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    Anna's Mutter

    In this fictionalized version of the sensational Marie Bachmeier case of the early 1980s, Marianne...

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    Who Are the DeBolts? (And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?)

    This Academy Award-winning documentary focuses upon Robert and Dorothy DeBolt, a California couple...

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    Haunted

    Michael Roemer both wrote and directed the 60-minute TV drama Haunted. Brooke Adams stars as a...

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    Wend Kuuni (1982)

    A mute amnesiac child is given sanctuary by villagers who name him "God's Gift."

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    Ni Chana Ni Juana

    This undistinguished comedy is about twin sisters separated at birth, one grows up in poverty in a...

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    El Cristo del Oceano (1971)

    The scene is a remote Mexican sea village. Four local fisherman reluctantly agree to play "surrogate...

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    La Decade Prodigieuse (1971)

    In this ponderous French mystery-drama, based on an Ellery Queen story, blackmail would seem to be...

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    Antoine et Sebastien (1974)

    Romance reigns supreme in this French movie. Sebastien (Jacques Dutronc) is the adopted son of...

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    Rolando Rivas, Taxista

    This is an original movie based on a popular Argentine television soap opera. In the movie, after he...

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    Bhavni Bhavai

    This charming fable in the genre of New Indian Cinema brings up the issue of the Indian caste system...

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    The Divided Heart (1955)

    After losing his family to concentration camps during World War II, a Yugoslav boy is adopted and...

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    Gilsoddeum

    Gilsodom is a fictionalized extension of a documentary produced for Korean television in 1983....

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    Orokbefogadas

    When her married lover refuses to father a child, a widowed factory worker strikes up an intense...

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    Monologue

    The dramatic portrait of a young writer's gradual withdrawal from society.

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    The Orphan

    A disturbed young man is plagued by horrific headaches that he believes make him commit murders.

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    Stolen Hours (1963)

    Told she is dying, an English jet-setter (Susan Hayward) marries her doctor (Michael Craig) and has...

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    Super Seal

    In this comedy-drama, a family's well-ordered life is thrown into chaos after the youngest daughter...

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    Le Clair de terre

    An unsettled teen (Jacques Portet) who was born in Tunisia but brought to France for adoption in...

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    My 20th Century (1990)

    A dramatic fantasy filled with insight into the early years of the 20th century, as seen through the...

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    Ballerina and the Good God (1958)

    Modern-day fairy tale about orphan boy who decides to pick out a mother for himself.

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    Bad Blood

    An ex-policeman (Lorenzo Lamas) takes on goons sent by a crooked banker to rough up his thief of a...

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    Orokseg

    In this standard Hungarian drama, the effects of sterility and jealousy on a marriage are played out...

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    La Fete des peres

    Two gay men want to raise a child together, but the woman they found to give them the baby refuses...

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    Zaman-e az Dast Rafteh

    An infertile professional woman chooses to adopt a child at the cost of her marriage.

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    Annie

    When Daddy Warbucks (Victor Garber) is accused of not caring enough for the poor, he takes in orphan...

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    Olyan mint otthon

    When a wayward husband returns from America to his native Hungary, mostly because he was homesick,...

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    Berlin Report

    The story of a Korean boy, an artist, and a socialist, raised in France by adoptive parents, who has...

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    Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

    Emily Bronte's timeless tale of two families and the doomed love that entwines them.

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    Cuvstvitel'nyi Milicioner

    A childless couple tries to adopt a baby.

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    Raising Nicholas

    A charming snapshot of an adopted Honduran boy and his gay male parents.