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Tarzan(1999)

3.7/5 (with 3,033 votes)

Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...

Directed by Chris Buck, Kevin Lima

Lilo & Stitch(2002)

PG
| 1h 25min | Animation, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 2,742 votes)

As Stitch, a runaway genetic experiment from a faraway planet, wreaks havoc on the Hawaiian Islands, he becomes the mischievous adopted alien "puppy" of an independent little girl named Lilo and learns about loyalty, friendship, and ʻohana, the Hawaiian tradition of family.

Meet the Robinsons(2007)

G
| 1h 35min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 1,221 votes)

Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.

Little Man(2006)

PG-13
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Crime
2.9/5 (with 786 votes)

After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins to his moron brother Percy to steal an expensive huge diamond in a jewelry for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of the executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. Percy convinces Calvin to dress like a baby and be left in front of the Edwards's house to get inside the house and retrieve the diamond. Darryl and Vanessa keep Calvin for the weekend and decide to adopt him, while Walken threatens Darryl to get the stone back.

The Blind Side(2009)

PG-13
| 2h 9min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 2,862 votes)

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

Instant Family(2018)

PG-13
| 1h 58min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 1,256 votes)

When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

Mr. Peabody & Sherman(2014)

3.4/5 (with 1,050 votes)

A young boy and his dog, who happens to have a genius-level IQ, spring into action when their time-machine is stolen and moments in history begin to be changed.

Directed by Rob Minkoff

The Flintstones(1994)

PG
| 1h 31min | Fantasy, Comedy, Kids & Family
2.7/5 (with 1,062 votes)

Modern Stone Age family the Flintstones hit the big screen in this live-action version of the classic cartoon. Fred helps Barney adopt a child. Barney sees an opportunity to repay him when Slate Mining tests its employees to find a new executive. But no good deed goes unpunished.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence(2001)

PG-13
| 2h 26min | Drama, Science Fiction, Adventure
3.5/5 (with 2,817 votes)

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

Stuart Little(1999)

3.0/5 (with 1,951 votes)

The adventures of a heroic and debonair stalwart mouse named Stuart Little with human qualities, who faces some comic misadventures while searching for his lost bird friend and living with a human family as their child.

Broker(2022)

R
| 2h 9min | Drama, Comedy, Crime
3.6/5 (with 170 votes)

Sang-hyeon is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.

Juno(2007)

3.5/5 (with 3,242 votes)

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

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Lion(2016)

PG-13
| 1h 58min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 3,003 votes)

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Directed by Garth Davis - With Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priyanka Bose, ...

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 25min | Comedy
2.1/5 (with 353 votes)

This wacky prequel to the 1994 blockbuster goes back to the lame-brained Harry and Lloyd's days as classmates at a Rhode Island high school, where the unprincipled principal puts the pair in remedial courses as part of a scheme to fleece the school.

What to Expect When You're Expecting(2012)

PG-13
| 1h 50min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 835 votes)

Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.

Elf(2003)

PG
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 1,739 votes)

When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic publisher.

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham(2001)

3h 30min | Comedy, Drama
3.9/5 (with 231 votes)

Years after his father disowns his adopted brother for marrying a woman of lower social standing, a young man goes on a mission to reunite his family.

Snow Dogs(2002)

PG
| 1h 39min | Comedy, Kids & Family, Adventure
2.8/5 (with 341 votes)

When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.

Twitches(2005)

3.4/5 (with 240 votes)

Twins separated at birth, Camryn and Alex meet by chance for the first time on their 21st birthday and discover they're witches with the power to save their homeland of Coventry from the evil that threatens it. But when Camryn leaves Alex to face the darkness alone, will Coventry be doomed? Or will the sisters multiply their magic by standing together?

True Mothers(2020)

2h 20min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 28 votes)

After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, convinced by the discourse of an adoption association, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a baby boy. A few years later, their parenthood is shaken by a threatening unknown girl, Hikari, who pretends to be the child's biological mother. Satoko decides to confront Hikari directly.

Directed by Naomi Kawase - With Hiromi Nagasaku, Arata Iura, Aju Makita, Miyoko Asada, Ren Komai, Hiroko Nakajima, ...

Hotel for Dogs(2009)

PG
| 1h 40min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.0/5 (with 388 votes)

Placed in a foster home that doesn't allow pets, 16-year-old Andi and her younger brother, Bruce, turn an abandoned hotel into a home for their dog. Soon other strays arrive, and the hotel becomes a haven for every orphaned canine in town. But the kids have to do some quick thinking to keep the cops off their tails.

The Color Purple(1985)

PG-13
| 2h 34min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 725 votes)

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.

Mighty Aphrodite(1995)

R
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 280 votes)

When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.

The Sugarland Express(1974)

PG
| 1h 50min | Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 157 votes)

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.

Nowhere Special(2020)

1h 36min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 51 votes)

John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child's mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for Michael, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation.

Directed by Uberto Pasolini - With James Norton

Indochine(1992)

PG-13
| 2h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 90 votes)

Eliane Devries is the seemingly repressed owner of a prosperous rubber plantation in French Indochina, circa 1930. Her steely exterior, however, is only a mask intended to hide her torrid love affairs from upper class society.

...And God Created Woman(1956)

PG
| 1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 93 votes)

Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't dream of settling down with a woman his friends consider the town tramp.

Three Identical Strangers(2018)

PG-13
| 1h 36min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 289 votes)

New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives – and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.

Directed by Tim Wardle

The Cat o' Nine Tails(1971)

1h 52min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 172 votes)

A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.

Admission(2013)

PG-13
| 1h 47min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 276 votes)

Straitlaced Princeton University admissions officer, Portia Nathan is caught off-guard when she makes a recruiting visit to an alternative high school overseen by her former college classmate, the freewheeling John Pressman. Pressman has surmised that Jeremiah, his gifted yet very unconventional student, might well be the son that Portia secretly gave up for adoption many years ago.

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