Adoption Movies

A dark comedy about a gay couple trying to adopt a newborn from a drug-addict and her abusive girlfriend.

Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred'...

A young, sweet girl from the country moves to Los Angeles with her mother and meets a young man who she thinks is just perfect. That is until she gets...

The film tells the story of a Hindu man who adopts a Muslim child and allows her to follow Muslim traditions.

Peters baby is a 1961 Danish comedy film directed by Annelise Reenberg and starring Ebbe Langberg.

Marvin, a heavy-drinking widower meets Tige, an 11-year-old orphan. With nowhere else to go, Tige moves in with Marvin and they develop a close friend...

The first part is pathetic and shows Eleanor Hamlin (Edith Roberts) severing home ties with her grandparents to be "adopted" by a party of idle rich o...

When Ruth Whitney abandons her two children with her sister Barbara is left to take care of them, at first none of them like it but soon they grow to...

Carlo Roma and his foster-son, Toma, and their friend Beppo, are living a happy fisherman's life in San Francisco until Carlo's widowed sister-in-law,...

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 ho...

An orphan is uncertain whether she wants to remain with her adoptive family or return to the orphanage.

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

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 Wel...

During the pandemic, living under an extreme right-wing government, filmmakers Bel Bechara and Sandro Serpa receive the news that would change their l...

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 orphan...

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

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

A wealthy bachelor lies his way out of a speeding ticket by telling the cops he's on his way to visit his baby girl in hospital - ever helpful, they a...

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

Zsófi, a rebellious teenager, lives in a tiny flat with her little sister, Mesi, and her unstable mother, Bea. Zsófi discovers late that she is pregna...