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1) Annie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The story of a plucky red-haired orphan girl who dreams of a life outside her dingy orphanage.
2) 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.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are taken in by a series of oddball relatives and others after their wealthy parents are killed in a fire. The first to take them in is the dastardly and cunning Count Olaf, who is only interested in their inheritance.
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 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
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, 'into the light,' where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie. Together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs' family....
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.
9) 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.
10) 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...
11) The BFG
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
This magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis, who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches. Based on the beloved children's classic book.
14) Pan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Peter is a mischievous twelve-year old boy with an irrepressible rebellious streak--but in the bleak London orphanage where he has lived his whole life, those qualities do not exactly fly. Peter is whisked away from the orphanage and spirited off to a fantastical world of pirates, warriors and fairies called Neverland, where he finds amazing adventures and fights life-or-death battles while trying to uncover the secret of his mother, who left him...
15) Les miserables
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Suggestive and sexual material, violence and thematic elements.
In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sarah Cain is sweet, successful, slightly self-absorbed and a city girl through and through. But when the untimely death of her sister draws her to Amish country for a funeral, she makes a discovery that will change her life: she is now the legal guardian to five Amish nieces and nephews! Desperately trying to juggle the kids, her career and her comfort level, Sarah must reevaluate her priorities as she prepares for the biggest culture shock of everyone's...
18) Jane Eyre
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jane finds herself in love with an unlikely master of the house she is the governess of. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn...secrets that could destroy her happiness.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. He describes their adventures together...
20) Hugo
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A young orphan boy puts his secret life in the walls of a Paris train station in jeopardy when he begins stealing parts from the man who runs the toy shop in the station in order to finish rebuilding an automaton that he and his father had started.
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