Orphan Movies

In this Iranian film, social worker Mina (Fateme Motamed-Aria) tells the reformatory head they should offer genuine emotional feedback to their charge...

After her parents are killed, a young girl is sent to London to live with her uncle and his family. Her uncle, who is a toymaker, secretly has the pow...

An account of a young Italian boy who was taken in by a Canadian military unit during World War II.

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 timel...

Tokutaro is an orphan child who becomes a street candy vendor. He sells candies, humming a song he learned long ago from his mother. One day he met w...

When a desolate and vulnerable girl is forced to enter an orphanage with her younger siblings, she must overcome harsh adversity and hardship to prope...

Annie (Ann Gillis),an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie),is befriended by a...

"Don't pity me, just give me money." A smart little girl, Suzu, for the sake of her beloved sick mother, has no choice but to attempt all ways to fork...

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...

After the accidental death of his son on a racetrack, Edward Milan, a wealthy industrialist, asks his nephew to find his grandson, who has been living...

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

In 18th century Venice, 20-year-old violin virtuoso Cecilia lives at the Pièta orphanage, where, despite her talent, she remains confined, knowing tha...

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

Elias is a 10 year old boy living in Athens with his family in 1969 and has an interest in Jules Verne's stories and in astronomy. His father, with wh...

In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convicts are often left alone, stigmatized and living i...

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 gra...