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A ruthless con artist targets a wealthy European household, but her calculated scheme hits an unexpected snag when someone discovers her dark past and vows to expose her true identity.

Two estranged, twenty-something sisters reunite five years after the death of their parents, and soon revisit their treacherous history.

Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.

A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral, and the children mourn their mother's passing in a variety of ways—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself.

An adaptation of a play by Rainer Maria Rilke in which a six-year-old orphan tries to understand death.

A photographic installation under the Westway Flyover by Steve Mepsted.

Stacey receives unexpected news while visiting her sister Valerie.

A story about a group of Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the World War II.

Rascal To Chai-yan brings a false charge of selling fake medicine against doctor Fan Tin-sang, who is sentented to a twenty-year imprisonment. Fan makes an escape after a decade, and secretly provides for the education of his son Fuk-kwan brought up by a poor blacksmith. Fuk-kwan grows up to be a doctor practising in the country. To again does harm to Fuk-kwan, only this time Fan intervenes. Both he and To die in the fight.

In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.

A family whose breadwinner dies, leaving his wife and university-student daughter in the care of his son from his first wife. He treats them harshly and wastes their money - especially his sister's money, as he is her guardian - on his own pleasures. The mother and daughter are led by a kind family that takes her by the hand and curbs the son's ambitions.

A more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become separated from each other during the whirlwind of the French Revolution.

Ema suffers from memory loss. One day she gets a drawing of an elephant from Yang , a childhood friend who has gone missing. With the postmark as her only clue, Ema heads on a journey to find Yang with her childhood friend Ban and his girlfriend Yuri .

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After the premature death of her parents, Madeline, an eight-year-old girl, has to live in the country with an aunt and uncle that she barely knows. Lonely and melancholic, the young girl is intrigued by a mysterious music that is coming out of the forest.

Gab and Driss, childhood friends on bad terms since they left the orphanage, now have opposite lives - one is a cop with the IGPN, the other a fixer for thugs. When their first love dies in a suspicious accident, her 17-year-old daughter, Leïla, takes Gab's gun and sets off on the trail of a powerful organization willing to do anything to cover the case up. Forced to team up, the orphans must stop her before she crosses a line she can't return from...

As Kyle grapples with the death of his parents, various religious figures visit his orphanage and teach him about his Parents religions.

Orphans is the true story of a forbidden love affair set in the oppressive and violent atmosphere of nineteenth century Mexico. One man, Melchor Ocampo, driven by the twin passions of love and idealism, defies the stain of illegitimacy to shake off the crippling yoke of Spain and the Catholic Church. In so doing he becomes a founding figure of modern day Mexico.

In the aftermath of war, two men and a woman begin acting more like children than adults, leading to tragedy.

An animated spinoff from the Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, this feature length film compiles the ONA footage from the "Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans – Urðr Hunt" mobile game.

After a viral outbreak ravaged the country’s adult population, a group of orphans heads south in search of a new life, only to find themselves at the mercy of a deranged woman harboring a dangerous secret.

The story behind the Uganda-based YouTube dance sensations who have endured devastating personal loss from famine and war, and use the power of dance and song to overcome hardship.

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

Two young brothers are abandoned by their mother during summer of 1948, they run into the forest and survive there for seven years.

Alexandre Varda, a powerful property developer of Greek origin, finds his life suddenly turned upside down. On the same day, he is sacked by his sharhold- ers and learns of the death of his daughter, whom he has not seen for 12 years. When he arrives in Greece the next day to repatriate the body, he also discovers that he is the grandfather of a 9-year-old boy with autistic syndrome...

After growing up in an orphanage, Abolfazl embarks on a journey to find his real mother. His path leads him through friendship, love, loss, and war—until he discovers where he truly belongs.

Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a young boy befriends an abandoned native youth, forcing him to reevaluate societal prejudice about race, religion and nudity.

The story of an orphanage, the children who live in it, and the beat-up old Nissan Sunny 1200 which provides a trio of boys with a means of escape from their bleak everyday lives.

Debut short film by Revaz Nasidze, Based on Niko Lortkiphanidze's Novel "Tragedy Without A Hero"

When a runaway orphan encounters a hoodlum on-the-lamb in Coney Island, their chance encounter becomes a life changing event for them both.

As the oldest of three, Aggie takes on the responsibility of raising her siblings. A dark secret makes her life even more complicated: she is a nymphomaniac who cannot control her urges around attractive men...

An animated adventure about Jojo the Axolotl, taking on the world to find his family, set in a fantastically inspired Mexican lakeside.

A caring teacher helps an orphaned girl in taking care of her younger sister after their mother's death.

A boy and a girl, motherless children, wander through rural landscapes in a quest for survival.

When Louella came back from Hong Kong as a domestic helper, she began to search for her son Leonard, whom she had put up for adoption seven years earlier.

Children of the past reach through the folds of time

An action fantasy short film following the story of a group of orphans surviving in the forest. Theo believes living in isolation keeps them safe from killers. Life's simple until they reach the forest's edge and encounter other people. The Dorians. The Dorians accept them. Theo develops a relationship with Pip. Struggling to adapt to this new way of life, he returns to isolation. Theo's sister is left vulnerable. The Dorians unsuccessfully convince him to come back. He is faced with a heart-breaking discovery, which provokes his return. Having a new lease of life, his relationship with Pip is restored.

Finn is a small-town misfit who pursues his passion of becoming an expert roller skater when he enters into a local competition. But when the rink he trains at closes, him and his friends must find a way to open it back up again.

Live performance of Nine Inch Nails & David Bowie on their 1995 Outside Tour

An enchanting slice-of-life comedy about a hard luck gambler who gets in over his head when he starts putting his store's profits on the line.

A Papago Indian returns to his reservation after a prison term and searches for his brother's killer.

Based on a personal experience of one of the directors, this film is an ironic tribute to the famous hidden camera television show called "Taxicab Confessions", and to New York City.

Eight erotic vignettes with Christmas themes involving Playboy Playmates.

Spotlighting 30 years of the Israeli metal band's career, A Heaven You May Create explores not only their immense discography but also the impact they left on the music industry.

In the middle of the Aegean Sea, six men on a fishing trip on a luxury yacht decide to play a game. During this game, things will be compared. Things will be measured. Songs will be butchered, and blood will be tested. Friends will become rivals and rivals will become hungry. But at the end of the journey, when the game is over, the man who wins will be the best man. And he will wear on his smallest finger the victory ring: the Chevalier.

Coming home to make amends with her estranged father, Eleni finds herself confronted with an unexpected kinship.

A docu fiction film by Nicos Perakis In the heart of the historic and multicultural center of Athens, in the midst of summer, three youngsters with a passion for arts come together in the musical and visual arts scene. Ilia the front woman of the band Stiletto Scag, is searching for her place in the limelight. Alexandros, a street artist, must deliver a mural to his sponsor...

When a suburban slacker has a reckless encounter with a mysterious woman, his life begins to unravel in horrific fashion. His friends and family believe he's losing his mind, but he's convinced something far more sinister is taking place.

1982's Video Game World Champions share their philosophies on joysticks, groupies and life.

A weekend camping trip among six old friends in Northern Minnesota's "Boundary Waters" turns tragic after one dies under mysterious circumstances, triggering further turmoil as they attempt to unmask the killer within their own group.

Blaire hasn't seen Will since the assault, but she's known his every move. Her own paranoia lures her a little too close, when she's spotted by an old friend and pulled into the morning hours of Will's dying party. In the test of who will break first, Blaire must find a way out before her obsessive tracking is revealed, and Will searches for a way to keep her quiet about the truth.

Anna arrives in a remote area on the city border. A public telephone booth stands there as the last totem on earth. This is the official city limit. Anna plans to escape. But when the well-trained phone operator at the end of the line grows suspicious of her, Anna realises that the clock is ticking at her expense.