Movies like Healing

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Healing (2014)
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Healing (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Viktor Kahdem is a man who has almost given up on life, sentenced to a low-security prison farm, a completely non-threatening environment where it is still felt that some individuals can be reformed. At Won Wron, Case Worker Matt Perry has established a unique program to rehabilitate broken men through giving them the responsibility for the rehabilitation of injured raptors - beautiful, fearsome proud eagles, falcons and owls. Against all odds, Matt takes on Viktor as his number one test case, introducing him to Yasmine, the majestic wedge tailed eagle with a 2 metre wingspan. If these two can tame each other, anything is possible.
Style: independent film, spiritual
Plot: prison, eagle, owl, shame, prison visit, prison guard, nature, forest, friendship, prisoner, criminal, bird, family relations, father son relationship, rebirth, rehabilitation, friend, machismo, loss of brother, parole, philosophical conversation, hopes, cathartic, animal, woods ...
Place: australia
Keyword: australian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and independent film films with plots about family relations, hopes, friendship, prison, parents and children, father son relationship and society mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Healing: Angela's Decision (2006), The Mulberry Tree (2010), White Night (1995), Moving Out (1983), The Right Hand Man (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Angela's Decision (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
Story: Living in the middle of Australia's desolate landscape, Angela has been waiting all her life. Waiting for her boyfriend to return from the army and marry her, waiting for her mother to sober up, waiting for her life to begin. On the return of ...
Style: social
Plot: hopes, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, small town, friend, mother daughter relationship, army, pregnancy
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The Mulberry Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A drama centered on a young man working in Rhode Island's state corrections system and his relationship with a convicted murderer who is dying of AIDS and spending his remaining days on hospital detail.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: prison, hospital, redemption, family relations, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, one more chance, terminal illness, life sentence, haunted by the past, murderer ...
Place: rhode island, usa
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White Night (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Directed by Arnon Zadok.
Plot: prison, jail cell, drug rehab, friend, cell mate, drug use, friendship, sex, prisoner, prison warden, drug dealer, all male cast ...
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Moving Out (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Coming-of-age story about an Italian-Australian teenager making his way in the world.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, independent film
Plot: immigrant, family relations, coming of age, suburbs, misfit, society, youth, life turned upside down, teenage life, culture clash, moving, trespassing ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, melbourne
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The Right Hand Man (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Drama directed by Di Drew.
Style: independent film
Plot: stagecoach, aristocrat, lady, diabetes, lord, horse, doctor, widow, accident, ranch, amputation, stagecoach driver ...
Time: year 1987, 1860s, 1800s
Place: australia
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61%
Look Ahead with Anger (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have followed Ceausescu's downfall. Fane, a worker in a wharf on the river Danube, is a former dissident who was in involved in politically motivated ...
Plot: economist, revolution, communism, family relations, worker, frustration, inflation, economics, father daughter relationship, friendship, teenage girl, friend ...
Place: romania, bucharest
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Ombline (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for ...
Style: serious, touching, bleak, realistic, gloomy
Plot: newborn baby, prison, single parent, hopes, family problems, life is a bitch, babies and infants, confined, starting over, family relations, prison life, released from prison ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
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57%
Matching Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Style: sincere, uplifting, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, coming of age, hopes, dishonesty, friendship, parents and children, bittersweet, terminal illness, unfulfillment, life turned upside down, child illness, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, ireland
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The Mustang (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
Style: realistic, exciting, social, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Plot: horse, convict, animal training, freedom, redemption, loyalty, transformation, society, punishment, nature, fear, law enforcement ...
Place: nevada
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It’s Only Make Believe (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After serving 10 years in prison for murder, Jenny returns to society. She wants to live a quiet life and resume her responsibilities as a mother, but soon shadows from the past start to appear.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, touching
Plot: prison, haunted by the past, starting over, family relations, murder, drug dealing, hopes, adoption, criminal heroes, strong female character, mother daughter relationship, coping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scandinavia
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51%
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Clemency (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, bleak, compassionate, suspenseful ...
Plot: death row, lethal injection, prison, prison warden, black american, black, retirement, death sentence, teacher, innocence, guilt, demonstration ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa
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Everyday (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: prison, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, society, youth, couple relations, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Stuck! (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: independent film, neo noir
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, women in prison, lesbian relationship, lesbian, jail, security guard, prisoner, female nudity, guilt, suicide, prison guard, diary ...
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Love Belongs to Everyone (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Shy, gentle half-wit Dennis, whose only obsession is train-spotting, is released early on account of good behavior after a rape sentence. His parents who run a modest barbershop, skeptic André and Rita, desperately try to keep him out of girl ...
Style: touching, captivating, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: family relations, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, hopes, misfit, society, forced into action, parents and children, jail, punishment, rape, prison ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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The Daughter (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry’s wedding. While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver, who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now ...
Style: touching, disturbing, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: incestuous relationship, friend, husband wife relationship, wedding, unemployment, family relations, family secret, uncover truth, family reunited, family problems, getting home, character change ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia
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Mad Bastards (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13‐year‐old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too. After being turned away from his mother’s house, TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of northwestern Australia to make ...
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, sincere
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The Chimp (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Kyrgyzstan, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in central Asia. His family is being torn apart by his dad's alcoholism, his emotions are being torn ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, rescue, young heroes, youth, heroes, coming of age, aging, human spirit, hopes, family relations, friends, child illness ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, post world war two
Place: baltimore, usa
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Measure for Measure (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
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Three Dollars (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality ...
Style: touching, sentimental, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: couple relations, self discovery, family problems, couples, hopes, redemption, moral dilemma, family relations, love triangle, love, society, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Wild Duck (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Wild Duck is a 1983 Australian film adapted from the play by Ibsen
Style: realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: family relations, couples, society, love and romance, dysfunctional family, family life, parents and children, high society, male female relationship, duck, mental illness, tragedy ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia
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39%
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Rolling Man (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: While he is serving time in prison, a man's wife dies and his children disappear. When he gets out of prison, he starts to search for his kids
Plot: prison, pub, lost child, motor home, car race, jail cell, tourist, hitchhiker, prisoner, singer, accident, jealousy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: As Rockit grapples to understand why his Mum’s not coming home, he embarks on a magical holiday with his father, Bosch, only to discover they’re actually running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with Ash Ash, but ...
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The Father and the Foreigner (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Style: suspense, captivating, psychotronic
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
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Style: realistic, talky, touching, independent film, existential ...
Plot: working class, friendship, gay subtext, partner, odd couple, love and romance, society, hopes, boss and employee, buddies, human nature, starting over ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Wool Cap (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, spiritual ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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Plot: revenge, prison, love, stress, brotherhood, family drama, urban, family relations
⇓ similarity ⇓
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