Movies like Ticket to Heaven

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Ticket to Heaven (1981)
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Ticket to Heaven (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
Style: psychological, tense, thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
Plot: religious cult, sleep deprivation, religion, religions or cults, sect, atheism, mind control, brainwashing, hidden treasure, kidnapping, society, breakup, clergy, innocence lost, human nature, dishonesty, cons and scams, airplane, money, abduction, teacher, truck, businessman, blonde, running ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: toronto ontario canada, california, usa, san francisco
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and disturbing films with plots about apology, opening a door, night, society, telephone call, man with glasses and telephone mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ticket to Heaven: Split Image (1982), Hitting Home (1988), Goin' Down the Road (1970), Heatwave (1982), Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Split Image (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
Style: spiritual, retro, independent film, weird
Plot: religion, hidden treasure, occult, atheism, religions or cults, true love, bare chested male, villain as protagonist, photography, blonde, van, photograph ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
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Hitting Home (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: obsession, hit and run, redheaded woman, revenge, vengeance, life is a bitch, rivalry, young boy, law firm, train station, urban setting, breaking the law ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, new york, montreal
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Goin' Down the Road (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Story of desolation as two friends travel from Nova Scotia to Toronto in hope of finding a better life. Drifting from job to job: bottling plant, car wash, bowling alley, newspaper delivery, and in between enjoying the night life of the big city. ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: on the road, friendship, friends, female nudity, survival, train, waitress, snow, bowling, pregnancy, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 70s
Place: canada, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, toronto ontario canada
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Heatwave (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman attempts to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up for fraud and other criminal activity.
Style: neo noir, retro, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: heat wave, christmas, redheaded woman, injustice, against the odds, fighting the system, rivalry, society, state affairs, rebellion, father daughter relationship, party ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 18 year-old Peter lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and rebels constantly against their imposed middle-class goals and conventions and the materialist values they represent. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, juvenile delinquent, teenager, rebel, probation officer, breaking the law, pregnant girl, boat ride, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, job interview, lie ...
Place: canada
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Unfinished Business (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life boring and directionless. Meant to be a sequel to Don Owen's acclaimed 1964 film "Nobody Waved Good-bye", "Unfinished Business" ...
Style: independent film
Plot: homeless shelter, environmental, cycling, night, basketball, old woman, teddy bear, environmental activism, mirror, policewoman, swing, black boy ...
Place: canada
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38%
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along ...
Style: sad, biting, cynical, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: storm, uncle nephew relationship, rain, bare chested male, apprentice, workplace situations, social differences, ghetto, parents and children, rich and poor, working class, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: canada
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36%
Wedding in White (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone ...
Style: independent film, crying
Plot: teenage pregnancy, world war two, dysfunctional family, rape, parent child relationship, daughter, father, redhead girl, older man younger woman romance, priest, staircase, store ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, post world war two
Place: canada
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The 19th Wife (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fundamentalist sect member BeckyLyn is accused of killing her husband. Queenie, another wife in the polygamist sect, doesn't believe BeckyLyn is capable of such violence and desperate to prove her innocence reaches out to her excommunicated son ...
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: false accusation, murder, righting the wronged, society, estrangement, church, religions or cults, polygamy, uncover truth, arranged marriage, religion, oracle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, utah
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36%
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: fashion, model, photographer, fashion industry, fashion model, mental illness, photograph, modeling, photography, drug addiction, character study, sex crime ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, jamaica, paris france
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35%
The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When Israeli officials learn than Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: mossad, world war two, holocaust, nazi, judaism, kidnapping, nazi war criminal, post war, self control, disorder, righting the wronged, vengeance ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: israel, latin america, argentina
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35%
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Fast Talking (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble - but they also get him into it.
Style: independent film, detective
Plot: motorcycle, con artists, teenage boy, school expulsion, troubled teen, stealing a car, running from police, ex convict, corporal punishment, teacher student relationship, school principal, drug dealing ...
Place: australia
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35%
Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
Style: independent film
Plot: judaism, boy, youth, renaissance, jewish culture, fishing, nostalgia, working class, tragic event, antique shop, bigger dreams, invention ...
Time: year 1975, 1920s
Place: eastern europe, middle east, montreal, canada
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35%
Annie's Coming Out (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It tells the story of a young female social worker who begins work at a hospital for retarded children, and discovers that some of the psychological problems attributed to these children are incorrectly diagnosed. Proving this to be the case is ...
Style: independent film, learning
Plot: disability, voice over narration, assassination attempt, dog, countdown, doctor, court, lawyer, young couple, boy, man with glasses, courtroom ...
Place: melbourne, australia
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35%
Heart of the Beholder (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a family who opened the first videocassette rental stores in St. Louis in 1980. The family was ruined by a corrupt prosecutor who had been blackmailed by a religious group because the family refused to remove Martin ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing
Plot: fighting the system, rivalry, rebellion, religions or cults, injustice, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal, life is a bitch, society, corporate crime, campaign ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: st. louis missouri
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35%
Seize the Day (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but ...
Style: depressing, independent film, realistic, bleak, semi serious ...
Plot: unemployment, hotel, marketing, startup, family relations, stock market, salesman, job seeking, stock exchange, literary, single parent, going straight ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, year 1956
Place: new york, usa
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35%
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Violent Blue (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Katarina is a music teacher obsessed with an unfinished symphony. She worries about her brother, Ondrej an introverted inventor whose financiers are reputedly shady and dangerous. Then one day, her ex-husband Pietro shows up in her house and locks ...
Style: serious, realistic, cynical, surreal, psychological ...
Plot: obsession, murder, losing-it hero, sexual relations, dishonesty, captivity, confined, danger, female nudity, social misfits, misfit, mute or deaf ...
Place: usa, los angeles
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35%
Stacy's Knights (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyone has a talent, and dreams do come true. Stacy Lancaster has an incredible knack for Blackjack. Once she joins up with daring Will Bonner the two young gamblers are on a non-stop roll. Soon the casino wants to even the odds. How long can ...
Style: independent film, thinking
Plot: gambling, casino, bare chested male, black man, recruit, tragedy, night, dead man, threat, happy ending, winning, black american ...
Time: year 1983
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34%
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Brilliant Lies (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: sexual harassment, family relations, sexual abuse, feminism, couples, courtroom, power relations, siblings relations, sexual relations, courtroom drama, workplace situations, false accusation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: melbourne, australia
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Lourdes (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: religion, disability, envy, clergy, self discovery, volunteer, religions or cults, redemption, society, healing power, female protagonist, pilgrimage ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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What Would Jesus Do? (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The citizens of a small town lose their faith day by day. Poverty and hardships have been hard on them... when all of a sudden something changes. Their faith is reborn. And a question rises inside them: "What would Jesus do?"
Style: christian film, realistic, serious, spiritual, inspirational ...
Plot: faith, pastor, christian, small town, clergy, introspection, human spirit, society, hopes, social relations, religions or cults, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, xian
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34%
An American Story (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.
Style: contemplative, bleak, disturbing, gloomy, thought provoking ...
Plot: battles, world war two, politics, soldier, friends, cons and scams, political corruption, homecoming, friendship, military, state affairs, innocence lost ...
Time: 1940s
Place: usa, texas
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34%
Beyond the Stars (1989)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This Sci-Fi Drama centers around the teen-age Eric, son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo mission which sent the first human to the moon. Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the first man ...
Style: disturbing, exciting, captivating, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: astronaut, secret, outer space, waking up, male protagonist, tragedy, promise, father son relationship, space exploration, mother son relationship, space, disease ...
Time: year 1989
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34%
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The Man Inside (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He goes undercover, using forged identity papers and at great personal risk, to join their staff. ...
Style: action thriller, independent film, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: undercover, conspiracy, profanity, violent content, biopic, media, dishonesty, rebellion, life is a bitch, hidden identity, society, journalism ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: europe, germany
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Rust (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the midst of a midlife crisis of faith, a man finds hope where he least expects it – his hometown. James Moore (Golden Globe nominee Corbin Bernsen) is a former pastor who returns home to discover a family new to the area has been killed in a ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, captivating, psychological, serious ...
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High Tide (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Story about a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator who re-enters her past when she leaves a tour in a small town and finds her daughter in a mobile home park.
Style: retro, realistic, serious, biting, touching ...
Plot: woman, women, youth, surfing, ocean, car trouble, life is a bitch, redemption, social misfits, unfulfillment, family relations, social relations ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: australia, new south wales
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Lamb (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: youth, school, on the run, kidnapping, adoption, teacher student relationship, surrogate father, neurology, epilepsy, epileptic seizure, murder by drowning, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: ireland, england, london, dublin ireland, europe ...
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Cargo (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that transforms them and threatens to derail the ...
Style: disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: human trafficking, sex slavery, kidnapping, society, life is a bitch, on the road, rape, brutality, abduction, russian immigrant, trick, model ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, serious ...
Plot: prison, confined, uncover truth, fighting the system, false accusation, courtroom drama, society, life is a bitch, legal, legal action, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, texas
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The Valley of Tears (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marie, a Canadian editor specialized in testimonies of Genocide survivors, starts to receive anonymous large envelopes with the narrative of Ali, a young Palestinian who grew up in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Intrigued, Marie investigates the origin ...
Style: emotional, thought provoking, serious, realistic, touching
Plot: uncover truth, haunted by the past, interracial relations, society, family relations, life is a bitch, testimony, religions or cults, atrocity, racism, refugee, civil war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, middle east, lebanon
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