Adoption Movies

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

Directed by Don Owen, this follow-up to Graham Parker’s 1964 film Joey revisits the life of the eponymous young boy, who at the age of seven...

When a social worker named (FAITH) begins to investigate a series of in depth cases,she begins to become emotionally involved. Which is breaking the...

Separated from his incarcerated mother at birth, the filmmaker searches for her identity and uncovers deep ancestral bloodlines. As he gets closer to...

Zsófi, a rebellious teenager, lives in a tiny flat with her little sister, Mesi, and her unstable mother, Bea. Zsófi discovers late...

Adopted Montreal filmmaker Adrian Wills discovers, on camera and in real time, the startling truths of his complex beginnings in Newfoundland....

Twenty years ago, Sardar Rajpal killed his brother and fled his hometown with his adopted daughter. Once settled, he asked his estranged wife to send...

What does blood have to do with identity? Kendra Mylnechuk, an adult Native adoptee, born in 1980 at the cusp of the enactment of the Indian Child...

Traces the new Cold War between Russia and the West from the ban on American citizens adopting Russian children to the Kremlin’s anti-LGBTQ...

Michael Morda, a young sculptor living in San Francisco, is madly in love with Elinor Hunter, and they plan to be married. When Elinor becomes...

Thelma, together with her husband Dado and teenage sons Gerald and Yuri, are a poor urban family hired by a local foster care facility to provide...

Joe wins a contest and is promptly fleeced out of his winnings by some con men. When the stooges go to recover his money, the bad guys convince them...

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...

A young criminal kidnaps a couple's young son and then blackmails them into committing his crime instead of asking for a ransom.

An accidental meeting between a French woman who goes to South America to adopt a baby and an Argentinian woman who with her small son leaves their...

Peter Bergmann has celebrated his bachelor party with his good friend William Thorsen. Peter is to marry William's former girlfriend Kirsten on the...

At the age of 35, Ece is the assistant general manager of a company that produces baby diapers. She has a happy relationship with her lover Alper....

An orphanage spirals into mayhem when a boy discovers a shadowy creature who comes to collect more than just the children's teeth…

FRONTLINE and The Associated Press examine allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea’s historic foreign adoption boom. The documentary...

Fifteen years ago, a figure shrouded in darkness left a crying baby on the steps of a church. Now, a private investigator brings news that Audrey and...