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The Sure Hand of God (2004)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Adaptation of the Erkine Caldwell novel
Plot:
church, daughter, widow, nosy neighbor, dead husband
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, independent film and captivating films with plots about church, daughter, mother daughter relationship, family relations, widow, society and life is a bitch mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Sure Hand of God: The House of Doves (1972), Secrets (1995), Cold Sassy Tree (1989), Death of an Angel (1985), Dreams Lost, Dreams Found (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The widow Alexandra and her schoolgirl daughter Sandra live together in a luxurious villa in Spain. When Fernando, an old love of Alexandra's, appears in town the two rekindle their love affair until Alexandra finds that he is being paid to be ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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iowa
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Handsome May-December romantic drama set in a sleepy Southern town at the turn of the century. An independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed the local general-store owner just three weeks after he's been widowed.
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Country: USA
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Grace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father Angel is keeping a wooden Jesus figure that sheds actual blood. When the cross is stolen, Grace decides to help out to get her daughter back.
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young American widow is mysteriously drawn to a historic castle in the Scottish Highlands and finds herself at the center of a 200-year old ghost story.
Style:
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Plot:
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Sylvie and Maggie are strangers living on opposite coasts, leading very similar lives with husbands that travel for work too much and daughters about to leave the nest. But when their daughters befriend each other on a college tour, they soon ...
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A daughter finds a journal her dad left behind, only to discover there was another woman in his life she knew nothing about. She sets out to find this woman and the reason her father never ended up with the woman he must have loved.
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Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Returning to his home town after the death of the grandfather who raised him, slick and cynical Wall Street trader Will Martin (Neil Patrick Harris) feels decidedly out of place, and not at all in tune with the Christmas preparations being made by ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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