Nobody's Boy: Remi (1980)
Gênero : Família, Animação, Drama, Comédia
Runtime : 1H 36M
Director : Osamu Dezaki
Sinopse
Remi, an orphan kid gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer Vitalis when her foster parents fall on hard times.
A group of WW2 orphans, now young people in their late teens, find out that one of them is a child of a war criminal. They are determined to discover his identity, even though this person could be any of them.
True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.
Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
Sofia é uma menina órfã que vive em um orfanato. Uma noite, em plena Hora das Bruxas, ela é raptada por um gigante orelhudo que a descobriu espiando pela janela. Mas Sofia logo descobriu que ela não precisava ter medo daquele gigante, que era amigável e tinha como função soprar sonhos nas janelas das crianças. Ao lado dele, ela bola um plano para acabar com os gigantes maus, que adoram devorar "serumanos". Um plano que envolve pesadelos terríveis e a rainha da Inglaterra.
At the age of three, little Wolfgang has lost his parents. Since then his uncle Eduard raises the boy. As a former concertmaster Eduard has recognized how gifted his nephew is and the boy learns the hard way. The 6-year-old must practice daily 6 hours at the piano and already impresses at famous music parties. When Eduard Fabricius breaks a leg after a concert in Lucerne and must go to the hospital, he can be persuaded by a pediatrician to grant some carefree vacation weeks in a manor for Wolfgang. The manor belongs to the young widow Elisabeth who soon grows very fond of the little boy. Wolfgang makes friends with 11-year-old Heidi and Jöggi, a boy his age who first saw a rival in him...
The first part is pathetic and shows Eleanor Hamlin (Edith Roberts) severing home ties with her grandparents to be "adopted" by a party of idle rich on the cooperative plan. The parties adopting her are single, and one of them, Beulah Page (Winifred Greenwood), has her own ideas on the subject of raising the young - these ideas absolutely precluding the main requisite, love.
Three orphaned boys - O'Malley, Rossi and Moir - become blood brothers. When they grow up, they plot revenge on the crooks who got away with shooting O'Malley's father. The crooks are doing very nicely importing heroin and laundering money. The boys begin by killing one of the crooks, stealing his indentification and cleaning out the guy's Swiss bank account. But their revenge does not stop here... And the American end of the operation is getting very curious.
Prince Abesalom runs into an orphaned Eteri while hunting, falls for her and brings the woman to his palace as his fiancé. The Prince’s aid Murman loses his self-control at Eteri’s beauty and gives her a spelled necklace as a wedding gift. Eteri contracts a mysterious disease that only Murman is capable to heal.
O jovem Ivan Drago está empolgado após ter vencido uma competição de inventar o melhor jogo de tabuleiro. Contudo, após receber o prêmio, Ivan é transportado para a fantástica cidade de Zyl, onde ele precisa derrotar o malvado Morodian.
An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.
Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squire Simpson, who conspires with his son to acquire the inheritance due the girl.
In 'The Circus Kid', Buddy, an orphan who runs away from a a harsh orphanage, joins Cadwallader's Circus.
Roscoe Arbuckle loses his job to protect a young boy from the orphanage.
Baseado em uma história real, Mickey Rooney interpreta o palhaço Jack Thum. Thum e sua esposa cuidaram de dezenas de crianças indesejadas. Quando Thum percebe que ele tem um câncer terminal, ele desmorona e sua esposa deve ajudá-lo a recuperar sua força inata e lidar com a realidade.
Stet (Garrett Wareing), um confuso garoto-problema de 11 anos de idade, sofre com a recente morte de sua mãe solteira em um acidente de carro. Ele acaba em um internato, onde ele se sente um peixe fora d'água. Logo, ele bate de frente com o maestro do coral do colégio, Carvelle (Dustin Hoffman), que reconhece algo especial na voz de Stet. O professor vai influenciá-lo a descobrir seu dom criativo na música e o jovem rebelde vai provar que consegue atingir os padrões exigidos para participar do coral, orgulho da famosa escola.
Landry has Sam Martin killed. When Tim and Chito find Martin and his son, Chip says Matt Potter was responsible. But when Tim and Chito start their search, no ones knows a Matt Potter.
During the Vietnam War, Brian Anderson, a young Army medic, is stationed in Saigon. Initially apathetic and self-serving, he eventually has his heart won over by the children at a nearby orphanage where he does volunteer work. At first, a doctor named Katherine Cross has to persuade him to help the children. But soon, Brian willingly puts his career and safety on the line to provide the orphans with the food and medical supplies they need.
When her mother dies, wheel-chair bound Winnie Brady is taken in by shopkeeper and neighbor "Uncle" Joe Carmine. Joe convinces Father Ryan to let him informally adopt her. Joe and Winnie live together with Tommy Devlin and his grandmother, Mrs. Devlin, and a dog Winnie names Muriel. Joe sells his shop to pay for an unsuccessful operation on Winnie's legs. This bankrupts Carmine, who then earns a meager living selling fruits and vegetables on the streets. Winnie is sent to live in an orphanage, and Carmine is discouraged from continuing his relationship with her. Carmine is so distraught by grief that he slowly begins to die. Winnie is brought to him by Father Ryan, and she finds the strength to stand and walk to his bedside and sings his favorite song, "Santa Maria." Later, after Winnie has acquired full use of her legs, Joe, in his new catering truck, takes the children on a picnic in the country.
Logo após perder o filho pequeno, o casal Jessie e Mark aceita adotar Cody, um garoto da mesma idade. O filho adotivo se adapta bem à nova família, mas ele tem um problema: os seus sonhos se tornam realidade, e os pesadelos, especialmente, podem ser mortais. Quando Jessie e Mark investigam o passado do garoto, descobrem histórias sinistras.
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.