Adoption Movies

The first part is pathetic and shows Eleanor Hamlin (Edith Roberts) severing home ties with her grandparents to be "adopted" by a party of idle rich...

An intimate portrait of a real Modern Family: Meet Erik and Sandro, a gay couple with daughters birthed by their friend Rachel who's married with...

A newly adopted girl is doted on by her adopted father but faces indifference from her adopted mother.

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

A couple loses their only child in an accident and subsequently unknowingly adopts an innocent looking little girl with paranormal powers that she...

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...

Joseph Shema, an orphan with a traumatic past attempts to make up for his horrible childhood by adopting a child to offer them the love he never got....

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...

A young couple embarks on the exciting journey of adoption, preparing to welcome a new member into their family. As they navigate the ups and downs...

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

What does it mean to adopted and brought up far away from your country of birth? In “Given Away,” this week’s moving new Op-Doc by...

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

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

An adopted eight-year-old Peruvian boy wants to look like his typically Dutch father; however, an encounter with a band of Peruvian-Indian street...

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...

Three siblings are forced to band together when their mother informs them of her plan to adopt another child.

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...