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1. Coraline (2009)
PG | 100 min | Animation, Drama, Family
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, an 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.
Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, Jennifer Saunders
Votes: 263,812 | Gross: $75.29M
2. Shazam! (2019)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy.
Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer
Votes: 384,965 | Gross: $140.37M
3. My Own Private Idaho (1991)
R | 104 min | Drama
Two best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert
Votes: 61,750 | Gross: $6.40M
4. Daniel Deronda (2002)
53 min | Drama, Romance
Set in Victorian London, Gwendolen Harleth is drawn to Daniel Deronda, a selfless and intelligent gentleman of unknown parentage, but her own desperate need for financial security may destroy her chance at happiness.
Stars: Jodhi May, Edward Fox, Amanda Root, David Bamber
Votes: 5,203
5. Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.
Director: Jim Loach | Stars: Emily Watson, Aisling Loftus, Stuart Wolfenden, Lorraine Ashbourne
Votes: 5,905
6. The Search (1948)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, War
In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon, Wendell Corey
Votes: 4,840
7. Why Would I Lie? (1980)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
Cletus is a compulsive liar, though he prefers the term 'fabrication' to 'lie.' When he becomes a social worker, he's assigned the case of a boy named Jeorge (with a 'J') who was taken from... See full summary »
Director: Larry Peerce | Stars: Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Gabriel Macht, Susan Heldfond
Votes: 306 | Gross: $1.18M
8. Fresno (1986)
TV-PG | 360 min | Comedy
In Fresno, California, the once-wealthy Kensington family's raisin-growing empire has fallen on hard times. They are led by widowed matriarch Charlotte, who is locked in a deadly power struggle with rival raisin magnate Tyler Cane.
Stars: Carol Burnett, Dabney Coleman, Gregory Harrison, Teri Garr
Votes: 432
9. Bodies, Rest & Motion (1993)
R | 95 min | Drama
A fired TV salesman (Roth) abandons his girlfriend (Fonda) for the open highway. Encouraged by her best friend (Cates), the girlfriend has an affair with an idealistic local house painter (Stoltz) just as the boyfriend returns.
Director: Michael Steinberg | Stars: Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz
Votes: 2,492 | Gross: $0.76M
10. Two Lives (2012)
Unrated | 97 min | Drama, Thriller
As the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow "war children."
Directors: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann | Stars: Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Sven Nordin, Ken Duken
Votes: 3,257 | Gross: $0.00M
11. Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)
Not Rated | 136 min | Action, Drama, War
A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her real mother, she begs to be taken to Sri Lanka, where her mother works with a militant group of activists.
Director: Mani Ratnam | Stars: Keerthana Parthiepan, Simran, Madhavan, Nandita Das
Votes: 9,222
12. Painless (2012)
100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
In the 1930s, a group of children are born with a rare condition: they feel no pain. After being locked away for life for their own safety, the children are subjected to rehabilitation away from society.
Director: Juan Carlos Medina | Stars: Alex Brendemühl, Tómas Lemarquis, Ilias Stothart, Mot Harris Dunlop Stothart
Votes: 3,575
13. Freedom Is Paradise (1989)
76 min | Adventure, Drama
An independent young boy living in a prison-like state children's home escapes multiple times, searching for his imprisoned father.
Director: Sergei Bodrov | Stars: Sergey Bodrov, Viktor Borisov, Aleksandr Bureyev, Svetlana Gaytan
Votes: 334
14. The Longing (2003)
Unrated | 80 min | Romance, Drama, Adventure
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Jürgen Brüning | Stars: Hendrik Scheider, Aldri Anunciação, Tarik Qazi, Daniel Bätscher
Votes: 261
15. Happy Mother's Day, Love George (1973)
PG | 90 min | Mystery
A teenage drifter becomes embroiled in the lives and mysteries of the residents in a small coastal fishing village while searching for his family roots.
Director: Darren McGavin | Stars: Patricia Neal, Cloris Leachman, Bobby Darin, Tessa Dahl
Votes: 215
16. Commune (2005)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary
A documentary on the Black Bear Ranch Commune, an alternative living community founded in 1968 in the remote North Californian wilderness.
Director: Jonathan Berman | Stars: Mahaj Seeger, Peter Coyote, Cedar Seeger, Mel Kramer
Votes: 430
17. Cold Lands (1999 TV Movie)
62 min | Drama
Djamel is a 20 something French youth man of arab heritage looking for his father. When he finds him and comes forward as his son the man rebuffs him and to get his revenge Djamel involves his half brother. The man's closeted gay son.
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz | Stars: Yasmine Belmadi, Bernard Verley, Valérie Donzelli, Sébastien Charles
Votes: 146
18. Como un relámpago (1996)
105 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Miguel Hermoso | Stars: Santiago Ramos, Assumpta Serna, Eloy Azorín, Héctor Cantolla
Votes: 196
19. Yat! Budget! Space Tours (1996–1998)
22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Goro Hoshiwata tries to find his long lost father who's only possession he has is an old photograph.
Stars: Motoko Kumai, Hekiru Shiina, Chô, Yôhei Tadano
Votes: 12
20. La traversée (2001)
85 min | Documentary
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz | Star: Stéphane Bouquet
Votes: 57
21. Forgotten Twins (2004 TV Movie)
94 min | Drama
Mathieu Bretagne, an abandoned child who has been brought up by foster parents, has become a petty criminal. One day he incidentally discovers that he has a twin brother, Adrien, who is the... See full summary »
Director: Jérôme Cornuau | Stars: Clément Sibony, Isabelle Renauld, Christian Charmetant, Gabriele Barialai
Votes: 35
22. Journey (1972)
34 min | Short
The story is about two poor boy's search for their father through a "Journey" from downtown to uptown.
Director: Bahram Beyzaie | Stars: Sirus Hasan Pour, Abbas Dastranj, Jamshid Layegh, Parvaneh Massoumi
Votes: 150
23. Red (1996)
26 min | Short, Drama
Set in 1976 following a young Chinese woman's journey to England to find her estranged parents. Red is a fable about love, freedom and Elvis.
Director: Rosa Fong | Star: Jennifer Lin
24. Zoë (1996)
30 min | Short, Drama
Director: Nicole van Kilsdonk | Stars: Carola Arons, Mariëtte Zabel, Thomas de Bres, Ronald Top
25. Mojeong (1983)
97 min | Drama
After being falsely accused of adultery, Mi-sun's mother leaves home and her father remarries. The new stepmother abuses Mi-sun and her younger siblings and, when their father dies, she ... See full summary »
Director: Jun-shik Kim | Stars: Hie-jeong Kim, Dong-jin Lim, Yun-jeong Kim, Seok-ok Kim
26.
House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode:
Birthmarks
(2008)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery
House tries every delaying tactic available when Wilson forces him to attend his father's funeral. Meanwhile, the team tries to find the cause of a young woman's abdominal pain and hemorrhage that occurred in China.
Director: David Platt | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard
Votes: 3,326
27.
Lie to Me (2009–2011)
Episode:
Black Friday
(2009)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dr. Lightman and Dr. Foster help an angry teen find his birth parents, while Eli and Ria try to figure out who was responsible for a fatal "Black Friday" trampling incident at an electronics store.
Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: Tim Roth, Kelli Williams, Brendan Hines, Monica Raymund
Votes: 783