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1) Pollyanna
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Pollyanna becomes an orphan and moves in with her aunt in a little English town. Everyone is affected by Pollyanna's big heart. They get the opportunity to repay Pollyanna for her goodness when she has a terrible accident.
2) Life of Pi
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
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
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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.
Series
Animal kingdom volume 1
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When his mother dies of a heroin overdose, seventeen-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his estranged relatives in a Southern California beach town. Heading up their petty crime dynasty are J's manipulative grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, whose iron-fisted, velvet-gloved tough love controls her four sons; adopted right-hand man "Baz"; intense, mentally disturbed Pope; tough, hyperactive Craig; and troubled "baby," Deran.
5) 33 postcards
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Mei Mei, a sixteen-year-old Chinese orphan, travels to Australia to take part in the Australian Choir Festival, she locates her Australian sponser, but she finds that his life is far from how he depicted it.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...
8) Leap!
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
Series
Shirley Temple volume 12
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Rescued by kindly mounted police officers after barely surviving an Indian attack on the Canadian frontier, orphan Susannah befriends the Mounties, especially Inspector Montague. Moreover, Susannah proves a capable negotiator between the tribes and the Mounties.
10) Pete's meteor
Publisher
Distributed by First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
Language
English
Description
A streetwise ex-junkie running from the mob feels obligated to help raise the orphaned children of his two best friends. When a meteorite crashes into the kids' backyard, they believe that it was sent by their parents and go to dangerous lengths to recover it from the wealthy scientist who carted it away.
12) Oliver Twist
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Oliver Twist is the workhouse orphan who finds himself in with some bad company, but he eventually finds the happiness he deserves.
13) Les miserables
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The story of Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.
14) Captain January
Series
Shirley Temple volume 10
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Four year old Star has been happy living with Captain January in the lighthouse since he rescued her from a shipwreck. But when the town's new truant officer tries to take her away from the captain so she can have a "proper" home, her idyllic existence falls under a cloud.
15) Shoot 'em up
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Smith is not the best idea for looking after a child, yet after stumbling upon a blazing shoot-out, helping to birth a child amidst a hail of gunfire, and seeing the mother die before his eyes, he becomes determined to protect the young innocent at all costs. His adversaries are equally determined, and they will not stop until the newborn is dead. Now, in order to ensure that maniacal criminal mastermind Mr. Hertz and his gang of henchmen do not...
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.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Join former pirate Phineas Bogg and 12-year-old orphan Jeffrey Jones as they journey back in time, guided by the mysterious Omni device. From rescuing Cleopatra to saving the Founding Fathers and joining Robin Hood's merry men, these intrepid travelers do whatever it takes to make sure past events happen the way they're supposed to.
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