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Despicable Me(2010)

PG
| 1h 35min | Kids & Family, Animation, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 7,124 votes)

Villainous Gru lives up to his reputation as a despicable, deplorable and downright unlikable guy when he hatches a plan to steal the moon from the sky. But he has a tough time staying on task after three orphans land in his care.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City(2021)

R
| 1h 47min | Horror, Science Fiction, Action
3.0/5 (with 997 votes)

Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

Norbit(2007)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 998 votes)

A mild-mannered guy who is engaged to a monstrous woman meets the woman of his dreams, and schemes to find a way to be with her.

Nacho Libre(2006)

PG
| 1h 32min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 664 votes)

Nacho Libre is loosely based on the story of Fray Tormenta ("Friar Storm"), aka Rev. Sergio Gutierrez Benitez, a real-life Mexican Catholic priest who had a 23-year career as a masked luchador. He competed in order to support the orphanage he directed.

Predestination(2014)

R
| 1h 37min | Science Fiction, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 2,804 votes)

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

Stuart Little(1999)

3.0/5 (with 1,951 votes)

The adventures of a heroic and debonair stalwart mouse named Stuart Little with human qualities, who faces some comic misadventures while searching for his lost bird friend and living with a human family as their child.

Incendies(2010)

R
| 2h 11min | Drama, War, Mystery
4.1/5 (with 1,075 votes)

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.

The Orphanage(2007)

R
| 1h 45min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 1,276 votes)

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

Twins(1988)

1h 47min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 955 votes)

Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a south seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate low life and is about to be killed by loan sharks.

August Rush(2007)

PG
| 1h 54min | Kids & Family, Drama, Music
3.7/5 (with 1,225 votes)

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.

Problem Child(1990)

PG
| 1h 21min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 352 votes)

Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares.

Blues Brothers 2000(1998)

PG-13
| 2h 3min | Music, Action, Comedy, Crime
2.7/5 (with 296 votes)

Finally released from prison, Elwood Blues is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Hitting the road to re-unite the band and win the big prize at the New Orleans Battle of the Bands, Elwood is pursued cross-country by the cops.

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Like Mike(2002)

PG
| 1h 39min | Kids & Family, Comedy, Fantasy
3.1/5 (with 214 votes)

Calvin and his friends, who all live in an orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable basketball powers and has the chance to play for the NBA.

Level 16(2018)

3.4/5 (with 253 votes)

The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean girls,” practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. But what exactly are they being trained for? Vivien intends to find out.

Oliver Twist(2005)

PG-13
| 2h 10min | Crime, Drama, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 524 votes)

Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Earwig and the Witch(2021)

PG
| 1h 22min | Animation, Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 98 votes)

A headstrong orphan discovers a world of spells and potions while living with a selfish witch.

Directed by Gorō Miyazaki

The Devil's Backbone(2001)

R
| 1h 48min | Fantasy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 522 votes)

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

Directed by Guillermo del Toro - With Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes, Federico Luppi, Javier González Pantón, Junio Valverde, Irene Visedo, ...

Coming Home in the Dark(2021)

2.9/5 (with 76 votes)

A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip.

My Life as a Zucchini(2016)

3.9/5 (with 576 votes)

After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.

Directed by Claude Barras

The Cider House Rules(1999)

PG-13
| 2h 6min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 505 votes)

Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him?

Braddock: Missing in Action III(1988)

R
| 1h 41min | Action, War
2.9/5 (with 102 votes)

When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them. Armed with the latest high-tech firepower, Braddock fights his way into the heart of the country and ends up battling his way out with several dozen abused Amerasian children in tow! Struggling to keep them alive while outmaneuvering a sadistic Vietnamese officer, Braddock ignites the jungle in a blazing cross-country race for freedom.

The Little Princess(1939)

G
| 1h 33min | Drama, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 47 votes)

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

Love Affair(1939)

NR
| 1h 28min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 37 votes)

A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.

Picnic at Hanging Rock(1975)

PG
| 1h 57min | Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 319 votes)

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.

12 Mighty Orphans(2021)

PG-13
| 1h 58min | History, Drama, Action
3.8/5 (with 64 votes)

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.

Directed by Ty Roberts

Oliver!(1968)

G
| 2h 33min | Drama, Kids & Family, Music
3.5/5 (with 170 votes)

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.

After the Wedding(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 50min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 98 votes)

Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignites a series of events in which the past collides with the present while mysteries unravel.

Twixt(2011)

1h 29min | Mystery, Fantasy, Horror
2.5/5 (with 117 votes)

A declining writer arrives in a small town where he gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl.

Blue Miracle(2021)

3.8/5 (with 117 votes)

To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.

Martyrs(2016)

2.6/5 (with 126 votes)

A woman and her childhood friend seek out revenge on those who victimized and abused them.

Directed by Kevin Goetz, Michael Goetz - With Bailey Noble
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