We Will Never Be Royals

The Young Runaways

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

1978

The Pinballs

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

1977

B-Happy

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

2004

Orphans & Kingdoms

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 t

2014

Vegas

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.

2009

Swedish Beauty

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. Howev

2000

Wuthering Heights

A passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Hea

2026

Anne of Green Gables

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 fa

1934

Get Your Stuff

A wealthy professional gay couple, who wish to adopt children, see their lives turned topsy turvy when they take in two misbehaving brothers.

2000

I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive

Now a taciturn adult, an adoptee finds his biological mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.

2009

The Great Gilly Hopkins

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 r

2015

The Unloved

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 he

2009

Christmas on Cherry Lane

Three couples at different parts of life navigate big turning points in their lives over the holidays.

2023

In Safe Hands

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

2018

The Foster Family

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 foll

2022

Sentimental Journey

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

1984

Orphan Train

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 f

1979

Família em Construção

2025

Age Out

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.

2018

First Circle

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.

2010