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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.
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Kanopy
79
7.6
/44549/
76
/2457/
73
/773/
3.7
/107682/
96
/190/
88
/265/
81
/30/
cc age 11+

Three Identical Strangers (2018)
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.
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Hulu
72
6.5
/1766/
68
/137/
70
/54/
3.4
/3454/
88
/34/
82
/29/
60
/7/
cc age 13+

The Short History of the Long Road (2019)
Nola grew up living on a van with her father, Clint; two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past and her new destination.
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.
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Kanopy
71
6.5
/1788/
65
/105/
58
/41/
3.3
/2849/
95
/63/
54
/10/
83
/14/
cc age 16+

Rose Plays Julie (2021)
A story of a young woman searching for her biological mother. Set against a backdrop of misogyny, revenge, and longing, Rose undertakes a journey that leads her to revelations that are both devastating and dangerous.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
71
7.0
/408472/
71
/27217/
69
/9970/
3.0
/747573/
90
/418/
82
/5696/
71
/53/
cc age 11+

Shazam! (2019)
A boy is given the ability to become an adult superhero in times of need with a single magic word.
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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.
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Amazon Prime Video
59
5.8
/2720/
62
/47/
54
/42/
3.1
/2524/
63
/8/
43
/33/

Track 29 (1988)
Years after a desperate teenage Linda gives up her baby for adoption, she finds herself face-to-face with Martin, a young man claiming to be her long-lost son. Linda embraces Martin and in him finds a welcome reprieve from her unhappy marriage to the neglectful Henry. But soon Martin grows violent and becomes obsessed with Henry -- a philandering man whose only offspring is an expansive model train set that devours his waking hours.
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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.
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Kanopy
78
42
7.2
/812/
61
/10/
71
/21/
4.1
/2546/
100
/8/
84
/3/

Up, Down, Fragile (1995)
A librarian, a gangster's ex-lover and a woman who has recovered from a coma spend an eye-opening summer in Paris.
poster
68
33
6.7
/608/
65
/13/
59
/19/
3.4
/262/
92
/13/
55
/5/
73
/8/

I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)
Now a taciturn adult, an adoptee finds his biological mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.
poster
66
29
6.7
/570/
67
/29/
67
/42/
3.4
/1392/
64
/5/

Wonder Boy (2019)
At age 25, Olivier Rousteing was named the creative director of the French luxury fashion house, Balmain. At the time, Rousteing was a relatively unknown designer, but in the decade since, he’s proven his business prowess and artistic instinct by leading Balmain to new heights. Wonderboy gives the viewer the rare opportunity to experience the inner sanctum of the fashion world, as we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with this extraordinary individual while he works.
poster
59
27
6.1
/433/
60
/56/
55
/63/
3.1
/942/

C'est magnifique ! (2022)
When Pierre learns that his parents are not his parents, he wants to find out who he is and where he comes from. Raised in nature, Pierre has never been confronted with society. He does not know the codes. He will team up with Anna who will help him in his quest and cross a whole gallery of characters as funny as tender. But during his investigation, Pierre will lose his colors – like a photo that fades.
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Amazon Prime Video
47
26
4.3
/872/
52
/88/
63
/61/
2.7
/579/
50
/14/
20
/6/

Reborn (2018)
A stillborn baby girl is abducted by a deranged morgue attendant and brought back to life by electro-kinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday, traumatized Tess escapes captivity and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of horrifying violent destruction and chilling chaos behind her.
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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.
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The Roku Channel
44
7
5.1
/257/
48
/11/
41
/11/
36
/8/

The Griddle House (2018)
The story follows teenager Jack Benson, who is on the hunt for his birth mother. He finds she has been a regular all along at the nearby Griddle House.
poster
?
6.7
/76/
40
/2/
50
/2/

Matka swojej matki (1996)
Barbara leads a stable life, is fulfilled professionally and has a loving family. Her foster daughter Alicja, who learns that she is adopted, decides to find her biological mother. When Alicja finds the real mother, the life of the main characters changes, and the positive relationships that linked them become blurred.
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
/28/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Touch the Sun: Princess Kate (1988)
Kate McLelland's life is a normal one of a girl her age in the eastern suburbs, until her discovery that she is adopted. This is the story of her search for her natural mother and the resulting relationship.
poster
?
6.5
/40/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Escape Home (1980)
A twelve-year-old is looking for his biological parents after discovering the fact that he was adopted.
poster
Sun Nxt
58
?
7.2
/126/
45
/2/
60
/1/

Rakshasudu (1986)
Pursha is searching for his mother. He meets JK, who has the information on his mother but he first wants Pursha to finish off his rivals. In his quest, he meets Sumatri and then comes up with a plan.
poster
Kanopy
69
?
7.5
/636/
65
/14/
68
/8/
3.5
/411/

Daughter From Danang (2002)
In 1975, as the Vietnam War was ending, thousands of orphans and Amerasian children were brought to the United States as part of "Operation Babylift." Daughter from Danang tells the dramatic story of one of these children, Heidi Bub (a.k.a. Mai Thi Hiep), and her Vietnamese mother, Mai Thi Kim, separated at the war's end and reunited 22 years later. Heidi, now living in Tennessee - a married woman with kids - had always dreamt of a joyful reunion. When she ventures to Vietnam to meet her mother, she unknowingly embarks on an emotional pilgrimage that spans decades and distance. Unlike most reunion stories that climax with a cliché happy ending, Daughter from Danang is a real-life drama. Journeying from the Vietnam War to Pulaski, Tennessee and back to Vietnam, Daughter from Danang tensely unfolds as cultural differences and the years of separation take their toll in a riveting film about longing and the personal legacy of war.
poster
The Roku Channel
53
?
5.7
/110/
70
/7/
34
/5/

2 to Tangle (2013)
Jessica's true love, Tom, starts appearing to her after his death. Terrified and confused, Jess seeks out an explanation for these haunting attacks and discovers that the key to her deliverance is her faith. The answers to her questions may surprise you.
poster
MGM Plus
?
5.9
/93/
10
/2/
60
/1/

The Stranger Who Looks Like Me (1974)
A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy keeping adoption records sealed.
poster
48
?
5.9
/431/
37
/4/
52
/9/
67
/6/
27
/5/

The Hi-Line (2000)
A con man and a young woman travel across the country, first in search of a man he knows, and then in search of a woman she knows.
poster
66
?
6.5
/269/
70
/5/
63
/3/

Our Son, the Matchmaker (1996)
As seen in flashback, this is the story of 43-year-old Julie a beautician who when 15 was forced by her mother to give up her baby for adoption. Her son, now 28, a minister, with his wife expecting, begins to search for his biological mother to find out his family medical history. She hears of his search and reunites.
poster
The Roku Channel
71
?
7.4
/840/
56
/8/
84
/8/

Strange Relations (2001)
A NYC psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukaemia - and when he finds out he was adopted, he travels to England in search of his birth mother and some answers.
poster
41
?
5.9
/325/
10
/1/
60
/1/
51
/14/

Why Would I Lie? (1980)
Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy called Jorge (with a 'J') who was taken from his mother. Cletus sets out to reunite Jorge with his mother, but to do so he has to fabricate many a story to keep Jorge from being adopted. In search of the mother, Cletus meets and falls in love with a women's advice councillor.
poster
70
?
6.9
/189/
66
/6/
75
/7/

Pao's Story (2006)
Set in a breath-taking primitive landscape in the mountainous provinces of Vietnam, the film tells the story of a Hmong tribe girl named Pao. She was raised by her stepmother, for her real mother left her when she was little. One day, her stepmother dies in an accident, and she begins to track down her birth mother. But her journey turns out to disclose an unsealed sentimental drama of the family in the past.
poster
59
?
6.4
/128/
65
/2/
48
/14/

Looking for Her (2016)
Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.
poster
Hoopla
67
?
6.3
/146/
72
/8/
43
/4/
88
/16/
73
/7/

Off and Running (2009)
With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers - one mixed-race and one Korean-Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving household. But when her curiosity about her African-American roots grows, she decides to contact her birth mother. This choice propels Avery into her own complicated exploration of race, identity, and family that threatens to distance her from the parents she's always known. She begins staying away from home, starts skipping school, and risks losing her shot at the college track career she had always dreamed of. But when Avery decides to pick up the pieces of her life and make sense of her identity, the results are inspiring. OFF AND RUNNING follows Avery to the brink of adulthood, exploring the strength of family bonds and the lengths people must go to become themselves.
poster
54
?
5.7
/327/
57
/18/
47
/36/

Les Bêtises (2015)
A man named François, adopted as a child, sets out to find his biological mother. Posing as a waiter at a family gathering, he infiltrates her home, hoping to uncover the truth. His clumsy nature leads to a series of comedic mishaps, disrupting the event and causing chaos. As he stumbles through misunderstandings and awkward encounters, his quest for identity becomes increasingly complicated.


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