Movies: Orphan

Why is it that often when we get what we want, we still feel empty? We work so hard to succeed, but our lives just end up becoming more about us. Can success turn on us? Can we get caught up in a smaller world where our lives are all about the things...

"Julian, a 10-year-old orphaned boy, tries to escape a dystopian city on the verge of collapse with his new-found friend, Tun Tun."...

The life and times of the mexican pianist Julieta García Rello, as told by her granddaughter....

A French orphan girl is adopted into the home of wealthy Americans. There she becomes romantically involved with a farm worker and at the same time entangled in the deteriorating marriage of the American couple who rescued her....

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A year in the life of children in the Province of Anhui in China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. Traditional obligations to family and village collide with terror of the disease....

Three young orphans team up with the Frankenstein Monster to battle a Wolfman in their small mountain community....

Lucy and the Lake Monster is the story of Lucy, an orphan girl, who believes in "Champ," the legendary sea serpent of Lake Champlain. Lucy and her grandpa, "Papa Jerry," look for Champ despite mockery and mercenary forces opposing them....

Ahmed marry Subaida. On the way back home, Ahmed meets an accident and becomes unconscious....

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe....

In SFRJ, the state officially takes care of all it's citizens. Every child is a good little pioneer. However, in reality no one (especially not the state) takes care of Roma and many other poor kids leaving them to poverty and the streets....

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This final John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short looks at a community, Mooseheart, in Illinois that orphaned children call home....

A young orphan wakes up after wetting his bedsheet. Living under the supervision of nuns, he'll spend night and day attempting to amend his "mistake"....

The film starts off with a woman and a baby on a plane. The plane, for no apparent reason, fails and crashes into a jungle. The baby survives and is adopted and brought home by a gorilla named Shina. She brings him to her troop, where he is ridiculed...

Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his palace as his fiancé. The Prince’s aid Murman loses his self-control at Eteri’s beauty and gives her a spelled necklace as a wedding gift. Eteri cont...

An Irish boy goes through the horrors of a war that leave him an orphan. Him and his foster siblings have grown closer and can now only rely on each other as they survive....

Tunahaki is the extraordinary story of nine gifted orphans who are acrobats. We follow their journey as an American volunteer takes them from Africa to study with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. They end up touring the States and raising hundreds of ...

Three orphans take on a pair of snooty toffs in the Old Town Dog Show....

A group of blockheads-dressers want to get money for a vacation, not necessarily with honest work. They combine in various ways, finally coming up with the idea of kidnapping a child for ransom. Thanks to their intelligence, they kidnap a boy from an...