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  • The Witches picture
    Movies

    The Witches (1990)

    A Norwegian (Mai Zetterling) and her grandson (Jasen Fisher) outwit British witches after one...

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    Beat the Drum (2005)

    A Zulu boy (Junior Singo) whose village has been devastated by AIDS goes to Johannesburg to find his...

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    The Italian (2007)

    An abandoned Russian boy (Kolya Spiridonov) runs away to find his mother after an Italian couple...

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    Movies

    No Regret (2008)

    A male prostitute (Lee Young-Hoon) falls in love with a man (Han Lee) whose family rejects his...

  • Bed of Roses picture
    Movies

    Bed of Roses (1996)

    After observing a lonely investment banker's (Mary Stuart Masterson) pain, a kind man (Christian...

  • Great Expectations picture
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    Great Expectations (1998)

    In a modern adaptation of Dickens' classic, an artist (Ethan Hawke) deals with rejection from his...

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    Movies

    Deliver Us From Eva (2003)

    In order to get a breather from their meddling sister-in-law (Gabrielle Union), three men pay a...

  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone picture
    Movies

    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

    An orphan (Daniel Radcliffe) attends a school of witchcraft and wizardry and pieces together the...

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    Movies

    Problem Child 2 (1991)

    Unruly Junior (Michael Oliver) meets wild Trixie and together they try to match his father (John...

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    Movies

    The Belstone Fox

    Although an orphaned fox cub was raised in captivity, it does not get pet privileges when it is the...

  • The Cider House Rules picture
    Movies

    The Cider House Rules (1999)

    Raised to be an obstetrician at a Maine orphanage, a young man (Tobey Maguire) leaves to work at a...

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    Movies

    Blood and Lace

    Gloria Grahame joined the list of aging Hollywood stars who bloodied their hands in the wake of...

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    Movies

    The Basket (2000)

    In the midst of World War I, the people in a small Pacific Northwest town are tired, confused and...

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    Movies

    The Secret Garden (1993)

    An English orphan (Kate Maberly) discovers her bitter uncle's garden with her sickly cousin (Heydon...

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    Movies

    Crystalstone (1988)

    Two Spanish waifs (Kamlesh Gupta, Laura Jane Goodwin) look for a magic stone, fight off a pirate and...

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    Movies

    Angels in the Outfield (1994)

    The manager (Danny Glover) of the lowly California Angels puts his faith in a boy (Joseph...

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    Movies

    Bogus (1996)

    An unlikely foster mother (Whoopi Goldberg) bonds with a boy (Haley Joel Osment) and his imaginary...

  • Problem Child picture
    Movies

    Problem Child (1990)

    An eager yuppie (John Ritter) and his wife adopt a little boy, Junior (Michael Oliver), who's...

  • Little Shop of Horrors picture
    Movies

    Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

    A clerk (Rick Moranis) in a Skid Row flower shop feeds people to Audrey II, his talking plant from...

  • Paper Moon picture
    Movies

    Paper Moon (1973)

    A 1930s con man (Ryan O'Neal) teams up with a precocious 9-year-old (Tatum O'Neal) who could be his...

  • Epic Movie picture
    Movies

    Epic Movie (2007)

    Four adult orphans (Kal Penn, Adam Campbell, Faune Chambers) have an incredible adventure in a spoof...

  • Slumdog Millionaire picture
    Movies

    Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

    Flashbacks reveal how a poor youth (Dev Patel) came to be a prize-winning contestant on one of...

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    Movies

    Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

    Newly released from prison, Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) reassembles the Blues Brothers Band with new...

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    Movies

    One Desire (1955)

    The "one desire" of ex-gamblers Rock Hudson and Anne Baxter is to escape their shady former lives...

  • Auntie Mame picture
    Movies

    Auntie Mame (1958)

    A bohemian socialite (Rosalind Russell) survives the market crash of 1929, marries a millionaire...

  • The Geisha Boy picture
    Movies

    The Geisha Boy (1958)

    A clumsy magician on a USO tour of Japan and Korea draws a shy Japanese boy out of his shyness.

  • It Takes Two picture
    Movies

    It Takes Two (1995)

    Coincidence unites look-alike preteens: an orphan (Mary-Kate Olsen) with a pretty, single social...

  • Batman picture
    Movies

    Batman (1989)

    The Caped Crusader (Michael Keaton) saves dismal Gotham City and gorgeous Vicki Vale (Kim Basinger)...

  • Oliver! picture
    Movies

    Oliver! (1968)

    Dickens' Oliver Twist (Mark Lester) goes from parish boy to Fagin's (Ron Moody) pickpocketing school...

  • Great Expectations picture
    Movies

    Great Expectations

    Dickens' orphan Pip (John Mills) goes to London to become a gentleman, thanks to his anonymous...