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Criterion Channel
87
8.0
/50683/
78
/750/
76
/696/
4.3
/56659/
95
/44/
91
/643/
92
/27/
cc age 15+

Secrets & Lies (1996)
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
poster
79
7.2
/100667/
69
/1915/
68
/1173/
3.7
/88172/
87
/163/
78
/2471/
90
/34/
cc age 15+

Gosford Park (2001)
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
poster
fuboTV
77
6.9
/8859/
68
/489/
66
/139/
3.8
/34391/
97
/129/
85
/141/
81
/30/
cc age 15+

A Thousand and One (2023)
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.2
/112017/
75
/3273/
70
/1266/
3.9
/219974/
84
/64/
81
/3557/
71
/18/
cc age 15+

The Birdcage (1996)
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents.
poster
73
7.1
/1041/
57
/14/
64
/20/
3.6
/779/
93
/15/
84
/14/

High Tide (1987)
A backup singer gets stranded in a small coastal town after losing her job in a band. She winds up in a caravan park only to encounter, by accident, the teenage daughter she deserted following her husband's death.
poster
81
72
8.3
/10617/
77
/90/
76
/48/
4.0
/7569/
80
/5/
93
/90/

Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)
A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they encounter the militant group known as the Tamil Tigers.
poster
72
7.2
/13219/
71
/302/
65
/158/
3.4
/2613/
78
/129/
76
/439/
64
/32/
cc age 17+

Mother and Child (2009)
The lives of three women have a commonality: adoption. Karen is a physical therapist who regrets that, as a teenager, she gave up her daughter for adoption. Elizabeth was an adopted child and is now a successful lawyer, but her personal life lacks warmth. Lucy and her husband have failed to conceive and now hope to adopt a baby to make their family complete.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
7.0
/44551/
68
/746/
67
/722/
3.5
/25837/
78
/37/
73
/620/
60
/16/

Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
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.
poster
Netflix
70
6.4
/29313/
67
/2318/
65
/451/
3.2
/166420/
90
/220/
81
/270/
74
/44/
cc age 16+

Joy Ride (2023)
When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.
poster
70
7.1
/4773/
73
/107/
64
/71/
3.4
/1441/
73
/22/
72
/65/
71
/17/

A Family Thing (1996)
Earl Pilcher Jr. runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who died in childbirth; plus, he has a half brother Ray, in Chicago, she wants him to visit. Earl makes the trip, initially receiving a cold welcome from Ray and Ray's son, Virgil. His birth mother's sister, Aunt T., an aged and blind matriarch, takes Earl in tow and insists that the family open up to him.
poster
69
6.8
/2551/
53
/13/
61
/22/
3.5
/442/
80
/25/
72
/23/
66
/23/

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here 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.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
68
6.6
/102629/
67
/2835/
64
/1746/
3.4
/73022/
71
/160/
61
/4007/
65
/32/
cc age 17+

I Love You Phillip Morris (2010)
Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force. That is until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: he’s gay and he’s going to live life to the fullest – even if he has to break the law to do it. Taking on an extravagant lifestyle, Steven turns to cons and fraud to make ends meet and is eventually sent to the State Penitentiary where he meets the love of his life, a sensitive, soft-spoken man named Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts him to attempt (and often succeed at) one impossible con after another.
poster
Hoopla
65
7.4
/113875/
75
/3227/
74
/2779/
3.3
/58409/
36
/121/
82
/20278/
38
/27/
cc age 8+

August Rush (2007)
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.
poster
Kanopy
63
6.1
/1243/
65
/27/
62
/68/
3.3
/1606/
86
/22/
43
/4/
74
/11/

Daughter of Mine (2018)
A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.
poster
Kanopy
62
6.4
/6823/
69
/177/
64
/103/
3.1
/2734/
46
/28/
73
/374/

Losing Isaiah (1995)
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
poster
59
6.3
/9181/
66
/466/
64
/250/
2.9
/6596/
45
/159/
76
/42/
50
/33/
cc age 15+

After the Wedding (2019)
Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignites a series of events in which the past collides with the present while mysteries unravel.
poster
Starz
59
6.3
/9732/
60
/230/
55
/116/
3.1
/2287/
54
/104/
63
/657/
57
/31/
cc age 18+

Happy Endings (2005)
Filmmaker Nicky offers to track down the son that Mamie gave up for adoption nearly two decades before. Meanwhile, Mamie's stepbrother (and the father of her child), Charley, along with his boyfriend, Gil, try to find out what became of the sperm Gil donated to a lesbian couple. Finally, singer Jude becomes entangled in a love triangle with androgynous drummer Otis and his conservative father.
poster
Hoopla
66
54
7.2
/5092/
73
/105/
66
/71/
3.4
/1024/
41
/17/
82
/115/

Firelight (1998)
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.
poster
54
6.6
/8074/
71
/188/
63
/122/
2.5
/1367/
26
/39/
79
/691/
32
/14/
cc age 15+

October Baby (2011)
A beautiful and naive college freshman discovers that her entire life is a lie and sets out on a road trip with a host of misfits to discover herself and the answers she craves.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
53
5.9
/11192/
64
/1023/
59
/375/
2.9
/6226/
47
/131/
29
/67/
49
/34/
cc age 17+

Wilson (2017)
Middle-aged and divorced, Wilson finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.
poster
Kanopy
51
5.2
/11373/
65
/1529/
55
/356/
2.1
/4243/
38
/13/
59
/96/
cc age 16+

Inconceivable (2017)
A mother looks to escape her abusive past by moving to a new town where she befriends another mother, who grows suspicious of her.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
54
51
5.9
/10606/
61
/239/
56
/174/
2.9
/1867/
50
/116/
44
/1197/
56
/27/
cc age 17+

Then She Found Me (2007)
A New York schoolteacher experiences a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies, and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.
poster
49
5.7
/36998/
62
/1504/
56
/637/
2.7
/19816/
37
/154/
32
/1010/
48
/39/
cc age 13+

Admission (2013)
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 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.
poster
70
43
7.1
/770/
63
/19/
52
/18/
3.5
/379/
87
/30/
79
/62/
74
/13/

Prodigal Sons (2008)
Filmmaker Kimberly Reed returns home for her high school reunion, ready to reintroduce herself to the small town as a transgender woman and hoping for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother Marc. Things are complicated by the shocking revelation that Marc may be the grandson of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth, forcing Kim and her family to explore questions of sexual orientation, identity, severe trauma and love.
poster
Hoopla
62
43
5.3
/1523/
56
/144/
51
/73/
2.8
/1659/
90
/20/
66
/11/

Two Heads Creek (2019)
A timid butcher and his drama queen twin sister quit the hostile confines of post-Brexit Britain and venture to Australia in search of their birth mother, but the seemingly tolerant townsfolk are hiding a dark, meaty secret.
poster
46
40
5.7
/6860/
60
/143/
55
/130/
2.7
/1820/
22
/9/
32
/174/

Irresistible (2006)
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
poster
66
33
6.7
/1078/
59
/21/
55
/32/
3.4
/370/
81
/475/

The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
poster
60
23
6.3
/801/
58
/24/
64
/34/
3.3
/1068/
50
/1/
cc age 13+

A Sort of Family (2017)
What limits does Malena cross to get what she wants most? Malena is a 38 year old middle class doctor from Buenos Aires. One afternoon she receives the call from Doctor Costas, who informs her that she must travel immediately to the north of the country: the baby she was waiting for is about to be born. Unexpectedly Malena decides to embark on an uncertain journey, full of crossroads, facing all kinds of legal and moral obstacles that will make her constantly wondering how far she is ready to go.
poster
56
21
6.7
/680/
50
/3/
54
/11/
56
/123/

Our Very Own (1950)
During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
51
21
5.8
/569/
42
/12/
46
/10/
60
/937/

Sioux City (1994)
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.
poster
45
18
5.2
/732/
40
/11/
51
/13/
40

Pleasant Days (2002)
Peter returned from prison in his native city, in the hope that it will begin happy days. With surprise he learns that his sister became a foster mother to the newborn boy, but a real mother of the child - extravagant and slutty Maya wants to take it back. Peter falls in love with Maya. He's torn between his girlfriend and trying to manipulate sister. But he has to make a choice, and the happiness was so close, melt into thin air.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
18
6.5
/609/
68
/26/
57
/11/
72
/17/

Mary Christmas (2002)
Californian widower Joel Wallace, a successful businessman, is a great catch in a grand mansion, but absorbed by his work. His daughter Felice writes to a TV Christmas special, hoping for a 'new mammy'.
poster
65
17
6.7
/431/
71
/21/
61
/15/
3.2
/697/

Fathers (2016)
A gay couple faces personal challenges and society's expectations when their adopted son starts grade school and notices his family's unique dynamic.
poster
53
12
5.7
/428/
43
/12/
56
/5/
57
/18/

Rain (2006)
Rain, a young black musical prodigy, finds trouble and heartbreak when she witnesses her sister's murder by gangbangers. In order to protect her daughter, Rain's mother secretly contacts Rain's biological mother, and Rain learns the truth of her parentage: She is the daughter of a white socialite. Sent to live with her wealthy grandmother, Rain adjusts to boarding school life, where her musical talents flourish.
poster
Hoopla
59
11
6.2
/432/
64
/42/
66
/11/
2.9
/444/
Popcorn
44
/4/

Yes, Chef! Christmas (2023)
An adoptee/chef is invited to enter a cooking contest by a mysterious benefactor where she clashes with a celebrity chef.
poster
58
11
6.5
/283/
46
/3/
56
/18/
3.4
/222/

La Voleuse (1966)
Drama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster parents to have it restored to her.
poster
51
11
5.1
/1403/
51
/21/
55
/12/
3.0
/272/
40
/1/

Dil Kya Kare (1999)
Anand Kishore, his wife, Kavita and only child, a daughter, Neha , live a happy and serene life in Delhi, India. Their lives are turned upside down when Kavita finds out that Neha is being stalked by a woman named Nandita Rai
poster
29
9
2.5
/4307/
42
/7/
30
/8/
19
/10/

Araf (2006)
Eda and Cenk are a young couple who met and married during their college years. Their happiness is sealed when Eda learns she is expecting a baby. However, as her pregnancy progresses, Eda begins to experience unusual events. A soul stuck between heaven and hell has returned to earth to seek revenge. As Eda struggles to awaken from this relentless nightmare, an unprecedented horror will engulf the young couple.
poster
?
6.2
/107/

Murder in Pont-L'Évêque (2021)
Two brothers lead the investigation into the murder of the heir of a large estate.
poster
?
6.1
/14/
20
/1/

Du bist mein Kind (2002)
N/A
poster
?
6.4
/18/

Sunshine
It all starts with getting knocked up. An unplanned pregnancy for an unplanned girl sets off SUNSHINE, a playful, yet ultimately stirring self-portrait of an adopted woman driven to search for answers through reconnection with her biological mother. Intimate and gripping, SUNSHINE offers a refreshingly rare glimpse on the current day transformations taking place within our most sacred of institutions, family.
poster
fuboTV
66
?
6.5
/798/
64
/57/
76
/6/
3.0
/470/

Love of the Irish (2025)
Tired of her bad luck, Fiona takes her mom on a trip to Ireland to turn things around where she meets a charming single dad who helps her make her own luck.
poster
?
7.9
/18/
70
/1/

Rock a Bye (2020)
After being diagnosed with cancer, a veteran of the War in Iraq decides to track down the estranged mother of his teenage son.
poster
?
7.1
/69/

Martha & Ethel (1994)
Chronicles the lives of two very different nannies and the families they served for the last 50 years. Told through interviews, home movies, and newsreel footage.
poster
51
?
6.6
/524/
53
/3/
54
/9/
46
/14/

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
An African American couple (Winfield and Alice) adopt two orphans from a Vietnamese refugee camp. After twenty-two years, the children are reunited with their birth mother, bringing deeply submerged resentments and misconceptions to the surface and forcing the characters to reexamine their identity and relationships in both comical and poignant situations.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
47
?
5.7
/269/
40
/10/
46
/8/

Fruit Fly (2009)
Filipina performance artist Bethesda moves into an art commune to search for her long missing biological mother. Along the way, she comes to realize that she just might be a fairy princess, fruit fly.
poster
?
7.2
/36/
40
/1/
90
/1/

Notre Dame de Moncton (2022)
Anna (Laurie Gagné) is going through a particularly stressful time: she is preparing to reconnect with Jason (Thomas Lapointe), the son she was forced to place for adoption almost 20 years ago. Unable to go through with this meeting, she takes refuge, clandestinely, in the house of an elderly couple. A dramatic event changes everything and forces Anna to forge an impromptu relationship with Victorine (Louise Turcot). The strange cohabitation of these two women will help them find the courage to face their trials.
poster
43
?
5.0
/250/
32
/8/
46
/7/

Urban Family (2015)
Selja is in her thirties and lives in a shared flat with her friends. One day a boy appears at her door; a boy she gave up for adoption sixteen years earlier. Selja has a chance to get to know her son, but at the same time, makes a complete mess of her and her best friends’ lives. Urban Family is a new kind of music film set in the modern-day world.


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