Adoption Movies

When Sammy Dean and her older brother Andy are suddenly orphaned, they fear that they will be separated and placed in foster homes. So they set off...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

A family of cats find an abandoned kitten and take him in to their home. But one of the siblings becomes jealous about the attention the new cat gets...

The lives of Nick, Avery, Walter, Chief Payne, Kelly Smith, and a few new characters are brought to the forefront a decade after the original...

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...

A foster child is in search of a forever family who is holding his heart in the palm of their hands.

In this funny and moving documentary, acclaimed film-maker Daisy Asquith tells the very personal story of her mother's conception after a dance in...

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

Paul, a former concert pianist, lives in the picturesque town of Krems with his adopted son Rico. Since the accidental death of his wife Anna, he has...

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...

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

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...

"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...

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...