Tag: orphan siblings

  • The Cement Garden

    After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken…

  • Ripe

    When their abusive parents are killed in a car crash, twin sisters Rosie and Violet vow to run away to Kentucky in search of a better life. While on the road, the girls meet up with Pete, a drifter working as a grounds keeper on a derelict army base, who takes them in. While Violet…

  • A Time for Drunken Horses

    After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.

  • You Can Count on Me

    A single mother’s life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely-seen younger brother returns to town.

  • Chestnut: Hero of Central Park

    Ray and Sal, two orphaned sisters, adopt and hide a Great Dane puppy from their two adopted parents living in a luxury downtown New York apartment that expressely forbids dogs.

  • Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

    Three wealthy children’s parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.

  • Lilo & Stitch

    The wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl and the fugitive alien who helps to mend her broken family.

  • The Brothers Bloom

    The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they’ve decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.

  • The Future

    When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.

  • Autumn Blood

    Two young orphans in the Tirolian Mountains come under siege by a vicious band of hunters. Frightened of being separated by child services following the death of their mother, a self-sufficient 16-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother – who hasn’t spoken a word since seeing his father killed by the mayor – strive to live…

  • Marrowbone

    A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events

    The orphaned Baudelaire children face trials, tribulations and the evil Count Olaf, all in their quest to uncover the secret of their parents’ death.

  • Our House

    Ethan is suffering enormous guilt after his parents are killed in a car accident. He quits a promising future at MIT and work on a revolutionary experiment in order to care for his younger siblings.

  • Terrifier 3

    Five years after surviving Art the Clown’s Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. But just when they think they’re safe, Art returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer…