Movies like The Reading Room

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The Reading Room (2005)
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The Reading Room (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Making good on a promise he made to his dying wife, a widower (Jones) opens a reading room, a place where people can learn to read. Despite his goodwill, problems in the neighborhood threaten his establishment.
Style: sincere, uplifting, touching, feel good, serious, emotional, realistic, hispanic
Plot: against the odds, last wish, teachers and students, human spirit, hopes, homeless, poverty, youth, family relations, life is a bitch, society, urban, city life, underdog, dealing with death, power relations, gang, rap, hip hop, book, african american, car theft, blood, death of wife, car ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Keyword: reading, latin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about hopes, society, youth, family relations, human spirit, life is a bitch and power relations mostly in Drama, Biography and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Reading Room: America (2009), Front of the Class (2008), Ruby Bridges (1998), Firelight (2012), The River Niger (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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America (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In "America," Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America. Through their sessions, Dr. Brennan helps America come to terms with his roller-coaster life, ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, psychological, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: adoption, youth, teenage life, custody, human spirit, healing power, sexual abuse, mental illness, family in crisis, hopes, society, doctors and patients ...
Time: 21st century
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Front of the Class (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: "Front of the Class" is based on the true story of Brad Cohen -- played in the movie by Jimmy Wolk -- who, "after being challenged by Tourette's syndrome from a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher
Style: inspirational, touching, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: teacher, teachers and students, dedicated educator, tourette's syndrome, school, disability, social misfits, stuttering, honest, friendship, father son relationship, understanding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, atlanta georgia
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100%
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Ruby Bridges (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Story: The true story of Ruby Bridges, an African-American girl who, in 1960 at age 6, helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent to, (and since all the white mothers ...
Style: uplifting, inspirational, political, contemplative, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: racism, civil rights, african american, black, blaxploitation, art, american culture, education, black history, school, interracial relations, injustice ...
Time: 60s
Place: america, louisiana, new orleans, usa
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100%
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Firelight (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: youth, redemption, power relations, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The River Niger (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even ...
Style: crime drama, independent film, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: black, blaxploitation, african, swing, racial issues, african american, performer's life, family relations, urban ghetto, couple relations, human spirit, love and romance ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Knights of the South Bronx (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
Style: uplifting, touching, realistic, serious, spiritual
Audience: family outing
Plot: chess, teacher, misfit, youth, against the odds, hardcase students, lifestyle, ambition, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, hopes, human spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, bronx new york city
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30%
Won't Back Down (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Two determined mothers­, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children
Style: touching, realistic, uplifting, serious, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: education, teacher, fighting the system, school, human spirit, hopes, parents and children, teachers and students, youth, society, changing lives, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Imperial Dreams (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot: going straight, life is a bitch, family relations, street kid, hopes, parents and children, society, urban ghetto life, black lives matter, black, blaxploitation, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Shirley Adams (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. ...
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: disability, hopes, human spirit, life is a bitch, single parent, introspection, family relations, family problems, parents and children, misfit, society, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
To Sir, with Love II (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mark Thackeray (Poitier) is a West Indian, who in the 1967 film had taken teaching in a London East End school. He spent twenty years teaching and ten in administrative roles. He has taught the children of his former pupils, but is now retiring.
Style: political, realistic, serious, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: teacher, education, black, juvenile delinquency, african american, high school, idealism, hopes, society, youth, hardcase students, dedicated educator ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Cross to Bear (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mother of a 15-month old daughter and would-be dancer, fighting alcoholism and the hardships of living on the streets gets help from a home for women and tries to find the will to live and get her life back on track
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sincere, humorous
Plot: starting over, friendship, adoption, life is a bitch, pregnancy, couples, family relations, addiction, optimism, hopes, alcohol abuse, babies and infants ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Two Gates of Sleep (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: After preparing for their mother's imminent death, two brothers go on an arduous upriver journey to honor her final request.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: death in the family, hopes, introspection, last wish, family relations, family problems, dealing with death, siblings relations, brother brother relationship, minimalism, death of mother, journey ...
Time: 21st century
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24%
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God's Army (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Life as a Mormon missionary isn't what 19-year-old Brandon Allen expected: so many rules and so few successes. Los Angeles is as unrepentant as Sodom and Gomorrah. He's forced to share a small apartment with five young prank-loving ...
Style: realistic, sincere, touching, uplifting, psychological ...
Plot: missionary, couples, working class, terminal illness, redemption, self discovery, life is a bitch, youth, family relations, disorder, culture clash, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 4K
Anne B. Real (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: ANNE B. REAL is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot: hip hop, lifestyle, introspection, teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto, siblings relations, family life, urban ghetto life, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Bilal's Stand (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, follow your dream, self discovery, teenage life, family business, society, youth, human spirit, hopes, workplace, family problems, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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23%
God's Army 2: States of Grace (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A drive-by shooting in Venice, California, changes the lives of five people forever. States of Grace tells the story of a homeless street preacher, Louis, a gang banger, Carl, an aspiring actress, Holly, and two young missionaries, Lozano and ...
Style: christian film, uplifting, touching, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: faith, redemption, mormon, missionary, human spirit, going straight, culture clash, religions or cults, church, society, gang, youth ...
Place: europe, italy, venice, california, utah ...
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22%
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Girlfriend (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, life is a bitch, love and romance, single parent, impossible love, hopes, society, misfit, human spirit, social relations, mother son relationship, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Basket (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Peter Coyote (E.T., Erin Brokovich) and Karen Allen (The Perfect Storm) star in this touching family drama about the unifying power of basketball in a community torn apart by war. Both a riveting sports film and a tale of triumph over adversity, The ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: youth, world war one, athlete and trainer, ambition, lifestyle, human spirit, follow your dream, athlete's life, society, dedicated educator, hopes, contests and competitions ...
Time: edwardian era, year 1918, 1910s, 20th century
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21%
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Black Cloud (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Black Cloud, is an inspirational story about a young Navajo, Native American boxer, who overcomes personal challenges as he comes to terms with his heritage, while fighting his way for a spot on the US Olympic boxing team.
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sincere, colorful ...
Plot: native american, boxer, boxing, ambition, against the odds, rivalry, native, hopes, human spirit, society, self discovery, racism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, nevada, las vegas
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21%
An Unexpected Family (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Ruth Whitney abandons her two children with her sister Barbara is left to take care of them, at first none of them like it but soon they grow to like each other. Then over a year later Ruth comes back saying she wants her kids and Barbara goes ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, uplifting, emotional ...
Plot: youth, guardian, redemption, family relations, adoption, custody, family life, legal action, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment, betrayal ...
Time: 90s
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The Sky Is Gray (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Drama - From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the ...
Style: uplifting, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: racism, african american, blaxploitation, youth, injustice, family relations, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, interracial relations, bittersweet, dignity ...
Time: 1940s
Place: louisiana
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21%
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Max & Lenny (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hip hop, family relations, society, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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21%
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Ellen Foster (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: adoption, youth, child abuse, disease, innocence lost, dysfunctional family, society, human spirit, life is a bitch, young heroes, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
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20%
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About Sunny (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: poverty, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, youth, homeless, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Matchups (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ian Willams -- who was born blind in one eye -- grew up undaunted to become an elite college basketball player. But his dream of winning a national championship and turning pro was sidetracked when a tragic accident left him completely blind. ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, independent film
Plot: blindness, prodigy, against the odds, disability, human spirit, dedicated educator, ambition, follow your dream, athlete and trainer, society, rivalry, youth ...
Time: 21st century
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20%
Cries from the Heart (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A drama directed by Michael Switzer.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting, touching ...
Plot: autism, mentally challenged, children, youth, sexual abuse, child molester, family problems, power relations, family relations, misfit, life is a bitch, mute or deaf ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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20%
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The Locket (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A bereaved man takes a job at a health care center, where he befriends an elderly and embittered woman - and as time passes, he becomes obsessed with reuniting her with her long-lost true love.
Style: sentimental, uplifting, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot: retirement home, hopes, friendship, investigation, family relations, love affair, betrayal, nursing, elderly, human spirit, love and romance, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Touch the Top of the World (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The story of the first blind man ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest
Style: uplifting, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: heroic mission, against the odds, ambition, human spirit, hopes, disability, obsessive quest, self discovery, winter, blindness, mountaineer, landscape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mount everest
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Christmas at Maxwell's (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A successful American family retreat to their summer home on the banks of Lake Erie to find meaning in life, illness, loss, and change this Christmas. With a successful career in the wine business, and two amazing children, what more can a family ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: christmas, human spirit, family life, life is a bitch, hopes, love and romance, family problems, couples, road not taken, homecoming, miraculous event, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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20%
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