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Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story (2003)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After a paedophile approaches her daughter in an on-line chat room, a homemaker (Annie Potts) poses as a lonely teenager to help expose sexual predators.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
undercover, working undercover, pedophile, sexual abuse, life is a bitch, society, computers and web, mother daughter relationship, police detective, housewife, injustice, obsessive quest, teenager, police, sex maniac, internet, computer, teenage girl, female protagonist, police arrest, crimes, female director
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about life is a bitch, society, family problems, family relations, injustice, hopes and youth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Defending Our Kids: The Julie Posey Story: Courage (1986), Baby Sellers (2013), Deep in My Heart (1999), Lilet Never Happened (2012), Phoenix 11·23 (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
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Place:
usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped.
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realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, rough ...
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sexual abuse, family relations, social decay, rich and poor, woman in danger, life is a bitch, family problems, city life, urban ghetto life, youth, gender, sexual harassment ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
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Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child prostitution. She is a fighter. She is a dreamer. She is a rebel and she thinks she can handle the world ...
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Time:
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Place:
manila philippines, the philippines, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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spain, madrid, catalonia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Place:
usa, alabama
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley". Pat and a few newly recruited, ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
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Country: France, USA
Duration: 93 min.
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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:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking ...
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391
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A 20-year-old homeless girl is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome on the streets of Hollywood and Venice beach.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Caden Welles is living life as large as any 20-year-old could dream … until his eyes are opened to a world few Americans know still exists: a thriving human-trafficking trade. Spurred by a true purpose, an unlikely new friendship, and the prayers ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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realistic, thought provoking, serious, bleak
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Nellie Bly, a 23 year-old reporter for Joseph Pulitzer, goes undercover in the notorious Blackwell's Island women's insane asylum in order to expose corruption, abuse and murder.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, bleak
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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rough, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
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Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
692
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An innocent man framed for murder, and the system that just wants another minority conviction.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Country: Iran
Duration: 105 min.
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Breaking out of prison with a child in her womb and a dream of a normal existence, Arlene Holsclaw (Rebecca De Mornay) resolves to get a job and lead a good, Christian life. But the ghosts from her past -- including an ex-boyfriend (Rob Knepper) who ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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