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Orphan Drama Movies

Name: Orphan Drama Movies
Creator: TMDB / IMDB

Dramatic films about orphans navigating the world without parents — stories of resilience and belonging.

Orphan Drama Movies is a structured movies dataset with 23 entries. Its fields include Title, Year, Director. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.

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Source:TMDB / IMDB

Updated:3/8/2026

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Dataset details

Table scope: All 23 rows
Fields: 8 columns
Source: TMDB / IMDB
Data updated: Mar 8, 2026

Included fields: Title, Year, Director, IMDB Rating, Genre, and 3 more.

The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.

Preview observations

Year span: 1988 to 2018; Across 23 preview rows
IMDB Rating range: 6 to 8.4; Across 23 preview rows

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Grave of the Fireflies	1988	Isao Takahata	8.4	Animation, Drama, War	Japan	89	In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted...
Central Station	1998	Walter Salles	8.1	Drama	Brazil	111	An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
The Boy and the Beast	2015	Mamoru Hosoda	7.9	Action, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy	Japan	119	Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.
Shoplifters	2018	Hirokazu Kore-eda	7.8	Drama, Crime, Thriller	Japan	120	In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface,...
My Life as a Zucchini	2016	Claude Barras	7.8	Animation, Comedy, Drama	France	66	After his mother’s death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home filled with other orphans his age. There, with the help of his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust and love as he searches for a new family of his own.
Slumdog Millionaire	2008	Danny Boyle	7.7	Drama, Romance	United Kingdom	121	A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
Moonrise Kingdom	2012	Wes Anderson	7.7	Comedy, Drama, Romance	United States of America	94	Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and t...
A Little Princess	1995	Alfonso Cuarón	7.6	Drama, Family, Fantasy	United States of America	97	When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend the same boarding school her late mother attended. She soon clashes with the severe headmistress, Miss Minchin, who attempts to stifle Sara's creativity and sense of self-worth.
Tarzan	1999	Chris Buck	7.4	Family, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Action	United States of America	88	Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to...
August Rush	2007	Kirsten Sheridan	7.4	Family, Drama, Music	United States of America	114	Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.
The Devil's Backbone	2001	Guillermo del Toro	7.3	Fantasy, Drama, Horror, Thriller	Spain	108	Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.
Hugo	2011	Martin Scorsese	7.2	Adventure, Drama, Family	United Kingdom	126	Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the go...
The Orphanage	2007	J. A. Bayona	7.2	Horror, Drama, Thriller	Spain	105	A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Jane Eyre	2011	Cary Joji Fukunaga	7.2	Drama, Romance	United Kingdom	120	After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	1996	Gary Trousdale	7.1	Drama, Animation, Family	United States of America	91	Isolated bell-ringer Quasimodo wishes to leave Notre Dame tower against the wishes of Judge Claude Frollo, his stern guardian and Paris' strait-laced Minister of Justice. His first venture to the outside world finds him Esmeralda, a kind-hearted and fearless Romani woman who openly stands up to F...
The Cider House Rules	1999	Lasse Hallström	7.1	Drama	United States of America	126	Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. What will Homer learn about l...
All Dogs Go to Heaven	1989	Don Bluth	6.8	Drama, Animation, Family, Comedy, Fantasy	Ireland	84	When a casino-owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back...
Oliver Twist	2005	Roman Polanski	6.7	Crime, Drama, Family	Czech Republic	130	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. Bro...
Before I Wake	2016	Mike Flanagan	6.5	Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller	United States of America	97	An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.
A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song	2011	Damon Santostefano	6.4	Comedy, Family, Romance, Drama	United States of America	88	In this modern telling of the classic tale, aspiring singer Katie Gibbs falls for the new boy at her performing arts high school. But Katie's wicked stepmother and stepsister are scheming to crush her dream before she can sing her way into his heart.
Free Willy	1993	Simon Wincer	6.2	Family, Adventure, Drama	United States of America	112	When maladjusted orphan Jesse vandalizes a theme park, he is placed with foster parents and must work at the park to make amends. There he meets Willy, a young Orca whale who has been separated from his family. Sensing kinship, they form a bond and, with the help of kindly whale trainer Rae Lindl...
Annie	2014	Will Gluck	6.2	Comedy, Drama, Family	United States of America	118	Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everythi...
The Glass House	2001	Daniel Sackheim	6	Drama, Thriller	United States of America	107	When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenly shattered. Moving to an incredible house in Malibu with the Glasses', old friends of the family, seems to be the beginning of a new life for them.

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