Highest-Rated Movies about 'Abandoned Child', Sort by Popularity

Central Station (1998), Waiting for The Sun (2016), The House of Magic (2013), Little Miss Marker (1934), High Tide (1987), Not of This World (1999), Mission Kashmir (2000), The Arctic Expedition: A Historic Journey to Find the Truth (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Abandoned Child movies.

#1. Central Station (1998)

Storyline: Dora, a dour old woman, works at a Rio de Janeiro central station, writing letters for customers and mailing them. She hates customers and calls them 'trash'. Josue is a 9-year-old boy who never met his father. His mother is sending letters to his father through Dora. When she dies in a car accident, Dora takes Josue and takes a trip with him to find his father.

Plot Keywords: older woman, young boy, truck driver, half brother, friend, client, gritty ...

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#3. The House of Magic (2013)

Storyline: Two aliens from the planet Hondo have come take over our planet. But when they discover an amazing human invention called "music", they immediately abandon their mission, head to a tiny Brooklyn bar, and start the universe's first Hondonian bluegrass duo: Future Folk!—Production

Plot Keywords: cat, talking animal, rabbit, mouse, magician, amusing, engaging ...

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#4. Little Miss Marker (1934)

Storyline: Little Martha Jane, aka Little Miss Marker is left with the bookmaker Sorrowful Jones by her dad as part of a bet on a horse race. Sorrowful and his group of fellow bookies take to her, reluctantly at first, but their cynical ways start to rub off on her. Will a party set at Camelot bring back her faith in humanity?—Miss Eli

Plot Keywords: little girl, girlfriend, gangster, gambler, bookie, father, charming ...

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#6. Not of This World (1999)

Storyline: Caterina is a nun and has taken provisional vows for a month when she goes to a park when she meets a man who has found an abandoned baby boy and entrusts him to take him to the hospital. After doing so, Caterina begins to visit the little one and becomes attached to him so much that he tries to trace his mother through the sweater in which he was wrapped. This goes as far as Ernesto, forty-one, owner of a laundry left to him with his father's debts. Ernesto is unhappy with life and is all centered on his problems so as not to even remember the names of his collaborators. The boy's mother is perhaps Teresa, his former employee and Ernesto is perhaps the father. Thus began a crisis for Catherine as a nun and for Ernesto the awareness of not being the only unfortunate man on earth.—Baldinotto da Pistoia

Plot Keywords: nun, baby, unwed mother, man, moving, amusing, engaging ...

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#7. Mission Kashmir (2000)

Storyline: In a valley of astonishing beauty, a small family lives in an idyllic house: a father, a mother and a son. They are a picture of happiness and love. But appearances are often deceptive. This pastoral landscape is the strife-torn valley of Kashmir, and the son, Altaaf, is an orphan of war who has been adopted by a policeman, Inayat Khan, and his wife, Neelima. Altaaf is slowly recovering from the psychic wounds of seeing his parents and his young sister shot to death before his eyes by a masked man. Years later, a rebel force infiltrates the valley on a secret mission. They need an highly trained fighter with burning anger and find that in Altaaf. He returns to the streets and by lanes of his childhood fighting for Hilal Kohistani, but also obsessed with his own private mission: he must kill the masked intruder who haunts his nightmares -- Inayat Khan.—gavin@sunny_deol2009@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: orphan, adopted son, adoptive father, terrorist, police officer, engaging, emotional ...

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#9. King Uncle (1993)

Storyline: Stern, strict and prestigious Ashok Bansal is an industrialist and the eldest in the Bansal family. He is a very strict man especially when it comes to his family, his younger brother, Anil, and sister Sunita who must all follow his rules and regulations pattern. Fail to act proactively and abide by these rules Anil decides to run away from home with an orphan named Kavita and seeks employment in a garage. His sister who loves a peon named Kamal is forced to marry the alcoholic, cruel, abusive and womanizer Pradeep Malik. Soon a run-away orphan named Munna ended up in Ashok's house. Where she decides to mend his ways. Will she be successful in doing so?—gAvInDrA (brave_loverboy2004@hotmail.com)

Plot Keywords: brother, sister, sibling, older brother, orphan, family, emotional ...

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#12. The Banished (2019)

Storyline: A disabled man is haunted by the torture he suffered as a child when his terminally ill half-sister returns to their small Upstate New York town seeking answers to why their mother abandoned her 40 years before, which sets them both on a tragic and horrific journey.

Plot Keywords: disabled person, half sister, mother, bleak, brooding, dark, disturbing ...

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