Movies and TvShows featuring "international-adoption" theme.

A group of expectant parents navigate the challenges of pregnancy, adoption, and childbirth while dealing with their own personal and relationship struggles.

London-based journalist Martin Sixsmith meets Philomena Lee, a woman who was forced to give up her son for adoption years ago. Together, they begin a search for her son, encountering deception and uncovering the truth about what happened to him. As they dig deeper, they learn about the abuse and secrets surrounding the adoption process. Despite the obstacles, they are determined to find closure and reunite Philomena with her long-lost son.

Freddie, a 25-year-old French woman, decides to track down her biological parents in Korea. Her journey takes unexpected turns in a country she knows so little about.

Blue Bayou follows the story of a Korean-American tattoo artist, who is happily married with a stepdaughter and a baby on the way. However, his life takes a turn when he discovers that he may be deported due to a past felony. As he fights for his family's future, he encounters racism, legal battles, and the challenges of the immigration system.

Twinsters is a documentary film that tells the incredible true story of Samantha Futerman and Anaïs Bordier, two young women who discover that they are identical twins separated at birth. Through the power of social media, they find each other and embark on a journey to uncover their family history, cultural differences, and the true meaning of sisterhood.

Cassie Lane, an adopted Chinese American, debates taking a DNA test while remembering the first time she realizes she is adopted.

Carl is expected someday to take over his parents’ agribusiness in a rural backwater in Denmark. But, as an adopted child, he also longs to learn more about his South Korean heritage. A film about otherness and finding your own place in life.

Twin Sisters is a documentary film that follows the remarkable story of two twin sisters who were separated at birth and adopted by different families. The film documents their emotional journey as they reunite years later and discover the truth about their past.

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.

Documentary covering the current state of both the theoretical and practical development of the various scientific basic principles that served, as per Gene Roddenberry's dictum, as a believable basis at the time for The Original Series. Several real-world scientists are interviewed, not a few of them unabashedly admitting they went into their chosen field of profession because of Star Trek: The Original Series.

In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and reconnect with their roots, mapping the geographies of kinship that bind them to a homeland they never knew.

Mina was adopted from Ethiopia by Judith and Lionel, a married couple who already were the parents of a biological daughter. Though she was abandoned by her mother as a baby, it didn't really seem to have much of an impact on her. But when Mina turns thirteen, an identity crisis takes a hold of the girl. She is caught between two worlds - and feels nowhere at home. Mina snaps and descends into a destructive downwards spiral. Jealous of her non-adopted sister, she starts acting out, pitting her father and mother against each other and thereby dividing the entire family. Judith and Lionel don't know what to do. Will their parental love and kindness be enough to heal Mina's wounds?

In the collective imagination, international adoption evokes images of children being saved from a life of destitution in poorer countries by being adopted by families in Europe or America. But the reality that has emerged is one of child trafficking, falsified documents and governments around the world turning a blind eye.

YouTube musician and Korean American adoptee Dan Matthews travels to South Korea to perform and reunite with his biological family, including a long lost twin he never knew he had.

Mioka, a Korean-American adoptee, has attempted to find her birth family multiple times but failed. During her journey, she discovers ‘Banet,‘ a group of Korean women who help adoptees find and reunite with their birth families. Banet supports Mioka in finding her family based on her adoption documents, and as the journey goes on, they figure out that there is a chance that the documents were fabricated.

When a queer Korean adoptee visits her original mother in Seoul, long-held regrets and cultural misunderstandings come to the surface alongside tenderness, humor, and tenacity.

Despite the warm images in the family archive, photographer and filmmaker Jonnah misses an intimate bond with her (adoptive) parents. Over the years, a wall has been built between them that Jonnah is now trying to break down with her parents.