Miracle in Milan (1951), The Old Maid (1939), Man of Steel (2013), Becoming Astrid (2018), The Divided Heart (1954), Our Very Own (1950), December Boys (2007), Tom Thumb (1958) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Adoptive Mother movies.
Storyline: An old woman finds a baby among the cauliflowers in her garden; she takes care of him and calls him Totò. When she dies, he is sent to an orphanage, which he leaves as a teenager. When Totò goes out in the world, he expects everyone to be open-hearted as himself, but they aren't. Without belongings and a place to live, he soon turns up among other homeless people, living scattered in boxes and cement pipes on a vast, barren field outside Milan. With his energy and enthusiasm, Totò quickly engages the outcasts in transforming the place into a small shanty-town. The eccentric misfits are turned into a warm-hearted community. But when the wealthy Mr. Mobbi buys the land, he tries to get rid of them.—Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}
Plot Keywords: homeless person, orphan, adoptive mother, capitalist, uplifting, charming, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a two-year absence, Clem Spender returns home on the very day that his former fiancée, Delia, is marrying another man. Clem enlists in the Union army and dies on the battlefield, but not before finding comfort in the arms of Delia's cousin, Charlotte Lovell. The years pass and Charlotte establishes an orphanage and eventually confesses to Delia that her dearest young charge, Tina, is an fact her own child by Clem. Jealousy and family secrets threaten to tear the cousins apart.—L. Hamre
Plot Keywords: adoptive mother, cousin, daughter, father, mother, emotional, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Plot Keywords: superman, adoptive father, adoptive mother, teacher, classmate, superhero, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Astrid Lindgren is shown growing up with her parents, a brother and two sisters in the countryside near Vimmerby Sweden on their farm, from age 16 up: going to church, attending dances, helping on the farm. She is offered an internship with the local newspaper after they published her essay. She has an affair with the unhappily married and older newspaper editor. When she becomes pregnant, he sends her to Stockholm for secretarial school. She gives birth in Denmark so as to help him avoid divorce complications. She ultimately decides not to marry him. She falls out with her family over her decision to keep her child and not leave him with his foster mother. She continues working as a secretary in Stockholm in an auto club and finally affords her own flat. When her boy finally comes to live with her, he is several years old. Finally in the end,, she reconciles with her family and they welcome their grandson home to visit.
Plot Keywords: son, lover, adoptive mother, author, young woman, doctor, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A three-year-old orphan is adopted by a German couple shortly after World War II. On his tenth birthday, he is told that his mother, a Yugoslav refugee, is alive and wants him back. The case must be decided in court, which must decide with whom the boy will be better off.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: orphan, missing person, child, judge, adoptive father, adoptive mother, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: teen girl, adoptive mother, adoptive father, biological mother, sister, boyfriend, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An adult nicknamed Misty is narrating a story about one summer in his life when he was an adolescent in the late 1960s. He was living in a Catholic orphanage in the Australian outback. His best mates were the "December boys" - Maps, Spark and Spit - the four of them so named because they were the boys in the orphanage born in the month of December. With a recent windfall, the orphanage decided to give each of the boys a group vacation for each of their birthdays, the December boys the first to go. Their vacation was to Lady Star Cove on the Australian coast, to stay at the home of Mrs. and Mrs. McAnsh - Bandy and "Skipper". Their relatively carefree Christmas vacation took a turn primarily from three events: learning the reason the McAnshes hosted the boys specifically at this time; Maps, the oldest in his mid-teens, exploring his sexuality with a girl named Lucy, who was also visiting Lady Star Cove for the summer; and Misty secretly learning that a young couple in the cove, Fearless...
Plot Keywords: orphan, adoptive father, adoptive mother, teenager, nun, engaging, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a mythical land, woodcutter Jonathan agrees not to chop down the oldest tree in the forest in return for three wishes granted by the Forest Queen. After he wastes two wishes bickering with his wife, the third brings them Tom, a thumb-sized child. The couple dote upon him, but are unable to protect him when, on his way to the village, the innocent Tom falls in with villainous Ivan and Tony.—Jwelch5742
Plot Keywords: tiny person, adoptive mother, fairy, shoemaker, thief, playful, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mr Dharam at the age of 55 figures out that he was adopted by a Hindu family after his Muslim father left him.He then tries to Meet his father who is in Critical Condition but the Imam says him to Become a Muslim for that. What Follows Next Are a bunch of comical events—Ayaan Mohamed
Plot Keywords: middle-aged man, wife, son, daughter, adoptive mother, hilarious, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a difficult struggle with fertility, Tori Breyer's dreams of motherhood come true with the arrival of a mysterious baby boy. Brandon appears to be everything Tori and her husband, Kyle, ever wanted -- bright, talented and curious about the world. But as Brandon nears puberty, powerful darkness manifests within him, and Tori becomes consumed by terrible doubts about her son. Once Brandon begins to act on his twisted urges, those closest to him find themselves in grave danger.—twiztedhollow60
Plot Keywords: adopted son, adoptive mother, adoptive father, classmate, teacher, waitress, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After obtaining her from an orphanage a couple exploit entertainer Withers till she runs away and later becomes a professional.
Plot Keywords: orphan, adoptive father, adoptive mother, tramp, child actor, charming, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Neighbour David is the perfect supporting boyfriend for Amy, who is determined to find their adoptive daughter Tara's birth mother, duly warning she shouldn't expect too much. Through a website and the adoption agency, Tara's buddy Jenny helps her find it's Grace, whose file is mysteriously kept secret since the adoption procedure. Grace eagerly contacts Tara in secret, and later is presented and accepted. yet she seems to have a dark side, which actually is a dark family secret he can't keep under the lid, causing extreme danger to everyone, forcing Grace to come clean, but the danger proves lethal repeatedly, starting in the agency.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: adopted daughter, birth mother, adoptive mother, chilling, creepy, dark, home ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Miami dentist Ted Brooks learns that his birth mother has passed away and that he was named in her will, he travels to Alaska to claim his inheritance. Rather than the large chunk of change that many people would expect, Ted instead receives his mother's pack of rowdy sled dogs and her property. Although the dogs seemingly have it in for Ted, he decides to keep the dogs and race them in the local race, the Arctic Challenge, spiting a mountain man who wants the dogs. What follows is a comedy detailing Ted's adventures in learning to run the sled dogs.
Plot Keywords: dentist, old man, bar owner, birth father, adoptive mother, heir, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: High school seniors Nathan and Karen find a website with photos of children who are missing or believed abducted. One of the photos is of Nathan as a child, putting into question the identities of the couple whom he's always called Mom and Dad. Contacting the site to learn more only results in Nathan becoming the target of an intense, high-tech, international manhunt. Before his "parents" can explain themselves, they are executed by hired guns, and Nathan is on the run with Karen in tow (who just happened to be there at the wrong time). Phone use by either of them only connects directly to a man claiming to be C.I.A., in whom they find reasons not to trust. With encroaching shootouts, car chases, hand-to-hand combat and explosions around them, this seems quite much for a mere case of child abduction, and Nathan can only rely on the wrestling, boxing and martial arts skills taught by his "dad" to protect both himself and Karen as they follow a lead to find Martin, Nathan's biological ...
Plot Keywords: young man, neighbor, adoptive mother, adoptive father, assassin, psychiatrist, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Willy the smart and rebellious whale and Jessie the orphaned boy team up to escape Willy's captivity and horrible owner to get back to his pod. Can they succeed with the help of Annie and Glenn Jessie's foster parents, Randolph the spiritual friend of Willy and Jessie, and Rae Willy's trainer?
Plot Keywords: teen boy, adoptive father, adoptive mother, half brother, whale, love interest, charming ...
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