Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "foster-mother"

1. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick

Votes: 1,174,704 | Gross: $204.84M

2. Man of Steel (2013)

PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

An alien child is evacuated from his dying world and sent to Earth to live among humans. His peace is threatened when other survivors of his home planet invade Earth.

Director: Zack Snyder | Stars: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Diane Lane

Votes: 812,126 | Gross: $291.05M

3. Unbelievable (2019)

TV-MA | 48 min | Crime, Drama

A teenager is charged with lying about being raped, but two detectives follow the path to the truth.

Stars: Kaitlyn Dever, Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, Blake Ellis

Votes: 119,813

4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

PG-13 | 166 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond

Votes: 695,960 | Gross: $127.51M

5. Major Crimes (2012–2018)

Not Rated | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The Closer (2005) spin-off series, which follows Captain Raydor of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Stars: Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan

Votes: 16,086

6. Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The film continues the story of teenage Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word "SHAZAM!" is transformed into his adult Super Hero alter ego, Shazam.

Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Rachel Zegler

Votes: 124,894

7. The Mother (2023)

R | 115 min | Action, Thriller

While fleeing from dangerous assailants, an assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she left earlier in life.

Director: Niki Caro | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Lucy Paez, Omari Hardwick, Joseph Fiennes

Votes: 47,237

8. Bird Box (2018)

R | 124 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson

Votes: 386,509

9. Step Up (2006)

PG-13 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Music

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 an up and coming dancer, Nora.

Director: Anne Fletcher | Stars: Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan, Damaine Radcliff, De'Shawn Washington

Votes: 126,859 | Gross: $65.33M

10. I Am Sam (2001)

PG-13 | 132 min | Drama

An intellectually disabled man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

Director: Jessie Nelson | Stars: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest

Votes: 155,337 | Gross: $40.31M

11. Kiri (2018)

TV-MA | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A drama dealing with the abduction and murder of a young black girl, soon to be adopted by her white foster family, and the trail of lies, blame, guilt and notoriety which follow.

Stars: Sarah Lancashire, Lia Williams, Lucian Msamati, Wunmi Mosaku

Votes: 3,047

12. Sleeping Beauty (1959)

G | 75 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.

Directors: Les Clark, Clyde Geronimi, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske | Stars: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton

Votes: 160,958 | Gross: $51.60M

13. Evil Under the Sun (1982)

PG | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith, Colin Blakely

Votes: 20,201 | Gross: $6.11M

14. Child's Play 2 (1990)

R | 84 min | Horror, Thriller

While Andy's mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, and Chucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.

Director: John Lafia | Stars: Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise

Votes: 57,694 | Gross: $28.50M

15. Before I Wake (2016)

PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A couple adopt an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.

Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Jacob Tremblay, Annabeth Gish

Votes: 51,777

16. Short Term 12 (2013)

R | 96 min | Drama

A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.

Director: Destin Daniel Cretton | Stars: Brie Larson, Frantz Turner, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever

Votes: 91,829 | Gross: $1.01M

17. Above Suspicion (2009–2012)

46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A team of dedicated detectives investigate gruesome murders across London.

Stars: Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall, Amanda Lawrence

Votes: 3,473

18. Love Exposure (2008)

Unrated | 237 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist.

Director: Sion Sono | Stars: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Yutaka Shimizu

Votes: 15,918

19. Dirty Teacher (2013 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A high school senior becomes the victim of an elaborate frame-up after learning that her boyfriend is sleeping with their teacher.

Director: Doug Campbell | Stars: Josie Davis, Kelcie Stranahan, Cameron Deane Stewart, Darlene Vogel

Votes: 2,154

20. Hotel for Dogs (2009)

PG | 100 min | Comedy, Family

Two kids secretly take in stray dogs at a vacant hotel.

Director: Thor Freudenthal | Stars: Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Don Cheadle

Votes: 25,045 | Gross: $73.03M

21. The Story of Tracy Beaker (2002–2006)

TV-PG | 15 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

Tracy Beaker is a 10-year-old girl who has been placed in a children's home. Tracy makes new friends along the way and causes mischief wherever she goes.

Stars: Dani Harmer, Montanna Thompson, Ben Hanson, Ciarán Joyce

Votes: 1,821

22. Bad Company (2002)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller

When an Ivy League-educated C.I.A. Agent is killed during an operation, the secret agency recruits his twin brother (Chris Rock).

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Matthew Marsh, Gabriel Macht

Votes: 50,095 | Gross: $30.16M

23. Madhouse (1974)

PG | 89 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.

Director: Jim Clark | Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri

Votes: 4,519

24. Beanpole (2019)

Unrated | 130 min | Drama, War

1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.

Director: Kantemir Balagov | Stars: Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov

Votes: 12,259

25. An American Rhapsody (2001)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama

A young Hungarian girl struggles to find her place in the world when she's reunited with her parents in the USA years after she was left behind during their flight from the communist country in the 1950s.

Director: Éva Gárdos | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Scarlett Johansson, Raffaella Bánsági, Tony Goldwyn

Votes: 4,594 | Gross: $0.85M

26. Blonde (2001)

TV-14 | 165 min | Biography, Drama

A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life.

Stars: Poppy Montgomery, Patricia Richardson, Patrick Dempsey, Wallace Shawn

Votes: 1,241

27. In the Best Interest of the Children (1992 TV Movie)

96 min | Drama

Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.

Director: Michael Ray Rhodes | Stars: Sarah Jessica Parker, Sally Struthers, Lexi Randall, Gary Graham

Votes: 499

28. Shark Lake (2015)

Not Rated | 92 min | Horror

A local sheriff, Meredith Hendricks, makes it her mission to capture the "animal" and bring the exotic animal collector to justice.

Director: Jerry Dugan | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Sara Malakul Lane, Lily Brooks O'Briant, Michael Aaron Milligan

Votes: 2,635

29. The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (2017)

G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Whoever thinks that the countryside is calm and peaceful is mistaken. In it we find especially agitated animals, a Fox that thinks it's a chicken, a Rabbit that acts like a stork, and a Duck who wants to replace Father Christmas. If you want to take a vacation, keep driving past this place.

Directors: Patrick Imbert, Benjamin Renner | Stars: Guillaume Darnault, Damien Witecka, Kamel Abdessadok, Antoine Schoumsky

Votes: 3,689 | Gross: $0.04M

30. Private Parts (1972)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Young Cheryl moves into her estranged aunt Martha's rundown King Edward Hotel. One of its offbeat residents, disturbed photographer George, takes special interest in her. Cheryl begins suspecting that a resident was murdered.

Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Ayn Ruymen, Lucille Benson, John Ventantonio, Laurie Main

Votes: 1,870

31. Pictures of Hollis Woods (2007 TV Movie)

PG | 97 min | Drama

A troubled foster child with an affinity for drawing and artwork, becomes attached to her eccentric and forgetful new foster mother, also an artist.

Director: Tony Bill | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Alfre Woodard, Jodelle Ferland, Ridge Canipe

Votes: 1,156

32. Pleasant Days (2002)

99 min | Drama

Peter returned from prison in his native city, in the hope that it will begin happy days. With surprise he learns that his sister became a foster mother to the newborn boy, but a real ... See full summary »

Director: Kornél Mundruczó | Stars: Tamás Polgár, Orsolya Tóth, Kata Wéber, Lajos Ottó Horváth

Votes: 685

33. The Hollow Child (2017)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A troubled foster teen, Samantha, works to expose a dangerous supernatural impostor in her new family and rescue her foster sister.

Director: Jeremy Lutter | Stars: Jess McLeod, Hannah Cheramy, John Emmet Tracy, Jana Mitsoula

Votes: 1,728

34. Superlopez (2018)

108 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Juan López, an ordinary and anonymous office worker, decides to expose his superpowers to turn into the first Spanish superhero: Superlópez.

Director: Javier Ruiz Caldera | Stars: Dani Rovira, Alexandra Jiménez, Julián López, Maribel Verdú

Votes: 4,206

35. Big B (2007)

130 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Four brothers hunt for the killer and the truth behind their loving foster mother who was murdered in cold blood, .

Director: Amal Neerad | Stars: Mammootty, Manoj K. Jayan, Bala, Sumit Naval

Votes: 4,167

36. Vixen: The Movie (2017 Video)

Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Mari McCabe, an orphan who inherited her family Anansi totem, which allows her to have the speed and strength of any animal, must protect her totem, and 4 other elemental totems just like it, from her sister and others who try to take them

Directors: Curt Geda, James Tucker | Stars: Megalyn Echikunwoke, Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Franz Drameh

Votes: 1,998

37. Princess of the Row (2019)

TV-14 | 85 min | Drama, Thriller

The inspiring tale of a runaway foster child who will stop at nothing to live with the only family she knows: her homeless, mentally-ill veteran father who lives on the streets of LA's skid row.

Director: Van Maximilian Rodriguez Carlson | Stars: Edi Gathegi, Tayler Buck, Ana Ortiz, Jacob Vargas

Votes: 590

38. Mother of Mine (2005)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, War

During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. From the award-winning Klaus Härö (Elina: As If I Wasn't There (2002)), "... See full summary »

Director: Klaus Härö | Stars: Topi Majaniemi, Marjaana Maijala, Maria Lundqvist, Michael Nyqvist

Votes: 4,608

39. Krampus: The Reckoning (2015)

90 min | Horror

Zoe, a strange child, has a not so imaginary friend Krampus, who is the dark companion of St. Nicholas.

Director: Robert Conway | Stars: Monica Engesser, Amelia Haberman, James Ray, Kevin Tye

Votes: 1,484

40. Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978)

189 min | Drama, Romance

When a homeless and orphaned young man finds work in the house of a wealthy man, he falls in love with the daughter of that wealthy man. But things start to change a lot thereafter.

Director: Prakash Mehra | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Rakhee Gulzar, Rekha

Votes: 3,055

41. Tracy Beaker's 'The Movie of Me' (2004 TV Movie)

70 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

It's Tracy Beaker's 13th birthday, and as a surprise, Cam wants to foster her again. That is, until an unexpected visitor turns up at the Dumping Ground.

Director: Joss Agnew | Stars: Ruth Gemmell, Lisa Coleman, Dani Harmer, Darragh Mortell

Votes: 343

42. Everyday People (2004)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama

The closing of a local restaurant concerns a number of employees who've dedicated their lives to the eatery.

Director: Jim McKay | Stars: Nathan De'Shon Myers, Jordan Gelber, Bridget Barkan, Stephen McKinley Henderson

Votes: 1,306

43. Crisis (1946)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Romance

A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Inga Landgré, Stig Olin, Marianne Löfgren, Dagny Lind

Votes: 3,499

44. In the Name of God (I) (2013)

PG | 86 min | Drama

A teen feels unwanted after years of being in the foster care system. He moves in with a family, whose son doubts his parents' reasons for welcoming him into their home.

Director: Kevan Otto | Stars: John Ratzenberger, Eric Roberts, Patrick Davis Alarcón, Pete Freeland

Votes: 185

45. Diary for My Children (1984)

Unrated | 106 min | Biography, Drama

Having lost her parents to Stalin's purges, a girl returns from Soviet Union to her native Hungary to live with her Stalinist aunt.

Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Ágnes Csere, Anna Polony, Teri Földi

Votes: 1,016

46. Maalaala mo kaya: The Movie (1994)

TV-PG | 107 min | Drama, Family

Lacking opportunities in her own country, Marissa (Chinchin Gutierrez) decides to work overseas. She then decides to leave her son, BJ (Karl Angelo Legaspi), with her best friend, Ana (Aiko... See full summary »

Director: Olivia M. Lamasan | Stars: Richard Gomez, Aiko Melendez, Chin Chin Gutierrez, Caridad Sanchez

Votes: 44

47. No More Goodbyes

Adventure, Drama, Family

When their foster mother dies, unrelated foster brothers Mark (17yrs), and Tristan (11yrs) go on the run to escape the system. But to keep their secret safe they must put their trust in a gruff retired Army Colonel seeking redemption.

Director: James Ganiere | Stars: Eric Roberts, Stacy Haiduk, Tom Nowicki, Christian Ganiere

48. Little Crumb (1999)

119 min | Drama, Family

The journey of a homeless boy who tries to find his father, set in the 1920's in Holland.

Director: Maria Peters | Stars: Ruud Feltkamp, Yannick van de Velde, Mitchell Redmond, Mark van Duijn

Votes: 2,708

49. The Lost & Found Family (2009)

PG | 91 min | Drama

Formerly wealthy widow must move in with the lower middle-class foster family living in a house she owns in order to establish residency prior to selling it.

Director: Barnet Bain | Stars: Ellen Bry, Lynn Cole, Jeff Portell, Lucas Till

Votes: 329

50. Thumbelina (1964)

30 min | Animation, Short, Family

The first ever animated version of the popular Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale "Thumbelina".

Director: Leonid Amalrik | Stars: Galina Novozhilova, Elena Ponsova, Mikhail Yanshin, Sergey Martinson

Votes: 1,018