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1. Hercules (1997)
G | 93 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The son of Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.
Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | Stars: Tate Donovan, Susan Egan, James Woods, Barbara Barrie
Votes: 256,325 | Gross: $99.05M
2. Tangled (2010)
PG | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.
Directors: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard | Stars: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman
Votes: 496,725 | Gross: $200.82M
3. Tarzan (1999)
G | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A man raised by gorillas must decide where he really belongs when he discovers he is a human.
Directors: Chris Buck, Kevin Lima | Stars: Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Brian Blessed, Glenn Close
Votes: 248,244 | Gross: $171.09M
4. Superman (1978)
PG | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando
Votes: 188,059 | Gross: $134.22M
5. The Face on the Milk Carton (1995 TV Movie)
TV-G | 87 min | Drama
A teenage girl sees a photograph of her much-younger self one day in the school cafeteria--on the side of a milk carton. But her beloved parents would never kidnap anyone and there's a deeper mystery ahead.
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Kellie Martin, Sharon Lawrence, Edward Herrmann, Richard Masur
Votes: 1,540
6. Stuart Little (1999)
PG | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The Little family adopt a charming young mouse named Stuart, but the family cat wants rid of him.
Director: Rob Minkoff | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki
Votes: 149,653 | Gross: $140.04M
7. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.
Directors: Les Clark, Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton
Votes: 161,400 | Gross: $51.60M
8. Switched at Birth (2011–2017)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Family, Romance
Two teenage girls' lives are turned upside down when they find out they were switched at birth.
Stars: Katie Leclerc, Vanessa Marano, Constance Marie, D.W. Moffett
Votes: 26,188
9. Three Identical Strangers (2018)
PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
In 1980 New York, three young men who were all adopted meet each other and find out they're triplets who were separated at birth. But their quest to find out why turns into a bizarre and sinister mystery.
Director: Tim Wardle | Stars: Robert Shafran, Michael Domnitz, Howard Schneider, Ellen Cervone
Votes: 40,317 | Gross: $12.32M
10. Return to Seoul (2022)
R | 119 min | Drama
A twenty-five-year-old French woman returns to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.
Director: Davy Chou | Stars: Park Ji-min, Oh Gwang-Rok, Guka Han, Kim Sun-young
Votes: 8,566
11. Like Father, Like Son (2013)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.
Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu | Stars: Masaharu Fukuyama, Machiko Ono, Yôko Maki, Lily Franky
Votes: 28,288 | Gross: $0.28M
12. Flirting with Disaster (1996)
R | 92 min | Comedy
A young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents.
Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Ben Stiller, Patricia Arquette, Téa Leoni, Mary Tyler Moore
Votes: 20,032 | Gross: $14.89M
13. The Secret of the Sword (1985)
G | 100 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Prince Adam is sent to the world of Etheria to find his long abducted sister, Adora, and awaken her to her own destiny.
Directors: Ed Friedman, Lou Kachivas, Marsh Lamore, Bill Reed, Gwen Wetzler | Stars: John Erwin, Melendy Britt, Alan Oppenheimer, Linda Gary
Votes: 3,310 | Gross: $7.66M
14. Switched at Birth (1991)
PG | 176 min | Drama
This is the story of two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later, when one of the girls dies, tests reveal that she was not the child of the couple who raised her.
Stars: Bonnie Bedelia, Brian Kerwin, John M. Jackson, Eve Gordon
Votes: 849
15. The Missing Children (2021 TV Movie)
88 min | Documentary, Crime, History
A documentary about the Tuam mother and baby home in Galway, Ireland which closed in 1961.
Director: Tanya Stephan
Votes: 68
16. Pretty Hattie's Baby (1991)
Biography, Drama
An unreleased film about a white girl adopted by a black family in 1950s Nevada. Based on the early life of Fauna Hodel whose grandfather is prime suspect in the Black Dahlia murder case.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Charles S. Dutton, Jill Clayburgh, Bobby Hosea
Votes: 63
17. Prodigal Sons (2008)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Kimberly Reed returns home for her high school reunion, ready to reintroduce herself to the small town as a transgender woman and hoping for reconciliation with her long estranged... See full summary »
Director: Kimberly Reed | Stars: Kimberly Reed, Carol McKerrow, Marc McKerrow, Claire Jones
Votes: 759 | Gross: $0.07M
18. The Overbrook Brothers (2009)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A road movie where two brothers search for their biological parents.
Director: John E. Bryant | Stars: Nathan Harlan, Mark Reeb, Laurel Whitsett, John Jones
Votes: 247
19. Breeders: A Subclass of Women? (2014)
52 min | Documentary
Surrogacy is fast becoming one of the major issues of the 21st century, celebrities and everyday people are increasingly using surrogates to build their families. But the practice is ... See full summary »
Directors: Matthew Eppinette, Jennifer Lahl | Stars: Marlane Angle, Cindy, Gail, Heather
Votes: 19
20. Enan no musume (2002)
120 min | Documentary
Director: Kaoru Ikeya | Stars: Haixia He, Yuling Huang
Votes: 23
22. The Wall in the Garden (2016)
20 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
The all too perfect lives of Helen and Harold are shaken when they discover something strange in their garden.
Director: Hafid Abdelmoula | Stars: Jessica Medoff, David Robbins, Lisa Asghedom, Mia Alessandra
Votes: 16
23. Anonymous Father's Day (2011)
44 min | Documentary, Short, News
Thousands of donor-conceived people have a deep longing to know who they belong to, where they come from, and who they look like. What is it like to grow up not knowing who your father is ... See full summary »
Director: Jennifer Lahl | Star: Dustin Ebaugh
Votes: 8
24.
Bleak House (2005)
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(2005)
TV-PG | 29 min | Crime, Drama
Mr. Tulkinghorn is nearing the truth about Nemo alias Captain Hawdon, but shooting stand-running veterans Phil Squod and Sergeant George refuse to sell their pieces of the puzzle. Searching... See full summary »
Director: Justin Chadwick | Stars: Tom Georgeson, Hugo Speer, Phil Davis, Charles Dance
Votes: 232
25.
Family Secrets (2003– )
Episode:
Birth Mothers Never Forget
(2004)
96 min | Documentary
Birth Mothers Never Forget follows the story of a woman who as a teenager was forced to give up her first-born son for adoption. Still haunted by her decision thirty-six years later, she ... See full summary »
Director: Maureen Judge
26.
Neighbours (1985– )
Episode:
Episode #1.6125
(2011)
TV-G | Drama, Romance
Paul's offer to help out the Ramsay kids financially is rudely refused. Callum's repeated nightmares, attributed to an early memory of his runaway mother, inspires Toadie to promise to help a search for her, to Sonya's horror.
Director: Gary Conway | Stars: Ashleigh Brewer, Kaiya Jones, Sandy Winton, Alan Fletcher
27.
Neighbours (1985– )
Episode:
Episode #1.6112
(2011)
TV-G | Drama, Romance
Andrew tirelessly makes unwilling Tasha behave like a responsible expecting mother, yet manages to give it a good feeling, especially during a teenage mothers yoga class he booked the for ... See full summary »
Director: Jonathon Dutton | Stars: Ryan Moloney, Morgan Baker, Eve Morey, Erin Mullally
28.
Case (2015– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2015)
47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the body of teenage ballet student Lara is found hanging in a theater, detective Gabriela can't shake her feeling that it was not a suicide.
Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson | Stars: Steinunn Ólína Þorsteinsdóttir, Magnús Jónsson, Þorsteinn Bachmann, Ólöf Ragna Árnadóttir
Votes: 103
29.
Louis Theroux's Altered States (2018)
Episode:
Take My Baby
(2018)
60 min | Documentary
Louis explores open adoption in California, where women hand over their babies at birth to adoptive families paying tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege.
Director: Wes Pollitt | Stars: Louis Theroux, Mel Galloway, Amy Lund, Ari Lund
Votes: 182