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overview : A story of adoption told without glamour and hypocrisy that usually accompanies this topic.Anna is a top model, who was …

overview : Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and …

overview : Nacho Libre is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, a real-life …

overview : Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an …

overview : During the Vietnam War, Brian Anderson, a young Army medic, is stationed in Saigon. Initially apathetic and self-serving, he eventually …

overview : Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced …

overview : For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and …

overview : A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. …

overview : Brings viewers into a small Chinese city and inspires familiarity with the rhythms of everyday existence, with people's dreams, shortcomings …

overview : After the accidental death of his son on a racetrack, Edward Milan, a wealthy industrialist, asks his nephew to find …

overview : In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress …

overview : A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

overview : Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his …

overview : Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, …

overview : Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of …

overview : In a poignant bid to break free from the confines of their impoverished provincial existence, five determined youths set out …

overview : Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by …

overview : A hostile Chinese nurse (Yamaguchi) who works in an orphanage is won over by the care and commitment of the …