Adoption Movies

Forced to give up her daughter for adoption when she's underage, a woman is thrilled to welcome her back into her life as an adult. She discovers her...

A young woman searching for her birth parents in order to fulfill her sense of identity joins with an organization that fights the bureaucracy...

Jackie Miller adopted her son, Scott, in the early 1970s. In 2008, Scott brought his mom to StoryCorps to ask her about that decision.

1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally...

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 mysterious tale set around a traditional British family on the eve of World War Two. Oblivious to the looming shadow of World War II, the wealthy...

An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the...

Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie....

Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. They have a son, who is killed when very young. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats...

An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.

Tracy and Nick agree to set aside work to make time for a long overdue honeymoon to Greece. However, they soon find themselves confronting life...

Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.

A woman attempts to stop her daughter signing away her down syndrome grandson for adoption. Based on a true story.

For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother...

Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl...

Ágata has lived in complete isolation for years. The arrival of an abandoned dog at her doorstep forces her out of her seclusion. Caring for...

After learning she's been entrusted to take care of her deceased cousin's children, an architect is torn between focusing on her career and honoring...

Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

Twinkle is a single queer mother whose dream of officially adopting her son gets shaken when the boy's biological mother, Mara, unexpectedly...

The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their...