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Movies: Best "foster family" Movies


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Instant Family(2018)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 58min | Comedy
3.8/5 (with 1,256 votes)

When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.

Child's Play 2(1990)

FSK: 18+ years
| 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.

Hubie Halloween(2020)

1h 42min | Comedy, Mystery, Horror
3.0/5 (with 683 votes)

Hubie Dubois, despite his devotion to his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts (and its legendary Halloween celebration), is a figure of mockery for kids and adults alike. But this year, something really is going bump in the night, and it’s up to Hubie to save Halloween.

Hunt for the Wilderpeople(2016)

1h 41min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 877 votes)

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

The Great Gilly Hopkins(2015)

FSK: 6+ years
| 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...

Wuthering Heights(2011)

3.0/5 (with 100 votes)

Yorkshire moorlands, northern England, in the late 18th century. Young Heathcliff, rescued from the streets of Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, an isolated farm, develops over the years an insane passion for Cathy, his foster sister, a sick obsession destined to end tragically.

The Quiet Girl(2022)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 34min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 132 votes)

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

Directed by Colm Bairéad - With Catherine Clinch, Carrie Crowley, Michael Patric

Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me(2011)

1h 30min | TV Movie
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me is a 2011 one-off Christmas special, made by STV Productions and broadcast by ITV on Tuesday 27 December 2011. The special centres around a wealthy car dealer Jonathan Donald who befriends a terminally ill teenager Freddie Copeland and makes his Christmas wish come true.

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

Jonny Comes(1988)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 45min | Drama, Kids & Family
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Twelve year old Jonny lives in foster home. Suddenly the family of a local doctor decides to adopt him. But it's not so easy...

Talea(2013)

1h 15min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Fourteen-year-old Jasmin longs to be near her biological mother, Eva. Following her mother’s release from prison, an excursion into the country together becomes a first test for the fledgling mother-daughter relationship. They smoke, dance and stroll together – the mood is promising. But time and again, it is revealed that their needs and expectations are light years apart. For the moment, neither Eva nor Jasmin seem up to the task of fulfilling each other’s need for identity and support. (Talea is Italian for scion, a detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting.)

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.

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The Reflection(2018)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A social worker recounts the case of Ella Jackson, a girl who sees a man standing behind her in the mirror.

First Circle(2010)

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.