Tag Archives: orphan

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

IMDB Rating: 5.80
14495 votes

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Mad Max is a former cop who finds himself in a post-apocolyptic desert town called Bartertown. He is hired by the leader of the city to fight in a gladiator like arena called Thunderdome, so he can kill Auntie's rival master blaster. He is later banished and finds a group of children that survived a plane crash during the war. They believe he is their former pilot Captain Walker. Some of the children leave to find their fabled tomorrow morrow land. So Mad Max has to save them from the desert and from Auntie's Bartertown.
Actors
'Mad' Max RockatanskyMel Gibson
Aunty EntityTina Turner
Jedediah the PilotBruce Spence
Also posted in 1985, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Misérables, Les

IMDB Rating: 7.10
8015 votes

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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Inspector JavertGeoffrey Rush
FantineUma Thurman
Jean ValjeanLiam Neeson
Also posted in 1998, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Dynamite Warrior

IMDB Rating: 5.00
441 votes

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The story is set in 1890s Siam. Jone Bang Fai (the Fireball Bandit) is a young Muay Thai warrior and rocketry expert who steals back water buffalo taken from poor Isan farmers by unscrupulous cattle raiders. He is also searching for a man with a tattoo who killed his parents.
Actors
Jone Bang FaiDan Chupong
Lord WangLeo Putt
Nai Hoi DamPanna Rittikrai
Also posted in 2006, Action, Comedy | Comments (0)

No Reservations

IMDB Rating: 6.40
3687 votes

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A master chef, Kate (CATHERINE ZETA-JONES) lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan—with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivattes and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, preparing delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection.
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KateCatherine Zeta-Jones
NickAaron Eckhart
ZoeAbigail Breslin
Also posted in 2007, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Meet the Robinsons

IMDB Rating: 6.80
3740 votes

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Meet the Robinsons is filled with extraordinarily inappropriate and insensitive messages about adoption that will be disturbing to many children. The basic story is about an adorable baby whose birthmother leaves him on the doorstep of an orphanage. Portrayed as loving, sweet, extremely smart and overly appealing, he spends the next 12 years of his life wanting a family and being turned down by one family after another - in all, 114 couples refuse to adopt him. One disturbing scene shows a prospective dad losing interest in adopting the child because the youngster is more interested in science than sports. When he accidentally splatters them with food from his science project, both prospective parents walk out in a huff , leaving one very sad and disappointed little boy. Since no one else wants him, the child invents a time machine that will take him back in time to find his birth mother. The "bad guy" in his time travel journey turns out to be his best childhood buddy who was once his orphanage roommate. Now an emotional wreck resulting from being left behind when the orphanage was closed and shut down, the once-cute orphan is now mean and devious. The story continues with numerous monsters attacking the child as he continues to search for his birth mother.
Actors
MildredAngela Bassett
LewisDaniel Hansen
LewisJordan Fry
Also posted in 2007, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

Hero

IMDB Rating: 8.00
45432 votes

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In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin's three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.
Actors
NamelessJet Li
Broken SwordTony Leung Chiu Wai
Flying SnowMaggie Cheung
Also posted in 2002, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (5)

December Boys

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It's the 1960s, Australia. 4 orphaned boys, who are best friends, escape their orphanage and go to a beach resort. At the resort is a couple that's keen on adopting a boy, which causes tension & competition between the boys. One of the boys also has his first romance with a girl that's there.
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MapsDaniel Radcliffe
LucyTeresa Palmer
SparkChristian Byers
Also posted in 2007, Drama, Family, Romance | Comments (0)

Oliver Twist

IMDB Rating: 7.00
4777 votes

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In the Nineteenth Century, the orphan Oliver Twist is sent to a workhouse, where the children are barely fed and mistreated. He moves to the house of an undertaker, but after an unfair severe spank, he starts a seven day runaway to London. He arrives exhausted and starving, and is welcomed by a gang of pickpockets leaded by the old crook Fagin. When he is mistakenly taken as a thief, the wealthy victim Mr. Brownlow brings Oliver to his home and shelters him. But Fagin and the dangerous Bill Sykes decide to kidnap Oliver to burglarize Mr. Brownlow´s fancy house. Oliver is wounded, while Mr. Brownlow tries to save Oliver.
Actors
Oliver TwistBarney Clark
Mr. BumbleJeremy Swift
Mr. LimbkinsIan McNeice
Also posted in 2005, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Harry is about to start his fifth year at Hogwarts. He's desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends Ron and Hermoine have been so secretive all summer. However, what Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down....
Actors
Harry PotterDaniel Radcliffe
Ron WeasleyRupert Grint
Hermione GrangerEmma Watson
Also posted in 2007, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy | Comments (0)

Epic Movie

IMDB Rating: 2.10
11517 votes

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The twisted minds of two of the six writers of "Scary Movie" tackle the biggest mega-blockbusters of all time in "Epic Movie." The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one raised by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks), another a refugee from Mexican "libre" wrestling, the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane, and the fourth a "normal" resident of a mutant "X"-community. The hapless quartet visits a chocolate factory, where they stumble into an enchanted wardrobe that transports them to the land of Gnarnia (with a "G"). There they meet a flamboyant pirate captain and earnest students of wizardry - and join forces with, among others, a wise-but-horny lion to defeat the evil White Bitch of Gnarnia.
Actors
EdwardKal Penn
PeterAdam Campbell
White BitchJennifer Coolidge
Also posted in 2007, Adventure, Comedy | Comments (0)