Lion (2016)

7.6	Rating (265 ratings)
8	IMDB rating

Add to favorites

Edit page

Search at Amazon

Directed by

Garth Davis

Starring (View all)

Sunny Pawar
Young Saroo

Abhishek Bharate
Guddu

Priyanka Bose
Kamla

Shankar Nisode
Shankar

Tannishtha Chatterjee
Noor

Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Rama

Riddhi Sen
Café Man

Deepti Naval
Mrs. Sood

Written by

Saroo Brierley

Luke Davies
(screenplay by)

Lists

133 votes

6,006 Movies For a Post-Covid World... (6013 items)
list by ToonHead2102

Published 12 years, 11 months ago

14 comments

62 votes

Films Viewed by Kathy in 2017 (35 items)
list by kathy

Published 7 years, 4 months ago

1 comment

47 votes

Best Directorial Debuts from 1921 until 2021 (307 items)
list by johanlefourbe

Published 12 years, 11 months ago

15 comments

43 votes

Movies Watched 2017 - 1st Half (197 items)
list by Joe

Published 7 years, 4 months ago

1 comment

42 votes

The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 (472 items)
list by AKB48Fan

Published 7 years, 4 months ago

View all Lion lists (139 more)

Lion Videos

Lion Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Dev Patel Movie

99 Views, 1 votes

Added 7 years ago

Rooney Mara World Premiere Interview - Lion @ TIFF16

71 Views

Added 7 years ago

'Lion' Director Garth Davis, Rooney Mara, & Dev Patel "A Story About a Search For Home" | TIFF 2016

70 Views

Added 7 years ago

View all Lion videos

Cover art, photos and screenshots

5 votes

4 votes

3 votes

View all Lion pictures (131 more)

Reviews

Lion

7 years, 3 months ago at Feb 13 17:13

JxSxPx

2 votes

With the exception of the ending, by which time the film has earned it and we demand the catharsis, Lion keeps it sentimentality and emotions at a low simmer. It’s a bit refreshing for a film that finds itself as a power player in the Oscar race. I doubt Lion will win much, but it’s quietness, it’s emotionally naked and honest performances are most welcome breathers between the louder entrie... read more

Review

7 years, 2 months ago at Feb 27 23:52

fernando

2 votes

Tear jerker with some 'quest of identity', deep reaons betwenn adopted children and adopting parents.

A very good movie

5 years, 4 months ago at Dec 28 10:12

johanlefourbe

2 votes

To be honest, I had no clue what this movie was about so I wasn’t really sure what to expect but since it had been well received, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, eventually, it turned out to be such a powerful and heartbreaking tale. Of course, you might argue that the whole thing was rather predictable but it was so well done, I thought it was just quite spellbinding and, to be ho... read more

View all Lion reviews

A little boy survives many challenges on the streets of India before he is adopted by an Australian couple. Years later, he sets out to find his lost family using Google Earth.

Release date: 24 November 2016

Tags: 2016 (12), Drama (11), Australia (6), Biography (4), 2010s (4), India (4), Adoption (3), Based On A True Story (3), 2017 (2), Dev Patel (2), Google Earth (2), Australian (2), Orphanage (2), Year 2012 (1), Kolkata (1), Younger Version Of Character (1), Adoptive Father Adopted Son Relationship (1), 5 Year Old (1), Ends With Biographical Notes (1), Year 2008 (1)

My tags:

Add tags

Update feed

Green.Tissue.Box added this to a list 2 months ago

A History of Australian Cinema (58 movies items)

Riikka added this to a list 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Movies watched in 2024 (44 movies items)

"16.1."

l8t3r added this to a list 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Movies Watched on Netflix (501 movies items)

Stehako added this to a list 6 months, 1 week ago

On a First-Name-Only Basis (188 movies items)

l8t3r added this to a list 1 year ago

Movies Watched on Netflix (501 movies items)

Green.Tissue.Box added this to a list 1 year, 2 months ago

Every Best Picture Nominee (589 movies items)

MaxL added this to a list 1 year, 4 months ago

2016 Films I've Seen, Ranked (113 movies items)

johanlefourbe added this to a list 1 year, 10 months ago

My Queue 2 - Movie backlog (1325 movies items)

johanlefourbe added this to a list 2 years, 1 month ago

My Queue (467 movies items)

Kyle Ellis posted a review 2 years, 2 months ago

“'Lion' showed a lot of promise. There was potential for a very powerful story, had heard a lot of good things about it (as seen from many positive reviews and a high rating here) and there is a lot of talent involved. A lot of my friends had said how much it touched them, as have many reviewers here, and it seemed like my kind of film.

Fortunately, 'Lion' was a film that had great potential and mostly lived up to it. Cannot say that for many recent viewings, with a few too many wastes of good concepts and potential (along with wastes of talent, that is a bugbear of mine because it feels like somewhat of a slap of the face) so that there was a film that did not waste it was refreshing and restored a bit of faith. It is a very good film, albeit it was very nearly a great film. That” read more

PulpRoman added this to a list 2 years, 4 months ago

Tower of Babel: Movies with Language Barriers (42 movies items)

DarthTrino added this to a list 2 years, 5 months ago

Películas que he visto y aumentando. (6352 movies items)

awessia added this to a list 2 years, 11 months ago

Movies Watched in 2021 (280 movies items)

mhthehammer added this to a list 3 years ago

Best Picture Nominees (in Ten Sentences) (478 movies items)

saratr96 added this to a list 3 years, 2 months ago

Movies I have (410 movies items)

rewster added this to a list 3 years, 3 months ago

Top 10 Movies of 2016 (10 movies items)

jordanwiles94 added this to a list 3 years, 3 months ago

Australian Films (1459 movies items)

johanlefourbe added this to a list 3 years, 5 months ago

1001 Movies ... my own version (2010's) (100 movies items)

johanlefourbe added this to a list 3 years, 5 months ago

1001 Movies Chosen By Johanlefourbe (1001 movies items)

pufred added this to a list 3 years, 9 months ago

2016 -edited in Sweden (82 movies items)

Phoenix Feather added this to a list 3 years, 10 months ago

Seen Films: 2016 (132 movies items)

PvtCaboose91 voted for an image 4 years ago

PvtCaboose91 added this to a list 4 years ago

Movies Viewed in 2020 (354 movies items)

" First Viewing Viewing Date: April 22nd Via: Blu-ray Plot: A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. Rating: 7.9/10"

saratr96 added this to a list 4 years ago

Watched in •2020• (65 movies items)