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    The Brat

    Alla Nazimova went from heavy-handed dramatic spectaculars to light comedy-drama with this picture,...

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    King of the Jungle

    In this campy adventure, a man raised in the mysterious African jungles by a pride of lions is...

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    Ladies of the Mob

    The principal lady in Ladies of the Mob is jazz-baby Clara Bow. After her father is executed, Bow...

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    Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)

    A circus clown (Lon Chaney) adopts an orphan (Loretta Young), then falls in love with her when she...

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    Leap of Faith

    This delightful British comedy chronicles the endeavors of a group of nuns and priests to save a...

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    The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)

    Two engineers vie for the affections of a landowner's (Charles Lane) daughter (Vilma Bánky). Silent.

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    Powder (1995)

    The head (Mary Steenburgen) of a Texas school for troubled boys takes interest in a pale-skinned...

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    Roommates (1995)

    An Ohio heart surgeon (D.B. Sweeney) shares a roof with the meddling grandfather (Peter Falk) who...

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    Superman (1948)

    Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first...

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    War Hunt (1961)

    An Army private (Robert Redford) tries to befriend a Korean orphan who worships a mad killer (John...

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    The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)

    The German brothers' (Laurence Harvey, Karl Boehm) story bridges fairy tales: ``The Dancing...

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    Grave of the Fireflies

    Two Japanese orphans fight a losing battle to survive after Allied firebombs destroy their home....

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    Sammy Going South (1963)

    Ten year old Sammy travels 4500 miles on his own from the Suez Canal to Durban, South Africa.

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    Bicheon Mu

    Nursed back to health, a vengeful swordsman (Shin Hyeon-jun) leads a team of warriors and reunites...

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    The Land Before Time (1988)

    An orphaned dinosaur and his new friends face a danger-laden journey to a beautiful, food-rich...

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    Arashi Ga Oka

    In a retelling of "Wuthering Heights", a young boy is taken in by a family of priests, seduces their...

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    Fuera Del Cielo

    Released from prison, a criminal (Demián Bichir) seeks revenge against a corrupt lawman (Damián...

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    Cradle Song (1995)

    One day a newborn baby is left at the door of a convent in 19th-century Spain. Named Teresa, she...

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    E'Lollipop

    Also known as Lollipop and E Lollipop, Forever Young, Forever Free is a studied piece of whimsy...

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    Madeline (1998)

    A fearless French orphan (Hatty Jones) involves her schoolmates and headmistress (Frances McDormand)...

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    Straight Into Darkness

    During World War II fugitive American soldiers (Scott MacDonald, Ryan Francis) join forces with a...

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    A Gift from Heaven (1994)

    A dysfunctional family in early 1970s backwoods North Carolina.

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    Destiny of a Man

    A Russian man tells the story of his military tour during World War II and how he suffered at the...

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    The Nightcomers (1971)

    Marlon Brando delivers a respectably creepy performance in the Michael Winner directed The...

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    Nothing But the Night

    A colonel (Christopher Lee) and a doctor (Peter Cushing) discover a cult of satanic orphans on a...

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    Miriam (2007)

    Miriam is only 14 years old when she loses both her parents and her innocence to the horrors of the...

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    Annie (1982)

    Daddy Warbucks (Albert Finney) protects little orphan Annie (Aileen Quinn) from Miss Hannigan (Carol...

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    I Stand Alone (1999)

    Violence explodes when an anti-social, self-consumed ex-convict/ex-butcher who's been separated from...

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    Everybody Says I'm Fine! (2003)

    Is this Manhattan? Hampstead? Or a plush suburb of Bombay? Xen's up-scale hairdressing salon is...

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)

    Mark Twain's boy hero (Eddie Hodges) rafts the Mississippi with slave Jim (Archie Moore) and meets a...