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9 films tagged adoption
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2015 · Drama
The son of a famous heavyweight, who never knew him, turns up in Philadelphia and asks his father's old rival to train him. The usual boxing shape, with the fights shot in long unbroken takes.
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2016 · Comedy
A city kid placed with a foster family in the New Zealand bush ends up out in the wild with his grumpy uncle while the whole country hunts for them. Jokes every minute, and a lot of scenery.
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2007 · Comedy
A sixteen-year-old finds out she is pregnant and picks a couple in the suburbs to raise the baby. Everybody talks in a very particular way, and the whole thing is over in an hour and a half.
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2015 · Drama
A five-year-old falls asleep on a train and wakes thousands of miles across India, and grows up adopted in Australia. The first half is a small boy alone in a huge country; the second is a man at a computer.
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2024 · Animation
A woman in Melbourne tells her life story to her pet snail: a twin brother sent to the other side of the country, foster homes, and a collection of things she cannot throw away. Clay animation, narrated all the way through, and sad more often than not.
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2022 · Drama
A twenty-five-year-old adopted from Korea and raised in France lands in Seoul on a whim and asks the agency to find her birth parents. It follows her on and off for years, and she is not easy company.
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2018 · Drama
A family in Tokyo living off part-time work and small thefts takes in a little girl they find alone in the cold. It is quiet and slow, and most of it is the six of them crowded into a tiny house.
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2007 · Horror
A woman moves back into the seaside orphanage she grew up in to reopen it as a home for children, and her young son starts talking about friends nobody else can see. An old-fashioned ghost story built on quiet, not jump scares.
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2024 · Animation
A shipping robot washes up on an island with no people on it and ends up raising an orphaned gosling, with a fox helping. Lovely to look at, made for kids, and it does not pretend nature is gentle.
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