Orphan Movies

Filmed in 1968, "Little Pioneers" examines the gap between socialist rhetoric and social reality by focusing on children excluded from state...

A dedicated social worker organizes a train trip for a group of slum orphans in 1894, taking them from New York City to the Midwest in search of new...

Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from the theater the old musician finds little Helen...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Aware of the illness, it is a way for the family...

This moving documentary profiles a former Buddhist monk who runs a home for orphaned children in the Himalayas, and his relationship with its newest...

Diary of an Elephant Orphan takes us through the struggles and turmoils of orphaned baby elephants and the people who have made it their life's...

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

The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the...

Landry has Sam Martin killed. When Tim and Chito find Martin and his son, Chip says Matt Potter was responsible. But when Tim and Chito start their...

Two young orphan siblings travel to Moscow in search of their missing father. Scared of being separated and sent to orphanages, they hope to reunite...

A group of WW2 orphans, now young people in their late teens, find out that one of them is a child of a war criminal. They are determined to discover...

In this powerful tale about the rise of Korea’s global adoption program, four adult adoptees return to their country of birth and reconnect...

Kincade shoots Baird and takes the map to his gold mine. Sutherland finds the dying Baird who tells him the mine's location. Kincade, having lost the...

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal...

A French orphan girl is adopted into the home of wealthy Americans. There she becomes romantically involved with a farm worker and at the same time...

Having lost both his mother and father, an 11-year-old city boy is sent to live with his grandparents in a small seaside village. Feeling responsible...

Ahmed marry Subaida. On the way back home, Ahmed meets an accident and becomes unconscious.

An orphan is uncertain whether she wants to remain with her adoptive family or return to the orphanage.

Roscoe Arbuckle loses his job to protect a young boy from the orphanage.

In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.