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poster The Child of Paris
The Child of Paris
(3.6/5)
124mn - Drama
The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of hi…
poster Little Orphant Annie
Little Orphant Annie
(3.3/5)
57mn - Drama
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relativ…
poster Children of Eve
Children of Eve
(3.1/5)
73mn - Drama, Crime
An illegitimate child of the slums comes to faith. Later, she chooses to labor in a canning factory in order to investigate its poor conditions, not realizing she has a significant connection to the cold-…
poster Alice's Orphan
Alice's Orphan
7mn - Animation
Julius the cat is skating on a pond when he espies a young lady break through the ice. He saves her, only to realize she's not particularly attractive, and so throws her back. Meanwhile, a kitten orphan i…
poster The Black Orchid
The Black Orchid
(3.2/5)
95mn - Romance, Drama
An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow.
poster AWOL
AWOL
(2.8/5)
82mn - Drama
A young woman in the Army must make tough decisions when her love for an older woman causes her to question just where she is going. Adapted from Deb Shoval's 2011 short film of the same name.
poster The Regeneration
The Regeneration
(3.4/5)
72mn - Romance, Crime, Drama
At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loi…
poster Zohra
Zohra
9mn - Drama
Saved from shipwreck, a little girl is taken into the protection of the North-African tribal chief and named "Zohra".
poster Street Angel
Street Angel
(3.7/5)
97mn - Drama, Romance
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
poster The Blue Bird
The Blue Bird
(3.5/5)
75mn - Drama, Fantasy
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Do…
poster Ashes
Ashes
(3.0/5)
39mn - Drama, Fantasy
Dame Eleonora Duse plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her boy, the woman gives to the child an amulet in order to…
poster A Child of the Ghetto
A Child of the Ghetto
16mn - Drama
After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees …
poster Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
(3.3/5)
74mn - Drama
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thi…
poster Within Our Gates
Within Our Gates
79mn - Drama, Romance
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.
poster Petit frère et petite sœur
Petit frère et petite sœur
(3/5)
1mn - Documentary, Family
In a grove, a small boy and a small girl are dancing together.
poster The Wicked Darling
The Wicked Darling
(3.2/5)
59mn - Drama, Crime, Romance
A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.
poster Hoodoo Ann
Hoodoo Ann
(3.0/5)
65mn - Romance, Comedy, Drama
A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and quickly falls for the boy next door; Her luck seems to have changed. But the idyll is broken up after a trip …
poster The Little Princess
The Little Princess
(3.6/5)
93mn - Drama, Comedy, Family
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
poster Stella Maris
Stella Maris
(3.5/5)
84mn - Drama
Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no idea of the cruel things that some people do. Unity…
poster Princess Tam Tam
Princess Tam Tam
(3.2/5)
77mn - Drama, Comedy
A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.
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