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1) Lifemark
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"David's comfortable world is turned upside down when his birthmother unexpectedly reaches out to him, longing to meet the eighteen-year-old son she's only held once. With the encouragement of his adoptive parents, David embarks on a journey of discovery that leads to a staggering truth from his past"--Container.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Four adopted brothers come back home to avenge their mother's death at what appeared to be a random killing in a grocery store robbery. However, the boy's investigation of the death reveals more nefarious activities involving the one brother's business dealings with a notorious local gangster. Two local cops, who are trying to solve the case, may also not be what they seem.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Three women's lives share a common core. They have all been profoundly affected by adoption. At age fourteen, Karen placed a baby for adoption, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew. Elizabeth grew up as an adopted child. Even though she is a bright and ambitious lawyer, she is a flinty loner in her personal life. Lucy and her husband are just embarking on the adoption odyssey, hoping for the opportunity to become parents....
4) The jerk
Series
Shout select volume 54
Language
English
Formats
Description
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, produces some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
5) Little Bird
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Little Bird: "In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history. Through this epic journey of connection and self-discovery, Bezhig Little Bird begins to find her lost family and put the pieces of her fragmented past back together"--Container.
Coming home (Wanna icipus...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Missie's adopted daughter Belinda is determined to become a doctor, but despite her dedication and ability, Doc Jackson believes women should stay at home-- and so does Belinda's suitor, Drew Simpson. But with faith and hard work, Belinda begins winning the hearts and minds of everyone around her, including a wealthy dowager, who just might help make Belinda's dreams come true.
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Maggie runs away from her adopted Christian home after her father's tragic death. She feels the need to locate her birth mother, but when she does, she finds a mother that does not love her or want her. Maggie now finds herself living on the streets alone, broke, and scared. But God brings just the right people into Maggie's life, Max and Grace, who will help make her 'passage' to a new life in Christ a reality.
Language
Hindi
Description
Since finding out that he was adopted, Rahul has been devoted to his parents and has always done everything his father wanted him to. But when Rahul brings home his new wife Anjali, and his father does not approve of her, he leaves home. His younger brother Rohan makes a promise to reunite the family.
11) The infidel
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Meet Mahmud Nasir, loving husband, doting father, and something of a relaxed Muslim. He may not be the most observant, but in his heart he is a true Muslim. After his mother's death, Mahmud finds his birth certificate, which reveals that he was adopted at birth and he's Jewish, with the real name of Solly Shimshillewitz!
12) Big city
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Midge is the luckiest girl in New York. Found abandoned as an infant, she's adopted by a cantor, a reverend and a Catholic cop, who raise her together as only three loving fathers can. But when the police officer marries a saloon singer and insists on sole custody, the trio winds up in court where Midge, with the help of a kind-hearted judge, must decide what's best for her fathers as well as herself"--Container.
13) Lifemark
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
David's comfortable world is turned upside down when his birthmother unexpectedly reaches out to him, longing to meet the eighteen-year-old son she's only held once. With the encouragement of his adoptive parents, David embarks on a journey of discovery that leads to a staggering truth about his past.
14) Polycarp
Publisher
Henline Productions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A young slave girl, Anna, is rescued and adopted by Christians in 2nd Century Smyrna and befriended by their aged bishop, Polycarp. As Anna is taught by Polycarp and her new family, she struggles to reconcile her beliefs with those of the Christians.
15) Rose plays Julie
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Rose is a promising young veterinary student in Dublin. Despite having a loving relationship with her adoptive parents, she has been searching for her birth mother for many years. When Rose finally tracks Ellen down in London, she forces her to reveal a painful secret from her past. This shocking revelation rattles Rose's already fragile sense of identity and draws her into a dangerous world of impersonation, deception and revenge"--Container.
16) Congorama
Publisher
Facets Multi-Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
"When Michel, an uninspired inventor from Belgium who trades on the success of his father, discovers he is adopted, he sets off to find his birth parents in Canada under the guise of selling one of his pointless inventions"
17) Wuthering High
Publisher
The Asylum
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl is smitten with her newly adopted brother, Heath, and ultimately gets caught up in his dangerous side.
Publisher
Vision Video
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A woman's granddaughter has been placed for adoption. Her only hope of ever seeing her granddaughter again is to leaves clues to her birth family's identity via sealed documents the child will have access to when she reaches legal age.
19) Champion
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Korean
Description
Mark is a disgraced arm wrestler who was adopted by an American family when he was a boy. To attend a tournament, he comes back to his native country for the first time in 30 years. Embraced by a new family, he sets out to become a champion.
Publisher
DigiNext
Pub. Date
[not before 2015]
Language
English
Description
On a beautifully desolate Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people, a college-bound, devout Christian woman; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a promiscuous but gorgeous transsexual woman, search for love and acceptance. As the three find their lives becoming more complicated and their troubles growing, their paths begin to intersect.
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