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Annie(2014)

PG
| 1h 59min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 602 votes)

Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks—advised by his brilliant VP and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor—makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around.

Directed by Will Gluck - With Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ashton Kutcher, Bobby Cannavale, Cameron Diaz, David Zayas, Jamie Foxx, ...
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Child's Play 2(1990)

R
| 1h 24min | Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 759 votes)

When Andy’s mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, andChucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.

Directed by John Lafia - With Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise McCarthy, Brad Dourif, Grace Zabriskie, ...
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The Hollow Child(2018)

NR
| 1h 32min | Horror
3.2/5 (with 62 votes)

Samantha has lived her whole life in different foster homes. Now living in a small town, she never feels like she quite fits in, even with her own current foster family who might adopt her, or the boy who follows her around doing her classwork. So, it’s perhaps natural that she doesn’t know what to do with a curious tagalong little sister named Olivia. One day, Sam callously ditches Olivia, who wanders off into the woods on her own and disappears.

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Short Term 12(2013)

R
| 1h 36min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 572 votes)

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton - With Brie Larson, John Gallagher, Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Melora Walters, Rami Malek, LaKeith Stanfield, ...
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The Great Gilly Hopkins(2015)

PG
| 1h 39min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 107 votes)

Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...

Directed by Stephen Herek - With Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, Bill Cobbs, Octavia Spencer, Julia Stiles, ...
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The Sandman(2017)

1h 30min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 38 votes)

A monster from a little girl's nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her.

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In Safe Hands(2018)

1h 52min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 198 votes)

Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.

Directed by Jeanne Herry - With Sandrine Kiberlain, Gilles Lellouche, Élodie Bouchez, Olivia Côte, Clotilde Mollet, Jean-François Stévenin, ...

Age Out(2018)

PG-13
| 1h 35min | Drama, Crime
3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Fresh out of foster care at age 18, a young drifter turns to petty crime to survive, and discovers an impossible love in an unlikely friend.

Directed by A.J. Edwards - With Tye Sheridan, Imogen Poots, Sharmita Bhattacharya

Room for One More(1952)

NR
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle, Charles Meredith, Don Beddoe, Hayden Rorke, ...
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Anne of Green Gables(1934)

NR
| 1h 18min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family
2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.

Directed by George Nicholls, Jr. - With Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, Sara Haden, Charley Grapewin, Bonita Granville, Ben Hall, ...

Vegas(2009)

1h 50min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go.

Directed by Gunnar Vikene - With Helge Jordal

I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive(2009)

1h 30min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

An adopted boy who, as a taciturn adult, visits his birth mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.

Directed by Claude Miller, Nathan Miller - With Bruno Chiche, Carole Franck, Chantal Banlier, Christine Citti, Dominique Hulin, Rémy Roubakha, ...
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Get Your Stuff(2000)

NR
| 1h 33min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

A wealthy professional gay couple, who wish to adopt children, see their lives turned topsy turvy when they take in two misbehaving brothers.

Directed by Max Mitchell - With Cameron Watson, Anthony Meindl, Elaine Hendrix, Patience Cleveland, Kimberly Scott

Swedish Beauty(2000)

1h 28min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

The arrival of a beautiful new stranger in town prompts two boys to spend their summer holidays enticing the young woman to act in a short-film. However their motivation is purely that of seeing her naked.

Directed by Daniel Fridell

Orphan Train(1979)

PG
| 2h 23min | Adventure, Drama, TV Movie
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A dedicated social worker organizes a train trip for a group of slum orphans in 1894, taking them from New York City to the Midwest in search of new families and new lives.

Directed by William A. Graham - With Jill Eikenberry

Way Back Home(1931)

NR
| 1h 21min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

Directed by William A. Seiter - With Phillips Lord, Frank Albertson, Bette Davis, Oscar Apfel, Stanley Fields, Frankie Darro, ...

B-Happy(2004)

1h 31min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

A determined teenager must rely on her own wits when her fractured family abandons her.

Directed by Gonzalo Justiniano - With Manuela Martelli, Eduardo Barril, Lorene Prieto, Juan Pablo Sáez, Gloria Laso Lezaeta, Felipe Ríos, ...

The Young Runaways(1978)

1h 40min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Heartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their younger ones, Freddy & Margaret Jean, in a Los Angeles foster home. Infuriated by this, Rosebud talks Joseph T. into running away with her so that they can break their younger siblings out of the system, which sparks a manhunt, and an outburst of sympathy among kids everywhere.

Directed by Russ Mayberry - With Anne Francis, Gary Collins, Barbara Hale, Michael Warren, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Young America(1932)

NR
| 1h 10min | Drama, Crime
2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Mrs. Doray sits with a Juvenile Court Judge to learn more about problem children and what to do about them. One of the cases involves 13 year old Arthur, "the worst kid in town", who moves cars away from fiire-plugs without the knowledge of the owners. The judge gives Arthur and friend Nutty another chance. However they run into further trouble when they break into Mr. Doray's drugstore to get medicine for Nutty's grandmother. Mr. Doray is not sympathetic and completely against his wife's plan to become Arthur's guardian. More incidents occur with Mr. Doray quick to judge prior to getting all of the facts. Mrs. Doray must choose between her marriage and Arthur.

Directed by Frank Borzage - With Spencer Tracy, Doris Kenyon, Anne Shirley, Beryl Mercer, Jane Darwell, Louise Beavers, ...

Orphans & Kingdoms(2014)

1h 24min | Drama, Thriller
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

In writer/director Paolo Rotondo’s debut feature, three teenagers on the run break into a deluxe Waiheke Island home and find themselves caught in a tense psychodrama with the conflicted owner.

The Pinballs(1977)

45min | TV Movie

Three orphans from very different backgrounds find themselves living with the same foster couple while waiting to be adopted.

Displaced(2010)

18min
4.7/5 (with 2 votes)

The story of Daniel, an 11 year-old victim of the foster system, and his last chance at finding a family.

Directed by Rick Stevenson

Catimini(2012)

1h 51min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Cathy, 6, is taken by a social worker to a foster home in the countryside, where she slowly gets used to the strict rules imposed by her foster mother Réjeanne. Fortunately, her foster father, Reynald, is kind and gentle with the girl and patiently helps her break through her shell. Kayla, 12, is sent to a group home where she gets to know Morgane, a rebellious teenager who’s planning to run away. At about the same time, Manu is released from the system on the day she turns 18, but she finds it difficult to adjust to her solitary existence outside of the system. All four meet up at a reception honoring a foster family with whom they’ve all previously lived.

Directed by Nathalie Saint-Pierre - With Roger La Rue, Isabelle Vincent, Émilie Bierre

Foster Child(1987)

43min | Documentary
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Gil Cardinal searches for his natural family and an understanding of the circumstances that led to his becoming a foster child. An important figure in the history of Canadian Indigenous filmmaking, Gil Cardinal was born to a Métis mother but raised by a non-Indigenous foster family, and with this auto-biographical documentary he charts his efforts to find his biological mother and to understand why he was removed from her. Considered a milestone in documentary cinema, it addressed the country’s internal colonialism in a profoundly personal manner, winning a Special Jury Prize at Banff and multiple international awards.

Directed by Gil Cardinal

We Will Never Be Royals(2015)

45min | Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Abandoned by their parents, two teenage siblings navigate life in youth care.

Directed by Mees Peijnenburg

First Circle(2010)

G
| 1h 11min | Drama, Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Filmmaker Heather Rae trains her lens on America's foster care system and the plight of children whose families can no longer provide proper support.

Sentimental Journey(1984)

1h 37min | Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A precocious child has a profound effect on the lives of a successful Broadway producer and her husband.

Champagne(1996)

13min | Animation, Documentary, Kids & Family

The true story of a young teenage girl whose mother is incarcerated for murder. Living in a Catholic Children's home run by an order of nuns, she provides poignant commentary about her mother, her own situation and her outlook for the future.

Svetsaren i Rosenbad(2019)

57min | Documentary, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Depicts the path of the boy from the orphanage, the cottage in Sunnersta to the Sagerska Palace and the ultimate power as the Swedish Prime Minister. The film presents Stefan Löfven's relatives, childhood friends, workmates from his profession as welder at Hägglund and Sons in Örnsköldsvik, in 1995 he was employed as Ombudsman in the Swedish Metalworkers' Union, and elected to the executive board of the Social Democrats in 2006, shortly after becoming chairman of trade union IF Metall, and confirmed on 4 April 2013 as Party Chairman at the party's bi-annual congress. On 2 October 2014, the Swedish Parliament/Riksdag approved Stefan Löfven to become Prime Minister,.

Forever Yours(2011)

1h 15min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Forever Yours is a film about children who have been taken into custody. Through the children, their biological parents and foster parents, the film depicts love in everyday life. The film explores the invisible bond between a child and a biological parent. Even when a child is taken into custody, the yearning for closeness to the biological parents and need for their approval never seems to disappear. This longing is a form of loneliness that the foster parents struggle to overcome. The film describes the entire foster care process: a child being brought into a shelter home, a teenager’s everyday life in a foster family, and siblings preparing to return to their biological mother, after five years in a foster family.

Directed by Mia Halme
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