International Adoption Movies

Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy;...

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

After their newly adopted daughter goes missing in a small town, Steven and Shannon will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her...

As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he...

After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted...

Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anaïs believe that they are twin...

Annette accompanies her adopted son to Korea, where she meets his birth mother for the first time.

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.

Carl is expected someday to take over his parents’ agribusiness in a rural backwater in Denmark. But, as an adopted child, he also longs to...

Documentary covering the current state of both the theoretical and practical development of the various scientific basic principles that served, as...

Mioka, a Korean-American adoptee, has attempted to find her birth family multiple times but failed. During her journey, she discovers...

Despite the warm images in the family archive, photographer and filmmaker Jonnah misses an intimate bond with her (adoptive) parents. Over the years,...

When a queer Korean adoptee visits her original mother in Seoul, long-held regrets and cultural misunderstandings come to the surface alongside...

Following in the footsteps of two women in search of their origins, this documentary lifts the veil on a little-known page of the post-war era: the...

In the collective imagination, international adoption evokes images of children being saved from a life of destitution in poorer countries by being...

YouTube musician and Korean American adoptee Dan Matthews travels to South Korea to perform and reunite with his biological family, including a long...

From 2000 to 2008, China was the leading country for U.S. international adoptions. There are now approximately 70,000 Chinese adoptees being raised...

Mina was adopted from Ethiopia by Judith and Lionel, a married couple who already were the parents of a biological daughter. Though she was abandoned...

In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and reconnect...