Movies and TvShows featuring "adopted-girl" theme.
After the events of the original 1974 film, Heather learns she has inherited a mansion in Texas. Unbeknownst to her, Leatherface, a chainsaw-wielding killer, resides within the mansion. As Heather and her friends explore the property, they become the target of Leatherface's brutal attacks.
A female lawyer is kidnapped and wakes up with no memory of her past. She sets out to uncover the truth and seek revenge on those responsible, while also dealing with the challenges of being an adopted girl. Along the way, she encounters various obstacles and forms unexpected alliances.
Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities. In 1993, Gabriel, a patient at Simion Research Hospital, turns violent and kills several staff members. Twenty-eight years later, Madison, a pregnant woman, returns home to find her husband dead and is attacked by the killer. Gabriel kidnaps another woman, and Madison must confront her past and the connection between Gabriel and her childhood. As Gabriel takes control of her body, Madison must find a way to defeat him and reclaim her life.
Cassie Lane, an adopted Chinese American, debates taking a DNA test while remembering the first time she realizes she is adopted.
While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse. With their lives at stake, they must decide between sacrificing one of their own or facing the end of the world. As they struggle to make this impossible decision, they uncover the secrets and motivations of their captors, leading to a race against time to save themselves and prevent the impending apocalypse.
Duel in the Sun is an epic Western film set in Texas, featuring a dramatic story of love, betrayal, and family conflicts. It explores the relationship between a biracial woman and two brothers, who are fighting for her affections. The film delves into themes of land rights, interracial romance, and the tragic consequences of forbidden love.
Freddie, a 25-year-old French woman, decides to track down her biological parents in Korea. Her journey takes unexpected turns in a country she knows so little about.
Annie, a redheaded orphan girl, goes on a royal adventure in London with her dog. Along the way, she befriends a knight, sings songs, and outwits a villainess. Will Annie find a forever home and bring joy to the king of England?
Follow That Dream is a comedy-drama film set in Florida, where a family tries to make a living by claiming a piece of land. They face various challenges, including harassment, poverty, and abuse of power. Despite the hardships, they find strength in their family bonds and navigate through the obstacles. The film touches on themes of survival, coming of age, and the pursuit of the American Dream.
Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing up in a white adoptive family which denies her Aboriginality. The film examines how unacknowledged shame and fear passes from one generation to the next, from one culture to another. The last scene depicts a silent meeting between the young Alice and the adult Alice. In order to reclaim her life, Alice decides she must confront the pain and confusion of her childhood.
Setoka Tachibana is a female high school student who has confessed her feelings to other boys 12 times, but has been rebuffed each time. Her older brother Haruka Tachibana cares for his younger sister deeply, but he keeps secret from her that they are not blood related. One day, Setoka's first love Takane Serikawa appears after many years and approaches her.
Cosmic Sex tells the story of a young boy who experiences a sexual awakening through encounters with an older woman and a transgender prostitute. Set against the backdrop of the Ganges River, the film delves into the complexities of desire and the clash between tradition and modernity.
A struggling children's book author gets fired from her job and decides to take on a temporary gig as a live-in nanny for a wealthy family. As she navigates her new role and tries to overcome writer's block, she forms a special bond with the family and finds unexpected romance.
When 22 year old Maggie suddenly collapses into a coma, the doctors diagnose her with a genetic kidney disease. Already in the end stage, she must receive a kidney transplant from a family member with a perfect match. Unknown to her and her siblings, Maggie was adopted from Mexico after she was kidnapped and sold to her wealthy family. With little time left, her adoptive mother must find her biological mother and persuade her to donate her kidney to save Maggie despite the tragedy of losing her daughter years ago. But can two families worlds apart save a dying young woman in her "end stage" without losing themselves, maybe even dying for her cause?
When a group of teenagers decide to spend the night in an abandoned opera house, they soon find themselves being hunted down by a sinister clown. As the night goes on, secrets are revealed and the body count starts to rise.
After the collapse of the Communist regime in 1989, over 100,000 children were discovered living in Romanian orphanages. Follow Nori Vito, one of those orphans, as she journeys from her adopted American home to Romania and Greece to find the family she lost almost 30 years ago.
In an effort to understand where she came from, Fabiola asked a question that became the central phrase of the film: what would my life have been like if I'd stayed in Haiti? Taking as her starting point her biological mother's precarious economic situation, she had no choice but to entrust her daughter to her care. Fabiola could have ended up restavek, or in a loving foster family, or on the streets abandoned to her fate, or adopted abroad.
After the death of her husband, a woman architect moves to Los Angeles to start a new life. She adopts a young girl who has an invisible friend. As strange occurrences happen in their new home, the woman seeks help from a child psychologist to uncover the truth behind her daughter's imaginary friend.
Despite the warm images in the family archive, photographer and filmmaker Jonnah misses an intimate bond with her (adoptive) parents. Over the years, a wall has been built between them that Jonnah is now trying to break down with her parents.