Adoption Movies

My Life Partner deals with the deep and intricate emotional relationship between two men. The movie narrates the story of two friends-turned-lovers,...

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

In Argentina, almost all adopted children are under 5 years of old. Luis and Valeria open the doors of their home and tell us their family story. A...

Mrs. Kennedy tries to convince Edgar that he would make a good father.

The life of Marie and Peter seems perfect, but their greatest wish remains unfulfilled: a family of their own. After several painfully failed...

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

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

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

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 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...

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

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...