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The Desert Flower
Proving once and for all that Western filmmaking was treacherous work even for the greatest of...
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The Faithful City
The Israeli-made Faithful City stars Jamie Smith as an American in Tel Aviv just after World War II....
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Patrik 1.5 (2008)
A Swedish gay couple adopt what they think is a 15-month-old orphan, only to meet their new son, a...
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The Clown and the Kid
In this sentimental crime melodrama, an ailing clown dies while trying to take his son to a Texas...
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Raising Helen (2004)
A career woman (Kate Hudson) must alter her lifestyle after becoming the guardian of her late...
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Dick Tracy (1990)
The comic-strip detective (Warren Beatty) woos Tess Trueheart, dodges Breathless Mahoney (Madonna)...
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Fanny and Alexander (1983)
A rabbi's (Erland Josephson) magic saves Swedish children (Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve) with a...
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Free Willy (1993)
An abandoned boy (Jason James Richter) with a chip on his shoulder befriends an ill-fated killer...
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Pollyanna (1960)
A 12-year-old orphan (Hayley Mills) brings gladness to a gloomy 1912 town, especially her rich...
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Alone in the Dark (2005)
A paranormal investigator (Christian Slater), an anthropologist (Tara Reid) and a team of agents...
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Heidi (1937)
An aunt takes a Swiss orphan (Shirley Temple) from the girl's grandfather (Jean Hersholt) in the...
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Jane Eyre (1944)
Charlotte Bronte's gothic heroine (Joan Fontaine) loves her moody employer (Orson Welles), who keeps...
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The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)
A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.
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Joan of Plattsburg
Comedienne Mabel Normand came a cropper trying to play it straight in the WWI propaganda piece Joan...
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The Saint (1997)
Master-of-disguises Simon Templar (Val Kilmer) falls for a U.S. scientist (Elisabeth Shue) whose...
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It Started in Naples (1960)
A Philadelphia lawyer (Clark Gable) goes to Italy to wrest his orphan nephew from a stripper aunt...
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Lilo and Stitch (2002)
A lonely girl (Daveigh Chase) adopts a dog (Christopher Michael Sanders) which is really a...
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Mercury Rising (1998)
An FBI renegade (Bruce Willis) tries to stop his nemesis (Alec Baldwin) from killing an autistic boy...
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Newsies (1992)
A newsboy (Christian Bale) leads his shortchanged buddies in a strike against publisher Joseph...
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The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
A pirate king (Kevin Kline) and his men meet a major general's daughters in this version of the...
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Cold Comfort Farm (1996)
Rural British eccentrics change their ways under the influence of a chic cousin (Kate Beckinsale)...
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And God Created Woman (1957)
A scantily clad beauty (Brigitte Bardot) teases her husband (Jean-Louis Trintignant), his brother...
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Bright Eyes (1934)
A millionaire, his niece (Judith Allen) and a pilot (James Dunn) love a little orphan (Shirley...
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
A U.S. missionary (Barbara Stanwyck) is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord (Nils Asther) holding...
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Boys' Reformatory
Boys' Reformatory was the third of Frankie Darro's tough-guy vehicles for Monogram Pictures. Darro...
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Curly Top (1935)
A Park Avenue millionaire (John Boles) adopts a frisky orphan (Shirley Temple) and her teenage...
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David Copperfield (2000)
Dickens' Victorian orphan (Freddie Bartholomew) drifts until he finds a friendly aunt and the girl...
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Oliver Twist
Ostensibly a vehicle for Jackie Coogan, the 1922 Oliver Twist refuses to realign the Charles Dickens...
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Blue Skies
Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances...
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