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Losing Isaiah (1995)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
Style:
sexy, emotional, heartbreaking, touching, thought provoking, melancholic, serious, sad, hood, cult classic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
adoption, custody battle, courtroom drama, racist, custody, justice, single parent, parents and children, legal action, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, legal, human nature, women, court, homeless, drug addiction, unrequited love, child abuse, court case, addiction, female protagonist, dilemma, lawyer ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
cuba
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Most similar movies to Losing Isaiah
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about family problems, family relations, adoption, parents and children, hopes, life is a bitch and custody mostly in Drama, Thriller and Biography genres. Some movies like Losing Isaiah: A Place for Annie (1994), An Unexpected Family (1996), Black or White (2014), Just Ask My Children (2001), Philadelphia (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she's deported to a home where they'd just wait for her to die, nurse Susan takes charge of Annie at her home. Two years later she ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot:
adoption, aids, hiv, medicine, child illness, child care, foster child, foster parent, women, orphan, poverty, homeless ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
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, psychological, realistic, uplifting, touching ...
Plot:
youth, guardian, redemption, family relations, adoption, custody, family life, hopes, human spirit, legal, life is a bitch, legal action ...
Time:
90s
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
Style:
sincere, touching, compassionate, colorful, happy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
interracial relations, custody, family drama, custody battle, courtroom, culture clash, adoption, lawyer, widower, family problems, father daughter relationship, family in crisis ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles, new orleans
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a modern-day witch hunt, in which a couple is falsely accused and imprisoned for molesting their own children.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, serious, emotional, sad ...
Plot:
child abuse, abuse, false accusation, fighting the system, courtroom drama, family problems, injustice, legal action, legal, life is a bitch, dishonesty, parents and children ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, emotional, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, courtroom drama, hiv, lawyer, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, discrimination, gay interest, homosexual, lawsuit, medical ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, sad, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
lawyer, mentally challenged, father daughter relationship, single father, child custody, social services, custody, custody battle, disability, parents and children, foster child, love ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A compelling drama that explores the different meanings of being a parent through the gritty, realistic lives of a struggling family, and a privileged family. Their lives intersect, intertwine and collide, all for the love of a little boy. This film ...
Style:
sincere, sexy, touching, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
custody, hopes, adoption, starting over, parents and children, social worker, family life, wife abuse, adopted son, christian, family in crisis, faith ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ohio, florida
Similarity:
100%
120K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style:
depressing, emotional, inspirational, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rape, dysfunctional family, coming of age, poverty, teacher, sexual abuse, illiteracy, african american, domestic violence, aids, child abuse, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
custody battle, teenage girl, coming of age, custody, youth, responsibility, abusive mother, teenager, family values, dysfunctional family, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nova scotia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.
Style:
psychological, touching, talky, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
farm, child molester, dysfunctional family, shakespeare, domineering father, jealousy, tragedy, women, incest rape, incest, sex with father, father daughter sex ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
iowa, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, sweet, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
civil rights, racism, african american, friendship, coming of age, teenage life, racial segregation, children, american south, abuse, interracial relations, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, year 1964, 60s
Place:
indiana, africa, usa, south carolina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
9 months after a drunken sexual encounter, a young man winds up raising a baby on his own.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
single father, babies and infants, baby born, teen social issues, baby, pregnant woman, environmentalism, family relations, couples, family problems, music band, youth ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
Style:
thought provoking, factual, tense, touching, bleak ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
islam, culture clash, female protagonist, domestic violence, violent husband, confined, propaganda, family problems, life is a bitch, society, isolation, hopes ...
Time:
80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place:
iran, middle east, michigan, persia, israel
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
split personality, mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, multiple personality disorder, racist, racism, go go dancer, mental health, dancer, illness, doctors and patients, identity crisis ...
Time:
20th century, year 2010, 70s, year 1957, 1950s ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, savannah georgia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In this made-for-tv movie, an adopted woman decides to find her birth mother. Her search leads her to a shocking discovery that she has to face and why her upbringing was not an easy one.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
dilemma, mixed race, interracial rape, women, custody, parenting, parents, interracial, interracial relations, strong female presence, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A corrupt politician covers up his daughter Vicky's pregnancy by forcing her to give the baby up for adoption. The newborn is adopted by a loving couple unable to have children, but a year later Vicky, now in college, realizes she was forced ...
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, serious
Plot:
adoption, courtroom drama, custody, righting the wronged, legal, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, single parent, youth, rivalry, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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 ...
Plot:
missing child, abandoned baby, family relations, family problems, orphan, isolation, missing person, adoption, violent content, rivalry, legal action, misfit ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
north carolina, appalachia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally neglected as outcasts. Thus originates Childhelp, which later runs multi-disciplinary ...
Style:
disturbing, touching, rough, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
child abuse, orphan, adoption, rescue, life is a bitch, danger, parents and children, dysfunctional family, selflessness, family relations, family problems, abuse ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 60s
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, rehabilitation center, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, addiction, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. The three agree that Linda and Michael will adopt Lucy's baby and that Lucy ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
adoption, pregnancy, marriage, homeless, poverty, parents, slice of life, dilemma, birth control, love, babies and infants, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, future
Place:
seattle, washington state
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bill Hooper -- bitter after a messy divorce -- tries to help a friend gain custody of his child any way he can.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
battle of the sexes, family relations, family problems, courtroom drama, breakup, legal action, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, dysfunctional marriage, custody battle, divorce, father son relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of the adoption process, leaving Keith to fight for Brittany's custody ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
adopted daughter, widower, baby, cancer, single father, fatherhood, death of wife, courtroom, funeral, foster child, custody battle, publicity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
milwaukee wisconsin
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Brooke Shields believes she has finally found happiness, now that she and her lesbian partner (Cherry Jones) have a child. But when Jones passes away five years later and her scheming parents apply for custody behind Shields' back, an affecting ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sexual, touching, uplifting ...
Plot:
lesbian relationship, gender, terminal illness, lesbianism, lesbian, custody, pregnancy, family life, family problems, lgbtq, breakup, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, rough, informative ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, addiction, family relations, human nature, society, family problems, family in crisis, women of color, feminist, child abuse ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
mississippi, usa, africa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties ...
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, intense, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, redemption, character study, justice, alcoholic, legal action, court, legal, corruption, moral dilemma ...
Time:
20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa, new york, new york state
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
christmas, adoption, against the odds, couples, custody, family life, parents and children, family relations, single parent, hospital, holiday, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Patty Nowakowski already has three children, but decides to be a surrogate mother. Fully confident of being able to give up her baby, she is nonetheless stunned when she discovers that she is expecting twins, and the couple for whom she is pregnant ...
Style:
heartfelt, serious, tear jerker, intense, realistic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twins, surrogate mother, motherhood, family drama, sacrifice, ethical dilemma, family values, women, pregnancy, custody battle, social commentary, class differences ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away from home. Without her knowledge, her father took the boy and raised him. Twelve years later, she is now a successful ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
adoption, orphan, estrangement, single parent, custody, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations, hopes, pregnancy, love, child hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa, england, los angeles
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip. The film is ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
hopes, children, adoption, youth, dysfunctional family, family relations, parents and children, girl, orphan, abandoned by father, family problems, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2009, 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
korea, south korea, seoul, asia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic
Plot:
orphan, social worker, man boy relationship, child abuse, adoption, single parent, absent father, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
england, europe, wales
Similarity:
18%
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