Drama
In a poignant bid to break free from the confines of their impoverished provincial existence, five determined youths set out on a journey fueled by dreams of a better life. However, their aspirations are brutally shattered when they unwittingly fall prey to the sinister clutches of a ruthless child labor camp lurking within the bustling streets of Metro Manila. Exploited by a heartless syndicate, their innocence is ruthlessly exploited for profit.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Oliver Twist
Transamerica
Ronja Rövardotter
December Boys
World Trade Center
The Cider House Rules
Gray Wall Gear
The Runaway
The Devil's Backbone
Zeit der Fische
The Children of Times Square
Friends
August Rush
The Journey of Arián
After the Wedding
Wild Seed
Hardcore
Elvira Madigan
Oliver Twist
Sundays and Cybele
SIMILAR MOVIES
Oliver Twist
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2005
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.Transamerica
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2005
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.Ronja Rövardotter
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1984
Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearby dark forest. The two explore the wilderness, braving dangerous Witchbirds and Rump-Gnomes. But when their families find out Birk and Ronia have been playing together, they forbid them to see each other again. Indeed, their fathers are competing robber chieftains and bitter enemies. Now the two spunky children must try to tear down the barriers that have kept their families apart for so long.December Boys
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2007
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they meet Teresa and Fearless, a couple who would make perfect parents. The youths compete with one another to be the one Teresa and Fearless decide to adopt.World Trade Center
IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 2006
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.The Cider House Rules
IMDB 7.1 | Dec , 1999
Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him?Gray Wall Gear
IMDB 7.3 | Feb , 2022
The stage of this work is Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo in the early Heisei period. Immediately after the bubble burst gangster countermeasures law, there were gangsters who defended the last territory and young people who freely controlled the city. The youth conflict escalated day by day and became a force that surpassed the yakuza, and the runaways were sent to juvenile prisons one after another, where exclusive rules awaited.The Runaway
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1961
The adventures of a young boy who runs away from an orphanage on a search to find his father.The Devil's Backbone
IMDB 7.3 | Apr , 2001
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.Zeit der Fische
IMDB 5 | Oct , 2007
The Children of Times Square
IMDB 6 | Mar , 1986
An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.Friends
IMDB 5.7 | Mar , 1971
Paul, a rich English boy, and Michelle, an orphaned French girl, run away from home to a remote beach. Living on their own, their friendship grows into love.August Rush
IMDB 7.4 | Nov , 2007
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her, he grows up to become a musical genius.The Journey of Arián
IMDB 4.8 | May , 2001
Arián, a young Basque girl, idealistic but naive, joins a ruthless terrorist gang and, hoping to prove her commitment, volunteers to participate in the kidnapping of the daughter of an important businessman.After the Wedding
IMDB 7.1 | Feb , 2006
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.Wild Seed
IMDB 5.5 | May , 1965
A 17-year-old girl runs away from her east coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated from her before the girl's birth. On the road, she is protected and befriended by an independent-minded young drifter who helps her on her journey.Hardcore
IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 1979
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore films in the pits of Los Angeles.Elvira Madigan
IMDB 6.8 | Apr , 1967
Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker and a lieutenant forsake everything to be together and escape to the countryside—only to see their lovers’ idyll gradually give way to poverty and desperation.Oliver Twist
IMDB 4.8 | Feb , 1933
An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.Sundays and Cybele
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 1962
The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.