Movies like In Your Hands 2004
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In Your Hands (2004)
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Original name: Forbrydelser
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Anna, a young theology graduate, starts work as a prison chaplain. She becomes especially concerned about one inmate, Kate, regarded as difficult and withdrawn, but whom the other inmates credit with mysterious healing powers.
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
prison, husband wife relationship, prison life, child killer, women's prison, addiction, couples, family problems, confined, clergy, hopes, couple relations, dogma, jail, drug addict, train, forbidden love, female nudity, priest, hospital, child murderess, church, suicide, drug dealing, nervous breakdown ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, denmark
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Duration: 100 min.
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Duration: 100 min.
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
europe, hungary
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, has a habit of telling lies in class. When Stine accuses her father of sexual abuse, and is ...
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Plot:
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Duration: 106 min.
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Plot:
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Country: France, Georgia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Country: Denmark
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
The uneasy relationship between a mother and daughter is made all the more turbulent by drug abuse in this downbeat drama from Iranian filmmakers Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
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Duration: 97 min.
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