Most Similar Movies to The Foster Boy (2011)
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The Unloved (2009), In the Fade (2017), Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013), The Girl Next Door (2007), When the Bough Breaks (1993), Sin Nombre (2009), Back Roads (2018) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
The Unloved (2009)
Lucy is 11-years-old and lives with her father. One day, not for the first time, he beats her. The next time she returns to school, Lucy asks to see her social worker Jackie. Lucy is known to social services and has been in foster care before, but none of her foster parents have any placements available. Jackie takes her to a children's home, Crop Row, where she is left with nothing except the school uniform she is wearing.
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In the Fade (2017)
Katja's life collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
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Nothing Bad Can Happen (2013)
Inspired by horrifying true events, Nothing Bad Can Happen follows Tore, a young lost soul involved with an underground Christian punk movement who falls in with a dysfunctional family who test his seemingly unwavering faith.
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The Girl Next Door (2007)
Based on the Jack Ketchum novel of the same name, The Girl Next Door follows the unspeakable torture and abuses committed on a teenage girl in the care of her aunt...and the boys who witness and fail to report the crime.
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When the Bough Breaks (1993)
Police detectives investigate the apparent serial killing of several children, after finding severed hands.
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Sin Nombre (2009)
A Honduran young girl and a Mexican gangster are united in a journey across the American border.
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Back Roads (2018)
A young man's life spirals out of control when he has a dangerous affair with an older married woman in rural Pennsylvania.
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Run the Tide (2016)
When their drug abusing mother is released from prison determined to rebuild their family, Rey kidnaps his younger brother Oliver and escapes their desert home for the California coast.
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My Brother's Keeper (1995)
Twins (John Lithgow), one HIV-positive, go to court to fight for a bone-marrow transplant not covered by insurance.
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Ben Is Back (2018)
A drug addicted teenage boy shows up unexpectedly at his family's home on Christmas Eve.
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God Bless the Child (1988)
Unemployed, abandoned by her husband and kicked out of her apartment after not being able to pay her rent, newly single mother Theresa Johnson (Mare Winningham) finds herself homeless and raising her daughter, Hillary (Grace Johnston), on the streets. Discouraged by consistently overcrowded shelters and shocking violence, Johnson appeals to social worker Calvin Reed (Dorian Harewood). With Reed's help, Johnson struggles to ensure a decent quality of life for the daughter she loves so much.
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Kabuli Kid (2008)
A woman in a light-blue chadri abandons her infant in the backseat of a cab in the bustling streets of post-war Kabul.
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Jasper Jones (2017)
JASPER JONES is a coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishart, Charlie's life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the sc...Read all
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The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Seven-year-old Jeremiah is pulled from his foster home and thrown into a troubled life on the road with his teenage mother, Sarah.
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Stolen Heart (1998)
A trio of small-time hoods decide to go for the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich self-help guru. The kidnapping goes awry and the whole group find themselves in the midst of a family relationship problem.
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The Shadow of Violence (2019)
A former boxer cares for his autistic son while working as an enforcer for a family of drug dealers in rural Ireland.
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Santa Mesa (2008)
A photographer takes a troubled young Philipino boy under his wing. Starring Jaime Tirelli (TV's Kidnapped) and Oscar Winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter).
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Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001)
Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher (Sandrine Kiberlain) enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot (Nicole Garcia) arranges to kidnap another child, Jose (Alexis Chatrian), to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole (Mathilde Seigner) is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend, Francois (Luck Mervil), and some of his cohorts.
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