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The Roku Channel
79
7.8
/296981/
78
/15341/
78
/8758/
4.2
/2516823/
91
/275/
74
/17853/
80
/40/
cc age 9+

Coraline (2009)
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
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Criterion Channel
76
6.9
/66473/
70
/1600/
71
/1204/
3.9
/240323/
81
/62/
80
/1720/
77
/18/
cc age 17+

My Own Private Idaho (1991)
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike's estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.
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81
72
7.8
/5270/
73
/49/
69
/78/
3.8
/2470/
100
/9/
91
/41/
85
/7/

The Search (1948)
In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.
poster
81
72
8.3
/10684/
77
/90/
76
/48/
4.1
/8022/
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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HBO Max Amazon Channel
71
7.0
/410348/
71
/27510/
69
/10036/
3.0
/780761/
90
/419/
81
/5685/
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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Kanopy
69
7.1
/6168/
70
/130/
69
/87/
3.5
/1833/
71
/72/
70
/189/
60
/17/

Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom to Australia and other Commonwealth countries. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
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Plex
55
5.7
/2617/
56
/43/
56
/34/
3.1
/1062/
53
/30/
51
/36/

Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
Rebelling against his dreary life in a small Arizona town, salesman Nick abandons his girlfriend, Beth, and strikes out onto the highway in search of... something else. Encouraged by her best friend, Carol, Beth reluctantly accepts the romantic attentions of Sid, a local housepainter.
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Kanopy
71
55
7.1
/3384/
69
/75/
66
/69/
3.4
/941/
92
/13/
74
/26/
62
/5/

Two Lives (2012)
Europe 1990, the Berlin wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany, but now living in Norway for the last 20 years, is a “war child”; the result of a love relationship between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to witness in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the war children, she resists. Gradually, a web of concealments and secrets is unveiled, until Katrine is finally stripped of everything, and her loved ones are forced to take a stand: What carries more weight, the life they have lived together, or the lie it is based on?
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58
42
6.1
/3681/
62
/130/
62
/185/
3.2
/1184/
41
/22/

Painless (2012)
While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.
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Fandor
66
41
6.6
/445/
64
/25/
56
/13/
95
/20/
46
/615/
74
/11/

Commune (2005)
In 1968, Elsa and Richard Marley founded an alternative-living community, named Black Bear, in the remote Northern California wilderness with the motto "Free Land for Free People." This film tells the story of that intended utopia. Through archival footage and interviews with former residents, director Jonathan Berman explores the problems and realities of communal living and the evolution of a community that endured FBI harassment, cult leadership and more.
poster
63
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7.1
/200/
50
/4/
60
/6/
3.7
/429/

Journey (1972)
The story is about two poor boys’ search for their father through a Journey from downtown to uptown. Two hungry boys are forced to move through the events, people and unrealistic and risky places in a nightmarish way. A daily journey in search of their lost identity and worth!
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?
45
/2/
65
/3/

Red (1996)
In 1977, young Xiao Mei leaves China for the UK to enter into an arranged marriage. Speaking no English and feeling distant from her Elvis-obsessed new husband and his stern mother, Xiao Mei dreams of reuniting with her long-lost parents and brother.
poster
55
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6.5
/208/
44
/5/
57
/6/

Like a Bolt of Lightning (1996)
Miguel Hermoso's Like Lightning offers a fresh take on a familiar scenario, the teenaged boy searching for his unknown father. Pablo is a typical teen, with a fondness for football and sneaking beers with his buddies. He enjoys a comfortable upper-middle class life with his mother (Assumpta Serna), a successful lawyer and former feminist rabble-rouser, but has a gaping hole at the core of his identity: he has no idea who his father is. Preoccupied with the question to the point of obsession, he sets out in search of answers, and finds himself on a trail that leads to the Canary Islands.
poster
?
6.9
/64/
20
/1/
60
/3/

The Crossing (2001)
French national Stéphane Bouquet, the illegitimate son of a U.S. soldier, goes looking for the father he never met in the United States' heartland.
poster
42
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5.7
/224/
10
/1/
60
/3/

Happy Mother's Day, Love George (1973)
An adopted teen runs away to what he believes to be his birth town and mother, in the hopes of putting together the missing pieces of his identity. He arrives during a wave of disappearances and murders, only to encounter New England aloofness and some very eccentric relatives.
poster
41
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6.0
/327/
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
53
?
6.6
/158/
46
/3/
49
/8/

Cold Lands (1999)
A young Frenchman of Arab descent, Djamel, becomes convinced that his long-lost father is a rich factory owner in Grenoble. When the man coldly rejects him, Djamel plots a revenge that will implicate the man's closeted gay son.
poster
56
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6.8
/362/
55
/7/
47
/11/

Freedom Is Paradise (1989)
Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children's home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha tries several times to escape and to search for his father.
poster
42
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3.5
/267/
51
/6/
41
/9/

The Longing (2003)
Cyrus, Tim and Erik were high school buddies and meet again ten years later. They spend the summer together in Brazil. All of them are occupied in dealing with experiences from their past but new developments make them face their inner conflicts and their friendship with each other


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