Adoption Movies

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

An interracial gay couple adopting a newborn baby meets the pregnant Asian birthmother and receives a surprise that threatens their relationship.

An aboriginal girl is brought up by a white family that adopts her. As a young woman, she is mysteriously drawn to go "Walkabout" as people of her...

Thibaut, 40, raises his 7-year-old son, Gabriel, whom he adopted in Africa, alone. Faced with the crisis his son is going through, he decides to...

When he finds out his girl is pregnant, a troubled teen changes his ways and tries passionately to prepare for fatherhood, but he has an extremely...

An orphan is uncertain whether she wants to remain with her adoptive family or return to the orphanage.

A dark comedy about a gay couple trying to adopt a newborn from a drug-addict and her abusive girlfriend.

After years of failing to get pregnant, Frank's baby-crazed wife, Estelle, forces the issue by secretly putting them back on the adoption wait list....

Nadi is an android with citizenship, who earns the right to adopt two children. However, a sensationalist politician, brings up several controversies...

Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed...

Martín, a TV host of 42, has the urgent need of becoming a father. Leonardo, an agronomist of 45 and Martín’s partner for the...

An African American widow with two kids who has so much love to give, she often fosters children who need a home. She finds out that Peter and...

A 13 years old girl is forced to go living with another family for reasons unknown.

Jean-Pierre is a literature professor in Switzerland. Due to the vagarities of Swiss law, he is selected, basically at random, to be the guardian of...

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

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...

A week after their most difficult conversation, a mother and son question what their relationship means to each other.

From very different backgrounds, the two women bond over their shared love for their families. As the women grow closer, Maria reveals her concern...

"Found" is the story of an innocent teenage boy raised up in the Appalachian Mountains on a small old fashioned homestead devoid of modern...

Through one woman's experience as an adopted person and also as a mother who relinquished her child in 1971, this documentary highlights the many...