Movies like Deep in the Heart 2012
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Deep in the Heart (2012)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".
Style:
realistic, uplifting, touching, serious, captivating, sincere, entertaining
Plot:
alcohol abuse, starting over, support group, hopes, college, mysterious stranger, friendship, rise to the top, society, alcoholic, changing lives, lifestyle change, hung over, ranch, recovering alcoholic, drugs/alcohol
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
texas, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about hopes, society, friendship, starting over, family relations, friends and redemption mostly in Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Deep in the Heart: My Name Is Bill W. (1989), The Citizen (2012), Hide Away (2011), Not Waving But Drowning (2012), Firelight (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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Time:
1930s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Yearning to leave behind his life of misfortune in the Middle East, Ibrahim Jarrah wins the U.S. Green Card Lottery for a chance to become an American citizen. Ibrahim lands in New York City the day before 9/11…and the events of the September ...
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realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, uplifting
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starting over, american dream, immigrants, society, hopes, 9/11, rivalry, lawyer, city, wrestler, lottery, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
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starting over, self discovery, friendship, small town, haunted by the past, hopes, death of wife, redemption, father daughter relationship, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
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realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, starting over, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, society, relationships, friends, best friends
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
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Plot:
redemption, youth, juvenile delinquency, power relations, human spirit, society, hopes, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish her degree so that, for once, she can finally finish something she started. Back at her old ...
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Plot:
college, family relations, redemption, social relations, homecoming, college life, starting over, life is a bitch, bittersweet, small town, college friend, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A compelling drama that explores the different meanings of being a parent through the gritty, realistic lives of a struggling family, and a privileged family. Their lives intersect, intertwine and collide, all for the love of a little boy. This film ...
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Place:
usa, ohio, florida
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46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
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Plot:
refugee, friendship, injustice, starting over, immigrants, society, hopes, leaving home, political unrest, friends, fugitives, freedom ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, turkey
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43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"Meat Loaf" Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father and schoolmates over his size, he strikes out on his own after his mother's death, ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, captivating, semi serious
Plot:
showbiz, ambition, rise to the top, desire for fame, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, love and romance, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, musician's life, music band, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, texas, dallas texas
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43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.
Style:
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Plot:
coming of age, high school, prodigy, starting over, haunted by the past, lifestyle, rivalry, sport, hopes, on the run, redemption, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, new york, usa
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43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Annie Garret is a young woman who moves with her irresponsible husband Ross and their seven-year-old daughter Taylor from Colorado to a ranch in northern California where Ross abandons them after he fails to land a job. With no money and no friends, ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two women get on the highway heading to Santa Fe. Marilyn dreams of winning a contest held by a famous belly dancing company, while her friend, Mona, has a secret: she's a fugitive from justice - accused of her mother-in-law's death.
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belly dancing, dancing, friendship, self discovery, starting over, lifestyle, hopes, on the road, unfulfillment, society, secret, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sister Rachel Taylor of Boise, Idaho is an eager young missionary of the LDS Church who has been sent on an 18-month long mission to Austria. Rachel finds herself having a hard time adjusting to her new cultural surroundings in the foreign country. ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team
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realistic, uplifting, emotional, captivating, motivational ...
Plot:
baseball, addiction, christian, rehabilitation, homecoming, redemption, athlete's life, hopes, starting over, life is a bitch, support group, sport team ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oklahoma
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40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, ambition, unfulfillment, friendship, college, university, manipulation, mentor, power, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style:
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Plot:
starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, auschwitz, hopes, human spirit, reunited friends, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, girlfriend, lifestyle, post war, women ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
france, europe
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39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A story about a woman willing to do anything and risk everything for her marriage.
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realistic, serious, touching, captivating, psychological ...
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immigrants, couple relations, couples, society, lifestyle, trying to get pregnant, cultural difference, relationships, parents and children, changing lives, female protagonist, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishing community. He returns to the island an outcast but determined to win back the way of life he fought so hard to protect. Set against the stunning ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot:
hopes, redemption, island, starting over, estrangement, family problems, couple relations, human nature, social misfits, friendship, ocean, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An R&B singer snagged by the trappings of superstardom loses his way and turns his back on his church and faith-filled beginnings. Tragedy strikes, leaving a chance for redemption in its wake. But with rebirth, first comes death.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sincere ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Liberia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
‘What do you want?’ asks the trade union leader, to which the men respond as if with one voice: change! Life is hard work on Liberia’s rubber plantations and wages are meagre. Nothing has changed for generations, but now the workers are ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: South Africa
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Ten years have passed. Nikki's daughter Sarah, now 19 and heading West for college, is at her own spiritual crossroads. To make matters worse, her mother has recently revealed that, nearly a decade ago, she was the dinner guest of the Almighty ...
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Time:
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Place:
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