The Cider House Rules  (DVD English)

Homer Wells, an orphan, is the film's protagonist. He grew up in an orphanage directed by Dr. Wilbur Larch after being returned twice by foster parents. His first foster parents thought he was too quiet and the second parents beat him. Dr. Larch is also secretly an abortionist and trains Homer in the realm of gynaecology and abortions as an apprentice, despite Homer never even having attended high school. The film continues as Homer decides to leave the orphanage with Candy Kendall and her boyfriend Wally Worthington, a young couple who work at the Worthington family apple orchard, who come to the clinic to have an abortion. Wally leaves to fight in World War II. While Wally is away, Homer and Candy had an affair. Later, Wally's plane is shot down and he is paralyzed from the waist down. When he returns home, Candy takes care of him and leaves Homer. While he is away from the orphanage, Homer lives on the Worthington estate. He goes to work picking apples with Mr. Rose's team. Mr. Rose and his team are migrant workers who are employed seasonally at the orchard by the Worthingtons. Rose impregnates his own daughter, and Homer, who disapproves of abortions, realizes that in Rose's case, he must perform one for her. Later, when Mr. Rose makes another amorous advance toward his daughter, she stabs him, and as a last request, the dying Mr. Rose asks the other workers to tell the police that his death was a suicide. Homer decides to return to the orphanage after Larch's death from inhaling an ether overdose (Larch was addicted to the substance), and works as the new director. Homer learns at the end of the film that Larch had faked Homer's medical record to keep him out of the war, and later made fake credentials for Homer in order to convince the board overseeing the orphanage to appoint him as the next director. In the end, Homer comes to fill the paternal role that Larch held for the children of the orphanage.

Won 2 Oscars. 28 nominations