The Orphanage (2007)


Belen Rueda             Laura
Fernando Cayo           Carlos
Roger Princep           Simon
Geraldine Chaplin       Aurora
Montserrat Carulla (II) Benigna
Mabel Rivera            Pilar
Andres Gertrudix        Enrique
Edgar Vivar             Balaban
Alejandro Camps         Víctor
Carmen Lopez            Alicia
Jordi Cardus            Blind kid

Directed by:            Juan Antonio Bayona
Produced by:            Guillermo del Toro, Mar Targarona, Alvaro Augustin


Laura purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned 
facility as a place for disabled children. Once there, Laura discovers that the new environment awakens 
her son's imagination, but the ongoing fantasy games he plays with an invisible friend quickly turn into 
something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in 
the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists for help in unraveling the mystery that has taken 
over the place.

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The former orphan Laura raises her adopted son Simón with her husband Carlos in an old house and former 
orphanage where she was raised. Simón is HIV positive and tells Laura that he has five invisible friends, 
and she believes they are fruit of his imagination. Laura decides to reopen an orphanage for handicapped 
children in the location and during the opening party, Simón calls her to show the little cabin of his 
friend Tomás. The busy Laura does not gives much attention to her son; then she sees a mysterious masked 
boy and Simón vanishes. Laura feels the presence of other persons in the house and months later, the 
desperate Laura invites a team of parapsychologists to try to unravel the mystery.