Adoption Movies

Through divorce, adoption and second marriages, none of the children in the Van Wijk family have the same biological parents.

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...

Lou Wilson returns from a few years of college to live at home again only to find that his parents have adopted a 12-year-old.

Sebastian and his adoptive father Richard set out to meet his biological father. Along the way, they realize that this is about much more than paying...

Actually, Tomas knows his parents. Born in Brazil in 1993 and adopted from there, he now lives with them in the Netherlands. Now he is faced with the...

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

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...

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

The brutally entitled Don't Be Like Brenda (1973) is an eight-minute lecture to young women, telling them not to be sexually promiscuous like the...

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...

"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...

After 48 years of emotional longing, a mother meets her son who she relinquished at birth. In the months after the reunion, Dorothy and Joe must...

A GIRL LIKE HER is the real story of 'sex and the single girl'. It reveals the hidden history of over a million young women who became pregnant in...

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...

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...