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Publisher
Picture This! Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approx. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a Stalinist indoctrination camp for orphans after World War II, young Lem fixates on a mysterious older boy, then lashes out when he sees him being affectionate with the female camp leader.
2) Pollyanna
Publisher
Walt Disney
Pub. Date
c1960
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young orphan brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets with her optimistic outlook on life.
3) Ballet shoes
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three girls adopted by an explorer are raised as sisters by his niece. As each of the girls have their own dreams, they learn that in order to realize them, they must also keep their family together.
5) Station Jim
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young man working in a train station befriends a dog that can do amazing tricks. When the Queen of England is set to visit the station, an assassination attempt is put on her. Will the most unlikely of characters save the day?
Publisher
Stx Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
8) Pursued
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jeb Rand tries to solve the mystery of his childhood after a gun battle with his stepbrother.
9) Pan
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
Pan. From director Joe Wright comes "Pan," a live-action feature presenting a wholly original adventure about the beginnings of the beloved characters created by J.M. Barrie. Peter is a mischievous 12-year-old boy with an irrepressible rebellious streak, but in the bleak London orphanage where he has lived his whole life those qualities do not exactly fly. Then one incredible night, Peter is whisked away from the orphanage and spirited off to a fantastical...
10) The Boxtrolls
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, 'into the light,' where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie. Together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs' family.
"The...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Family Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young orphan named Mary is sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle. She discovers a secret garden which was abandoned after a tragic accident. With the help of her crippled cousin Colin, and Dickon the country boy, her spirit is gradually reawakened as they bring the garden back to life.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When two orphans, Bianca and Tomas meet up with Tomas' gym rat friends, they concoct an elaborate scheme to rob an aging movie star and one-time Mr. Universe, Maciste. The boys enlist Bianca to seduce the now blind star so they can get access to his hidden fortune. At once a sly psychological thriller with erotic overtones, it finds a young woman faced with amoral dilemma as a unique friendship develops between her and her actor in his crumbling mansion....
13) Swift
Publisher
Shout! Kids Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An orphaned swift is adopted by a seagull couple and struggles to fit in.
Publisher
Digital Video Dreams
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Shirley Temple portrays Sara, the pampered daughter of a British officer. Left in a boarding school when her father goes off to war, her world is turned upside down when he is reported dead. Destitute, Sara is made a servant at the school, yet she refuses to let her spirit be broken.
15) School of life
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An orphan in 1930 Paris is unexpectedly taken to a rural estate for the summer where he becomes friends with the local poacher.
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being orphaned, young Maria Merryweather leaves her luxurious home to live with her eccentric uncle at the mysterious Moonacre Manor. There she discovers a magical world torn apart by an ancient feud and inhabited by outlandish characters and mythical beasts. Now, Maria must unearth the secrets of her past before the 5000th moon rises and Moonacre Manor disappears into the sea forever.
17) The innocents
Series
Criterion collection volume 727
Formats
Description
Deborah Kerr stars as an emotionally fragile governess who comes to suspect that there is something very, very wrong with her precocious new charges. A psychosexually intensified adaptation of Henry James's classic The Turn of the Screw, co-written by Truman Capote (In Cold Blood) and directed by Jack Clayton (Room at the Top).
18) Resistance
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows aspiring mime artist Marcel Marceau as he joins the French Resistance during World War II to help save thousands of orphaned Jewish children.
19) Les misérables
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
20) Pete's dragon
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales, until she meets Pete. Pete is a mysterious ten-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliot.
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