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MGM Plus
87
8.2
/144576/
80
/2584/
81
/2292/
4.2
/124072/
100
/49/
95
/774/
cc age 8+

The Kid (1921)
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
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Disney Plus
87
8.3
/1221230/
82
/45173/
79
/21266/
4.1
/2732728/
98
/291/
90
/42245/
88
/37/
cc age 6+

Up (2009)
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.
poster
86
8.0
/14075/
75
/293/
77
/341/
4.1
/13138/
100
/20/
92
/223/

Forbidden Games (1952)
Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together, they try to make sense of the chaotic and crumbling world around them, attempting to cope with death as they create a burial ground for Paulette's deceased pet dog. Eventually, however, Paulette's stay with Michel's family is threatened by the harsh realities of wartime.
poster
85
8.3
/244824/
82
/5389/
81
/3125/
4.4
/506554/
91
/124/
92
/1357/
80
/42/

Incendies (2010)
A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.
poster
MGM Plus
84
8.1
/389904/
79
/6316/
77
/3060/
3.9
/134504/
91
/188/
94
/12274/
79
/40/
cc age 15+

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the rest of the world. Hotel owner Paul Rusesabagina houses over a thousand refuges in his hotel in attempt to save their lives.
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Kanopy
84
7.8
/32472/
78
/1977/
78
/1475/
4.2
/241936/
99
/136/
89
/149/
85
/28/
cc age 11+

My Life as a Zucchini (2016)
After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
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Criterion Channel
84
7.6
/15520/
76
/383/
73
/350/
4.1
/76638/
100
/26/
85
/133/

Vagabond (1985)
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
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Kanopy
84
7.8
/23996/
79
/1093/
77
/659/
4.2
/57203/
98
/81/
89
/248/
86
/22/
cc age 6+

Ernest & Celestine (2012)
Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.
poster
83
7.9
/10995/
76
/135/
72
/116/
3.9
/9830/
93
/29/
93
/218/
79
/18/

Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Young Krishna is abandoned at the Apollo Circus by his mother, who informs him that he can only return home when he can afford ₹500 for his brother's bicycle that he destroyed. The circus leaves Krishna behind and he travels to Bombay, where he delivers tee and befriends a heroin addict and a young prostitute. Krishna dreams of saving ₹500 to return home, but Bombay street life isn't easy.
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fuboTV
83
7.8
/151620/
79
/7717/
76
/2229/
4.1
/353676/
97
/208/
91
/1197/
81
/30/
cc age 12+

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
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Kanopy
81
6.9
/375/
76
/11/
80
/6/
3.6
/403/
96
/27/
73
/566/
82
/8/

These Birds Walk (2012)
The Edhi children’s shelter is a rare safe haven for Karachi’s runaways. Over three years, its cranky founder, a spirited child, and a gold-hearted ambulance driver are filmed, creating a tender portrait of where a city’s most vulnerable and dedicated souls meet.
poster
81
7.6
/3072/
72
/42/
76
/94/
3.9
/1782/
86
/7/
85
/21/

The Stolen Children (1992)
Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation between Antonio and the children is tough, but it relaxes so they become temporary friends.
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Kanopy
81
7.7
/29871/
75
/525/
74
/449/
3.8
/14315/
91
/149/
89
/791/
83
/38/
cc age 16+

The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
poster
81
7.3
/89610/
71
/1641/
70
/1213/
4.1
/126654/
89
/133/
78
/2505/
87
/38/

Caché (2005)
George, host of a television show focusing on literature, receives videos shot on the sly that feature his family, along with disturbing drawings that are difficult to interpret. He has no idea who has made and sent him the videos. Progressively, the contents of the videos become more personal, indicating that the sender has known George for a long time.
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Netflix
81
8.0
/264669/
81
/14370/
80
/6846/
3.9
/356709/
84
/268/
91
/1551/
69
/45/
cc age 13+

Lion (2016)
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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fuboTV
81
8.4
/1972408/
81
/53584/
77
/23925/
3.8
/1870027/
87
/376/
90
/33845/
78
/45/
cc age 15+

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
80
7.8
/912853/
76
/35318/
76
/11553/
4.0
/3640283/
85
/527/
87
/9068/
72
/68/
cc age 14+

The Batman (2022)
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
7.5
/7754/
74
/410/
72
/161/
3.8
/16237/
98
/102/
86
/53/
85
/25/
cc age 17+

One Child Nation (2019)
Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
7.4
/11922/
72
/424/
72
/427/
3.8
/16284/
97
/119/
85
/53/
81
/25/

Woman at War (2018)
Halla declares a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. She is prepared to risk everything to protect the pristine Icelandic Highlands she loves… Until an orphan unexpectedly enters her life.
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Kanopy
80
7.5
/347675/
73
/10662/
71
/7529/
3.5
/438590/
93
/232/
78
/8429/
83
/41/
cc age 8+

Hugo (2011)
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
poster
MUBI
79
7.5
/19154/
73
/735/
76
/322/
3.9
/117610/
92
/111/
85
/40/
82
/22/

The Girl with the Needle (2024)
Struggling to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen, a newly unemployed and pregnant young woman is taken in by a charismatic elder to help run an underground adoption agency. The two form an unexpected bond, until a sudden discovery changes everything.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
79
7.7
/17812/
70
/388/
70
/366/
3.7
/22178/
98
/42/
76
/290/
99
/15/

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/25313/
78
/947/
77
/558/
3.7
/33248/
90
/151/
89
/224/
65
/35/
cc age 13+

Maudie (2016)
Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
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Criterion Channel
82
79
7.9
/12642/
76
/298/
81
/757/
4.0
/18760/
89
/9/
90
/85/

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.4
/44059/
74
/925/
70
/461/
3.6
/40083/
90
/79/
81
/1370/
74
/11/
cc age 8+

Oliver! (1968)
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
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Criterion Channel
79
7.4
/45047/
69
/973/
72
/861/
3.8
/110596/
92
/53/
84
/878/
81
/15/
cc age 14+

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.
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AMC+ Amazon Channel
78
7.6
/39007/
75
/540/
71
/471/
3.8
/17097/
87
/102/
87
/1570/
78
/29/

After the Wedding (2006)
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
poster
78
7.4
/169759/
72
/4114/
72
/3042/
3.6
/143451/
87
/180/
86
/12143/
74
/33/
cc age 15+

The Orphanage (2007)
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
7.3
/12205/
71
/473/
70
/417/
3.8
/11504/
95
/113/
87
/61/
78
/23/
cc age 14+

The Innocents (2016)
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
poster
78
7.3
/3867/
67
/68/
65
/63/
3.9
/4588/
91
/58/
88
/275/
79
/15/

Brand Upon the Brain! (2007)
After returning home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
78
7.5
/18442/
74
/339/
72
/271/
3.8
/13602/
95
/22/
90
/363/
75
/12/
cc age 15+

Europa Europa (1990)
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
poster
The Roku Channel
78
7.4
/74981/
73
/1950/
72
/1317/
3.8
/86166/
93
/121/
89
/2319/
78
/31/

The Devil's Backbone (2001)
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.
poster
77
7.4
/186/
50
/4/
57
/7/
100
/5/
94
/19/

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (2007)
Since the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in any conflict since World War II. In addition to the dead, hundreds of thousands of woman and girls have been raped. Rape, explains a British colonel, is a weapon of war, part of a destabilization covering the theft of valuable minerals. Rape victims are traumatized, injured, abandoned by husbands, pregnant, and ravaged by disease.
poster
Peacock Premium
77
7.6
/651563/
78
/40133/
76
/20437/
3.7
/1842410/
83
/280/
78
/52700/
78
/36/
cc age 12+

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
As Lord Voldemort tightens his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds, Hogwarts is no longer a safe haven. Harry suspects perils may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle fast approaching. Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemorts defenses and to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Even as the decisive showdown looms, romance blossoms for Harry, Ron, Hermione and their classmates. Love is in the air, but danger lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same again.
poster
77
7.6
/5926/
71
/66/
70
/99/
3.7
/1810/
88
/24/
87
/33/

The Thief (1997)
Katya and her 6-year-old son Sanya, who, in 1952, meet a veteran Soviet officer named Tolyan. Katya falls in love with Tolyan, who turns out to be a small time criminal, but who also becomes a father figure to Sanya ...
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Kanopy
77
7.2
/64508/
70
/2552/
68
/1183/
3.6
/47674/
96
/137/
81
/547/
83
/34/
cc age 16+

'71 (2014)
A young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
poster
76
7.2
/2250/
69
/106/
69
/24/
3.6
/6519/
97
/39/
82
/4/

A House Made of Splinters (2023)
A temporary house for abandoned children near the front line in eastern Ukraine is run by a small group of social workers determined to provide comfort and safety. It may be humble and somewhat run-down, but this house is filled with love and offers up to nine months of refuge to kids whose fate will be determined by the system. During this short time, the caretakers try to nurture within them a sense of stability and normalcy.
poster
Criterion Channel
76
7.1
/2409/
66
/30/
69
/47/
3.7
/4110/
91
/11/
80
/30/

Deep Crimson (1996)
Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder.
poster
76
7.4
/74535/
73
/1766/
72
/1181/
3.8
/54135/
80
/61/
89
/3272/
73
/16/
cc age 16+

The City of Lost Children (1995)
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
7.9
/227623/
79
/8363/
77
/4466/
4.0
/273833/
71
/91/
92
/10453/
60
/12/
cc age 16+

The Blues Brothers (1980)
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
poster
76
7.4
/54064/
75
/2045/
70
/682/
4.0
/76368/
83
/63/
85
/2108/
65
/14/

Black Dynamite (2009)
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.
poster
76
7.4
/331142/
75
/16705/
74
/6890/
3.6
/243962/
84
/108/
75
/1459/
69
/28/
cc age 16+

Predestination (2014)
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
poster
75
8.0
/620953/
78
/13882/
75
/8111/
3.7
/340360/
64
/214/
90
/35205/
64
/39/
cc age 17+

Blood Diamond (2006)
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
poster
fuboTV
75
7.3
/189898/
75
/19479/
72
/5282/
4.0
/934362/
89
/313/
81
/2582/
75
/48/
cc age 7+

The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
A cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick.
poster
Plex
75
6.8
/2098/
71
/44/
67
/39/
3.4
/679/
100
/5/
80
/18/

Second Best (1994)
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
poster
75
7.2
/8080/
73
/501/
69
/787/
3.5
/23427/
91
/58/

The Three Brothers (1995)
Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
75
7.6
/35542/
76
/751/
73
/439/
3.6
/11171/
73
/41/
91
/1631/
57
/22/

The Red Violin (1998)
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.6
/84814/
74
/1345/
73
/1222/
3.4
/28395/
65
/177/
84
/10011/
61
/34/
cc age 15+

The Kite Runner (2007)
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.


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