Castle in the Sky (1986), I Am Because We Are (2008), La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano (1998), Castle in the Sky (1986), My Life as a Zucchini (2016), Eureka (2000), Bekas (2012), Korczak (1990) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Orphans movies.
Storyline: People thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation discover their capacity for love and responsibility. A young Englishman, George Hogg, comes to lead sixty orphaned boys on a journey of over 500 perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And how, in doing so, he comes to understand the meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese communist partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave Australian nurse whom war has turned into an unsentimental healer on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war, who helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way across mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: child, journalist, nurse, orphan, communist, survivor, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After Alpha (Margaret O'Brien) is left at an orphanage as an infant, she's adopted by three professors who control her environment and transform her into a child genius. Years later, Alpha is exposed to outsiders for the first time when reporter Mike Regan (James Craig) is invited to interview her for a story. Taking pity on the girl, Mike helps her escape, and the two embark on an adventure across New York City. Along the way, they begin to form a father-daughter relationship.
Plot Keywords: orphan, professor, gang member, reporter, singer, colleague, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young inbred loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby's parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots. In true bad guy fashion, a traveling salesman appears and truths about the baby's origin start to unravel. But little did they know it was a trap.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: loner, traveling salesman, woman, father figure, hunter, baby, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A pair of brothers - the Blooms, are probably the best con men in the world, Before they get out, they've decided to so one last hustle; as wine and dine an eccentric heiress the time of her life, with a romantic adventure, around the world.
Plot Keywords: orphan, brother, con artist, rich girl, explosives expert, airy, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Journalist Flynn from the U.S., Michael Henderson from the U.K., and their teams meet at the beginning of the Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports, they find an orphanage run by the devoted Mrs. Savic near the frontline. Henderson gets so involved in the kids' problems, that he decides to take one of the children, Emira, illegally back to England. He is assisted by American aid worker Nina.
Plot Keywords: tv reporter, journalist, human rights worker, serb, militia member, child, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Of unknown parentage, as he was abandoned as a child, calling himself Brahmachari (Shammi Kapoor) lives in a heavily mortgaged house, with twelve other young orphans, and a servant/former thief (Mohan Choti). He struggles everyday to make ends meet. He cons the neighbouring landlord (Asit Sen)into forcibly giving him money so that they do not make any noise when he is showing the house to prospective tenants. One day he rescues Sheetal Choudhary (Rajshree) from killing herself. She was killing herself as her childhood betrothed, Ravi Khanna (Pran), is refusing to marry now that she is poor and the Khannas are wealthy. Brahmachari commits himself to helping groom and educate Sheetal so that she can meet with the high standards of Ravi and thus win his heart. In turn she must pay him enough money to clear the mortgage loan from his house. In this process he falls in love with her, but is committed to the children more than ever before, and Sheetal is determined to win back Ravi at any cost.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: orphan, landlord, neighbor, poor woman, emotional, endearing, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marries Charles Barclay in order to get an inheritance and he begins a campaign to obtain the mansion to level it for real estate development. She vows that this will never happen.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: soldier, father, daughter, sister, real estate developer, husband, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Experience the journey of Rose, an orphan who teaches the meaning of hope to all those around her. Share a slice of Christmas sweetened with friendship in this poignant story based on a classic holiday tale.
Plot Keywords: orphan, young girl, headmaster, teacher, brother, friend, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Plot Keywords: orphan, nephew, band leader, uncle, landlady, daughter, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The manufacturer of dolls Samuel Mullins is a happy family man with his wife Esther and their daughter Bee, who dies after being hit by a car. Twelve years later, Samuel and his wife, Esther, welcomes a nun and six orphaned girls to his home. He tells that only a locked room (that belonged to Bee) and Esther's room would be off limits for the girls. The crippled girl, Janice, manages to sneak in Bee's room during the night and finds a doll locked inside a closet. After she plays in the room, she is haunted by an evil force. What has Janice unleashed in Bee's room?
Plot Keywords: doll, toy maker, wife, nun, orphan, creepy, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.
Plot Keywords: young boy, father, elephant, english gentleman, driver, trainer, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A welfare worker becomes emotionally involved with her charges, a group of adorable, homeless orphans. Music by Larry Adler. (1959; B&W)
Plot Keywords: social worker, orphan, electrician, poor boy, poor girl, love interest, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in the rural south of the United States, a bereaved war widow learns to to put aside her bitterness and grief as she grows to love a young orphan boy and the dog that belonged to her late son. Punctuated with song-filled interludes.—Thomas McWilliams <tgm@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: lassie, widow, orphan, dog, love interest, emotional, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An orphan (Amanda Root) joins a friendly giant (David Jason) in a fight against evil ones who have a taste for children.
Plot Keywords: giant, young girl, orphan, orphanage director, queen elizabeth ii, butler, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ten-year-old Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) is in for the adventure of a lifetime when she meets the Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance). Naturally scared at first, the young girl soon realizes that the twenty-four-foot behemoth is actually quite gentle and charming. As their friendship grows, Sophie's presence attracts the unwanted attention of Bloodbottler (Bill Hader), Fleshlumpeater (Jemaine Clement), and other giants. After travelling to London, Sophie and the BFG must convince Queen Elizabeth (Dame Penelope Wilton) to help them get rid of all of the bad giants once and for all.
Plot Keywords: young girl, orphan, giant, queen, villain, friend, charming ...
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