Films like In Safe Hands
Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and su...
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A Home of Our Own
Film · 1993 · also dramaIn 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countr...
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Secrets & Lies
Film · 1996 · also dramaAfter 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 clas...
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Second Best
Film · 1994 · also dramaThe difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
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Ladybird Ladybird
Film · 1994 · also dramaMaggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin Ameri...
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The Ties That Bind Us
Film · 2025 · also dramaA young single father trying to find the strength to love. A feminist librarian, single by conviction, who’s decided that she won’t be a mother. A six-year-old child tryi...
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Evelyn
Film · 2002 · also dramaDesmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for...
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A Family For 1640 Days
Film · 2022 · also dramaAnna happily lives with her husband, their two boys, and Simon, 6 years-old, who was placed with her by the Social Care services when he was only 18 months. When Simon’s...
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Philomena
Film · 2013 · also dramaA woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
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Anne of Green Gables
Film · 2016 · also dramaAnne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept...
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Skin
Film · 2009 · also dramaBased on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
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