Adoption Movies
- 1992
A Kind of Family
A Kind of Family11992HD
This feature documentary tells the complex and touching story of Winnipeg city councilor Glen Murray and his 17-year-old adopted son Mike, whose...
- 2010
Wo Ai Ni Mommy
Wo Ai Ni Mommy02010HD
From 2000 to 2008, China was the leading country for U.S. international adoptions. There are now approximately 70,000 Chinese adoptees being raised...
- 2009
Nau Mahine Nau Divas
Nau Mahine Nau Divas42009HD
The Royal Deshmukh family is rich for a history of adoption, as the women have failed to conceive for seven generations. Here comes in Dr. Shriram,...
- 2012
The Commitment
The Commitment12012HD
An interracial gay couple adopting a newborn baby meets the pregnant Asian birthmother and receives a surprise that threatens their relationship.
- 2016
Red Garden
Red Garden42016HD
The film tells the story of a provincial teacher from blue blood, Abbas. The desperate desire of having his own son makes him so indifferent to...
- 1924
Damaged Hearts
Damaged Hearts01924HD
Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies. Filled with...
- 2003
Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story
Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story02003HD
Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor from a 1982 Guatemalan massacre, when more than...
- 2024
South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning
South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning02024HD
FRONTLINE and The Associated Press examine allegations of fraud and abuse in South Korea’s historic foreign adoption boom. The documentary...
- 2022
Westermarck Effect
Westermarck Effect02022HD
Sally gave her son Sam up for adoption 20 years ago and when they reunite, they fall passionately in love with devastating consequences.
- 2024
Motherboard
Motherboard02024HD
Nadi is an android with citizenship, who earns the right to adopt two children. However, a sensationalist politician, brings up several controversies...
- 2012
Somewhere Between
Somewhere Between7.42012HD
Questions of race, identity and heritage are explored through the lives of young American women growing up as adoptees from China. These four...
- 2021
State Owned Children
State Owned Children82021HD
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...
- 1966
A Further Glimpse of Joey
A Further Glimpse of Joey01966HD
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...
- 2015
D'une mère à l'autre
D'une mère à l'autre02015HD
- 2009
The Indian
The Indian6.32009HD
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...
- 1974
Kowsar
Kowsar01974HD
A young girl named Azar is left alone after her parents' death. He witnesses Kowsar committing murder. Azar escapes from Kowsar; But it gets trapped....
- 2011
Complexity
Complexity62011HD
"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...
- 2002
To My Birthmother...
To My Birthmother...02002HD
- 2021
Daughter of a Lost Bird
Daughter of a Lost Bird02021HD
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...
- 2019
Cut
Cut22019HD
In a Home for unwed mothers in 1962, a pregnant girl tries to save her friend’s memories in order to save their friendship.