Highest-Rated Movies about 'Abandoned Baby'

Rashômon (1950), La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano (1998), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), The Joy Luck Club (1993), The Hangover (2009), Days of Being Wild (1990), The Jungle Book (1967), Bachelor Mother (1939) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Abandoned Baby movies.

#1. Rashômon (1950)

Storyline: A priest, a woodcutter and another man are taking refuge from a rainstorm in the shell of a former gatehouse called Rashômon. The priest and the woodcutter are recounting the story of a murdered samurai whose body the woodcutter discovered three days earlier in a forest grove. Both were summoned to testify at the murder trial, the priest who ran into the samurai and his wife traveling through the forest just before the murder occurred. Three other people who testified at the trial are supposedly the only direct witnesses: a notorious bandit named Tajômaru, who allegedly murdered the samurai and raped his wife; the white veil cloaked wife of the samurai; and the samurai himself who testifies through the use of a medium. The three tell a similarly structured story - that Tajômaru kidnapped and bound the samurai so that he could rape the wife - but which ultimately contradict each other, the motivations and the actual killing being what differ. The woodcutter reveals at Rashômon that he ...

Plot Keywords: heavy rain, multiple perspectives, katana sword, dagger, abandoned baby, dishonesty, sword fight ...

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#2. La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano (1998)

Storyline: 1900. Danny Boodmann, a stoker on an American passenger liner, Virginian, finds a baby abandoned on the ship. He names the child Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900' and raises the child as his own until his death in an accident on the ship. The child never leaves the ship and turns out to be a musical genius, especially when it comes to playing the piano. As an adult he befriends a trumpet player in the ship's band, Max Tooney. After several years on the ship Max leaves, and tells the story of 1900 to the owner of a music store.

Plot Keywords: ship, piano, pianist, jazz, dynamite, dancing, crying ...

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#3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Storyline: On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams (nee Fuller) is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards, being diagnosed with several aging diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival, but who does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by his biological father, Thomas Button, after Benjamin's biological mother died in childbirth, Benjamin was raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident at that home, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when in age they finally match up. Some of the revelations ...

Plot Keywords: older man younger woman relationship, struck by lightning, extramarital affair, older woman younger man relationship, adopted son, retirement home, grave side ceremony ...

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#5. The Hangover (2009)

Storyline: Angelenos Doug Billings and Tracy Garner are about to get married. Two days before the wedding, the four men in the wedding party - Doug, Doug's two best buddies Phil Wenneck and Stu Price, and Tracy's brother Alan Garner - hop into Tracy's father's beloved Mercedes convertible for a 24-hour stag party to Las Vegas. Phil, a married high school teacher, has the same maturity level as his students when he's with his pals. Stu, a dentist, is worried about everything, especially what his controlling girlfriend Melissa thinks. Because she disapproves of traditional male bonding rituals, Stu has to lie to her about the stag, he telling her that they are going on a wine tasting tour in the Napa Valley. Regardless, he intends on eventually marrying her, against the advice and wishes of his friends. And Alan seems to be unaware of what are considered the social graces of the western world. The morning after their arrival in Las Vegas, they awaken in their hotel suite each with the worst ...

Plot Keywords: female nudity, female frontal nudity, hangover, scantily clad female, mini dress, leg spreading, bachelor party ...

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#6. Days of Being Wild (1990)

Storyline: Set in 1960, the film centres on the young, boyishly handsome Yuddy, who learns from the drunken ex-prostitute who raised him that she is not his real mother. Hoping to hold onto him, she refuses to divulge the name of his real birth mother. The revelation shakes Yuddy to his very core, unleashing a cascade of conflicting emotions. Two women have the bad luck to fall for Yuddy. One is a quiet lass named Su Lizhen who works at a sports arena, while the other is a glitzy showgirl named Mimi. Perhaps due to his unresolved Oedipal issues, he passively lets the two compete for him, unable or unwilling to make a choice. As Lizhen slowly confides her frustration to a cop named Tide, he falls for her. The same is true for Yuddy's friend Zeb, who falls for Mimi. Later, Yuddy learns of his birth mother's whereabouts and heads out to the Philippines.

Plot Keywords: philippines, adopted son, unrequited love, mother son relationship, hong kong, adoption, oedipus complex ...

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#7. The Jungle Book (1967)

Storyline: Abandoned after an accident, baby Mowgli is taken and raised by a family of wolves. As the boy grows older, the wise panther Bagheera realizes he must be returned to his own kind in the nearby man-village. Baloo the bear however thinks differently, taking the young Mowgli under his wing and teaching him that living in the jungle is the best life there is. Bagheera realizes that Mowgli is in danger, particularly from Shere Khan the tiger who hates all people. When Baloo finally comes around, Mowgli runs off into the jungle where he survives a second encounter with Kaa the snake and finally, with Shere Khan. It's the sight of a pretty girl however that gets Mowgli to go to the nearby man-village and stay there.

Plot Keywords: jungle, bear, india, musical number, elephant, panther, orangutan ...

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#8. Bachelor Mother (1939)

Storyline: Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>

Plot Keywords: screwball comedy, dance contest, new year's eve, male female relationship, fired from the job, father son relationship, impersonation ...

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#9. Adoption (1975)

Storyline: Single factory worker Kata, 43, wants to have a child with her long-time secret lover, a married man called Joska. He doesn't like the idea. Kata befriends teenage schoolgirl Anna, abandoned by her parents at the age of six. Anna runs away from the local children's home and moves in with Kata so that she can keep on seeing her boyfriend Sanyi. Kata goes to see Anna's parents and persuades them to give the young lovers their permission to marry. Through Anna, Kata becomes interested in neglected children and decides to adopt a baby from the children's home.—Markku Kuoppamäki

Plot Keywords: child abandonment, adoption, intergenerational friendship, love triangle, reform school, love, title directed by female ...

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#10. The Innocents (2016)

Storyline: Poland, winter of 1945. Mathilde Beaulieu (Lou de Lâage) is a young intern working with a branch of the French Red Cross. They are on a mission to find, treat and repatriate French survivors of the German camps. One day, a Polish nun arrives in the hospital. In very poor French, she begs Mathilde to come to her convent. Mathilde life and beliefs change when she discovers the advanced state of pregnancy that affect several of the Sisters of the convent just outside the hospital where she performs.

Plot Keywords: poland, giving birth, childbirth, newborn baby, red cross, world war two, snow ...

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#11. Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

Storyline: A young transwoman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age in the 1970s. She leaves her Irish town, in part to look for her mother and in part because her transgender nature is beyond the town's understanding. She's taken in by a rock band, falls for the lead singer, has brushes with the IRA, is arrested by the London police, works in a peep show, and poses as a survey researcher for the phone company. Throughout, her nationality and her nature put her at great risk. In her search for her mother, she makes surprising discoveries of friendship and family. But, will she survive?

Plot Keywords: irish, 1970s, ira, based on novel, adoption, transgender, friendship ...

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#13. Not of This World (1999)

Storyline: Caterina is a nun and has taken provisional vows for a month when she goes to a park when she meets a man who has found an abandoned baby boy and entrusts him to take him to the hospital. After doing so, Caterina begins to visit the little one and becomes attached to him so much that he tries to trace his mother through the sweater in which he was wrapped. This goes as far as Ernesto, forty-one, owner of a laundry left to him with his father's debts. Ernesto is unhappy with life and is all centered on his problems so as not to even remember the names of his collaborators. The boy's mother is perhaps Teresa, his former employee and Ernesto is perhaps the father. Thus began a crisis for Catherine as a nun and for Ernesto the awareness of not being the only unfortunate man on earth.—Baldinotto da Pistoia

Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, waitress, worker, champagne, change of heart, dance, gift ...

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#14. Grand Canyon (1991)

Storyline: Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.

Plot Keywords: hope, ensemble cast, multiple storyline, male bonding, gang violence, gang member, adoption ...

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#15. Bo bui gai wak (2006)

Storyline: For never-do-well compulsive gambler Fong, there's only one thing more fearsome than debtors at his doorstep - having to coax a crying baby. But what if the baby becomes his golden goose to fend off his debtors? Can he overcome his phobia of diapers, milk bottles, and cloying lullabies?

Plot Keywords: kidnapping, karate kick, roundhouse kick, stylized violence, violence, karate, hand to hand combat ...

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