TV & Films

Explore recommended film and TV series to support your adoption journey.

Instant Family (2018)

Instant Family is a 2018 comedy-drama about parents who adopt a sibling group of three children. It’s inspired by director Sean Anders ’ real experience of adopting through foster care…

The Trauma of Abandonment by Dr Gabor Mate (2025)

Discover this short excerpt on The Trauma Of Abandonment by Dr Gabor Maté. He talks about how early separation and unmet needs shape later emotions and relationships. Trauma is the…

Meet the Adopter: Adopting Children with Additional Needs

In this episode of ‘Meet the Adopter: Adopting Children with Additional Needs’, LGBTQ+ adopters of two daughters, Karen and Charmaine, talk with PACT social worker Julie Stolland about adopting children…

Secrets & Lies (1996)

Secrets & Lies is Mike Leigh’s acclaimed 1996 British drama about an adult adoptee, Hortense, who searches for and meets her birth mother, Cynthia. Hortense is a successful Black optometrist…

Trying (2020)

Trying is a British comedy-drama that follows Nikki and James as they move from infertility to adoption. By season 4, they are parenting two adopted children. It’s a warm, funny…

Lost Boys & Fairies (2024)

Lost Boys & Fairies is a three-part BBC One drama about a gay couple in Cardiff navigating the adoption process while confronting past trauma. It follows Andy and Gabriel and…

Philomena (2013)

Philomena is Stephen Frear’s 2013 drama about an Irish woman, Philomena Lee, played by Judi Dench. Philomena searches for the son she was forced to relinquish for adoption in the…

Lion (2016)

Lion is a biographical drama about five-year-old Saroo Brierley, who was adopted from India to Australia and later used Google Earth to find his birth family. This is an adaptation…

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