In his quest to be the world's greatest villain, Gru plans to steal the Moon, but he meets his greatest challenge when he adopts three little girls to help him on his mission.

Follows the life of orphan Anne Shirley as she grows up on Prince Edward Island with adoptive family Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, goes out on her own as a teacher, and marries the man of her dreams.

A young orphan in Shanghai accidentally stows away on a ship headed for San Francisco where she befriends an unlikely couple who marry to give her parents.

A pair of orphaned brothers avoid being separated by escaping to Venice where they come in contact with a mysterious masked figure called the Thief Lord.

When a family adopts Esther, a nine-year-old Russian orphan with a tragic background, mysterious and disturbing events start occurring around the family and Esther's new classmates in school.

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.

Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...

Lewis, an orphan and inventor, is whisked away from school in a time machine to the future, where he finally finds a family where he belongs.

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.