Movies like Beautiful Dreamers
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Beautiful Dreamers (1990)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When the superintendent of the Canadian insane asylum, Dr. Maurice Bucke, meets poet Walt Whitman, his life and that of his wife and patients is radically changed. Like Dr. Bucke, Whitman has avant-garde ideas on the subject of mental illness. "Dreamers" is based on true events. Dr. Bucke became an important biographer of Walt Whitman.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, independent film
Plot:
female nudity, writers, poet, psychotherapy, bare breasts, waking up, insane asylum, biopic, friendship, misfit, mental institution, human spirit, life is a bitch, mental illness, rebellion, fighting the system, society, mentally challenged, rehabilitation, elderly, aging, disability, lifestyle, writer's life, doctors and patients ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s, victorian
Place:
england, london, canada, europe
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Most similar movies to Beautiful Dreamers
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and touching films with plots about hopes, society, misfit, life is a bitch, human spirit, disability and family relations mostly in Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Beautiful Dreamers: Profoundly Normal (2003), Damaged Care (2002), Phantom Pain (2009), The Caretakers (1963), The Elephant Man (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a true story. Donna Lee Shelby (Kirstie Alley), a mentally retarded girl who lives in Forest Haven, an institution for the developmentally disabled, meets Ricardo Thornton (Delroy Lindo), a fellow resident. When Forest Haven is closed by a ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
couples, interracial relations, friendship, hopes, society, coping, family life, family in crisis, misfit, disability, optimism, working class ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Anesthesist Doug Peeno hopes to pay for the legal costs of preventing his son Bryan being left in his first wife's bad custody with he proceeds of his present wife Linda's new job. She's the first graduate in her family and eagerly ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, serious
Plot:
public health, idealism, uncover truth, rebellion, ambition, fighting the system, against the odds, couples, negligence, family problems, injustice, society ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marc is a passionate cyclist and urban slacker who avoids work and responsibility. Marc's life changes from one moment to the next when he suffers a life-changing accident. He can either wallow in self-pity or tackle the beast called life with ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
cyclist, life is a bitch, couple relations, hopes, disability, parents and children, human nature, misfit, human spirit, redemption, family relations, new love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
Style:
psychotronic, realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
medical, mental institution, hospital, psychiatric hospital, nurse, medicine, psychiatric ward, kitchen sink realism, psychopath, power relations, disability, kids in trouble ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
21%
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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:
talky, uplifting, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
wrestling, misfit, circus, power relations, disability, social misfits, human nature, hopes, doctors and patients, society, life is a bitch, human spirit ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1880s, 1800s
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
21%
473
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of a young Russian in the early 90s, trying to escape the army in a psychiatric clinic. He's released years later, after intensive compulsory treatment. Has a documentary film maker he gets involved in the Chechen ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, emotional, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
mental illness, doctors and patients, rebelliousness, mentally unstable, mental institution, introspection, political unrest, human nature, hopes, state affairs, misfit, psychology ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The true story of Romper Room host "Miss Sherri" Finkbine, who, after the devastating effects of thalidomide were discovered in the early 1960s, sparked a firestorm of controversy with her determination to obtain an abortion.
Style:
controversial, serious, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
abortion, courtroom drama, scandal, husband wife relationship, abortion rights, family relations, pregnancy, injustice, politics, life is a bitch, fighting the system, human spirit ...
Time:
60s, year 1962
Place:
arizona, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The true story of a single mom who overcomes many of life's obstacles.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
high school, family problems, child illness, against the odds, terminal illness, human spirit, family relations, disability, family in crisis, school, parents and children, relationship vs career ...
Similarity:
20%
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177
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Everybody has a little murder in their heart... somewhere.
Style:
sexual, independent film, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
female nudity, rape, blind woman, blindness, sexual awakening, disability, family relations, friends, hopes, misfit, confined, youth ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to their attendance of the 2010 Mighty Men Conference, where their lives are forever changed by God's message for them.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, art house, christian film ...
Plot:
self discovery, family problems, redemption, hopes, society, friendship, biopic, christian, faith, religions or cults, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Female prisoners train dogs to aid people with disabilities in a program started by a nun (Laura Dern).
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
prison, dog, starting over, rehabilitation, drug abuse, addiction, prison life, society, hopes, human nature, disability, pets ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Story:
Glasgow Girls is a specially commissioned musical drama for BBC Three that tells the inspirational true story of a group of schoolgirls whose petition to save their friend from deportation inspired a movement which would eventually help change ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, uplifting
Plot:
friendship, immigrant, rebellion, fighting the system, idealism, human spirit, campaign, injustice, youth, kids in trouble, teenage life, society ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
scotland, england, europe, glasgow scotland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breton seaside, it is also a film that revels in the insights that Marguerite Duras' writing affords.
Style:
psychological, emotional, serious, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
soldier, hopes, love and romance, lifestyle, fall in love, couple relations, destiny, wartime life, family relations, couples, human nature, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith set up one of the world's greatest ever concerts, Live Aid in 1984 to help ease the Ethiopian Famine.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
music, artists and showbiz, follow your dream, musician's life, partner, media, charity, idealism, rock, hopes, ambition, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, touching, educational ...
Plot:
boy, disability, hopes, blind character, coming of age, against the odds, friendship, follow your dream, rebellion, fighting the system, society, rebelliousness ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, uplifting, sincere
Plot:
homeless, biopic, heroic mission, social misfits, state affairs, life is a bitch, legal, politics, fighting the system, society, human spirit, heroes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a beloved teacher for the blind who discovers she herself is losing her eyesight.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
blindness, cancer, love and romance, hopes, renewed love, life is a bitch, lovers reunited, disability, blind character, blind man, power relations, down on your luck ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
impossible love, single parent, life is a bitch, love and romance, friendship, hopes, society, social relations, human spirit, misfit, mother son relationship, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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378
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, touching, gloomy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
housewife, disability, waking up, boarding school, multiple sclerosis, teacher, infatuation, hopes, ambition, unfulfillment, couple relations, idealism ...
Time:
year 1996, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, China
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This is the story of Mei, a young woman on a trip from East to West after her escape from her provincial Chinese village. Beginning in Chongqing and a disastrous factory job, Mei soon heads out for London and a marriage to an older man where her ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot:
on the road, fish out of water, follow your dream, youth, fall in love, misfit, hopes, love and romance, innocence lost, optimism, factory worker, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, asia, china, london
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Esther Cimino, a music teacher who has reached retirement age, finds that her mental faculties are slipping somewhat. The film is a trenchant, realistic study of the ravages and displacements, socially, physically, and mentally, that are visited ...
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere, emotional
Plot:
aging, bondage, courtroom, pianist, fighting the system, single parent, society, love and romance, misfit, elderly, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
18%
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, ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, thought provoking
Plot:
cancer, heroic mission, human spirit, fighting the system, environmentalism, terminal illness, obsessive quest, hopes, society, social relations, small town, church ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, rehabilitation center, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, addiction, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
"The Miracle of the Cards" is based on the true story of Marion Shergold and her son, Craig, an eight-year-old English boy who had a brain tumor. Several events convinced Marion that God was leading her to a cure for Craig and that the ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, christian film
Plot:
brain tumor, terminal illness, child illness, christian, hopes, life is a bitch, disability, miraculous event, journalism, sick child, faith, youth ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Sweden 1951. A new society is developing, a society where there is no room for the socially and mentally weak...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, disturbing, touching ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
pregnancy, society, youth, mental illness, teenage life, win over, injustice, power relations, life is a bitch, misfit, confined, mental institution ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An intellectual leaves the Cuban revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life in the 'developed' world. A portrait of alienation, of an outsider with no clear-cut ...
Style:
captivating, serious, atmospheric, thought provoking, surreal ...
Plot:
idealism, fighting the system, self discovery, state affairs, hopes, redemption, rebelliousness, rebellion, society, lifestyle, politics, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cuba, japan, latin america, utah, paris france ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The story of the first blind man ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, uplifting
Plot:
heroic mission, against the odds, obsessive quest, hopes, self discovery, disability, winter, blindness, snow, mountaineering, mountaineer, landscape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mount everest
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in Rome but spend their weekends at their country home in Umbria, where they love to spend their days ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, emotional, erotic
Plot:
idealism, life turned upside down, lifestyle, couples, life is a bitch, social differences, hopes, couple relations, family problems, culture clash, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
addiction, recovery, rehabilitation, coping, alcoholics anonymous, support group, family problems, self discovery, human spirit, hopes, against the odds, friendship ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, year 1929
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bill Sackter struggles to cope after his best friend and guardian, Barry Morrow and his wife Beverly move away. Bill moves into a group home run by Mae Driscoll who teaches him how to read. Bill soon discovers his religious heritage, overcoming the ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, emotional
Plot:
biopic, family relations, family problems, disability, custody, mental illness, mentally challenged, misfit, society, life is a bitch, human spirit, hopes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
iowa, usa
Similarity:
18%
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