Orphan Movies

An elderly bachelor, feeling nostalgic for his youth, seeks out his late sweetheart's teenage daughter, now an orphan forced to attend a strict...

Filmed in 1968, "Little Pioneers" examines the gap between socialist rhetoric and social reality by focusing on children excluded from state...

During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents died in a bombing, tries to enlist in...

Orphaned as children, David and his sister are sent to live with separate families, where both are abused, and his sister dies. Filled with...

Heckel and Jeckle decide it is too much trouble and time-consuming, not to mention wear-and-tear on their wings, to fly south for the winter, so they...

A young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff.

An orphan is uncertain whether she wants to remain with her adoptive family or return to the orphanage.

An orphan finds a family, old couple that has no children, day before Christmas. The twists and turns of this melodramatic comedy is inspired by...

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...

When traces of memories haunt a young scavenger who works hard just to enjoy a plate of food with his mother again

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

After her mother's death, a former drug addict Merima is forced to move in with her grandparents to the nearby village. Her city girl attitude and...

In post Civil War West Virginia, 9 year old Jamie's life is forever changed when he unexpectedly meets his Uncle Vernon.

Miao Miao, her brother Xiaolong and Xin Liao are some of the happy kids who live in the Sun Villages created by Mrs. Zhang Shuqin. But in reality...

A visit to Peterlee, Co. Durham.

A tragic comedy about an orphan girl who knows nothing better than the animal way but at the end comes to realize her only chance - to be human.

Tanti Adjo has been an orphan since teenage years. Now the owner of a ready-made clothes shop, she lives withdrawn into herself. Someday she meets by...

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

An orphan moves to the city to find work but discovers that women's wages are significantly lower than men's. Unwilling to abide by this injustice,...