Annie (Quvenzhané Wallis) é uma criança em custódia feliz e corajosa o bastante para trilhar o seu próprio caminho nas ruas de Nova York, em 2014. Originalmente deixada por seus pais ainda bebê com a promessa de que voltariam para buscá-la um dia, ela vive uma vida dura com sua malvada tutora, a senhorita Hannigan (Cameron Diaz). Mas tudo está prestes a mudar quando o magnata intransigente e candidato a prefeito de Nova York, Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) – aconselhado pela sua brilhante VP, Grace (Rose Byrne) e seu perspicaz planejador de campanha e conselheiro, Guy (Bobby Cannavale) – faz uma manobra de campanha arriscada e assume sua tutela. Stacks acredita que ele é seu anjo da guarda, mas a natureza brilhante e auto-confiante de Annie, junto com sua visão de que o “sol irá nascer amanhã”, mostra a ele que é apenas o contrário.

A mãe de Andy é internada num hospital psiquiátrico e o rapaz é entregue a uma família de acolhimento. Mas Chucky, determinado a reclamar a alma de Andy, não anda muito longe.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Grace (Brie Larson) é uma jovem com passado familiar complicado, que começa a trabalhar como assistente social em um lar que acolhe crianças órfãs ou com problemas em suas famílias. Enquanto se adapta à dura realidade das pessoas acolhidas, Grace conhece Mason (John Gallagher Jr.), outro assistente com quem passa a ter um relacionamento.

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.

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.

Com 12 anos de idade, a divertida e provocadora Gilly é já bem conhecida do sistema de adoção. Absolutamente indisciplinável, ela já foi acolhida por mais famílias que as que se lembra e desiludiu-as todas. Afinal de contas, como poderia ela assentar se a sua mãe biológica, a bonita e glamorosa Courtney, poderá estar ainda por aí à sua espera? Quando Gilly é enviada para a casa dos Trotters, a família mais estranha até então, o plano também não é ficar. Mas a alegre e carinhosa Maime Trotter não vai desistir assim tão facilmente, porque tem a certeza que aquela rebeldia guarda no fundo uma menina magoada e desprotegida. A Gilly sabe que tem que fugir e, não conseguindo escapar-se como anteriormente, terá que lhes mentir. Mas o seu plano não correrá como planeado e começa a pensar que talvez se tenha enganado sobre Trotter. Se tenha enganado mesmo sobre tudo!

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.

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.

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.

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