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Movies: Best "adoptive father" Movies


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Despicable Me 2(2013)

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| 1h 38min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 5,302 votes)

Gru is recruited by the Anti-Villain League to help deal with a powerful new super criminal.

Despicable Me(2010)

3.6/5 (with 7,124 votes)

Villainous Gru lives up to his reputation as a despicable, deplorable and downright unlikable guy when he hatches a plan to steal the moon from the sky. But he has a tough time staying on task after three orphans land in his care.

Lolita(1962)

3.7/5 (with 859 votes)

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

After Yang(2021)

3.2/5 (with 160 votes)

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.

Directed by Kogonada - With Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, Justin H. Min, Ritchie Coster, Sarita Choudhury, ...

Mighty Aphrodite(1995)

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.

Heart and Yummie(2010)

4.0/5 (with 33 votes)

Heart is a tyrannosaurus who is found and raised bv a herbivore mother. After learning his true nature as a meat eater, he runs away from home and finds a baby ankylosaurus egg that hatches and thinks Heart is his father. After accidentally naming the baby Yummie - thinking he looked tasty - their love for one another tests the bounds of nature vs. nurture.

Directed by Masaya Fujimori

Minions: Home Makeover(2010)

3.4/5 (with 73 votes)

A social worker is coming to Gru's house to check if it's suitable for children. Margo, Edith, Agnes and the Minions must take care of the situation.

Martian Child(2007)

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| 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 128 votes)

A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.

A Mouse Divided(1953)

3.7/5 (with 4 votes)

A drunken stork delivers a baby mouse to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Cat. Sylvester is about to eat the little rodent when it calls him Daddy. Touched, Sylvester adopts the mouse as his son - which, distressingly, attracts every hungry cat in the neighborhood to his door!

Directed by Friz Freleng

La Belle Nivernaise(1924)

1h 9min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

A young man falls in love with the daughter of the man who adopted him.

Captain January(1924)

1h 4min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her to live with them.

Seguiré tus pasos(1967)

1h 35min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

José María is an orphan child who lives in desperation until brother José finds him. The priest helps the boy channel his anger and transform his sadness into energy and love.