international adoption movies

What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012)
6 / 10

Romance, Comedy, Drama

Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy;...

Philomena (2013)
7.363 / 10

Drama

A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

Return to Seoul (2022)
6.312 / 10

Drama

After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted...

Twinsters (2015)
7.3 / 10

Family, Documentary

Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anaïs believe that they are twin...

A Fragile Bond (2019)
6.1 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

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...

Nobody's Children (1994)
6 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

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

Twin Sisters (2013)
8.3 / 10

Documentary

In 2003, the infant Chinese twin sisters Mia and Alexandra were found in a cardboard box. They ended up in an orphanage and were put up for adoption,...

Meet Me On The Bridge (2017)
0 / 10

Documentary

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...

The Art of Belonging (2024)
0 / 10

Drama, Family

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

Mein fremdes Land (2022)
8.5 / 10

Documentary

A Bolivian by birth, who grew up with adoptive parents in the Swabian town of Mössingen, is looking for his family in the mountains of Potosí. Out...

Aka Dan (2014)
0 / 10

Documentary

YouTube musician and Korean American adoptee Dan Matthews travels to South Korea to perform and reunite with his biological family, including a long...

Moon Child (2018)
6 / 10

Documentary

A movie about two women who are mothers to the same child, and a child who belongs to two different worlds.

Geographies of Kinship (2019)
0 / 10

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...

Wo Ai Ni Mommy (2010)
0 / 10

Documentary

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