Films like Losing Isaiah
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years...
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Lion
Film · 2016 · also dramaA five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Austra...
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Short Term 12
Film · 2013 · also dramaGrace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough...
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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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The Glass Castle
Film · 2017 · also dramaA young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who dist...
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The Cider House Rules
Film · 1999 · also dramaHomer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skil...
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White Oleander
Film · 2002 · also dramaA teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
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Kramer vs. Kramer
Film · 1979 · also dramaTed Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tas...
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Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
Film · 2024 · also dramaLed by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas town of Possum Trot adopt 77 of the most difficult-to-place kids in t...
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The Color Purple
Film · 2023 · also dramaA decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary stre...
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The Boys Are Back
Film · 2009 · also dramaWhen the wife of sports-writer Joe Warr dies of cancer, he takes on the responsibility of raising their 6-year-old son, and his teenage son from a previous marriage. As J...
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