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451.
The Leftovers (1986)
USA A close-knit group of orphans and their father-figure, Max, try to keep their home from being shut down...
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452.
Oliver Twist (1948)
United Kingdom Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London...
User Rating: 6.0/10
Votes: 4
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453.
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
USA Princess Mia has just turned 21 and is supposed to succeed her grandmother as the Queen of Genovia...
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454.
Il ladro di bambini (1992)
Italy, France, Switzerland Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage...
User Rating: 8.3/10
Votes: 3
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455.
Le violon rouge (1998)
Canada, Italy, USA, United Kingdom, Austria In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off...
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456.
Blonde (2001)
Australia, Canada, USA The remarkable life and tragic death of Marilyn Monroe has fascinated film fans for decades, but this two-part TV miniseries, based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, takes an unusual approach, using dramatic license (the film announces itself as a work of fiction using the names of real people) to look inside the minds of Monroe and those around her to ponder the circumstances of her rise and fall...
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457.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Germany, France, Spain, USA Jean-Baptiste Grenouille came into the world unwanted, expected to die, yet born with an unnerving sense of smell that created alienation as well as talent...
User Rating: 9.0/10
Votes: 1
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458.
Punky Brewster (1984)
USA Punky Brewster is a show about a girl named Penelope "Punky" Brewster...
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459.
Courage Mountain (1990)
USA, France In this version of "Heidi," a young Swiss girl is sent off to boarding school at the beginning of World War I...
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460.
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
United Kingdom, USA, Italy, South Africa, Canada During the 1990s, some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world...
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461.
Ri¢hie Ri¢h's Christmas Wish (1998)
USA After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas, the richest kid in the world wishes he'd never been born...
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462.
A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
USA, Mexico A Walk in the Clouds depicted a story about a young-married US military soldier, named Paul, who returned home after the World War II...
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463.
Tea with Mussolini (1999)
Italy, United Kingdom 1935...
User Rating: 10.0/10
Votes: 1
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464.
Tito i ja (1992)
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia The comical story of 10-year-old Zoran, who lives in an overcrowded apartment and is obsessed with Yugoslavia’s charismatic leader Marshall Tito...
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465.
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
USA In Africa, the girl Jill Young trades a baby gorilla with two natives and raises the animal...
User Rating: 6.0/10
Votes: 1
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466.
Problem Child (1990)
USA The story of a seven-year-old mischievous orphan boy named Junior...
User Rating: 5.2/10
Votes: 5
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467.
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
USA Lewis an orphan wants to see what his mother looked like...
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468.
The Kid (1921)
USA The opening title reads: "A comedy with a smile--and perhaps a tear"...
User Rating: 6.8/10
Votes: 4
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469.
Annie: A Royal Adventure! (1995)
USA The plucky, Great Depression-era orphan won the heart of new pop Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks in John Huston's 1982 Annie, and Annie: A Royal Adventure is a spirited, 1995 follow-up that finds father and daughter targeted by British scoundrels...
User Rating: 7.0/10
Votes: 1
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470.
Evelyn (2002)
Germany, Ireland, USA, United Kingdom, Netherlands 1953...
User Rating: 6.0/10
Votes: 3
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471.
Sans famille (2000)
Czech Republic, France, Germany Wandermusiker Vitalis kauft der gütigen Mutter Barberin das Findelkind Rémi ab und zieht mit dem Jungen, drei Hunden und einem Affen durchs Land...
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472.
Station Jim (2001)
United Kingdom It is the 1890s...
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473.
The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)
USA Natty Gann (played by Meredith Salenger) is a twelve year old Depression era girl whose single-parent father leaves her behind in Chicago while he goes to Washington State to look for work in the timber industry...
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474.
Sunshine (1999)
Germany, Austria, Canada, Hungary, France The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire...
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475.
Boys Town (1938)
USA Against all odds Father Flanagan starts "Boys' Town" after hearing a convict's story...
User Rating: 7.5/10
Votes: 2
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476.
Jane Eyre (1943)
USA Small, plain and poor, Jane Eyre comes to Thornfield Hall as governess to the young ward of Edward Rochester...
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477.
El Espinazo del diablo (2001)
Spain, Mexico, France, Argentina It is 1939, the end of three years of bloody civil war in Spain, and General Franco's right-wing Nationalists are poised to defeat the left-wing Republican forces...
User Rating: 6.7/10
Votes: 13
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478.
The Cider House Rules (1999)
USA Homer is an orphan in remote St...
User Rating: 8.0/10
Votes: 1
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479.
Oliver! (1968)
United Kingdom Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 17
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480.
Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (2004)
USA, Canada Kindhearted Samantha Parkington's world starts to change the day Nellie O'Malley walks into her life...
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481.
Oliver Twist (2005)
United Kingdom, Czech Republic, France, Italy In the Nineteenth Century, orphan Oliver Twist is sent from the orphanage to a workhouse, where the children are mistreated and barely fed...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 10
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482.
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
USA Tia (Kim Richards) and Tony (Ike Eisenmann) are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 9
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483.
Jeux interdits (1952)
France A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II...
User Rating: 6.9/10
Votes: 7
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484.
Kazyonnyy dom (1989)
Soviet Union
User Rating: 4.0/10
Votes: 7
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485.
Korczak (1990)
Poland, Germany, United Kingdom Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war...
User Rating: 6.5/10
Votes: 2
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486.
Ksiega wielkich zyczen (1997)
Poland After a fire in orphanage the administration of a nearby sanatorium for old and protractedly ill people decides to take care about a few young girls...
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487.
Kochankowie mojej mamy (1986)
Poland Rafal takes care of his dysfunctional carefree mother who is more interested in men, pills and alcohol than in the problems of her young yet very mature son...
User Rating: 5.5/10
Votes: 2
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488.
Bandyta (1997)
Poland, France, Germany Meciej Dejczer directed this German-French-Polish period drama made with English dialogue...
User Rating: 7.0/10
Votes: 22
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489.
Naerata ometi (1985)
Soviet Union The setting for this grim drama is a home for children of alcoholics, criminals, or emotionally impaired parents who do not want their children and cannot take care of them anyway...
User Rating: 6.1/10
Votes: 8
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490.
Mir v drugom izmerenii (1990)
Soviet Union A delinquent boy of about fifteen years is sent to a reformatory and there finds himself in more trouble than he was in the outside world...
User Rating: 6.9/10
Votes: 11
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491.
Poslednie kholoda (1993)
Kazakhstan The film is an adaptation of the work of the same name by Albert Likhanov...
User Rating: 7.1/10
Votes: 14
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492.
Zoo in Budapest (1933)
USA Flamboyant Zani grew up and works in the zoo...
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493.
Salaam Bombay! (1988)
United Kingdom, India, France The story of Krishna, Manju, Chillum and the other children on the streets of Bombay...
User Rating: 5.8/10
Votes: 5
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494.
Brahmachari (1968)
India Brahmachari was a poor young orphan who grew up to start a home for other orphan children...
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495.
Pollyanna (1960)
USA A little girl comes to a town that is embattled by feuds and intimidated by her aunt...
User Rating: 5.9/10
Votes: 9
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496.
L'albero degli zoccoli (1978)
Italy The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century...
User Rating: 6.2/10
Votes: 6
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497.
Podranki (1977)
Soviet Union The original Russian title Podranki can be translated as War Orphans...
User Rating: 6.8/10
Votes: 17
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498.
Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco (1981)
Brazil Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people...
User Rating: 7.2/10
Votes: 36
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499.
Tulennielijä (1998)
Finland, Sweden The twin sisters Helena and Irene, born in Helsinki during World War II and abandoned by their mother, are raised by their grandmother who calls them Vladimir and Ilyich after her hero Lenin...
User Rating: 6.6/10
Votes: 20
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500.
Respublika ShKID (1966)
Soviet Union Dedicated director Viktor Nikolayevich Sorokin (Sergei Yursky) tries to help a school of orphans change from juvenile delinquents into productive members of society in this engaging children's comedy...
User Rating: 6.8/10
Votes: 11
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