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2) 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.
Publisher
Sullivan Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Now in her twenties, Anne returns to Avonlea for the first time since Marilla Cuthbert's death. Gilbert has been offered a position in a hosptial in New York, and he pesuades Ann to come with him. He arranges a position for her at a large publishing house. Big city life isn't what they expected. Anne's manuscript is stolen by a dashing American writer, Jack Garrison. Thus the stage is set to follow the characters from New York, the war effort in Europe...
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.
7) P
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Thai
Description
While growing up in rural Thailand, a young and beautiful orphan girl is taught the mysterious art of dark magic by her grandmother. When her grandmother falls sick, young Dau travels to Bangkok looking for work in order to earn enough money for medicine. She lands a job as an exotic dancer at a go-go club. Hesitant at first and ridiculed by the other dancers, circumstances force Dau to become an adult before her time and ultimately becomes the most...
8) Curly top
Series
Shirley Temple volume 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Edward Morgan, rich trustee of an orphanage, meets and is entranced with little Elizabeth and her older sister Mary. He adopts them and they come to adore Edward. Mary falls in love with Edward, and he has the same feelings; Elizabeth plays matchmaker.
9) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
10) The kid
Series
Criterion collection volume 799
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
None
Description
The Tramp and his ragamuffin sidekick triumph over life's hard knocks in the landmark film that changed the notion of what a screen comedy could be.
Series
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
"An epic love story that spans childhood into adulthood, the film follows Heathcliff, an outsider taken in and given a home by a benevolent Yorkshire farmer, Earnshaw. Heathcliff develops a passionate relationship with the farmer's teenage daughter, Catherine, inspiring the envy and mistrust of his rough-hewn son, Hindley. Years later, when Earnshaw dies, the young adults must finally confront the intense feelings and destructive rivalries that have...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The supernatural terror returns and unspeakable evil sets its sight on new prey when a group of orphaned children are forced to move into the abandoned Eel Marsh House with their caretakers, Eve and Jean. As the children begin to mysteriously disappear, Eve makes a shocking discovery; it may not be a coincidence that she has come to reside in a place inhabited by the murderous Woman in Black.
15) Mothering Sunday
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
With her employers out of town, a maid in 1920s England has a rare chance to meet with her secret lover, the son from a nearby manor. Class issues keep them apart, and although he is about to leave to marry a suitable wife, the events of this weekend could change their lives -- and love -- forever.
16) Pete's dragon
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For years, Mr. Meacham has told tales of the fierce dragon deep in the woods. To his daughter, Grace, these stories are little more than tall tales, until she meets Pete. Pete is a mysterious ten-year-old with no family who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliot.
18) Hugo
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Welcome to a magical world of spectacular adventure! When wily and resourceful Hugo discovers a secret left by his father, he unlocks a mystery and embarks on a quest that will transform those around him and lead to a safe and loving place he can call home. Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese invites you to experience a thrilling journey that critics are calling the stuff that dreams are made of.
20) 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.
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