Adoption Movies

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...

Jan's father is not his father at all. The directors knows this and takes this fact as the starting point for a very personal documentary film...

A movie about two women who are mothers to the same child, and a child who belongs to two different worlds.

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...

Questions of race, identity and heritage are explored through the lives of young American women growing up as adoptees from China. These four...

"Complexity" is about a young woman stuck in a place of complete uncertainty. When she meets Scott, a man who will turn her world upside down and...

Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm, the other a hardened criminal. As a young...

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...

In a Home for unwed mothers in 1962, a pregnant girl tries to save her friend’s memories in order to save their friendship.

Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies. Filled with...

A father and son are practicing some football plays before the big game coming up. The son is distant and distracted as he has a big decision to...

Uplifting tale of Staten Island woman who creates modern underground railroad and rescues 2,000 dogs condemned to death in Amish Country puppy mills....

Kati Pohler was abandoned in a market in China when she was three days old. Her parents left a note saying they would meet her on a famous bridge 10...

Ruben and Gio have been recently adopted by Evelyn and Memo. The four of them try to create a home where the past, the bad and good stories, and the...

They were forced to assimilate into white society: children ripped away from their families, depriving them of their culture and erasing their...

Jackson betrays Lindsay and begs for her forgiveness. Her friends want revenge. Lindsay hopes she can find the grace and mercy to make the right...

Richard, a homosexual man, decides to adopt a child named Juan. As the child becomes accustomed to his new home, he continues to suffer from the...

Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.

An unexpected turn of events happen in the lives of a few people who arrive in the same city on the same day and it connects them in a very intimate...

When Tuva's parents die in a car crash, she learns that she is adopted. Disappointed with those around her for never telling her the truth, she sets...