Movies like Flowers for Algernon
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Flowers for Algernon (2000)
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, contemplative
Plot:
mentally challenged, prodigy, laboratory, genius, experiment, misfit, social misfits, hopes, blind ambition, human spirit, fall in love, doctors and patients, disorder, research, mother son relationship, tragedy, teacher student relationship, mother son reunion, bakery, mental retardation, society, ambition, experiment gone awry, power relations, scientist ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about hopes, society, misfit, power relations, family relations, life is a bitch and disability mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Romance genres. Some movies like Flowers for Algernon: Charly (1968), Little Man Tate (1991), Awakenings (1990), Girlfriend (2010), The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An experiment on a simpleton turns him into a genius. When he discovers what has been done to him he struggles with whether or not what was done to his was right.
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psychological, thought provoking, clever, touching, allegory ...
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Time:
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Place:
usa, boston
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
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serious, touching, sincere, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: Canada
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
Style:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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