Movies like The Miracle Worker 1979
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The Miracle Worker (1979)
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. Sealed off from the world, Helen cannot communicate with anyone, nor anyone with her. Often frustrated and desperate, Helen flies into uncontrollable rages and tantrums that terrify her hopeless family. The gifted teacher Annie Sullivan is summoned by the family to help the girl understand the world from which she is isolated, freeing Helen Keller from her internal prison forever. Television remake of the 1962 film which also starred Patty Duke in the role of Helen Keller.
Style:
sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
teacher, deaf, mentor protege relationship, obstacle, disability, sign language, youth, misfit, teachers and students, human spirit, isolation, society, social misfits, elderly lovers, mute or deaf, doctors and patients, against the odds, hopes, dedicated educator, young heroes, power relations, deaf mute, teacher student relationship, power struggle, blindness ...
Time:
70s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and uplifting films with plots about hopes, human spirit, youth, misfit, power relations, family relations and disability mostly in Drama, Biography and Family genres. Some movies like The Miracle Worker: Marie's Story (2014), Benim Dünyam (2013), Miracle Run (2004), The Elephant Man (1982), The Ron Clark Story (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, touching, sentimental, affectionate ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
teacher, blindness, blind character, disability, mute or deaf, women, human spirit, mentor, education, deafness, children, childhood ...
Time:
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Place:
alabama, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in 1898, Cambridge, Massachusetts, depicts Annie Sullivan Macy supporting her student Helen Keller at Radcliffe College.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
deaf, disability, power relations, youth, young heroes, hopes, dedicated educator, mute or deaf, misfit, love and romance, human spirit, teachers and students ...
Time:
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95%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marie Heurtin is born both blind and deaf. Sister Marguerette wins her trust and teaches her how to express herself.
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serious, touching, uplifting, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
mute or deaf, illness, nun, dedicated educator, teachers and students, blind character, female protagonist, hopes, human spirit, family relations, sign language, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At 2 Ela lost her ability of seeing and hearing because of a severe illness. And then she became a total disappointment of her family due to her untamed behaviors. But everything changed after an unorthodox teacher stepped into their lives to ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, uplifting, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
mute or deaf, deaf mute, teachers and students, parents and children, social misfits, human spirit, family relations, against the odds, dedicated educator, hopes, ambition, determination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Single mom Corrine discovers that her twins are autistic. She refuses to give up on their potential, even though it seems that the rest of the world has turned its back on them. Thanks to this incredible mother's support, her boys accomplish ...
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, feminist film
Plot:
youth, twins, human spirit, against the odds, disability, family relations, mentally challenged, social misfits, single parent, hopes, society, parents and children ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Story:
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan (Alison Elliott) leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller (Hallie Kate Eisenberg) out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
mute or deaf, disability, teachers and students, blindness and impaired vision, teacher, dedicated educator, human spirit, lifestyle, education, teacher student relationship, blind character, deaf ...
Time:
90s, victorian era, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, former parole officer Marilyn Gambrell and a colleague set up a pioneer trial-based program in one of America's toughest high schools to help the children of incarcerated parents regain control of their own lives and not ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, feminist film
Plot:
support group, dedicated educator, against the odds, human spirit, idealism, society, hopes, teenage life, teachers and students, high school, children, child abuse ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, usa, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A taped version of the stage play about a hideously deformed 19th-century London man and how he managed to triumph over his disease.
Style:
serious, realistic, talky, uplifting, touching ...
Plot:
misfit, power relations, circus, disability, human nature, life is a bitch, hopes, social misfits, society, human spirit, doctors and patients, against the odds ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Matthew Perry is real-life inspiration Ron Clark, a passionate and innovative teacher who leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to this students, Clark must use unconventional methods, ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, emotional, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, dedicated educator, teachers and students, human spirit, teacher student relationship, new job, changing lives, challenge, hopes, hardcase students, power relations, obstacle ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1994, year 1998
Place:
harlem, usa, north carolina, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
"Front of the Class" is based on the true story of Brad Cohen -- played in the movie by Jimmy Wolk -- who, "after being challenged by Tourette's syndrome from a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher
Style:
inspirational, touching, realistic, uplifting, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, teens
Plot:
tourette's syndrome, teachers and students, teacher, dedicated educator, school, social misfits, disability, stuttering, honest, friendship, father son relationship, understanding ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Living Proof is a 2008 Lifetime Television movie, directed by Dan Ireland, starring Harry Connick, Jr. The film is based on the true life story of Dr. Dennis Slamon and the book HER-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast ...
Style:
sincere, touching, uplifting, emotional, light ...
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A business man decides that he wants to teach school in the inner city and chooses a tough school in the South Bronx. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life.
Style:
uplifting, touching, realistic, serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
chess, school, teacher, misfit, youth, ambition, elementary school, teachers and students, lifestyle, hardcase students, high school life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A coming of age drama following the life of Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a National Collegiate Wrestling Championship.
Style:
uplifting, captivating, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Rendered a quadriplegic since a child from a near-fatal neck injury, a young girl fights against all odds to succeed in life from grade school to her acceptance into college under the assistance of her loyal and dedicated mother.
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
homeless teenager, homeless, youth, life is a bitch, aids, against the odds, human spirit, starting over, university, street kid, kids in trouble, teenage life ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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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 ⇓
66%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, uplifting, emotional, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, sincere, uplifting, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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uplifting, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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uplifting, sincere, touching, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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touching, realistic, uplifting, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
Style:
sad, uplifting, captivating, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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59%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, touching, educational ...
Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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