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A Good Baby (1999)
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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, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
missing child, missing person, orphan, family relations, adoption, isolation, family problems, abandoned baby, pregnancy, legal action, misfit, graphic violence, rivalry, babies and infants, mentally challenged, sexual content, down on your luck, custody, single parent, child illness, countryside, baby, crimes, female director
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, appalachia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and psychological films with plots about family relations, family problems, parents and children, life is a bitch, single parent, youth and family in crisis mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like A Good Baby: A Place for Annie (1994), A Father for Brittany (1998), Losing Isaiah (1993), Taken Away (2014), Little Glory (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental
Plot:
adoption, aids, child illness, nurse, orphan, women, child abandonment, unfulfillment, nanny, gender, single parent, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
90s
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95%
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:
serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, adoption, terminal illness, legal action, couples, family problems, family in crisis, child illness, pregnancy, custody, redemption, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
milwaukee wisconsin
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85%
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, ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, emotional, sexy, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
adoption, courtroom drama, custody battle, racist, justice, single parent, parents and children, family problems, legal action, family relations, life is a bitch, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot:
custody, adoption, righting the wronged, courtroom drama, youth, teenage life, fighting the system, family problems, single parent, family relations, parents and children, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After his parents’ death, Shawn, 19 and mildly delinquent, tries to look after his little sister to cash in on his dad’s life insurance. But you can’t buy love -- and you sure can’t ignore it. Shawn will find out he’s got more to gain by ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, gloomy
Plot:
custody, family problems, coming of age, family relations, teenage life, rivalry, youth, family life, small town, dog, siblings relations, brother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Losing Isaiah similar movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Julie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery: when she questions her family, she discovers that she was adopted and, later, that her conception was the product of a rape.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sincere
Plot:
abused woman, family relations, family problems, custody, missing person, doctors and patients, adoption, terminal illness, life is a bitch, babies and infants, loss of virginity, pregnant from rape ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. However, when a troubled young woman with a checkered past enters her life, old psychic wounds ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
missing person, older woman younger woman relationship, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, obsession, haunted by the past, loss of daughter, social misfits, isolation, family relations, misfit, loss of child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
mental disorder, isolation, parents and children, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, family problems, family relations, estrangement, misfit, single parent, youth ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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, serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
single father, babies and infants, adoption, teen social issues, family relations, environmentalism, family problems, couples, music band, love and romance, hopes, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
This off-beat drama about man's search for meaning amidst the ache of despair chronicles Finn, an introspective English teacher entering a mid-life crisis impelled by a recent tragedy, as he sets afoot selling encyclopedias to the town locals.
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
self discovery, family relations, hopes, estrangement, human nature, small town life, haunted by the past, single parent, family business, cause and meaning, dealing with death, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, the Lifetime Original Movie, Baby Sellers, exposes the shocking international criminal enterprise of infant trafficking. Stars Emmy winner Jennifer Finnigan and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kirstie Alley.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
adoption, immigrants, society, legal action, babies and infants, life is a bitch, kidnapping, orphanage, undercover agent, spy, tough heroes, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, family problems, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, parent child relationship, sister sister relationship, youth, family relations, husband wife relationship, teenage pregnancy ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
894
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in a rural Quebec village in the dead of winter, Jean-François, a single father works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day. His daughter, Julyvonne never leaves their home. Jean-François isolates her in ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, atmospheric, serious, gloomy
Plot:
isolation, absent mother, bittersweet, single parent, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, misfit, youth, social misfits, home schooling, overprotective father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A woman with two children believes she has three and her husband and oldest daughter play along with her to keep her balanced (or as close to balanced that a woman with an invisible child can be). However, when the family hires a new nanny, it is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot:
imaginary friend, youth, family relations, nanny, dysfunctional family, mental illness, couples, estrangement, family problems, unfulfillment, single parent, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own. (TIFF)
Style:
atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
loneliness, human nature, haunted by the past, disorder, rape, pregnant woman, forest, introspection, misfit, social misfits, confined, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Films like Mother and Son
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of a young shoe salesman whose overestimation of his own sharpness leads to gambling debts, pissed-off loan sharks, and overall misery.
Style:
psychological, gloomy, serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
gangsters, sexual content, graphic violence, life is a bitch, betrayal, working class, gambling, twentysomething life, down on your luck, society, dangerous animal, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab (IMDb.com)
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, drug abuse, parents and children, homecoming, small town, adolescence vs adulthood, released from prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In Korea Town Los Angeles, a young man, Kengo, believes he's the son of God - that's what his mother told him since he was a young boy. He spends his days working his dead-end job and figuring out his complex feelings for his girlfriend ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
couple relations, sexual relations, introspection, single parent, family relations, couples, parents and children, mother son relationship, sexual content, existentialism, nude, cause and meaning ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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:
touching, serious, sincere, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
adoption, custody, starting over, family relations, parents and children, hopes, social worker, family life, christian, legal action, rivalry, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ohio, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, rough, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, love affair, family life, survival, love and romance, family problems, pregnancy, isolation, dysfunctional family, parents and children, prohibition era, family in crisis ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Movies similar to Fifteen and Pregnant
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, psychological, realistic
Plot:
haunted by the past, friendship, family life, estrangement, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, couples, love and romance, solace, impossible love, custody ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story of a man Bill Januson whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, disturbing, gloomy ...
Plot:
starvation, youth, starving child, doctor, single parent, unemployment, family relations, family problems, society, human spirit, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot:
nanny, dysfunctional family, politics, adoption, parents and children, family life, family problems, master and servant, love and romance, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, family relations ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When winter begins, life is serene for a group of new-age Brooklynites living in a remote country farmhouse. Sex, drugs, yoga, and organic cooking absorb their days, safely tucked away from the stresses of urban life. But when a blackout of ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
survival, isolation, human nature, confined, social relations, wilderness, snow, party, innocence lost, heroin, female nudity, lesbian sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The young boy's brother then tells him not to say anything because of the trouble it would cause in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy, disturbing
Plot:
children, youth, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, mute or deaf, unfulfillment, misfit, power relations, family problems, family in crisis, teenage life, siblings relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A drama directed by Michael Switzer.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, uplifting, touching ...
Plot:
autism, mentally challenged, youth, children, sexual abuse, child molester, family relations, family problems, power relations, rehabilitation, single parent, misfit ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US. He finds his daughters older, and more distant than he imagined. His wife still has the same smile. Having saved some earnings from two trips to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, psychological
Plot:
family relations, immigrants, hopes, society, parents and children, life is a bitch, getting home, music band, countryside, poverty, worker, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
And Then There Was One - The tragic and true story of a family dealing with AIDS is re-told in this heart-wrenching drama. Amy Madigan and Dennis Boutsikaris star as Roxy and Vinnie Ventola, a successful television writing couple. After struggling ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, gloomy, emotional
Plot:
aids, love, crumbling marriage, gender, ego clash, couple relations, babies and infants, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, gays and lesbians, human spirit, hopes ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The simple narrative is a thread woven among the deeply spiritual images of the countryside and cottage.
Style:
depressing, spiritual, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
art, countryside, youth, mental disorder, childhood, mother and son, family relations, parent child relationship, dying mother, isolation, parents and children, human nature ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
961
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a freezing January evening, school bus driver Lesley completes her route, but her final inspection abruptly ends when a bluebird comes into view. What happens next shakes her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have ...
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
isolation, winter, family problems, family in crisis, single parent, youth, teenage life, drug abuse, parents and children, dysfunctional family, working class, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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