Movies and TV Shows About Adoption

Teenager Callie Jacob is placed in a foster home with a lesbian couple and their blend of biological, adoptive, and foster children.

Gru, a criminal mastermind, adopts three orphans as pawns to carry out the biggest heist in history. His life takes an unexpected turn when the little girls see the evildoer as their potential father.

When a new criminal comes to town, the Anti-Villain League decides to hire Gru in order to fight him off. While Gru initially refuses, he eventually agrees after his aide goes back to his evil ways.

A young boy is torn away from his adoptive parents by his alcoholic, abusive birth parents.

A troubled foster child with an affinity for drawing and artwork, becomes attached to her eccentric and forgetful new foster mother, also an artist.

A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

A musically gifted orphan, Evan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater.

A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.

A young fugitive prince and princess must stop a villain who unknowingly threatens to destroy the world with a special dagger that enables the magic sand inside to reverse time.

A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she expected.

When he discovers that his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boy's birth mother - a ditzy porn star and prostitute.

A widowed science-fiction writer considers adopting a six-year-old outcast who thinks he's an alien from Mars.

A pregnant teenager flees her abusive mother in search of her father, only to be rejected by her stepmother and forced to survive on the streets until a compassionate stranger offers a hopeful alternative.

The life of 15-year-old Lux who was abandoned in foster care takes an unexpected turn when she applies for emancipation and the judge makes her stay with her biological parents.

Two single adults become caregivers to an orphaned girl when their mutual best friends die in an accident.

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes a selfless decision regarding the unborn child.

After her sister and brother-in-law die in a car accident, a young woman becomes the guardian of their three children.

A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she appears.

Identical twins meet as teenagers after Sutton was adopted by a rich couple and Emma grew up a foster kid. Sutton investigates their bio mom etc., while Emma takes her place/identity.