Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "adoption", "piano"

1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

PG-13 | 166 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond

Votes: 696,355 | Gross: $127.51M

2. Orphan (2009)

R | 123 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she appears.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder

Votes: 252,697 | Gross: $41.60M

3. The Color Purple (1985)

PG-13 | 154 min | Drama

A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery

Votes: 97,466 | Gross: $98.47M

4. The Lego Batman Movie (2017)

PG | 104 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick.

Director: Chris McKay | Stars: Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, Ralph Fiennes

Votes: 172,800 | Gross: $175.75M

5. I Am Sam (2001)

PG-13 | 132 min | Drama

An intellectually disabled man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

Director: Jessie Nelson | Stars: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest

Votes: 155,407 | Gross: $40.31M

6. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)

PG | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

The Chipmunks believe that Dave plans to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami.--and dump them. They have three days to get to him and save themselves not only from losing Dave but also from gaining a terrible stepbrother.

Director: Walt Becker | Stars: Jason Lee, Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney

Votes: 22,637 | Gross: $85.89M

7. Oliver & Company (1988)

G | 74 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty larceny in New York City.

Director: George Scribner | Stars: Joey Lawrence, Billy Joel, Cheech Marin, Richard Mulligan

Votes: 53,019 | Gross: $74.15M

8. The Bad Seed (1956)

Approved | 129 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Rhoda Penmark seems like your average, sweet eight-year-old girl. After her rival at school dies in mysterious circumstances at the school picnic, her mother starts to suspect that Rhoda was responsible.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Gage Clarke, Jesse White

Votes: 15,795

9. Caché (2005)

R | 117 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot

Votes: 85,310 | Gross: $3.63M

10. The Light Between Oceans (2016)

PG-13 | 133 min | Drama, Romance

A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat.

Director: Derek Cianfrance | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Florence Clery

Votes: 60,129 | Gross: $12.55M

11. Behind the Candelabra (2013)

TV-MA | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A chronicle of the tempestuous six-year romance between megastar singer Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Michael Douglas, Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Eric Zuckerman

Votes: 45,432

12. Igby Goes Down (2002)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.

Director: Burr Steers | Stars: Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum, Claire Danes

Votes: 35,268 | Gross: $4.68M

13. The Innocents (2016)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History

1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne

Votes: 11,622 | Gross: $1.06M

14. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.

Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Mike Binder, Winona Ryder

Votes: 14,230

15. Blonde (2001)

TV-14 | 165 min | Biography, Drama

A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life.

Stars: Poppy Montgomery, Patricia Richardson, Patrick Dempsey, Wallace Shawn

Votes: 1,241

16. The Official Story (1985)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, History

During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana

Votes: 10,874 | Gross: $0.03M

17. A Christmas Prince (2017)

TV-PG | 92 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

When a reporter goes undercover as a tutor to get the inside scoop on a playboy prince, she gets tangled in some royal intrigue and ends up finding love - but will she be able to keep up her lie?

Director: Alex Zamm | Stars: Rose McIver, Ben Lamb, Alice Krige, Honor Kneafsey

Votes: 21,906

18. Georgy Girl (1966)

Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A traditional girl (Lynn Redgrave) resists the advances of a swinger (James Mason) who wants her as his mistress in 1960s London.

Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling

Votes: 4,249 | Gross: $16.87M

19. The Josephine Baker Story (1991 TV Movie)

R | 130 min | Biography, Drama, History

Born poor in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes, Louis Gossett Jr.

Votes: 1,590

20. The City of Your Final Destination (2009)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama, Romance

Omar wants to write an authorized biography on a dead writer and travels to a farm in Uruguay to meet the trustees - the writer's brother, widow and cute mistress/mother of his daughter.

Director: James Ivory | Stars: Omar Metwally, Anthony Hopkins, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nicholas Blandullo

Votes: 3,241

21. Mersal (2017)

Not Rated | 172 min | Action, Thriller

A police officer arrests a doctor for crimes targeting medical professionals but later finds the real culprit in a tale of revenge, corruption and magic.

Director: Atlee | Stars: Joseph Vijay, Nithya Menen, S.J. Suryah, Samantha Ruth Prabhu

Votes: 38,049

22. Kona fer í stríð (2018)

Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Halla becomes a determined environmental activist, but this threatens a long-held hope of hers.

Director: Benedikt Erlingsson | Stars: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camilo Román Estrada, Jörundur Ragnarsson

Votes: 11,314 | Gross: $0.85M

23. Annie Live! (2021 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 127 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A young orphan opens the heart of billionaire Sir Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks.

Directors: Lear Debessonet, Alex Rudzinski | Stars: Harry Connick Jr., Nicole Scherzinger, Tituss Burgess, Megan Hilty

Votes: 2,273

24. I've Loved You So Long (2008)

PG-13 | 117 min | Drama

A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.

Director: Philippe Claudel | Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein, Serge Hazanavicius, Laurent Grévill

Votes: 20,720 | Gross: $3.17M

25. The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

Not Rated | 186 min | Drama, History

Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.

Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari

Votes: 6,903

26. Any Day Now (I) (2012)

R | 98 min | Drama

In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof.

Director: Travis Fine | Stars: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher

Votes: 6,575 | Gross: $0.20M

27. Nightcap (2000)

Not Rated | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis, Rodolphe Pauly

Votes: 5,983 | Gross: $0.44M

28. Greener Mountains (2005)

89 min | Drama, Romance

Greener Mountains is a family friendly, coming-of-age story about finding your place in the world.

Director: Lee Shallat Chemel | Stars: Nick Daley, Chris Heuisler, Kimberly McCullough, Brad Raider

Votes: 175

29. The Tie That Binds (1995)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

John Netherwood and his wife Leann are fugitives who are both wanted for murder. They have a young daughter named Janie. John and Leann are in the process of robbing a house when the two ... See full summary »

Director: Wesley Strick | Stars: Daryl Hannah, Keith Carradine, Moira Kelly, Vincent Spano

Votes: 1,258 | Gross: $5.78M

30. The Old Maid (1939)

Approved | 95 min | Drama

The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp

Votes: 4,063

31. Brahmachari (I) (1968)

157 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Abandoned as a child, Brahmachari lives in a mortgaged house with twelve young orphans. He saves a woman from dying and she changes his life forever. But first she has to deal with her own affairs.

Director: Bhappi Sonie | Stars: Shammi Kapoor, Rajshree, Pran Sikand, Mumtaz Askari

Votes: 449

32. Circle of Deceit (1981)

R | 108 min | Drama, War

A German journalist, escaping from broken marriage, goes to Lebanon to cover the civil war. Soon, he realizes that he can't handle the truth.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jean Carmet, Jerzy Skolimowski

Votes: 976

33. My Favorite Season (1993)

Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, Romance

Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites ... See full summary »

Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier

Votes: 2,232 | Gross: $0.76M

34. Children of Hiroshima (1952)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, War

Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.

Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Masao Shimizu, Jûkichi Uno

Votes: 1,376

35. Nightfall (2012)

Not Rated | 108 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An old but serious miscarriage of justice clouds a current police investigation looking into the death of a mutilated corpse.

Director: Roy Hin Yeung Chow | Stars: Nick Cheung, Simon Yam, Janice Man, Kay Tse

Votes: 1,297

36. Orphan Train (1979 TV Movie)

143 min | Adventure, Drama

In 1854, there were over 10,000 abandoned, orphaned children living on the streets of New York City. Out of this desperate situation was born the orphan Train. This is a fictionalized account, based on actual events.

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Jill Eikenberry, Kevin Dobson, Linda Manz, Graham Fletcher-Cook

Votes: 264

37. The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952)

Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

In California, a boy and his adoptive father find an outlaw's hidden treasure but the news leaks out, sending unscrupulous characters after the gold.

Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: William Powell, Julie Adams, Charles Drake, Rosemary DeCamp

Votes: 241

38. Friends and Family (2001)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime

A gay couple are hit men for the mafia.

Director: Kristen Coury | Stars: Greg Lauren, Chris Gartin, Rebecca Creskoff, Edward Hibbert

Votes: 1,515

39. Strange Relations (2001 TV Movie)

R | 106 min | Drama, Comedy

A 39 y.o. NYC Jewish shrink has leukemia. His mom tells him that he was adopted from a teen Catholic girl in Liverpool, UK. He visits his bio mom and finds that he has two brothers (bone marrow donor?).

Director: Paul Seed | Stars: Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl, George Wendt

Votes: 813

40. No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas (1995)

PG | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

It is the fantastic story of a couple that has the chance to live for centuries loving one another because of various reincarnations.

Director: Eliseo Subiela | Stars: Darío Grandinetti, Mariana Arias, Oscar Martínez, Mónica Galán

Votes: 875

41. The Château (2001)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.

Director: Jesse Peretz | Stars: Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Sylvie Testud, Benjamin Tessier

Votes: 866 | Gross: $0.20M

42. The Garden of Eden (1928)

Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama

Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman, Maude George

Votes: 497

43. Joel (II) (2018)

99 min | Drama

Unable to have kids of their own, Cecilia and Diego get a call from the adoption agency they registered to some time ago. The sudden arrival of Joel, a nine-year-old with a troubled history, will change the course of their lives.

Director: Carlos Sorin | Stars: Victoria Almeida, Diego Gentile, Joel Noguera, Gustavo Daniele

Votes: 342

44. Who Are the DeBolts? and Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977)

Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary, Biography

Dorothy and Bob DeBolt's tale of the struggles and joys involved in their 19 adopted children, many of who are physically disabled war orphans.

Director: John Korty | Stars: Kim Atwood, Marty Atwood, Mike Atwood, Mimi Atwood

Votes: 248

45. Prodigal Sons (2008)

Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary

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... See full summary »

Director: Kimberly Reed | Stars: Kimberly Reed, Carol McKerrow, Marc McKerrow, Claire Jones

Votes: 759 | Gross: $0.07M

46. Mother of Mine (1926)

Not Rated | 65 min | Drama

A sincere working-class 13-year old in France is adopted by a well-meaning philanthropic millionairess from America -- who promises his doting mother that the boy will have the finest education -- but things are not so simple.

Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Jean Forest, Rolla Norman, Françoise Rosay, Cécile Guyon

Votes: 287

47. Get Your Stuff (2000)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

A wealthy professional gay couple, who wish to adopt children, see their lives turned topsy turvy when they take in two misbehaving brothers, supposedly just for one night.

Director: Max Mitchell | Stars: Cameron Watson, Anthony Meindl, Elaine Hendrix, Grady Hutt

Votes: 624

48. A Waif's Welcome (1936)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Troublemaking kid not happy with new adopted brother.

Director: Tom Palmer

Votes: 112

49. Sarah McLachlan: A Life of Music (2004)

49 min | Documentary

An intimate look into Sarah McLachlan's life.

Director: Mark Johnston | Stars: Sarah McLachlan, Shirley Douglas, Buffy Childerhose, Greg Clark

50. This Is the Life (1935)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

After obtaining her from an orphanage a couple exploit entertainer Withers till she runs away and later becomes a professional.

Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Jane Withers, John McGuire, Sally Blane, Sidney Toler

Votes: 60