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Thomas is a troubled teenager who was given up for adoption as a toddler and is now obsessed with finding his birth mother. After searching for years, Thomas finally finds his mother single, with a young child, and living in a nearby suburb. Thomas starts a relationship with her which is part courtship and part obsessive and eventually drives him to an act of madness.
105) Wildhood
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Two brothers reconnect with their indigenous Mi'kmaq heritage and find a new friend while on a search for their birth mother.
107) Callie & son
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Callie & son: Forced by poverty to relinquish her unnamed child to a lawyer for adoption, Callie, a 17-year-old unwed mother, travels to Dallas to seek out a new life. After meeting and marrying wealthy newspaper baron Randall Bordeaux, she finds herself moving amongst the elite of Dallas society and when she can never have other children, she resolves to find the child she was forced to give up long ago.
Power, passion, and murder: When a studio...
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"As their senior year approaches, four diverse friends joined by their weekly Dungeons & Dragons game struggle to figure out real life. Archie's trying to cope with the lingering effects of his parents' divorce, Mari's considering an opportunity to contact her biological mother, Dante's working up the courage to come out to his friends, and Sam's clinging to a failing relationship. The four eventually embark on a cross-country road trip in an attempt...
113) Girl in reverse
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"Lillian Firestone is Chinese, but the kids in her 1951 Kansas City high school can't separate her from the North Koreans that America is at war with. Sick of the racism she faces at school and frustrated that her adoptive white family just sees it as 'teasing,' Lily begins to search for her birth mother"--
114) Aun ahora
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Emily Anderson, a college freshman raised by her grandparents, discovers the love story of the young parents she never knew, sets out to find them, and brings them together.
115) Cauchemar
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Cauchemar tells the story of 20-year-old Hannah, who finds herself living alone on the edge of a Louisiana swamp after her adoptive mother and protector dies. Hannah finds solace in Callum, an easy-going boat captain and part-time musician, but after her mysterious birth mother, an outcast rumored to commune with the dead, comes back into Hannah's life, she must confront what she's been hiding from --the deadly spirits that haunt the swamp, the dark...
118) My own love song
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Jane and Joey embark on an unforgettable road trip across the country in a moving and uplifting story of redemption, self-discovery, and courage.
120) Circle of doubt
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"Emma and Dele's dreams came true nine years ago when they adopted their daughter, Isla. It felt like fate, like they were meant to find each other, and now they're living the life they always wanted. But then one day a new family moves into Forest Grove, and Emma can't shake the chilling feeling that the wife looks just like Isla's birth mother. Emma tells herself that this sophisticated stranger can't possibly be the troubled woman she remembers...