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fuboTV
86
8.5
/1241479/
84
/42011/
82
/19249/
4.2
/1842584/
92
/172/
93
/84581/
88
/30/
cc age 6+

The Lion King (1994)
Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself. Amid betrayal and tragedy, Simba must confront his past and find his rightful place in the Circle of Life.
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Hulu
84
7.7
/27593/
76
/1090/
75
/516/
4.1
/84817/
97
/149/
93
/154/
89
/29/
cc age 12+

The Quiet Girl (2022)
A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.
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The Roku Channel
84
7.8
/28021/
73
/438/
73
/364/
3.8
/17634/
100
/29/
88
/427/
90
/15/
cc age 10+

Great Expectations (1946)
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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Amazon Prime Video
84
7.9
/94956/
79
/3206/
78
/1372/
4.2
/143988/
98
/174/
92
/981/
82
/36/
cc age 16+

Short Term 12 (2013)
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.
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Hulu
83
7.8
/23852/
77
/1357/
80
/714/
4.2
/253739/
95
/147/
82
/21/
81
/25/
cc age 14+

Memoir of a Snail (2024)
Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.
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Starz Apple TV Channel
78
7.6
/106843/
76
/2105/
74
/1482/
3.7
/32681/
82
/113/
87
/1687/
74
/30/
cc age 16+

The Hurricane (1999)
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
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Kanopy
77
7.5
/91603/
75
/2714/
75
/1811/
4.0
/182065/
76
/87/
87
/3250/
75
/23/

Lady Vengeance (2005)
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
poster
75
7.6
/156601/
79
/13763/
80
/5820/
3.7
/319856/
73
/181/
85
/645/
60
/33/
cc age 12+

Gifted (2017)
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
poster
73
7.0
/1851/
71
/61/
69
/14/
3.3
/8887/
84
/99/
82
/49/
73
/15/
cc age 14+

Dust Bunny (2025)
Ten-year-old Aurora asks her hitman neighbor to kill the monster she believes ate her entire family. To protect her, he'll need to battle an onslaught of assassins while accepting the fact that some monsters are real.
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Kanopy
81
72
7.8
/6530/
79
/116/
74
/191/
3.7
/2453/
88
/34/
93
/289/

Live and Become (2005)
In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
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Hulu
72
6.5
/1784/
68
/138/
70
/54/
3.4
/3496/
88
/34/
82
/29/
60
/7/
cc age 13+

The Short History of the Long Road (2019)
Nola grew up living on a van with her father, Clint; two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past and her new destination.
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Disney Plus
72
6.6
/469823/
69
/28172/
71
/10938/
2.9
/1437079/
79
/462/
91
/4471/
68
/58/
cc age 12+

Black Widow (2021)
Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
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HBO Max
71
7.0
/409300/
71
/27349/
70
/9996/
3.0
/762796/
90
/419/
81
/5692/
71
/53/
cc age 11+

Shazam! (2019)
A boy is given the ability to become an adult superhero in times of need with a single magic word.
poster
70
7.1
/35633/
71
/646/
71
/409/
3.8
/45823/
69
/134/
81
/2041/
61
/35/
cc age 16+

White Oleander (2002)
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
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Disney Plus
67
6.8
/288839/
72
/18481/
70
/10595/
2.9
/596596/
52
/435/
88
/13331/
55
/54/
cc age 8+

The Lion King (2019)
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.
poster
67
6.6
/2379/
65
/59/
61
/41/
3.4
/1504/
67
/21/
63
/41/
67
/19/

Manny & Lo (1996)
A pregnant teen and her younger sister run away from foster homes and kidnap a woman whom they believe can help with the pregnancy.
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Amazon Prime Video
66
6.1
/88231/
64
/3632/
61
/1903/
3.0
/85189/
71
/31/
50
/13069/
79
/14/
cc age 6+

Free Willy (1993)
When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, with the help of kindly whale trainer Rae Lindley, develop a routine of tricks. However, greedy park owner Dial soon catches wind of the duo and makes plans to profit from them.
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Hoopla
70
65
6.7
/6038/
68
/183/
63
/89/
3.5
/7478/
92
/12/
72
/418/
59
/9/
cc age 4+

Follow That Bird (1985)
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
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Criterion Channel
70
65
7.1
/9493/
67
/162/
69
/199/
3.8
/16968/
67
/6/
74
/109/
71
/8/

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1995)
71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
poster
65
7.4
/114074/
75
/3262/
74
/2785/
3.3
/59646/
36
/121/
82
/20279/
38
/27/
cc age 8+

August Rush (2007)
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.
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Amazon Prime Video
64
6.4
/8051/
65
/480/
61
/125/
3.1
/6672/
76
/29/
71
/73/
52
/4/

Watch the Skies (2022)
When a foster home placed teenage rebel suspects that her father is not dead but kidnapped by UFOs, she takes help from a UFO association to find out the truth. Together, they embark on a risky adventure that takes them far beyond the laws borders and into a world filled with UFO expeditions, conspiracies and inexplicable phenomena.
poster
64
6.5
/5824/
66
/316/
67
/167/
3.2
/3260/
39
/57/
90
/16/
51
/15/
cc age 13+

The Song of Names (2019)
A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.
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Kanopy
64
6.7
/53903/
69
/1377/
65
/688/
3.4
/33346/
68
/151/
64
/2724/
55
/26/
cc age 14+

The Brothers Bloom (2008)
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
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Kanopy
63
6.5
/5627/
73
/658/
66
/244/
2.8
/3349/
65
/17/
70
/9/
47
/9/
cc age 9+

The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.
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Kanopy
62
6.0
/11745/
60
/314/
58
/261/
3.2
/26213/
69
/112/
47
/240/
70
/24/
cc age 14+

Wuthering Heights (2011)
Yorkshire moorlands, northern England, in the late 18th century. Young Heathcliff, rescued from the streets of Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, an isolated farm, develops over the years an insane passion for Cathy, his foster sister, a sick obsession destined to end tragically.
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Hulu
60
6.5
/132922/
70
/4818/
69
/3824/
3.2
/192916/
22
/105/
83
/41633/
48
/23/
cc age 13+

Step Up (2006)
Delinquent Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with up-and-coming dancer Nora.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
59
5.9
/143062/
62
/10099/
64
/3507/
2.3
/295550/
49
/266/
85
/1128/
47
/50/
cc age 12+

Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
Billy Batson and his foster siblings, who transform into superheroes by saying "Shazam!", are forced to get back into action and fight the Daughters of Atlas, who they must stop from using a weapon that could destroy the world.
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Kanopy
71
59
7.5
/5167/
74
/83/
66
/76/
3.0
/1785/
84
/54/

For a Lost Soldier (1992)
In the occupied Netherlands near the end of WWII, a young teenager, Jeroen Boman (Maarten Smit) is sent to the Dutch countryside to avoid the war in Amsterdam. While living with his adopted family, Jeroen meets and becomes friends with a Canadian soldier named Walt Cook, who is stationed at the same town he is staying at. Joroen and Walt spend a lot of time playing around and eventually a romantic relationship develops between them. The boy’s sexual curiosity leads him to have a sexual experience with Walt, an encounter that is shown with some vague detail but without actually showing any nudity, even though sexual intimacy between the two of them is implied. Overall, the movie handles this difficult subject with an elegant style and feeling, without having the adult-child relationship overwhelm the viewer and thus allowing the movie to be seen as just a wartime relationship between two people that marks an important time in a young boy’s life.
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Fandango at Home Free
54
6.2
/7484/
64
/157/
58
/154/
3.0
/4697/
41
/49/
70
/517/
27
/22/

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Young Jeremiah lives in a stable environment with loving foster parents until the day his troubled mother, Sarah, returns to claim him. Jeremiah becomes swept up in his mother's dangerous world of drugs, seedy hotels, strip joints and revolving lovers. Salvation comes in the form of the boy's ultrareligious grandparents, but soon Jeremiah's mother returns. Maternal love binds the pair together on the road until Sarah's desperate and depraved lifestyle finally consumes her.
poster
53
5.1
/20519/
61
/899/
59
/610/
2.6
/13278/
50
/26/
42
/885/
cc age 6+

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)
Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
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AMC+ Amazon Channel
52
5.8
/63986/
60
/2487/
61
/2016/
2.8
/122446/
41
/34/
54
/2057/
34
/10/

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece.
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Kanopy
49
6.3
/1991/
58
/122/
60
/153/
3.2
/1681/
3
/61/
24
/855/
64
/9/

The Apparition (2018)
Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate the veracity of a supernatural apparition allegedly happened in a small French village.
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Amazon Prime Video
61
49
6.5
/3223/
63
/104/
58
/62/
3.4
/863/
62
/21/
66
/41/
50
/11/

A Bag of Hammers (2011)
Two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, whose direction is tested by an abandoned child, worn beyond his years; together they invent the family they've always needed.
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The Roku Channel
64
45
6.4
/2513/
65
/65/
63
/34/
3.0
/1262/
72
/74/

Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001)
The tragic true story of one of the worst cases of child abuse ever documented (in which a girl was locked in a room without social contact for nearly thirteen years) and what happened when she was finally rescued.
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Amazon Prime Video
72
39
7.1
/482/
72
/39/
73
/66/
3.7
/1667/

The Family (2022)
Anna happily lives with her husband, their two boys, and Simon, 6 years-old, who was placed with her by the Social Care services when he was only 18 months. When Simon’s father decides that he is ready to take his son back with him, the family’s balance is at stake. Anna is torn apart: how could she possibly let go a of child who has always called her ‘Mom’?
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Hoopla
65
37
7.0
/2552/
67
/173/
59
/63/
2.8
/1411/
75
/1/

A Kiss Before Christmas (2021)
Ethan, always the nice guy, wakes up in a new reality at Christmas. Initially, he is enthralled with his new life but soon realizes that it's not what he thought it would be.
poster
77
36
7.7
/1128/
73
/25/
76
/18/
3.4
/357/
95
/54/

After the Promise (1987)
Elmer Jackson is a carpenter in a small Californian town in the 1930s. Struggling to bring up 4 young boys after the death of his wife, he is horrified when the Government (citing trumped-up charges of parental neglect) places the boys into various foster homes and institutions, unaware of the abuse that boys would then be subjected to. The conditions imposed by the court and the difficulties caused by the Depression make Jackson's determined and vigorous quest to find his boys extremely difficult.
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The Roku Channel
70
33
7.4
/1253/
66
/30/
66
/22/
77
/27/

Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007)
After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill.
poster
68
33
6.7
/608/
65
/15/
59
/19/
3.4
/262/
92
/13/
55
/5/
73
/8/

I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)
Now a taciturn adult, an adoptee finds his biological mother and strikes up a relationship fraught with tension and emotion.
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70
30
6.7
/323/
71
/6/
68
/20/
75

Ombline (2012)
Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for the first 18 months of its life, after which time the child must be given up and placed into state care. Ombline has no intention of surrendering her beloved little boy and is prepared to do anything to convince the authorities that she is capable of rearing the child after she has left prison. As her maternal instincts assert themselves, the young woman finds she has a cause worth fighting for, and an opportunity to rebuild her shattered life…
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Hoopla
65
27
6.7
/1136/
65
/20/
59
/24/
3.4
/217/
80
/5/
57
/5/

Branded (1950)
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.
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53
20
5.9
/736/
46
/23/
49
/20/
3.0
/1194/
54
/11/

Jack Be Nimble (1993)
Jack and Dora, abandoned by their parents as babies, are desperate to find each other after years of adoption. Jack's young life has been spent with a sadistic family. Dora, whose life has been somewhat better, has developed extra-sensory powers which tell her that Jack's in danger and drives her to search for him.
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54
18
5.2
/238/
56
/15/
51
/62/
2.9
/449/

Qui c'est les plus forts ? (2015)
Samantha, who works in a chicken factory in Saint-Étienne, loses her job. She lives with her best-friend Céline. She is also her little sister Kim's guardian and must find another job quickly or run the risk of losing her sister. She meets Paul, a lawyer who would like to raise a child with his partner. As a result, he asks Samantha if she would like to be hired as his surrogate.
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64
17
6.4
/1126/
65
/24/
61
/14/
3.2
/263/
67
/12/

Family Sins (2005)
Based on the true story of the Burt family who seemed normal, upstanding members of the community but were actually deeply embedded in crime. The matriarch took in foster children who were subsequently molested and abused by her husband and children and she kept a woman enslaved and imprisoned in the basement for over twenty years until the woman's daughter managed to get to Rhode Island Attorney General David Morwitz and expose the horrors taking place in the Burt household.
poster
70
15
7.4
/568/
73
/12/
65
/16/
3.5
/355/

Bumpy (1981)
Brother and sister Kusti and Iti get lost in a forest while picking strawberries and are captured by an evil forest hag. They are made to work for her. The hag has a son called Bumpy whom Iti befriends. When they get a chance to escape, they decide to take Bumpy with them.
poster
47
15
4.9
/1514/
48
/35/
54
/20/
3.0
/467/
25
/1/

Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rehta Hai (2000)
Gangaram alias Ganga has been raised by his foster parents who reside in the village thus he gets accustom to village life. 24 years later his birth parents multi-millionaire Avinash and his wife Radha comes to ask him to move into their bungalow located in the city to which Ganga agrees and goes to bid farewell to his friends and girlfriend Saawni. While in the city Ganga is introduced to his elder brother, Milind, his wife, Supriya, and his younger brother; Ganga finds it very hard to adjust to the city life and is often scuffed at. Avinash arranges his marriage with equally wealthy Tina to which he agrees although he is not comfortable with this marriage as he is still in love with Saawni; meanwhile Ganga's honest policy gets him and his new found family into further problems.
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49
13
5.7
/649/
59
/33/
52
/16/
31
/11/

Get Your Stuff (2000)
A wealthy professional gay couple, who wish to adopt children, see their lives turned topsy turvy when they take in two misbehaving brothers.
poster
74
12
7.1
/305/
80
/6/
70
/12/
3.6
/204/
77
/9/

Foster Child (2007)
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.


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