Films like Secrets & Lies
After 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 class white woman.
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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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Losing Isaiah
Film · 1995 · also dramaKhaila 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 reali...
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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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Rocks
Film · 2020 · also drama15-year-old Rocks fears that she and her little brother Emmanuel will be taken into care and forced apart if anyone finds out that their mother has left them. Against all...
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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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Oliver Twist
Film · 1997 · also dramaAn orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually fi...
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The Deep End of the Ocean
Film · 1999 · also dramaA three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
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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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Second Best
Film · 1994 · also dramaThe difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
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Finding Neverland
Film · 2004 · also dramaDuring a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration...
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