Movies and TvShows featuring "adoptee" theme.

Follow the touching stories of people who have suffered a lifetime of separation and are yearning to be reunited with their birthparents and biological families or find children they had to place for adoption long ago.

The Politician follows the story of a teenager with political ambitions who must navigate the complex world of high school politics. Faced with challenges such as bribery, closeted teenagers, and Munchausen syndrome, he strives to achieve his dreams of becoming the president of the United States.

Lorna Brady wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house with no idea who the dead woman is. She doubts herself, because she has long suffered from extreme bouts of sleepwalking.

When a woman discovers she is an Amish adoptee, she travels to an isolated community in Buffalo, New York to uncover her past. As she explores her Amish roots, she uncovers disturbing recordings from the past and encounters terrifying paranormal activities. With the help of a director of photography and a group of Amish elders, she must confront a demonic presence and save the community from its sinister secrets.

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The story revolves around a young woman named Mei, who was rescued as a young girl by someone calling himself her "butler." With only a vague memory, though, the experience seems like just a dream. But one day, after her parents' accidental death, he appears: Rihito comes from a line of outstanding butlers, and he has been appointed to serve her! Now her ordinary life has completely flipped, as she discovers that she's actually the heiress to a fortune, and is forced to transfer to St. Lucia Girls' Academy, where all the students have butlers! As a result, her childhood friend Kento decides to enroll in a butler school so that he can stay close to her.

Circus Boy is an American action/adventure/drama series that aired in prime time on NBC, and then on ABC, from 1956 to 1958. It was then rerun by NBC on Saturday mornings, from 1958 to 1960. The series currently airs Saturday mornings on Antenna TV.

True Mothers follows the story of a couple who adopts a 14-year-old girl, only to have her biological mother come back into her life. The film explores themes of love, loss, and the complexities of family relationships in the face of adversity.

While his parents are toiling away in a food processing plant in Seoul, Shon Sun is drafted in the army. X is raped in the army, kills his commander and deserts. Back in Seoul he finds out his parents have disappeared. Intent on finding them, he embarks on a journey through the contaminated jungle his father was born in. There, X meets his grandmother and father and experiences magical moments right before his death

17-year-old Claire spends her vacation in South Africa with her family, when a tragic accident takes the lives of her parents and younger brother. By a stroke of luck, Claire survives, but finds herself alone, far from home in a country where everything is unfamiliar and intense. Distraught and consumed by guilt in the belief that she is somehow responsible for the death of her family, she runs away and decides to let fate, which saved her from death, guide her from now on.

A Shine of Rainbows tells the heartwarming story of a young orphan boy named Tomás who is adopted by an Irish couple. Tomás struggles with feelings of rejection and abandonment but finds solace and joy when he develops a special bond with a gypsy woman and a talking seal. Together, they embark on a magical journey of self-discovery, love, and healing. Through his encounters with the gypsy woman, Tomás learns valuable life lessons about forgiveness, acceptance, and the power of unconditional love.

YouTube musician and Korean American adoptee Dan Matthews travels to South Korea to perform and reunite with his biological family, including a long lost twin he never knew he had.

Disengagement is a drama film that centers around a woman who is faced with the difficult decision to disengage from her family. The film explores themes of mother-daughter relationships, adoption, and the Israeli disengagement from Gaza. As the story unfolds, the protagonist must navigate through various challenges and confront her past. With a mix of intrigue and emotional depth, Disengagement offers a compelling narrative that delves into the complexities of family ties and personal identity.

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.

Elisa, on a verge of divorce, leaves Paris with her son Noe to settle in her hometown of Dunkerque to find the biological mother who gave her up for adoption 30 years before.

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.

A film about memory, identity and the overwhelming power of love. One-year-old Devi was found starving at a railway station in Delhi. The police took her to Palna, an orphanage, where she lived for a year. When Devi learned to talk she often wanted to talk about Amma, her first mother. In the film, the 6-year-old Devi journeys to her own past, as her family adopts another daughter from Palna, a baby sister for Devi.

Martha and Jed Richards live in Oregon in 1862. They and their two daughters moved there to make a new life, but the daughters died of cholera along the way. This has left Martha an emotional wreck, and she is unable to move on with her life. That is until an orphan named Danny comes to live with them. Jed immediately accepts Danny as his son, but Martha is still too upset to be able to love him. As time passes, however, she finds herself more and more able to accept him as part of the family.

Paul's homosexual affair at Bible College with a new student named Alex sets tongues wagging, mostly with un-Christian reactions. The dean, himself a closet case, threatens to expel Paul, and the football jocks have their eye on Alex. The church confessional is sure to be busy as spirituality and sexuality clash in this movie based on a true story.