Top 21 must-see best orphan movies from orphan movies, including The Devil's Backbone, The Omen, The Orphanage, Annabelle 2, We Are What We Are, Before I Wake, Orphan, The Housemaid, Fragile, and The Omen ranked and rated by score.
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Plot / Synopsis: 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 that he must uncover.
Tagline: The living will always be more dangerous than the dead...
Director: Guillermo del Toro Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés
Plot / Synopsis: Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?Tagline: OUR FINAL WARNING...
Director: Richard Donner Stars: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens
Plot / Synopsis: A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
Tagline: Un cuento de amor. Una historia de terror (A tale of love. A story of horror)...
Director: J.A. Bayona Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla
Plot / Synopsis: Director David F. Sandberg is attached to direct the latest installment of the Annabelle series, Annabelle 2 (2017). Sandberg will direct from a script written by Gary Dauberman. The poster teases more scares than in the first installment. At this time of writing, no actors are attached to the new 2017 film. Annabelle 2 is set to release in movie...
Director: David F. Sandberg Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Samara Lee, Miranda Otto, Brad Greenquist, Lulu Wilson
Plot / Synopsis: When the patriarch of the family passes away, the teenage children must take responsibility for the family chores: the preparation of the rituals, the hunting and putting the all-important meat on the table. These newfound responsibilities are even more daunting, however, when you live in the city and happen to be a family of cannibals.
Tagline: Young. Wild. Hungry...
Director: Jorge Michel Grau Stars: Francisco Barreiro, Paulina Gaitan, Alan Chávez, Carmen Beato, Adrián Aguirre
Plot / Synopsis: Mike Flanagan strikes again as a director after his Oculus (2013) horror film that I personally liked a lot with his new horror film Before I Wake (2015). Before I Wake is set for a September 25, 2015 release. I watched the trailer, and I was very intrigued by the story. Before I Wake is a nice spin on something...
Director: Mike Flanagan Stars: Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Jacob Tremblay, Annabeth Gish, Topher Bousquet
Plot / Synopsis: An outwardly angelic little girl displays an unforeseen devilish streak upon moving into the home of her new adoptive parents in this shocker starring Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga. In the aftermath of a miscarriage, prospective parents Kate (Farmiga) and John (Sarsgaard) find their lives turned upside down; their marriage is falling apart, and the demons of Kate's past begin...
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Stars: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett
Plot / Synopsis: When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood...
Director: Derek Nguyen Stars: Kate Nhung, Jean-Michel Richaud, Kim Xuan, Svitlana Kovalenko, Kien An
Plot / Synopsis: At her new job in a rundown children's hospital, a nurse desperately tries to keep her patients safe from a plague of random, mysterious attacks.
Tagline: A Ghost Story...
Director: Jaume Balagueró Stars: Calista Flockhart, Richard Roxburgh, Elena Anaya, Gemma Jones, Yasmin Murphy
Plot / Synopsis: During the 70's, some Komodo Dragon eggs were dumped on the beach of a North Carolina island. Somehow, the baby Komodos survived, and twenty years later they have grown up and taken over the island for themselves. Young Patrick has lost his parents and his dog to the lizards, but didn't see them himself, which has left him traumatized...
Director: Michael Lantieri Stars: Jill Hennessy, Billy Burke, Kevin Zegers, Paul Gleeson, Nina Landis
Plot / Synopsis: An adopted woman returns to her home country and the family home that she never knew and must face the mystery that lies there.
Tagline: Death never runs out of time...
Director: Nacho Cerdà Stars: Anastasia Hille, Karel Roden, Valentin Ganev, Paraskeva Djukelova, Carlos Reig-Plaza
