brings up as his son and calls him Shining Sky. Shining Sky grows up with the chief's son Black Wolf and by a stroke of fate kills his best friend and brother. Overcome by grief he leaves and goes to live in the world of white men but decides to go back to the world of his youth, leaving an enemy, Redeath, behind him whom he is destined to meet again and again.

Kumbakonam Gopalu(1998)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Gopal, a man from a small town, earns a living in the city by cheating people in all possible ways. He decides to make big money by blackmailing the men involved in a woman's death. What transpires later forms the crux of the story.

Directed by Kothanda Ramaiah - With Pandiarajan

Repent at Leisure(1941)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.

Directed by Frank Woodruff - With Kent Taylor

Sea of Lost Ships(1953)

1h 25min | Action

The son of a deceased Coast Guard hero is raised by a Coast Guard NCO, who also has a son the same age. When they get older both are accepted into the Coast Guard Academy, but the hero's son winds up being thrown out, bringing disgrace to his adopted family.