adoption
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    My Flesh and Blood (2003)

    Filmmaker Jonathan Karsh profiles Susan Tom, a woman who has adopted 11 children who are physically...

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    Track 29 (1988)

    A woman encounters a young man who claims to be her long lost son.

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    The King of Masks (1999)

    Seeking a male apprentice to listen to his secrets, an old Chinese man (Zhu Xu) buys a child (Zhou...

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    The Godsend (1980)

    A pregnant stranger (Angela Pleasence) spends the night with a couple (Cyd Hayman, Malcolm Stoddard)...

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    The Bigamist (1953)

    A traveling salesman (Edmond O'Brien) with a wife (Joan Fontaine) in San Francisco marries a...

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    Fakin' Da Funk (1997)

    Adopted into an African-American family, Julian, a young man of Chinese heritage, is accepted into...

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    Christmas Child

    A mysterious photograph leads a journalist (William R. Moses) to a small Texas town at...

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    The Unforgiven (1960)

    A Texas woman (Lillian Gish) and her eldest son (Burt Lancaster) fight Kiowas over an adopted...

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    Celine

    An orphan French heiress (Isabelle Pasco) learns about yoga and God from the nurse (Lisa Heredia)...

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    Brand Upon the Brain! (2007)

    Whatever are young "Guy Maddin's" parents really up to in their lighthouse home/orphanage on a...

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    White Dog

    Keys is a trainer attempting to reprogram a vicious dog who's been trained to attack and kill people...

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    Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

    A widow (Lucille Ball) with eight children meets, courts and weds a widowed Navy officer (Henry...

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    Jack Be Nimble (1994)

    Two siblings, a psychic girl and a violently repressed boy, are reunited after being separated years...

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    Una Strana Passione

    An orphaned boy struggles to be a good son to his adoptive father without sacrificing his own...

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    A Global Affair (1964)

    Member nations squabble over the guardianship of an abandoned infant found at the United Nations...

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    These Wilder Years (1956)

    A self-made man's (James Cagney) search for his illegitimate son ends at a woman's (Barbara...

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    Up and Down (2005)

    A childless woman (Natasa Burger) buys an orphan, and a businessman (Petr Forman) returns home after...

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    The Beniker Gang

    When his younger friends go up for adoption, threatening their extended family, an orphaned teen...

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    D.A.R.Y.L. (1985)

    A childless couple adopt a likable young boy who they soon find out is actually a robot with some...

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    Why Would I Lie? (1980)

    In this romantic drama, Treat Williams plays Cletus, a rather unpleasant and morally shaky man...

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    Gleaming the Cube (1989)

    A California skateboarder (Christian Slater) solves and avenges the death of his adopted Vietnamese...

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    Born Free (1965)

    The British Adamsons (Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers) raise Elsa the lioness as a pet in Kenya, then...

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    Immediate Family (1989)

    A childless couple become better acquainted with the pregnant teenager whose baby they plan to...

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    The Hi-Line (2000)

    Sam Polvino comes to a small Montana town to recruit employees for his Chicago retail agency. His...

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    Little Boy Lost (1953)

    An American War correspondent stationed in France loses his French wife at the hands of the Nazis,...

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    Nordeste

    After having sacrificed almost everything for her career, Joelle decides, at 43 years of age, to...

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    Robot Stories (2004)

    Four short tales revolve around a couple with a robotic baby, a mother (Wai Ching Ho) with a...

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    Stuart Little (1999)

    Adopted by the Littles (Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki), a mouse has various adventures...

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    Mikey

    Dangerous young boy terrorizes numerous foster families.

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    Taketori Monogatari (1987)

    A 9th-century bamboo cutter (Toshirô Mifune) finds in the forest a baby who, magically, grows up to...