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1) Annie
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The story of a plucky red-haired orphan girl who dreams of a life outside her dingy orphanage.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this story based on the classic family novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, a young girl sent to live in her uncle's forbidding Victorian manor discovers an invalid cousin and a garden that has fallen into disrepair. As the two children nurture their secret place, they discover wonder, power and magic within the garden.
Publisher
[Universal]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Gru delights in all things wicked. Surrounded by an army of tireless little yellow minions, and armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen, a potential dad.
5) August Rush
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, 2007.
Language
English
Description
Having been orphaned and working as a street musician, a musically talented kid uses his gift to find his birth parents.
6) Life of Pi
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Based on the bestselling novel by Yann Martel. A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
William and Christina are married, but the first World War looms every closer, giving them a very uncertain future. Under the impression that both Mark and William are dead, Christina installs herself at Flambards with the intention of running the estate as a farm.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Christina is sent to live with her domineering, crippled Uncle Russell and her cousins Mark and William at "Flambards", a rambling, decaying mansion in England in the early 1900's. When she arrives, Christina finds the Russell family an unhappy group, divided by bitterness, jealousy and intolerance, brother against brother, father against son. Christina's emotions are torn. She loves the old house and the beautiful countryside, but her relationship...
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
William and Christina leave Flambards to seek their fortune. William discovers that, despite his obvious technical and creative talent, getting a job in aviation will be far from easy. William finally lands a job at Elm Park flying school and Christina is living in as a waitress at a local hotel. Romance, flying thrills and adventure are on the horizon.
11) Beat the drum
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Young Musa is orphaned after a mysterious illness strikes his village. In search of his uncle and the truth about what is killing his people, Musa sets out for the big city. He sneaks aboard a truck driven by Nobe, a father of four girls but no boys, who tries to help Musa find work in Johannesburg. However the streets are already teeming with other orphaned 'street kids.' Urged by his determination to survive and his growing social awareness, Musa...
12) Despicable me 2
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Recruited by the Anti-Villain League, Gru helps deal with a powerful new super criminal.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Two orphan vampires (Les Deux Orphelines Vampires) follows Henriette and Louise (Isabelle Teboul and Alexandra Pic), two blind girls of unknown origin, raised in an orphanage by two adoring nuns. Little do the nuns know, each night as the sun goes down, their "little angels" acquire night vision (they "see blue"), as well as an appetite for blood and teenage mischief.
16) P
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Thai
Description
While growing up in rural Thailand, a young and beautiful orphan girl is taught the mysterious art of dark magic by her grandmother. When her grandmother falls sick, young Dau travels to Bangkok looking for work in order to earn enough money for medicine. She lands a job as an exotic dancer at a go-go club. Hesitant at first and ridiculed by the other dancers, circumstances force Dau to become an adult before her time and ultimately becomes the most...
19) Eragon
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Eragon is an orphaned farm boy whose destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. This is no ordinary stone, this is the last surviving egg of the dragon race. Eragon is now the new Dragon Rider, the boy who will be a savior to the repressed peoples of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is ruled by the wicked King Galbatorix and his evil wizard Durza. Eragon, together with his mentor, Brom, the gracious dragon Saphira and the beautiful...
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