Adoption Movies

  • 1992
    A Kind of Family

    A Kind of Family

    A Kind of Family

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    This feature documentary tells the complex and touching story of Winnipeg city councilor Glen Murray and his 17-year-old adopted son Mike, whose...

    A Kind of Family
  • 2010
    Wo Ai Ni Mommy

    Wo Ai Ni Mommy

    Wo Ai Ni Mommy

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

    Wo Ai Ni Mommy
  • 2009
    Nau Mahine Nau Divas

    Nau Mahine Nau Divas

    Nau Mahine Nau Divas

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    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,...

    Nau Mahine Nau Divas
  • 2012
    The Commitment

    The Commitment

    The Commitment

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

    The Commitment
  • 2016
    Red Garden

    Red Garden

    Red Garden

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    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...

    Red Garden
  • 1924
    Damaged Hearts

    Damaged Hearts

    Damaged Hearts

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

    Damaged Hearts
  • 2003
    Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story

    Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story

    Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story

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    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...

    Discovering Dominga: A Survivor's Story
  • 2024
    South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning

    South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning

    South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning

    02024HD

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

    South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning
  • 2022
    Westermarck Effect

    Westermarck Effect

    Westermarck Effect

    02022HD

    Sally gave her son Sam up for adoption 20 years ago and when they reunite, they fall passionately in love with devastating consequences.

    Westermarck Effect
  • 2024
    Motherboard

    Motherboard

    Motherboard

    02024HD

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

    Motherboard
  • 2012
    Somewhere Between

    Somewhere Between

    Somewhere Between

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

    Somewhere Between
  • 2021
    State Owned Children

    State Owned Children

    State Owned Children

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    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...

    State Owned Children
  • 1966
    A Further Glimpse of Joey

    A Further Glimpse of Joey

    A Further Glimpse of Joey

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    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...

    A Further Glimpse of Joey
  • 2015
    D'une mère à l'autre

    D'une mère à l'autre

    D'une mère à l'autre

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    D'une mère à l'autre
  • 2009
    The Indian

    The Indian

    The Indian

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    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...

    The Indian
  • 1974
    Kowsar

    Kowsar

    Kowsar

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    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....

    Kowsar
  • 2011
    Complexity

    Complexity

    Complexity

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    "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...

    Complexity
  • 2002
    To My Birthmother...

    To My Birthmother...

    To My Birthmother...

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    To My Birthmother...
  • 2021
    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    Daughter of a Lost Bird

    02021HD

    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...

    Daughter of a Lost Bird
  • 2019
    Cut

    Cut

    Cut

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

    Cut