Movies like Secrets & Lies 1996

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Secrets & Lies (1996)
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Secrets & Lies (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 136 min.
Story: A middle-aged London factory worker is shocked when the mixed-race daughter she gave up at birth decides to track her down. At first she denies she is her mother. All family members become emotional, as everyone's secrets are exposed.
Style: emotional, independent film, touching, realistic, dark comedy, sincere, spiritual, social, art house, comedy drama ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, adoption, birth mother, great ending, loneliness, working class, bittersweet, family secret, women, black, mother, parenthood, female protagonist, feminism, orphan, homeless, poverty, mission, problem, family problems, suburbs, african, urban, girl power, conversation ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: london, england, britain, europe
Keyword: feminist film

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All or Nothing (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
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Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression, poverty, family problems, injustice, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, florida, algeria
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Educating Rita (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rita, a 26 year old Scouse hairdresser with a sharp wit, is married to her childhood sweetheart, the feckless Denny. He wants a baby, she doesn't. She wants to discover herself, so she joins the Open University. Dr. Frank Bryant Is a ...
Style: talky, witty, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
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Place: england, london, ireland, europe, dublin ireland ...
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Career Girls (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
Style: cult classic, realistic, talky, witty, independent film ...
Plot: life & death, college, friendship, graduation, bittersweet, women, meaning of life, angry, female bonding, loser, female friendship, mother ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: london, europe, england
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East Is East (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and ...
Style: hilarious, witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: muslim, tradition, family relations, gay son, domineering father, homosexual, gay interest, indians, dysfunctional family, family problems, racism, working class ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: england, northern england, europe
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The Savages (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style: sentimental, realistic, independent film, compassionate, emotional ...
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Life Is Sweet (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: independent film, black comedy, retro, cult classic, semi serious ...
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Time: 80s, year 1988
Place: england, london, europe
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Meantime (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a ...
Style: surreal, mysterious, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
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Time: 80s
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Bleak Moments (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her retarded sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizzare neighbour and irritating workmate.
Style: independent film, cult classic, serious, realistic, talky ...
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Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: london, england, europe
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Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
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Style: feel good, emotional, light, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: semi serious, emotional, touching, humorous, realistic ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
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Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 119 min.
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Crimes of the Heart (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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Duration: 91 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
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Style: touching, melancholic, independent film, stylized, depressing ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
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Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
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Style: realistic, touching, sincere, talky, erotic ...
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Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
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A Place for Annie (1994)
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Country: USA
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Style: sincere, depressing, bleak, compassionate, contemplative ...
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Rosetta (1999)
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Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: serious, bleak, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience: teens
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Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
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A Family Thing (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: feel good, touching, realistic, emotional, melancholic ...
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Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
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Soft Fruit (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: For the first time in 15 years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. One comes from America with her two children. A divorced sister also comes with her child and sneaks ...
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Plot: dysfunctional family, working class, male nudity, family relations, terminal illness, bittersweet, family problems, couples, estrangement, death in the family, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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Night Bus (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The passengers on the Night Bus have many different stories -- some are lovers, some have dark secrets, some are looking for a fight, others are just trying to get through the night.
Style: semi serious, sincere, humorous, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: travel, on the road, social differences, society, working class, bus, locked in a room, urban, night, human nature, double decker bus, one location ...
Time: 21st century
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Crooklyn (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, stylized, light ...
Plot: coming of age, poverty, parenthood, dysfunctional family, urban, black, african american, family relations, school, child's point of view, parents and children, black people ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1994, year 1973
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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