Adoption Movies

In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and sent from Korea to her new home in California. There, the memory of her birth...

There are not many films that portray adoption and foster parenting in a positive light. CHOSEN does just that! This multi-plot film tells several...

In the collective imagination, international adoption evokes images of children being saved from a life of destitution in poorer countries by being...

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

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

Fifteen years ago, a figure shrouded in darkness left a crying baby on the steps of a church. Now, a private investigator brings news that Audrey and...

When he loses both his wife and child, Montgomery Rogers adopts his servants' little girl and raises her as his own. Completely unaware of her...

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.

Elena, a Sicilian mother of three, is murdered by her husband. Her cousin, Roberto decides to take the three orphans into custody. Together with his...

When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bedroom, one of his two adopted sons is arrested and charged with the killing. However, the verdict at...

Kati Pohler was abandoned in a market in China when she was three days old. Her parents left a note saying they would meet her on a famous bridge 10...

Dick hastily marries a young woman, yet his wealthy father rips them apart. Unbeknownst to him, a son is born. Years later, Dick is in happy, but...

In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and reconnect...

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...

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...

Peter Bergmann has celebrated his bachelor party with his good friend William Thorsen. Peter is to marry William's former girlfriend Kirsten on the...

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

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...

ᎠᏲᎧ is a portrait of Ahyoka Youngdeer, Cherokee culture bearer, teacher, and two-spirit activist. Weaving her own life with a...

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