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.

Mientras la madre de Andy es ingresada en un hospital psiquiátrico, el joven es colocado en una casa de acogida, y Chucky, decidido a reclamar el alma de Andy, no se queda atrás.

Grace es una joven que trabaja como supervisora en un centro de acogida para adolescentes en situación de precariedad. Le encanta su empleo y vive entregada al cuidado de los chicos. Pero, al mismo tiempo, pesa sobre ella un pasado conflictivo que la llena de angustia.

Gilly de 12 años, que mastica chicle, es conocida en el sistema adoptivo. Totalmente rebelde, se ha quedado con más familias de las que puede recordar y ha burlado a todos ellos. ¿Después de todo, cómo se puede instalar allí cuando su verdadera madre, Courtney, hermosa y atractiva, la podría estar esperando? Cuando envían a Gilly para vivir con la familia más extraña para Ella, no planea quedarse alli por mucho... pero "algo" la hace cambiar de opinion....

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.

Una niña con poderes formidables imagina la existencia del Hombre de Arena, un monstruo terrible de sus pesadillas que hace daño a cualquiera que quiera lastimarla.

Theo es un bebé recién nacido al que su madre da en adopción y los servicios sociales han de buscarle una familia apta para hacerse cargo él. Por otra parte, Alice es una mujer que ya supera los 40 años y lleva 10 luchando por poder ser madre. Los caminos de Theo y Alice se cruzarán con las dificultades propias del proceso

Samantha, una adolescente adoptada, ahora vive a las afueras de una pequeña ciudad donde siente que nunca acaba de encajar. Con la única persona que parece llevarse bien es con su pequeña hermanastra de 10 años, Olivia, quien un día termina adentrándose en un bosque y desaparece. Después de tres días Olivia regresa ilesa como si nada le hubiera pasado. Parece un milagro, hasta que Samantha comienza a notar cosas extrañas en ella y sospecha que lo que surgió del bosque no es Olivia. Para salvar a Olivia, ella se enfrentará a una entidad malévola y sobrenatural que se posesiona del alma de los niños perdiéndolos para siempre.

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 being watched over and protected by the holy spirit.

Julia always said that her upbringing as a biological child in a foster family was a happy time. But something is wrong. In The Foster Family, we follow director Julia's journey back in time, where she, together with her parents Ewa and Lennart and the foster child Patrik, recollect the shocking events that changed their lives over thirty years ago. The children are at the center of this strong, touching and warm documentary about a system where you can love, but not too much.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.