Movies like For Michelle

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For Michelle (2017)
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For Michelle (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Brett Cornell learns that the mother of a child he is alleged to have Fathered 5 years prior, has died in an accident, he heads south to try and take custody of the daughter that he never knew. Brett takes to desperate measures to make it in time to claim the young girl and prove that he will be a suitable Father. The consequences of his actions follow him, however, putting his life in danger, and potentially ruining his chance to save the child from foster care by raising doubts in the mind of his case worker, whom he has become romantically involved with.
Plot: love, death, court, accident, custody, intimacy
Place: new york, north carolina, south carolina

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, touching, realistic and independent film films with plots about love, death, family relations, friendship, accident, husband wife relationship and adoption mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like For Michelle: All the Way Home (1981), She Lives! (1973), A Touch of Fate (2003), The Book of Love (2016), Wherever You Are (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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All the Way Home (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.
Plot: single mother, widow, father son relationship, death of father, death, accident, husband wife relationship, uncle nephew relationship, love, loss of father, family relations, loss of husband ...
Time: 1910s
Place: tennessee
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She Lives! (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
Plot: cancer, love, death, college student, star crossed lovers, disease, dying young, melancholy, terminal illness
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91%
A Touch of Fate (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot: hopes, friendship, family relations, starting over, redemption, human nature, love and romance, destiny, parents and children, small town, chance, legal action ...
Place: usa, north carolina, new york
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The Book of Love (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the ...
Style: touching, contemplative, captivating, psychological, teen
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: car accident, architect, death, accident, quitting job, husband wife relationship, friendship, teenager, homeless, help, love, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Rickey L Colbert Jr's Where the Truth Lies (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: A family searches for the truth ,when their lives get turned upside down after some unforeseen circumstances happen.
Style: happy, sad
Plot: lie, scared, honest, humble, hate, truth, death, love, happiness, sadness
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Wherever You Are (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A doctor's (Stefano Accorsi) life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.
Plot: ambulance, female pubic hair, male pubic hair, accident, hospital, unhappy marriage, cheating wife, male objectification, reanimation, afterlife, love, death ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Whose Daughter Is She? (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Whose Daughter is She?
Plot: parents, teen social issues, dilemma, youth, love, divorce, widow, custody battle, custody, mother child relationship, child custody, family relations ...
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June R (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 99 min.
Story: June R is a 2006 Tamil drama film directed by Revathy Varmha. The film stars Jyothika in the title role with Kushboo, Saritha and Biju Menon in supporting roles. The film's soundtrack are composed by Malayalam composer Sharreth, while Madhu ...
Plot: indian woman, feminist, adoptive mother, female bonding, custody, advertising agency, orphan, adoptive mother adopted daughter relationship, death, adoption, female protagonist, court ...
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Now (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A mysterious accident has separated Jaap from his beloved Rose, but they continue to talk to each other in their minds and dreams. As Jaap struggles to come to terms with what happened, his best friend JP suggests they travel to France to visit Rose ...
Style: road movie
Plot: coma, friend, love, accident, loneliness, loss, friendship, gay interest
Place: london, belgium
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The Long Island Four (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Based on the true story of four Nazi saboteurs who infiltrated the US in 1942 and were quickly caught and executed, this 80-minute ode to America's irresistibly corruptive allure was the only underground feature by writer-director Anders ...
Style: avant garde
Plot: mission, underground, nazi, decadence, raft, saboteur, capture, death, world war two, radio, nightlife, champagne
Time: 1940s
Place: new york
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64%
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Mirrors (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An aspiring Midwestern ballerina (Marguerite Hickey) struggles in New York as the only jobs she can get are as chorus performers. Her personal life is equally dismal.
Plot: ballerina, ballet, career, marriage proposal, dancer, love, reporter, female protagonist, love triangle, dancing, muscleman, bare chested male ...
Place: new york
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63%
This Summer Feeling (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Sasha, a French woman of thirty, dies suddenly in Berlin. Her Fiancé, Lawrence, and her sister Zoé, must come to terms as the consequences of this shock set in.
Style: psychological, touching, sad, contemplative, disturbing ...
Plot: friendship, death, love and romance, loss of lover, meaning of life, couples, love, bare butt, nudity, female nudity, beach, male nudity ...
Time: year 2015
Place: paris france, new york, berlin germany
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8:46 (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story: A glimpse into the lives of an ensemble of characters leading up to the moment the world changed forever - 8:46 a.m. Tuesday September 11, 2001.
Plot: world
Time: september 11 2001
Place: new york
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Melissa (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Melissa follows her dream of becoming a dancer all the way to New York City but finds when she gets there that reaching her goal might cost more than she is willing to sacrifice. In dire need of money, she becomes an exotic dancer in a strip club ...
Style: erotic
Plot: stripper, dancer, arrest, striptease, love triangle, dream, love, divorced father, strip club, best friend, police arrest, female nudity ...
Place: new york
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A Child's Cry for Help (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her ...
Plot: abuse, children, child abuse, medicine, wife, love, doctor, mother daughter relationship, single parent, self doubt, housekeeper, lawsuit ...
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Quiet City (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
Style: mumblecore, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, light ...
Plot: friendship, friends, unlikely couple, city life, society, love, party, girlfriend, hipster, human relationship, human nature, lifestyle ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Her Last Chance (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.
Plot: death, accident, teenager, jealousy, drug addict, drug addiction, party, drug, defense attorney, assault, friendship, cigarette smoking ...
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Universal Signs (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After the death of his fiancée's daughter while in his care, a deaf man shuts himself off from the world. Haunted by memories, it is only through new friendship that he can learn to forgive, love, and reconnect.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy
Plot: racism, black, african american, dentist, interracial relations, discrimination, biopic, family relations, life is a bitch, lifestyle, journalism, society ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place: north carolina, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Place: new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death. Adapted for television from the award-winning play by Michael Cristofer.
Plot: mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, death, husband wife relationship, love, marriage, letter, cancer, gay, homosexual, ex husband ex wife relationship, terminal illness ...
Place: california
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Grace & Glorie (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn't seem to be less alike. However, as time passes, the two find much kinship including a lost child. Slowly the two build a ...
Plot: surprise visitor, suicide, volunteer, husband wife relationship, grandmother grandson relationship, lawyer, respect, widow, regret, caregiver, dying, friendship ...
Place: connecticut, new york
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Promised a Miracle (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted in his death.
Plot: prison, court, death, small town, jail, faith, preacher, son, diabetic, trial, manslaughter, faith healing ...
Time: 70s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, philosophical ...
Plot: death, introspection, couples, aging, elderly, redemption, architect, society, rape, infidelity, secret society, art ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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A Good Baby (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby's parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, atmospheric, independent film ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film ...
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Place: new york, usa, texas
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family together. Unfortunately, that plan gets turned completely upside-down when Sue dies suddenly and unexpectedly while giving birth to their daughter. ...
Style: crying
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