The Orphanage (El Orfanato) is a 2007 Spanish movie. It’s a thriller interpreted by Belén Rueda and directed by the debutant director Juan Antonio Bayona. This movie was chosen to represent Spain at the 80th Annual Academy Awards.
The Orphanage centers on a woman, Laura, who purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a home for disabled children. Once there with her husband and her son Simon, who’s disabled, Laura discovers that the new environment awakens her son’s imagination, but the ongoing fantasy games he plays quickly turn into something more disturbing. Laura tries to investigate about this building to explain this strange and terrifying happenings. But the history about her old orphanage is quite more dramatic and gruesome than she thought……..