Castle in the Sky (1986), The Innocents (1961), We Are Together (2006), Beyond the Hills (2012), The Italian (2005), The King of Masks (1996), The Black Book of Father Dinis (2018), From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Orphan movies.
Storyline: Two orphans, one with a levitation stone, search for lost treasure and the keys to their past in a legendary floating city.
Plot Keywords: orphan, princess, general, pirate, father, thrilling, unrestrained ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the Henry James story "The Turn of the Screw," a psychological thriller about a woman who takes a governess job for two orphans in a Victorian home. She begins to see what she believes are ghosts and suspects the children's bizarre behavior is the result of supernatural powers.
Plot Keywords: governess, orphan, ghost, young boy, sister, dark, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This U.K.-produced HBO documentary covers the spread of AIDS in South Africa, focusing on an orphanage called Agape, founded by one "Grandma" Zodwa Mqadi. The story centers on the local children's choir as they rehearse for a trip to England, and follows the Moya family as they struggle with the disease, which has plagued the region. Notable names such as Lorraine Bracco, Alicia Keys, Paul Simon and Kanye West appear as themselves to help carry the narrative along.
Plot Keywords: orphan, choir director, uplifting, emotional, intense, africa, south africa ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two young women grow up together in an orphanage. One finds refuge in a Romanian convent and the other moves to Germany to start a new life.
Plot Keywords: orphan, best friend, nun, german, romanian, young woman, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Abandoned by his mother, 6-year-old Vanya (Kolya Spiridonov) lives in an orphanage run by a greedy woman (Mariya Kuznetsova) and her cruel lover (Nikolai Reutov). Vanya decides to run away and find his mother after a wealthy Italian couple offer to buy him and after observing that the older children in the home survive by stealing or prostitution. He faces many dangers on his journey, including the pair at the orphanage who tried to sell him.
Plot Keywords: orphan, alcoholic, madam, driver, mother, friend, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Having no heir to carry on his art, an aging Chinese street performer (Zhu Xu) buys a child (Zhou Renying) on the black market.
Plot Keywords: orphan, street performer, singer, acrobat, tender, bleak, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary about everyone's favorite felon, Bernie Ellis, medical cannabis and his fight to save his beloved Tennessee farm.
Plot Keywords: orphan, nurse, charming, cheeky, brutal, creative, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Yokohama teens try to save their school's clubhouse from being demolished.
Plot Keywords: young girl, student, young boy, orphan, grandmother, love interest, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kurdish orphans work odd jobs for food and to raise money so their severely handicapped brother can have surgery.
Plot Keywords: sister, child, kurd, refugee, brother, orphan, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Chaplin's last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital - When he gets out, he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out.
Plot Keywords: factory worker, orphan, police officer, amusing, witty, playful, countryside ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A newspaper reporter, Jennifer Paige (Janet Leigh), is investigating the Pittsburgh Pirates' losing streak. The team is led by manager Guffy McGovern (Paul Douglas), whose swearing and fighting hinder his team's progress. Meanwhile, an orphan named Bridget White (Donna Corcoran) has been praying for the team, and her pleas are answered by an angelic voice. The angel begins urging Guffy to be kinder in return for helping the Pirates win, but the playoffs test the manager's temper.
Plot Keywords: angel, manager, reporter, orphan, baseball player, inspiring, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On the Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border, the boy Satellite is the leader of the kids. He commands them to clear and collect American undetonated minefields in the fields to sell them in the street market and he installs antennae for the villagers. He goes with the local leader to buy a parabolic antenna to learn the news about the eminent American invasion but nobody speaks English and Satellite that knows a couple of words is assigned to translate the Fox News. When the orphans Agrin and her armless brother Hengov and the blind toddler Riga come from Halabcheh to the camp, Satellite falls in an unrequited love for Egrin. But the girl is traumatized by a cruel raid in her home, when her parents were murdered and she was raped. She wants to leave Riga behind and travel with her brother Hengov to another place, but he does not agree with her intention.
Plot Keywords: young boy, orphan, brother, tribal leader, sister, bleak, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Japanese couple stuck with part-time jobs and hence inadequate incomes avail themselves of the fruits of shoplifting to make ends meet. They are not alone in this behaviour. The younger and the older of the household are in on the act. The unusual routine is about to change from care-free and matter-of-fact to something more dramatic, however, as the couple open their doors to a beleaguered young girl. The reasons for the family's habit and their motivations come under the microscope.
Plot Keywords: shoplifter, man, outsider, child, orphan, abusive father, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A drama set in Iran and centered on a man, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village and enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose marriage had a tragic ending.
Plot Keywords: mercenary, father, orphan, sorcerer, goddess, warrior woman, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. She is befriended by a pre-adolescent peasant boy after she wandered away from the other refugees, and is taken in for a few weeks by his family. The children become fast friends, and the film follows their attempt to assimilate the deaths they both face, and the religious rituals surrounding those deaths, through the construction of a cemetery for all sorts of animals. Child-like and adult activity are frequently at cross-purposes, however.—Doug Shafer <dsshafer@uncc.edu>
Plot Keywords: orphan, son, father, emotional, endearing, profound, france ...
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