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HBO Max Amazon Channel
79
7.2
/86540/
70
/1999/
68
/1115/
3.8
/69266/
87
/206/
76
/2754/
86
/45/
cc age 14+

Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe—for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack—temperatures rise and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.
poster
Hulu
75
6.7
/11572/
68
/1166/
69
/877/
3.6
/82382/
83
/60/
75
/18/
69
/17/

The Animal Kingdom (2023)
In a world hit by a wave of mutations transforming humans into animals, François does everything he can to save his wife. As some of the creatures disappear into a nearby forest, he and their son Émile embark on a quest that will change their lives forever.
poster
Disney Plus
72
7.0
/487589/
71
/33928/
69
/13912/
2.8
/1114077/
87
/444/
79
/3099/
70
/56/
cc age 12+

Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Just when his time under house arrest is about to end, Scott Lang once again puts his freedom at risk to help Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym dive into the quantum realm and try to accomplish, against time and any chance of success, a very dangerous rescue mission.
poster
72
7.2
/26012/
72
/462/
72
/421/
3.8
/49749/
58
/121/
80
/1736/
59
/36/

Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
poster
69
6.6
/375/
54
/25/
59
/7/
3.4
/1158/
87
/31/
83
/4/
62
/9/

Stay Awake (2023)
Set against the backdrop of the prescription drug and opioid crisis in the USA, Jamie Sisley depicts the individual consequences of a societal tragedy, while taking an unflinching yet gentle look at a complicated web of relationships.
poster
66
6.0
/468/
55
/5/
51
/9/
3.3
/227/
83
/23/
57
/13/
76
/9/

The Sleepy Time Gal (2001)
A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to find her birth mother.
poster
65
7.4
/114078/
75
/3262/
74
/2785/
3.3
/59646/
36
/121/
82
/20279/
38
/27/
cc age 8+

August Rush (2007)
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.
poster
Kanopy
64
60
6.1
/5594/
69
/405/
70
/220/
2.4
/23394/
72
/28/
cc age 13+

See You on Venus (2023)
Mia and Kyle, two misfit American teens, travel to Spain in search of Mia's birth mother. As the pair road trip through the picturesque cities of Andalusia and fall in love, they discover that the most important question isn't who gave you life, but what you decide to do with it.
poster
60
6.5
/119791/
71
/11029/
67
/4145/
2.9
/273317/
53
/137/
64
/1938/
55
/31/
cc age 6+

Home (2015)
When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov named Oh. The two fugitives realize there’s a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime.
poster
The Roku Channel
74
59
6.8
/2706/
71
/254/
69
/137/
3.6
/11218/
88
/26/
76
/12/
cc age 11+

Deep Sea (2023)
Shenxiu has felt a deep sadness since her mother left. A storm plunges her into a dreamlike world of swirling colour. Led by the Hyjinx, and joined by inventive underwater chef Nanhe, she embarks on a quest to find solace in the Eye of the Deep Sea.
poster
Hoopla
72
58
7.0
/3117/
65
/75/
66
/52/
3.6
/1399/
90
/21/
77
/30/
66
/8/

Breathing (2011)
Through his work at a morgue, an incarcerated young man trying to build a new life starts to come to terms with the crime he committed.
poster
74
57
7.5
/3402/
70
/35/
66
/45/
3.6
/701/
91
/92/
70
/473/
74
/25/

The Italian (2005)
Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
poster
Netflix
56
6.2
/145912/
65
/4245/
60
/2417/
3.0
/96149/
43
/44/
40
/2674/
50
/14/
cc age 13+

Twins (1988)
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.
poster
73
46
7.3
/1477/
72
/41/
70
/56/
3.5
/914/
82

Jack (2014)
Ten-year-old Jack has to take care of his little brother, six-year-old Manuel, every day from the time he gets up to the time he goes to bed. When Manuel suffers an accident, their lives change forever.
poster
68
27
7.2
/842/
52
/7/
63
/17/
77
/13/
79
/3/

Not of this World (1999)
The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
poster
64
25
6.1
/379/
66
/33/
67
/105/
3.1
/568/

Under the Stars of Paris (2021)
Christine’s life has not been easy lately. Her lonely routine is divided between free food banks distributions and wandering the streets. On a cold winter night she founds Suli, an 8-year-old Eritrean boy, sobbing in front of her shelter. Christine understands that he is lost and has been separated from his mother. Bounded by their marginal condition, they embark together on an emotional journey to find Suli’s mother in the underground world of Paris...
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Kanopy
53
24
5.6
/545/
46
/23/
48
/18/
3.2
/240/
75
/8/
57
/9/
29
/5/

Patch Town (2014)
In a world where toys are living beings, a forgotten doll seeks out his former owner during the holiday season in Toronto, while putting himself at odds with the corrupt factory executive who created him.
poster
61
22
6.3
/231/
61
/9/
59
/7/
3.4
/905/
57
/7/

Daughter of Rage (2022)
Nicaragua, today. Eleven-year-old María lives with her mother Lilibeth on the edge of an immense rubbish dump. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local gang member. When the deal falls through, Lilibeth has to move to the outskirts of the city and leave María to work at a recycling factory. The days go by with no sign of her mother's return. María feels abandoned, confused and angry. One night she meets Tadeo, a kind and romantic boy determined to help her find her mother.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
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17
7.6
/756/
75
/46/
64
/21/
3.4
/342/
80
/4/

I Am Somebody's Child: The Regina Louise Story (2019)
The journey of a young African American girl who navigated over 30 foster homes and psychiatric facilities before age 18, and the one woman, Jeanne, who believed in her. After Jeanne’s unsuccessful attempt to adopt Regina due to a racially motivated ruling, their bond is forced apart.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
47
10
4.6
/282/
45
/4/
40
/9/
57
/16/

Unnatural & Accidental (2006)
Rebecca has returned home to be with her dying father. His last wish is that she track down her mother, an aboriginal woman who has long been missing. As she turns over the stones that hide the debris of the unwanted and forgotten, she is drawn into the mysteries of ten missing native women whose spirits lead Rebecca to the killer who still haunts the alleys, streets and hotels of this urban wasteland.
poster
61
7
6.3
/126/
64
/7/
49
/11/
3.4
/269/

Topless (2008)
The ever-lively and upbeat Natsuko tries to mend a broken heart by carrying on with a string of short-lived affairs after her break-up with Tomomi. But when Tomomi announces her plans to marry - a man - Natsuko becomes inconsolable.
poster
57
?
5.9
/402/
62
/7/
51
/7/

Meant to Be (2012)
When 20-year old Nathan loses his career and his girlfriend, he questions his purpose in life. Compounding his struggle, Nathan grew up in a foster home and never met his birth mother. He sets out on a quest to find his mother and somehow come to terms with her rejection of him. His journey begins by flying to the city where he was born. Upon his arrival, Nathan checks into a hotel and meets Mave the hotel's housekeeper. Encouraged by Mave's wisdom and the help of hotel guest Shelly, Nathan finds the address of his mother, Linda. Linda is a social worker who agonizes over the decision she made with Nathan 20 years ago. In an effort to admonish the guilt of giving up her son, Linda is caught up in the life of a teenage mother-to-be, Tori, who is conflicted by the decision to abort her baby. When Nathan gathers the courage to meet his mother, he uncovers a terrible secret that totally redefines what was meant to be for his life.
poster
?
6.9
/51/

Glenn (2008)
Glenn Nygård, a 40 year old tomato-planter has for the past five years been falling in love with the local bar-keeper Laila. His harsh father has raised Glenn locked-up in the basement of his house. There Glenn has learned to master the guitar but not how to handle women. When Glenn´s father dies abruptly, he finds a stack of letters which where assigned by his mother. The mother might still live somewhere in Sweden. Glenn locks the house down and leaves...
poster
50
?
5.7
/439/
20
/2/
56
/5/
3.5
/205/

Trans (1998)
A boy outlaw spends forty-eight dreamlike hours on the run in the American South.
poster
?
7.1
/54/
10
/1/
75
/2/

Sebastian and the Sparrow (1988)
The story of the unlikely friendship between two teenage boys from vastly different cultural backgrounds. Sparrow is a working-class street kid and Sebastien a middle-class boy of privilege. One day, they meet at a video-game arcade. Together, they become friends and embark on a journey of self-discovery to locate Sparrow's long-lost mother, an immigrant Vietnamese woman.
poster
?
7.7
/24/
10
/1/

Scenes from Family Life (1980)
Katya's life is darkened by a tragic secret: her mother died when her daughter was very young. Suddenly, the girl learns the shocking truth: her mother is alive. The meeting between mother and daughter becomes an emotional challenge for both. On the one hand, intense feelings of joy and love. On the other hand, there is burden and resentment that has accumulated over many years of separation.
poster
?
7.4
/15/
35
/2/
100
/1/

Spelling Love (1984)
The filmmaker goes back to her childhood, to the roots of the tragedy, to her desperate efforts to be accepted by her mother, to her permanent feeling of failure. Du verbe aimer A remarkable autobiographical account, constructed like a very inventively written essay. (Belgian Cinematek)
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
?
6.0
/484/
48
/15/
60
/5/
3.0
/340/

Missing Mom (2016)
Filmmaker Rob McCallum hits the road with his brother Chris Byford in search of their Mom who's been missing for almost 25 years.
poster
48
?
5.7
/312/
60
/2/
31
/7/
44
/16/
54
/6/
43
/11/

Steal Me (2005)
Chasing his wayward mother to Montana, fifteen year old Jake finds the picture perfect Tucker family instead who photoshop him into their lives, despite his questionable past. Too bad Jake can not stop himself from stealing, being seduced by the sexy next door neighbor, courting the mother of the house, encouraging the son in his first love affair, and leading the neighborhood boys in an ever escalating series of pranks. A drama about stealing radios, cars, and hearts
poster
51
?
5.1
/373/
52
/7/
52
/6/

Death in the Shadows (1985)
A woman and her daughter lives in Oostdijk, a village near Amsterdam. One night when the mother is on her way home, she is killed in a car accident in the street they live in.
poster
63
?
6.5
/726/
65
/7/
54
/8/
3.6
/265/

Life Is to Whistle (1998)
Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God celibacy if she gets the role of "Giselle"; Social-worker Julia always faints after hearing a certain word; and pot-smoking percussionist Elpidio was abandoned by his mother, coincidentally named Cuba, some time ago and has not yet gotten over the loss.
poster
?
7.3
/11/
100
/1/

Saan Nagtatago si Happiness? (2006)
A middle-aged man does everything he can to reunite with his mother, who he thought was dead.
poster
61
?
8.1
/760/
54
/5/
42
/6/
75
/6/

Thanks Maa (2010)
While on the run from the reformatory, a 12 year old boy named Municipality finds and saves a two day old abandoned baby from becoming the prey to a ferocious street dog. Failing to find any takers among the people whom he deemed responsible and respectable, Municipality takes up the onus of finding the mother of that abandoned baby himself. Municipality's rock steady determination ultimately helps him emerge a winner against all odds as he reaches that baby's mother but in bargain he loses his most precious possession, the flawless and god-like image of a mother he used to see in his dreams and probably the hope that he'll ever find his own mother again.
poster
?
6.2
/10/
10
/1/
53
/3/

Tinieblas (1957)
N/A
poster
?
7.7
/55/
46
/3/
74
/4/

3000 Leagues in Search of Mother: The Movie (1980)
A young Italian boy named Marco is devastated when his mother must leave home to work in Argentina to pay off the family debt. She sends the family letters, but soon the messages stop coming, which worries Marco and sets him off on an epic quest to find her.
poster
58
?
6.7
/274/
51
/6/
56
/7/

All for My Mother (2020)
Olka is seventeen years old. For years, she had been looking for her mother. Her constant escapes from the orphanage landed her in a reformatory. She only wants her mother back.
poster
?
6.6
/99/
40
/1/
37
/2/

Eternal Ashes (2011)
ETERNAL ASHES tells the story of a mother, Ana and her daughter, Elena. Although they are separated, in the space and time they remain united forever. The people and the millenarian culture of Yanomami are the framework of this story about the unbreakable bonds of filiations. After an accident in the furious flow of the mythical Orinoco River, in the fifties, Ana was considered dead. Elena as an adult and facing the negligible possibility that her mother is alive decides to leave to the Amazon to search her. ETERNAL ASHES is a story of filiations, poetry, wisdom and especially of humanity.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
50
?
5.1
/214/
50
/3/
50
/2/

Her Own Rules (1998)
Melissa Gilbert stars as Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old, after being adopted and raised in America. While there she decides to look for her mother's grave, and finds out her memories are not exactly what she thought they were, her mother is alive. She then sets out to find her mother and some answers and finds both. She also falls in love, of course, but has a problem with long term commitments...
poster
52
?
6.2
/206/
20
/1/
74
/5/

Honey for Oshun (2003)
When his father dies, a Cuban man who was raised in the United States, learns that he was not abandoned by his mother but illegally taken out of Cuba. He goes back to the island and is helped in his search by a cousin and a taxi driver.
poster
56
?
6.3
/256/
60
/6/
47
/6/

Heavy Girls (2012)
Sven lives with his mother Edeltraut, who is suffering from dementia. He shares his entire life, the apartment, even the bed with her. During the day he works at a bank. While he is at work, Daniel comes to the apartment to look after Edeltraut. He takes her to hairdresser's, goes for walks, shopping, and tidies up the apartment. But one day while Daniel is cleaning the windows, Edeltraut locks him out on the balcony and takes off. The two men go out looking for her. But what they find is not just Edeltraut, but also a tender fondness for one another, one which turns both of their lives upside down.
poster
55
?
6.0
/218/
62
/9/
44
/16/

Eva & Leon (2015)
Leon arrives in Eva's life one morning, on the terrace of a café. The little boy settles down, asks for hot chocolate. The young woman, 35, without children, takes her home, calls social services and learns that Leon has run away from home. Eva has to bring him back but eventually delays the deadline. She who leads an idle existence, sheltered from need, attaches herself to the little boy. Called to order by the authorities, she ignores and tells Leon that they are now on the run. Together, they go to Italy in search of the mother of the little boy ...


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