Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "war-orphan"

1. Godzilla Minus One (2023)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.

Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Sakura Andô, Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yuki Yamada

Votes: 57,967

2. Big Eyes (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter

Votes: 99,144 | Gross: $14.48M

3. The Flowers of War (2011)

R | 146 min | Drama, History, Romance

An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang, Tianyuan Huang

Votes: 55,739 | Gross: $0.01M

4. The Devil's Backbone (2001)

R | 106 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve

Votes: 71,034 | Gross: $0.75M

5. Kingdom (2019)

R | 134 min | Action, History, War

In ancient China, a young boy dreams of becoming the greatest general of the Qin Kingdom.

Director: Shinsuke Sato | Stars: Kento Yamazaki, Ryô Yoshizawa, Masami Nagasawa, Kanna Hashimoto

Votes: 4,110

6. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.

Director: George Seaton | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 54,936 | Gross: $2.65M

7. The Second Civil War (1997 TV Movie)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama

A simple immigration issue spins wildly out of control for those involved, ranging from the President of the United States, to a news producer.

Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Beau Bridges, Joanna Cassidy, Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones

Votes: 2,276

8. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War

Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin

Votes: 19,790 | Gross: $0.02M

9. Resistance (2020)

R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of mime Marcel Marceau as he works with a group of Jewish boy scouts and the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans during World War II.

Director: Jonathan Jakubowicz | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Félix Moati

Votes: 8,968

10. The Innocents (2016)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History

1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne

Votes: 11,614 | Gross: $1.06M

11. Kingdom 3 (2023)

129 min | Action, History, War

It follows Li Xin and Wang Qi as they stand on the battlefield for the first time to fight off an invasion by Zhao, and it also follows Ying Zheng's unknown past.

Director: Shinsuke Sato | Stars: Kento Yamazaki, Ryô Yoshizawa, Kanna Hashimoto, Ken Aoki

Votes: 1,107

12. The Tree of Blood (2018)

TV-MA | 130 min | Drama

Rebeca and Marc make a travel to discover their mutual family pasts in Rebeca's grandparents house.

Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Álvaro Cervantes, Úrsula Corberó, Patricia López Arnaiz, Joaquín Furriel

Votes: 3,437

13. Kingdom II: Harukanaru Daichi e (2022)

TV-14 | 134 min | Action, Adventure, History

It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.

Director: Shinsuke Sato | Stars: Kento Yamazaki, Ryô Yoshizawa, Kanna Hashimoto, Nana Seino

Votes: 1,586

14. Paisan (1946)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, War

American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs, Robert Van Loon

Votes: 9,561

15. Forbidden Games (1952)

Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, War

A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.

Director: René Clément | Stars: Georges Poujouly, Brigitte Fossey, Amédée, Laurence Badie

Votes: 13,112 | Gross: $0.01M

16. The Boy with Green Hair (1948)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

This parable looks at public reaction when the hair of an American war orphan mysteriously turns green.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Dean Stockwell

Votes: 3,261

17. See You Up There (2017)

TV-MA | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In November 1919, two soldiers--a disfigured but brilliant artist and an ex-accountant--start a memorial con. But in Roaring Twenties France, their adventures soon turn dangerous.

Director: Albert Dupontel | Stars: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Albert Dupontel, Laurent Lafitte, Niels Arestrup

Votes: 10,995

18. Eureka Seven (2005–2006)

TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

14-year-old Renton joins the rebel GekkoState ship, co-pilots the TypeZero with the mysterious Eureka, and unknowingly becomes part of a grand scheme.

Stars: Yûko Sanpei, Keiji Fujiwara, Kaori Nazuka, Johnny Yong Bosch

Votes: 3,306

19. The Search (1948)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, War

In post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Ivan Jandl, Aline MacMahon, Wendell Corey

Votes: 4,842

20. Fugitive Pieces (2007)

R | 104 min | Drama

A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.

Director: Jeremy Podeswa | Stars: Stephen Dillane, Rade Serbedzija, Rosamund Pike, Ayelet Zurer

Votes: 2,701 | Gross: $0.63M

21. The Steel Helmet (1951)

Approved | 85 min | Action, Drama, War

A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards

Votes: 4,736

22. Land of Hope (2018)

TV-14 | 108 min | Drama, History, Romance

Anni lives a sheltered life until she falls in love with Veikko, who has been wounded at the end of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her life behind and moves with Veikko to North Karelia.

Director: Markku Pölönen | Stars: Oona Airola, Konsta Laakso, Helmi Linnosmaa, Antti Virmavirta

Votes: 989

23. Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, War

Two war veterans help an orphaned child find her grandfather.

Directors: George Marshall, Ray McCarey, Harry Black, Lloyd French | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Don Dillaway, Jackie Lyn Dufton

Votes: 2,668

24. The Front Line (2011)

Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Drama, History

A drama centered on the Korean War's final battle that will determine the border between north and south.

Director: Hun Jang | Stars: Shin Ha-kyun, Go Soo, Ryu Seung-su, Ko Chang-seok

Votes: 7,105 | Gross: $0.01M

25. Saint Ange (2004)

R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Anna is a servant who accepts a post at the St. Ange. She arrives to confront an unsettling lack of orphans, save for one. Then the bizarre sights and sounds begin, which seem to elude detection by the other servant or the gloomy director.

Director: Pascal Laugier | Stars: Virginie Ledoyen, Lou Doillon, Catriona MacColl, Dorina Lazar

Votes: 4,942

26. The Old Maid (1939)

Approved | 95 min | Drama

The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp

Votes: 4,062

27. Marguerite (2015)

R | 129 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

It is party day at Marguerite Dumont's castle. She sings wholeheartedly, but terribly out of tune. Marguerite has been living her passion in her own bubble, and the hypocrite audience acts as if she was the diva she believes she is.

Director: Xavier Giannoli | Stars: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Christa Théret

Votes: 5,673 | Gross: $0.51M

28. Xenoblade Chronicles (2010 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Drama

In a world of endless ocean, all life lives on the decaying corpses of two gigantic titans, the Bionis and Mechonis. When the army of Mechonis attacks his home, young scientist Shulk sets out for revenge.

Directors: Ko Kojima, Genki Yokota, Tetsuya Takahashi | Stars: Shintarô Asanuma, Eri Nakao, Ryô Horikawa, Eiji Miyashita

Votes: 822

29. Tito and Me (1992)

104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A 10-year-old boy goes through variety of silly situations and confusions during the peak of Marshal Tito's cult of personality in 1950's Yugoslavia.

Director: Goran Markovic | Stars: Dimitrije Vojnov, Lazar Ristovski, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Anica Dobra

Votes: 6,131 | Gross: $0.14M

30. The Savage Peace (2015 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, History

When the Second World War ended, the people of liberated Europe celebrated their freedom from Nazi tyranny. Their years of suffering had ended, but for millions of Germans, the end of the conflict opened a new and terrible chapter.

Director: Peter Molloy | Stars: Christa Ronke, Marianne Becker, Meda Mládek, Stanislava Zverinova

Votes: 312

31. Children of Hiroshima (1952)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, War

Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.

Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Masao Shimizu, Jûkichi Uno

Votes: 1,373

32. For the First Time (1959)

Unrated | 92 min | Musical

An opera singer with a bad attitude falls in love with a deaf girl who changes his life.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Mario Lanza, Johanna von Koczian, Kurt Kasznar, Hans Söhnker

Votes: 354

33. Buck Privates Come Home (1947)

Approved | 77 min | Action, Comedy, Family

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Tom Brown, Joan Shawlee

Votes: 2,151

34. The Basket (1999)

PG | 105 min | Drama

A picturesque Pacific Northwest community raising its wheat and children in the midst of a nation reeling from World War I sets the stage for The Basket. In a time of pain and prejudice ... See full summary »

Director: Rich Cowan | Stars: Peter Coyote, Karen Allen, Robert Burke, Amber Willenborg

Votes: 669 | Gross: $0.61M

35. It Happened in Europe (1947)

100 min | Drama

A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ... See full summary »

Director: Géza von Radványi | Stars: Artúr Somlay, Miklós Gábor, Zsuzsa Bánki, György Bárdy

Votes: 1,076

36. Valkyria Chronicles (2008 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Empire's Imperial Army has invaded Gallia. A young man, Lt. Welkin Gunther, the son of the late Gen. Belgen Gunther, forced himself to enlist in the militia and forming Squad 7, making ... See full summary »

Directors: Gary Dunn, Shuntaro Tanaka, Takaharu Terada, Takeshi Ozawa | Stars: Dave Wittenberg, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Fred Tatasciore, Hedy Burress

Votes: 569

37. Mali vojnici (1967)

92 min | Drama

After the end of World War II a blonde boy arrives at an orphanage made for the children of partisans or people killed in the war. The headmaster knows that the boy's parents were Nazis but... See full summary »

Director: Bahrudin 'Bato' Cengic | Stars: Stojan 'Stole' Arandjelovic, Marija Tocinoski, Zaim Muzaferija, Zlatko Madunic

Votes: 154

38. Secret Command (1944)

Approved | 82 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A U.S. effort to root out German saboteurs at a shipyard during World War II, sends an undercover intelligence officer to infiltrate as a construction worker and look for possible spies among the managers and employees.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Carole Landis, Chester Morris, Ruth Warrick

Votes: 357

39. Submarine Alert (1943)

Passed | 66 min | Thriller, War

German spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the U.S. government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Richard Arlen, Wendy Barrie, Nils Asther, Roger Pryor

Votes: 380

40. Aylan Baby (2022)

Action, Crime, Drama

Alan Kurdi (Kurdish: Alan Kurdî ), initially reported as Aylan Kurdi, was a three-year-old Syrian - The bodies of Kurdi and another child were discovered by two locals at around 6:30 am. The two men moved the bodies from the water,

Director: Omer Sarikaya | Stars: Wilma Elles, Ali Sabri Belaid, Mike Mitchell, Toktam Aboozary

Votes: 8

41. Melancholian 3 huonetta (2004)

Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary, War

A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.

Director: Pirjo Honkasalo | Star: Pirkko Saisio

Votes: 704

42. The Amazing Mrs. Holliday (1943)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A missionary tries to outwit the U.S. government and smuggle Chinese orphans into the country.

Directors: Bruce Manning, Jean Renoir | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Treacher

Votes: 393

43. The Man from Down Under (1943)

Approved | 103 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A crusty old Sergeant of the Queen's Australian army in World War I befriends a small orphaned boy and his tiny sister on the night he is to go back to Australia. The Sergeant emotionally ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Richard Carlson, Donna Reed

Votes: 250

44. Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation (2007 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Drama

The story campaign contains 15 missions that cover the war between the Republic of Emmeria and the Federal Republic of Estovakia on the Anean continent, north of Yuktobania. Cut-scenes ... See full summary »

Directors: Natsuki Isaki, Sam Riegel, Liam O'Brien | Stars: D.C. Douglas, Liam O'Brien, Joe Thomas, Michael Gough

Votes: 163

45. The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy

It is the Lindsay's wedding anniversary and they are fighting. To help them settle down with a house and children, Uncle Matt writes Lord Epping for his help in getting the Lindsay's a war ... See full summary »

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Zasu Pitts

Votes: 226

46. Silver Skates (1943)

Approved | 78 min | Musical

Claire (Patricia Morison), owner of an ice-show, faces bankruptcy because Belita (Belita), star of the show, is about to leave and marry her sweetheart Tom (Henry Wadsworth). Danny (Kenny ... See full summary »

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Kenny Baker, Patricia Morison, Belita, Frick and Frack

Votes: 127

47. Who Are the DeBolts? and Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977)

Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary, Biography

Dorothy and Bob DeBolt's tale of the struggles and joys involved in their 19 adopted children, many of who are physically disabled war orphans.

Director: John Korty | Stars: Kim Atwood, Marty Atwood, Mike Atwood, Mimi Atwood

Votes: 248

48. The Faithful City (1952)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, History, War

Produced in Israel in English with an international cast, "The Faithful City" depicts some of the courage, patience, bravery and understanding that attended the birth of Israel as a free ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Lejtes | Stars: Jamie Smith, Ben Josef, John Slater, Rahel Marcus

49. The Vicious Years (1950)

Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama

Mario, an Italian war orphan, sees Luca Rossi commit a murder. Eager for a home and family life, Mario promises not to tell the police if Luca takes him into his household and family. Luca ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Tommy Cook, Sybil Merritt, Eduard Franz, Gar Moore

Votes: 41

50. Valerie (2010)

87 min | Drama, Music, Thriller

Valerie is a strong, confident and modern woman - she commutes between L.A., where she works, and Berlin, where she loves.

Director: Josef Rusnak | Stars: Franka Potente, David Brezman, Pasquale Cassalia, Nicole Fantl

Votes: 74