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The Ultimate Accessory, 1h38
Directed by Valérie Lemercier
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children
Actors Gilles Lellouche, Stefano Accorsi, Marina Foïs, Valérie Lemercier, Ludovic Berthillot, Bruno Podalydès

Aleksandra, directrice d'un magazine de mode et Cyrille, galeriste, adoptent Alekseï, un petit garçon russe de sept ans.
Patrik, Age 1.5, 1h43
Directed by Ella Lemhagen
Origin Suede
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, Homoparentalité, LGBT-related film
Actors Gustaf Skarsgård, Tom Ljungman, Antti Reini, Anders Lönnbro, Richard Ulfsäter

The film chronicles the experience of a gay Swedish couple, Sven (Torkel Petersson) and Göran Skoogh (Gustaf Skarsgård) as they move into a new suburban neighborhood and adopt a child, beginning with their welcoming party. After meeting their new neighbors and settling into their jobs, they decide to adopt a child. Although they are married, no country is willing to let a gay couple adopt any of its children. After initially being turned down by the adoption agency, a Swedish orphan becomes available, whom they readily agree to adopt. However, a typographical error on the papers changed the child's age from "15" to "1.5". When their new son Patrik (Tom Ljungman) arrives, they are shocked to find him a troubled teenager with a criminal background.
The Tunnel of Love, 1h38
Directed by Gene Kelly
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Films based on plays
Actors Doris Day, Richard Widmark, Gig Young, Gia Scala, Elisabeth Fraser, Elizabeth Wilson

In Westport, Connecticut, Augie and Isolde Poole celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary by turning in an application to the Rock-a-Bye adoption agency. Encouraged by their friends and next-door neighbors, Dick and Alice Pepper, who have three children and another due, Isolde, who has been unsuccessful in her attempts to become pregnant, is determined that she and Augie will eventually be parents. While awaiting news of the application to the agency, Isolde decides that she and Augie should continue to try to have a baby on their own, and she enthusiastically follows all the latest advice by pregnancy experts.
You Don't Choose Your Family, 1h43
Directed by Christian Clavier
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, Homoparentalité, LGBT-related film
Actors Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, Muriel Robin, Helena Noguerra, Michel Vuillermoz, Anna Gaylor

César Borgnoli, un concessionnaire de voitures italiennes vivant largement au-dessus de ses moyens, est au bord de la ruine. Sa sœur Alex, qui vit en couple avec sa compagne Kim, lui propose de sauver le garage familial en lui mettant un marché en mains.
Tarzan Finds a Son!, 1h22
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about adoption, Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about families, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Hunter, Henry Stephenson

A plane flying to Cape Town, carrying a young couple and their baby, crashes in the jungle. Everyone on the plane dies, except for the baby who is rescued by Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee. Tarzan and Jane adopt the child and name him "Boy". Five years later, a search party comes looking for Boy, because he is the heir to a fortune worth millions. Tarzan and Jane claim the child is dead and that Boy is theirs, but Sir Thomas recognizes Boy's eyes. The younger Lancings suggest leaving Boy and taking the inheritance; when Sir Thomas objects, they say they will take him back and, as legal guardians, still control of the inheritance. Sir Thomas says he'll tell Tarzan, but the rest of the party imprison Sir Thomas in a tent and plan to abduct Boy. Tarzan overhears them plotting; he steals their guns and throws them into a deep lake. Jane arrives the next day and learns what has taken place, and admits that Boy is Greystoke. She persuades Tarzan to retrieve the cache of guns, without which the search party can't survive. Tarzan retrieves them but Jane drops the rope so that Tarzan is trapped.
Our Very Own, 1h33
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors Ann Blyth, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Jane Wyatt, Ann Dvorak, Donald Cook

Los Angeles teenager Gail Macaulay is going steady with deliveryman Chuck, a relationship that sparks jeaolusy in her younger sister Joan. When Joan needs her birth certificate in order to obtain summer employment, her mother Lois tells her to look in a box in her dresser, where the girl discovers Gail's adoption papers.
These Wilder Years, 1h31
Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon, Tom Laughlin, Betty Lou Keim, Don Dubbins

Businessman Steve Bradford (James Cagney) looks for his illegitimate son after 20 years. He turns to Ann Dempster (Barbara Stanwyck), who runs an orphanage, but she is uncooperative.
Penny Serenade, 1h59
Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Leonard Willey

Applejack Carney pulls from a shelf an album of records entitled "The Story of a Happy Marriage" and places the song "You Were Meant for Me" on the Victrola. Julie Adams, Applejack's old friend and owner of the album, asks him to turn off the tune and announces that she is leaving her husband Roger. After glancing at the nursery, Julie restarts the song and remembers meeting Roger years earlier: The same ballad is playing over the loudspeakers at the San Francisco music store where Julie works. When the record begins to skip, passerby Roger Adams enters the store and meets Julie. The two begin to date, and while at the beach one day, Julie breaks open a fortune cookie, which reads "you will get your wish --a baby." Roger, a confirmed bachelor who has no patience with children, hides his fortune, which predicts a "wedding soon," and replaces it with "you will always be a bachelor." Roger, a reporter, changes his mind, however, when he bursts into a New Year's Eve party with the news that his paper is assigning him to a post in Japan and asks Julie to marry him that evening. Knowing that they will not see each other for three months until Roger can earn enough money for Julie's passage to Japan, the newlyweds kiss goodbye in Roger's train compartment. As they embrace, the train pulls out, and as a result, Julie stays in Roger's compartment until the train stops the next morning. Three months later, when Julie is reunited with Roger in Japan, she reports that she is pregnant. Julie becomes concerned for the future of her family when she learns that Roger has lavishly furnished their house by spending advances on his salary. Later, when Roger inherits a small sum of money and announces that he has quit his job so that they can travel the world, Julie, disturbed by her husband's financial irresponsibility, goes upstairs to pack. At that moment, a violent earthquake strikes, demolishing the house and causing Julie to lose the baby. Roger and Julie return to San Francisco, and while hospitalized there, Julie learns that she will never be able to have children. Roger tries to console her by telling her that he wants to settle down and buy a small town paper, but Julie responds that a baby is all she ever wanted. Soon after, Roger buys the Rosalia Courier Press , and the couple moves into the apartment above the newspaper office, which is equipped with a small nursery. Roger hires their friend Applejack to manage the paper, but despite their hard work, circulation remains low. Two years later, while Roger is working late one night, Applejack encourages Julie to adopt a child, and when Roger returns home, Applejack prods him into agreeing to consider adoption. When Julie writes to the orphanage to request a two-year-old boy with curly hair and blue eyes, Mrs. Oliver, the administrator, interviews the prospective parents and later pays a surprise visit to their home. At first disapproving because the Adams house is a cluttered mess, Mrs. Oliver is charmed by the little nursery and tells Julie that a five-week-old baby girl is available for adoption. When Julie and Roger protest that they wanted a two-year-old boy, the age their own baby would have been, Mrs. Oliver assures them that this is the child for them. Roger and Julie consent to see the infant, and when Julie falls in love with the baby, Mrs. Oliver allows them to take her home for a one-year probation period. One year later, as the time for the adoption hearing approaches, Mrs. Oliver visits the family to update her records. When Julie admits that the paper has gone out of business and that Roger has no income, Mrs. Oliver solemnly caps her pen. Steeling themselves to return their baby, whom they have named Trina, to the orphanage, Roger bundles up the infant and proceeds to the judge's chambers. When the judge denies the adoption, Roger, near tears, begs to keep the little girl, pleading that she is like his own child. Moved by Roger's plea, the judge relents and grants the adoption, prompting Julie cheerily to proclaim that nothing can take Trina from them now. Years pass, and Trina's proud parents watch their daughter sing the echo to "Silent Night" in her school's Christmas play. When Trina slips on a platform while onstage, she worries that she will not be allowed to play an angel in the play the following year. The next Christmas, Mrs. Oliver receives a tragic letter from Julie, notifying her of Trina's death after a sudden, brief illness. Julie confides that Roger is punishing himself for Trina's fate and behaves like a stranger to her. At the Adams home, as Julie and Roger sit wordlessly in their living room, they hear a knock at the door. Julie answers it and finds a mother, frantic because her car is stalled and her son is due to perform in the school play. Julie and Roger offer to drive the mother and child to the play, and when the car arrives to the sound of children singing "Silent Night," Roger gets out and proclaims that he never again wants to see anybody or anything that reminds him of Trina. Julie's thoughts return to the present, and she takes the record off the turntable just as Applejack climbs the stairs to deliver her train ticket. At that moment, Roger returns, despondent, but as he picks up Julie's suitcase to drive her to the train station, the phone rings. It is Mrs. Oliver, calling to offer the couple a two-year-old boy, who is the image of the youngster they requested years earlier. Their faith and hope restored, Julie and Roger begin planning a new life with their son.
Equinox
Equinox (1992)
, 1h50
Directed by Alan Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors Matthew Modine, Lara Flynn Boyle, Fred Ward, Tyra Ferrell, Marisa Tomei, Lori Singer

Henry Petosa and Freddy Ace are identical twins living in the fictional city of Empire with no knowledge of each other, separated at birth and given up for adoption.
A Brand New Life, 1h32
Directed by Ounie Lecomte
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children
Actors Kim Sae-ron, Go Ah-seong, Sol Kyung-gu, Moon Sung-keun, Oh Man-seok

Jin-hee (Kim Sae-ron) is a 9-year-old girl whose father leaves her at an orphanage after remarrying. Before leaving her at the orphanage, her father buys her new clothes and a cake to convince her that she is going on a trip. (This coincides with the Korean title, which literally means "traveler" or "tourist") In the orphanage she tries to come to grips with the abandonment by her parents and insecurities about a possible adoption. She gradually makes friendships, although she retains the belief throughout most of the movie that her father will return to take her back, and struggles (sometimes violently) not to adjust to her surroundings. In the end, Jin-hee is adopted by French parents who are eagerly waiting for her at an airport to meet their new child.
Eastern Boys, 2h8
Directed by Robin Campillo
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Olivier Rabourdin, Edéa Darcque, Kirill Emelianov, Daniil Vorobyov

A young immigrant male hustler in Paris is approached by an older man and agrees to visit him at his home the following day. Yet the next day, when the doorbell rings, the older man hasn't a clue he's fallen into a trap.
Second Best
Directed by Chris Menges
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors William Hurt, John Hurt, Jane Horrocks, Alan Cumming, Prunella Scales, Keith Allen

Graham Holt (William Hurt) is a single man aged 42, who attempts to adopt a 10-year-old boy. Graham is a sub-postmaster in Warwickshire, England. James Lennards (Chris Cleary Miles) is a disturbed child brought up in care. Graham wants a son, but James doesn't want another father.
To Each His Own, 2h2
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Melodrama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children
Actors Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, John Lund, Roland Culver, Phillip Terry, Victoria Horne

In World War II London, fire wardens Josephine "Jody" Norris (Olivia de Havilland) and Lord Desham (Roland Culver) keep a lonely vigil. When Jody saves Desham's life, they become better acquainted. With a bit of coaxing, the ageing spinster tells the story of her life, leading to a flashback.
Jungle Book, 1h48
Directed by Zoltan Korda
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes L'adolescence, Films about adoption, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Mise en scène d'un ours, Films about snakes, Films about apes, Mise en scène d'un tigre, L'enfance marginalisée, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Reptile
Actors Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary DeCamp, Ralph Byrd

In an Indian village, Buldeo, an elderly storyteller, is paid by a visiting British memsahib to tell a story of his youth. He speaks of the animals of the jungle, and of the ever-present threats to human life posed by the jungle itself. He then recalls his early life:
God's Gift
God's Gift (1983)
, 1h15
Directed by Gaston Kaboré
Origin Burkina faso
Genres Drama
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children

The movie starts out with a village leader coming into the house of a crying mother. He says to give up hope that your husband is still alive. Resisting from the comments, the mother decides to run away with her child.