When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see th...

A babysitter takes the son of a wealthy family for a walk in the park. After a carelessness of the b...

A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one o...

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happi...

Jo Dae-yeong is a police officer investigating a pickpocket ring with ties to the Yakuza. One day he...

Efrem, gypsy boy and skilled pickpocket, faces his first theft in an apartment. An experience that w...

Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling ...

Orphaned child Samar works at a restaurant named after his widower boss, Jason–his new paternal figu...

An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy ...

In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work wit...

When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend...

A young orphan wakes up after wetting his bedsheet. Living under the supervision of nuns, he'll spen...

Three orphaned boys - O'Malley, Rossi and Moir - become blood brothers. When they grow up, they plo...

Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances ...

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a...

A historical drama about a Jewish child who is adopted by a German couple and is eventually removed ...
An orphan in 18th century London lashes out against the harrowing child labor market.

In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Ci...

True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming...

Eleven-year-old petty criminal Maroa lives with her violent grandmother Brigida in Caracas. After he...