Movies: Foster care

  • 2024
    Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot

    Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (2024)

    Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot

    6.82024HD

    Led by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas town of Possum Trot adopt 77 of the most difficult-to-place kids in the foster system and kickstart a movement in the process....

    Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
  • 2013
    Short Term 12

    Short Term 12 (2013)

    Short Term 12

    7.72013HD

    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....

    Short Term 12
  • 2017
    Ayla: The Daughter of War

    Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017)

    Ayla: The Daughter of War

    8.12017HD

    In 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight and he risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his army base and out of harm’s way....

    Ayla: The Daughter of War
  • 2002
    White Oleander

    White Oleander (2002)

    White Oleander

    7.12002HD

    A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion....

    White Oleander
  • 2013
    Gimme Shelter

    Gimme Shelter (2013)

    Gimme Shelter

    6.62013HD

    After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant....

    Gimme Shelter
  • 2018
    Age Out

    Age Out (2018)

    Age Out

    6.42018HD

    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....

    Age Out
  • 2023
    Earth Mama

    Earth Mama (2023)

    Earth Mama

    6.32023HD

    A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family....

    Earth Mama
  • 2022
    Lifemark

    Lifemark (2022)

    Lifemark

    7.62022HD

    David's comfortable world is turned upside down when his birth mother Melissa unexpectedly reaches out, longing to meet the eighteen year old son she's only held once....

    Lifemark
  • 2009
    The Unloved

    The Unloved (2009)

    The Unloved

    6.82009HD

    Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow her struggle to cope with the system; her only saving being her self-belief and certainty that she is ...

    The Unloved
  • 2016
    My Name Is Emily

    My Name Is Emily (2016)

    My Name Is Emily

    6.82016HD

    Packed off to a foster home after her father is insti­tu­tion­al­ized, a rebellious young Irish girl resolves to bust her dad out of the hospital where he's been confined....

    My Name Is Emily
  • 2023
    Attila

    Attila (2023)

    Attila

    02023HD

    Filmmaker Stephen Hosier takes a journey with Richard Csanyi, his childhood friend, as he investigates the life and death of his twin brother Attila, who was found dead on a rooftop in 2020....

    Attila
  • 1981
    A Long Way Home

    A Long Way Home (1981)

    A Long Way Home

    7.51981HD

    A married teenager sets out to find his long-lost brother and sister years after all three had been placed with different families following their abandonment by their migrant worker parents. Luckily, he finds a compassionate social worker who, at fi...

    A Long Way Home
  • 2012
    The Girl

    The Girl (2012)

    The Girl

    6.12012HD

    A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border....

    The Girl
  • 2021
    Color of Love

    Color of Love (2021)

    Color of Love

    6.62021HD

    An African American widow with two kids who has so much love to give, she often fosters children who need a home. She finds out that Peter and Rachel, the white siblings she fostered twice before, fled from their latest foster home....

    Color of Love
  • 2007
    Foster Child

    Foster Child (2007)

    Foster Child

    72007HD

    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 temporary home and care to abandoned babies pending the latter's formal adoption....

    Foster Child
  • 2010
    10½

    10½ (2010)

    10½

    7.12010HD

    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 potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence....

    10½
  • 1982
    Home Sweet Home

    Home Sweet Home (1982)

    Home Sweet Home

    6.31982HD

    Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner....

    Home Sweet Home
  • 1969
    The Undertaker's Children

    The Undertaker's Children (1969)

    The Undertaker's Children

    01969HD

    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 sinister plan to get rid of them, she contacts a child welfare nurse, pleading for help. As things es...

    The Undertaker's Children
  • 2005
    Bonkers

    Bonkers (2005)

    Bonkers

    6.82005HD

    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 grandfather's grandfather who worked on a game reserve in Africa, and Bonnie feels that she instinctive...

    Bonkers
  • 1996
    Champagne

    Champagne (1996)

    Champagne

    01996HD

    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....

    Champagne