Human Genetics - Dramas

The Eighth Day (Original title: Le huitième jour)
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Country of origin and year: Belgium, France, UK, 1996
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne and Miou-Miou
Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution. Harry is a high flying busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. Though successful in his business life, his social life is a disaster since his wife left him with their two children. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from his institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he will not leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship in which they can both learn.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116581/

Anya
Director: Jacob Akira Okada, Carylanna Taylor
Country of origin and year: USA, 2019
Starring: Anthony Aguilar, Ali Ahn, Mary Theresa Archbold
ANYA is a contemporary sci-fi love story about a newlywed couple who turn to a scientist for help having a baby and find themselves at the center of a genetic puzzle with far reaching implications and an ethically ambiguous solution.
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7488288/

The One (TV series)
Director: Catherine Morshead, Jeremy Lovering, Brady Hood
Country of origin and year: UK, 2021
Starring: Hannah Ware, Zoë Tapper, Diarmaid Murtagh
A group of PhD students chance upon the discovery that they can use DNA to match potential partners. Rebecca Webb is the one to make this happen, which she does by having a malfunctioning moral compass and no qualms about stealing a massive database from her kind, hard-working flatmate, Ben.  Fast-forward to eighteen months later and Rebecca has developed a multi-billion pound business around an app to match users to their 'one'.  
Internet Movie Database webpage: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13879466/