Movies like No Place Like Home 1989
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No Place Like Home (1989)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two families not getting along with each other. The family moves from rundown hotels to homeless shelters as Daniel searches work as a electrician while his wife takes waitress jobs to try to make ends meet.
Style:
inspirational, sincere, thought provoking, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy, contemplative, tv series pilot
Plot:
coming of age, unemployment, youth, family relations, children, mother, fire, boy, father, poverty, wife, girl, little girl, daughter, husband wife relationship, little boy, husband, son, homelessness, apartment building, homeless man, homeless woman, homeless shelter, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, youth, society, parents and children and hopes mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like No Place Like Home: Between Us (2009), Country (1984), White Irish Drinkers (2010), The Stone Boy (1984), Hidden in America (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious
Plot:
homelessness, poverty, human spirit, starting over, urban setting, family relations, working class, hopes, society, life is a bitch, american dream, single parent ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, colombia, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
survival, farm, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, against the odds, couple relations, family business, family farm, family problems, hopes, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
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Place:
iowa, america
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
family problems, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, society, hopes, working class, domestic disturbance, criminal, sex ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, ireland, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
One summer morning, 12-year-old Arnold Hillerman and his 17-year-old brother Eugene wake at dawn to pick peas and perhaps shoot a wild duck on their family's Montana farm. In a nearby pasture, Arnold's gun fires accidentally. His brother ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
farm, coming of age, youth, boy, hunting, grief, depression, death of brother, guilt, family relations, dysfunctional family, death in the family ...
Time:
80s
Place:
montana, usa
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50%
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
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49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, introspection, dysfunctional family, society, addiction, human nature, family relations, family problems, family in crisis, child abuse, women of color, racial issues ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
africa, mississippi, usa
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49%
650
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A 12 year old boy and his single mother live separate lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. The boy’s solitude is both a source of freedom and a cause for grief. His explorations slowly bring to ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
coming of age, working class, small town, family problems, parents and children, mother son relationship, youth, single parent, society, dysfunctional family, realism, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
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48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple whose son had been diagnosed as mentally retarded, and was institutionalized, are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is in fact deaf.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
sign language, deaf, coming of age, youth, family relations, misdiagnosed, family problems, disability, spouse leaving, hopes, mute or deaf, human spirit ...
Time:
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Place:
ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, psychiatrist, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, sexual abuse, family problems, life is a bitch, parents and children, hopes, redemption, domestic disturbance, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.
Style:
captivating, gloomy, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
aids, youth, family relations, terminal illness, family problems, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, hopes, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, family in crisis ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Friends and family of Cory, a young man who has died of an overdose, gather at a Baltimore-area karaoke bar for his wake and compare stories about him. Gradually, as it becomes clear that there are many holes in their recollections about Cory, they ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
family problems, drug abuse, death in the family, dysfunctional family, estrangement, social relations, hopes, life is a bitch, introspection, family in crisis, father daughter relationship, overdose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, maryland, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Runaway teen Lexi find herself alone and pregnant on the streets. Seemingly beyond hope, she must turn to Devon, a woman with her own demons, to help her find a way back from her past mistakes.
Style:
rough, realistic, sincere, serious, bleak
Audience:
kids
Plot:
homeless, kids in trouble, teenage life, life is a bitch, love, dysfunctional family, family problems, youth, society, pregnancy, escape, loneliness ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Rich L.A. party brat Tim (Adam Horovitz) spins into a cycle of despair after his parents divorce, and trying to fill the void with drugs and trouble only buys him a ticket to an asylum. But with the help of a psychiatrist (Donald Sutherland) who has ...
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realistic, serious, thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang, redemption, coming of age, life is a bitch, youth, mentally unstable, society, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, nightlife, teenage life ...
Time:
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Place:
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47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
Style:
thought provoking, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
family relations, on the road, family problems, americana, teenage life, single mother, single parent, dealing with death, human nature, working class, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, oregon, virginia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
A mother in Queens, New York, is so angered when she discovers that her son is a drug addict that she becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug trade in her neighborhood. Based on a true story.
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, emotional
Plot:
undercover, family relations, drug abuse, human spirit, society, law enforcement, drug dealing, life is a bitch, hopes, family problems, parents and children, working undercover ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to offer the down-and-out clients she serves at the homeless shelter. Soon, however, Carrie realizes ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, jewish, coming of age, self discovery, clergy, society, life is a bitch, hopes, introspection, parents and children, rabbi, religions or cults ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Frank, Angela, and their two children are evicted from their New York City apartment, they have no choice but to move into a homeless shelter. After a few difficult months, good news comes their way on Christmas Eve: a nearby housing project ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, sad ...
Plot:
christmas, realism, family problems, survival, life is a bitch, coping, eviction, race against time, down on your luck, ex athlete, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, emotional, political
Plot:
coming of age, youth, single parent, family relations, obsession, urban ghetto, society, urban ghetto life, family problems, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles ...
Style:
touching, bleak, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
street kid, coming of age, brother sister relationship, working class, siblings relations, pitbull, family relations, kids in trouble, urban ghetto life, teenage life, youth, orphan ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Beautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence -- until a mysterious "Englisher" comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, harlem, usa
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45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Two determined mothers, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children
Style:
touching, realistic, uplifting, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
education, teacher, fighting the system, school, human spirit, hopes, teachers and students, parents and children, youth, society, changing lives, social relations ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, emotional, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, poverty, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, rape, pimp, sister sister relationship, drugs, prostitute, family relations, family in crisis, defloration ...
Time:
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Place:
iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Evicted from his squat and suddenly alone on the streets, George is a man without a home. Struggling with his demons and desperately trying to connect with the daughter he abandoned, he navigates the system, hustling for change and somewhere safe ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, atmospheric
Plot:
homeless, social decay, estrangement, down on your luck, homeless shelter, hopes, life is a bitch, society, redemption, parents and children, homelessness, depression ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A ten year old girl named Angela leads her six year old sister, Ellie, through various regimens of 'purification' in an attempt to rid themselves of their evil, which she believes to be the cause of their mother's mental illness. ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sincere, atmospheric, controversial ...
Plot:
mental illness, girl, youth, dysfunctional family, coming of age, spirituality, child's point of view, obsession, sister sister relationship, self discovery, mysticism, family problems ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, new york state
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, biting
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere, rough ...
Plot:
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