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Standing Firm (2010)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
David, a widower, is working himself to death. Late nights doing paperwork and running on fumes is normal. Bills are piling up by the week, and foreclosure looms on the horizon. Blaming God for his wife's death, he ends his relationship with the church. Steven, the remaining Christian of the household, has been watching his father's unhealthy lifestyle with great concern. With help from his grandpa and best friend Maggie, Steven reaches out to his father in any way he can. Despite his grieving and worsening financial problems, David begins seeking an answer to the question haunting him since his wife's death...WHY? STANDING FIRM is a story of suffering, God's purpose in it, and being joyful despite it.
Style:
serious, realistic, christian film, sentimental, touching
Plot:
christian, church, family relations, society, family problems, religions or cults, grieving widower, parents and children, best friends, hopes, unsupportive spouse, widower, christianity, crisis of faith, faith, belief in god, crisis, dealing with death
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and christian film films with plots about christian, society, religions or cults, hopes, family relations, faith and parents and children mostly in Drama, Music and Thriller genres. Some movies like Standing Firm: A Question of Faith (2017), The Lost & Found Family (2009), The Perfect Stranger (2005), Another Perfect Stranger (2007), The Grace Card (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 91 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
'THE PERFECT STRANGER' tells the story of Nikki, a troubled attorney who one day receives a mysterious dinner invitation from a man claiming to be Jesus of Nazareth. Throughout their evening of conversation, arguments and spirited debate, ...
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sincere, christian film, serious, realistic, touching ...
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36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Everything can change in an instant ... and take a lifetime to unravel. When Mac McDonald loses his son in an accident, the ensuing 17 years of bitterness and pain erodes his love for his family and leaves him angry with God ... and just about ...
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christian film, touching, serious, uplifting, realistic ...
Plot:
racism, christian, hopes, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, partners, faith, society, clergy, partners against crime, family problems, haunted by the past ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In seeking her own redemption from the one man of whom she is most afraid, 10-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of Welsh immigrants in 1850s Appalachia.
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emotional, serious, touching, sincere, christian film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Single mother Tyree Battle struggles to keep her young son Thaniel away from the gang-plagued city streets that he is mixed up in. Under severe gang pressure, Thaniel accidentally shoots Jewish shopkeeper Eli Zeal in a botched robbery attempt. ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Christian girl, Rachel Whitaker (Jordan Trovillion) goes off to college for her freshman year and begins to be influenced by her popular Biology professor (Harry Anderson) who teaches that evolution is the answer to the origins of life. When ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The estranged daughter of a small town minister is forced to return to the strict, religious home of her youth where she must confront the troubled relationships that caused her to leave four years before
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Duration: 115 min.
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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