Foster Care Movies

The residents of Hope, NY come to the aid of displaced foster children after St. Jerome's Home for Children has a fire right before Christmas, and...

Bright Alex grows up in Michigan proud of his mother, Romanian immigrant Ileana, who became a professor, vowing to make her dream come true by...

When her husband dies, Mrs. Ester Hobbes (Ellen Bry, TV's St. Elsewhere) learns that his wealth was just an illusion. Her only real inheritance is a...

Inspired by real events, a reclusive undertaker is forced to take in the children of a deceased distant relative. When the older sister uncovers her...

A 17-year-old kid from South Chicago coexists with his selfish foster mother. On his way to school with his best friend, they discover something that...

A 10-year-old girl navigates her way through the foster care system, after being removed from her home and separated from her younger brother.

Tommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees...

A newly orphaned kid dodging the foster care system spends a magical evening with a sock puppet hoping to unpack her complicated relationship with...

Social workers dispel myths about why children are removed from their biological parents, breaking down their overwhelming workload. Lawyers uncover...

In her most recent film, Linda Kallistová Jablonská observes three girls growing up in a residential facility in Počátky,...

Gives voice to the experiences of Irish institution survivors and focuses on the life and upbringing of one survivor, Anne Silke. Silke was fostered...

Placed: The Journey Through Foster Care explores the reality of the Foster Care System that is hidden in plain sight. By going into the homes of...

There are not many films that portray adoption and foster parenting in a positive light. CHOSEN does just that! This multi-plot film tells several...

This is the story of a 12-year-old girl working hard to overcome a troubling past and accept and embrace the love and possibility that now surround...

Thelma, together with her husband Dado and teenage sons Gerald and Yuri, are a poor urban family hired by a local foster care facility to provide...

After years of abuse by their father, Gregory and his two brothers are placed with their mother. After his mother can't take care of him and his...

Bonnie, a nine-year-old single child, is part of a family of three living in the Netherlands. They have a love of elephants, passed on by Bonnie's...

An eleven year-old girl's unconventional yet deeply loving relationship with her mother is harshly broken. Along her journey, including her quest to...

On the verge of aging out of foster care, seventeen year old Mercedes Harper needs money and she needs it now. She manipulates Denver Thomas, a...

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...