Years after a dollmaker's child dies, he and his wife welcome a nun and several orphans into their home where they begin to fall victim to a possessed doll.

With her employers out of town, a maid in 1920s England has a rare chance to meet with her secret lover, the son from a nearby manor. Class issues keep them apart, and although he is about to leave to marry a suitable wife, the events of this weekend could change their lives -- and love -- forever.

As the Spanish Civil War is ending, a young boy is abandoned at a remote orphanage with a resident ghost and an unexploded bomb.

The darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world₂s Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe,...

After their mutual best friends die in a car accident, a man and a woman move into their friends' house and take care of their goddaughter.

Oliver Twist is the workhouse orphan who finds himself in with some bad company, but he eventually finds the happiness he deserves.

"The supernatural terror returns and unspeakable evil sets its sight on new prey when a group of orphaned children are forced to move into the abandoned Eel Marsh House with their caretakers, Eve and Jean. As the children begin to mysteriously disappear, Eve makes a shocking discovery; it may not be a coincidence that she has come to reside in a place inhabited by the murderous Woman in Black." --

An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

The story of a plucky red-haired orphan girl who dreams of a life outside her dingy orphanage.

When Mei Mei, a sixteen-year-old Chinese orphan, travels to Australia to take part in the Australian Choir Festival, she locates her Australian sponser, but she finds that his life is far from how he depicted it.