2016 Japanese film directed by Yōji Yamada

2016 film by Kenneth Lonergan

2008 film by Hirokazu Koreeda

2016 film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

2003 film directed by Wolfgang Becker

1980年代末，北方偏僻山村。 女娃小花（齐如意 饰）先后失去父母、奶奶，成为孤儿，随后她虽被村长及某户人家收养，过得却是终日以泪洗面的屈辱日子，无奈，她逃离出生地上河村。来到芍药村附近时，小花不堪疲劳及饥饿昏倒在地，得路遇的村民相救。众村民虽可怜她这个野娃，却因怕加重原本 就沉重的生活担子，不愿将她领养。年迈的宝柱爹（田成仁 饰）是位善心老人，他怕本已奄奄一息的小花再有好歹，不顾宝柱（于伟杰 饰）及儿媳香草（郝洋 饰）反对，默默将她背回了家中，没有血缘关系的祖孙俩开始了相依为命的日子。香草因为不能生育，将小花视作眼中钉，但任她铁石心肠，也难不被一个异常懂事、善良的女娃的温情与眼泪渐渐融化。

Best friends as children, Mew and Tong run into each other years later as young men and find they have unexpected feelings for each other.

Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.

2001 Chinese film directed by Zheng Xiaolong

2015 South Korean film directed by Lee Joon-ik

Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The parents' desperate decision raises both ethical and moral questions and rips away at the foundation of their relationship. Their actions ultimately set off a court case that threatens to tear the family apart, while revealing surprising truths that challenge everyone's perceptions of love and loyalty and give new meaning to the definition of healing.

2016 film by Maren Ade

Cal Weaver is living the American dream. He has a good job, a beautiful house, great children and a beautiful wife, named Emily. Cal's seemingly perfect life unravels, however, when he learns that Emily has been unfaithful and wants a divorce. Over 40 and suddenly single, Cal is adrift in the fickle world of dating. Enter, Jacob Palmer, a self-styled player who takes Cal under his wing and teaches him how to be a hit with the ladies.

Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.

2008 film by Clint Eastwood

Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

1993 film directed by Nora Ephron