Movies like Why me?

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Why me? (1984)
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Why me? (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.
Plot: disfigured, car accident, disfigurement, nurse, plastic surgery, miscarriage

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking and touching films with plots about car accident, nurse, murder, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl and extramarital affair mostly in Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Why me?: Where Are My Children? (1994), The Littlest Victims (1989), Sins of the mind (1997), Murder in Texas (1981), Someone I Touched (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Where Are My Children? (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
Plot: adoption, corruption, car accident, prison
Time: 60s, 70s, 80s
Place: georgia
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95%
The Littlest Victims (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tim Matheson play a doctor that treats children with AIDS. He tries to convince his colleagues that the children got the disease from their parents. Based on a true story.
Plot: aids, medical, doctor, children, injection, child, caucasian, nurse, medicine, african american, needle, syringe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A female is harassed and takes the case to court.
Plot: stalker, sexual harassment, trial, courtroom, true crime
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: True life drama about a working mum (Henner) whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her (Savant) and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, evil man
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Sins of the mind (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A typical American family - photographer father, two talented daughters, Michelle an accomplished commercial artist with a clear upward career path. Then she has an auto accident, and the head trauma leaves behavioral changes. The part of the brain ...
Style: erotic
Plot: car accident, nymphomania, brain damage, father daughter relationship, psychiatrist, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, photographer, mother daughter relationship, family relations, sex addict, promiscuous woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The sequel to "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" in which Betty Broderick is on trial for the murder of her ex-husband and his new wife.
Plot: love, divorce, murder, revenge, courtroom, lawyer, true crime
Place: san diego california
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56%
Murder in Texas (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this film tells of a plastic surgeon who was suspected of causing the death of his first wife, the daughter of a wealthy member of Houston society. The doctor then marries his mistress, whom he had been keeping during his ...
Plot: plastic surgeon, autopsy, oil well, plastic surgery, sociopath, media circus, man in underwear, heiress, poisoning, doctor, horse riding, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1900s
Place: houston texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Someone I Touched (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that he has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is finally pregnant
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, gloomy
Plot: infidelity, extramarital affair, pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, syphilis, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love triangle, couples, public health, marital reconciliation, fired from the job ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Sam's Son (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Michael Landon's semi-autobiographical sketch of his earlier life. It's the story of Gene Orowitz, a high school student struggling with his identity, who finds success as a javelin thrower on the track team.
Style: independent film
Plot: hair, high school, success, long haired male
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Dramatization of the life of Italian actress Sophia Loren who plays herself during adulthood and also that of her mother Romilda Villani.
Plot: hollywood, biopic, glory, mother daughter relationship, world war two, father daughter relationship, extramarital affair, italian woman, air raid, poverty, actress, miscarriage ...
Place: rome italy, italy
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45%
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Television drama in which miners spend their Christmas Eve in a collapsed mine.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: christmas, danger, cave, daring rescue, chases and races, life is a bitch, escapades, heroes, race against time, workplace situations, labor union, disaster ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1951, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Much Ado About Nothing (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a night of partying, Vicente is involved in a hit-and-run that kills a man. Vicente claims his innocence, but he was drunk and high. A tangled web of lies buries the truth, making a social scandal disappear — exonerating the real culprit, ...
Plot: boy, hit and run, injustice, sex in car, female nudity, coastal town, car accident, summer, beach house, drunk driving, female full frontal nudity, smoking after sex ...
Time: year 2013
Place: chile
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43%
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Unforgivable (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: John Ritter plays a family man who puts his wife through domestic violence and his children through emotional torture. After leaving his family and almost killing his new girlfriend in one of his rages, he is ordered to seek professional help ...
Plot: group therapy, domestic abuse, domestic violence, fear, marital abuse, anger management
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Sea and Poison (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Downed American fliers in WW II are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in medical experiments.
Style: retro
Plot: world war two, mental disorder, nurse, torture, bomber, vivisection, air force, doctor
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Heart of a Child (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A drama directed by Sandor Stern.
Plot: disability, medicine, christian, mother, heart transplant, heart, mother child relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
If Looks Could Kill (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The true story of John Hawkins as featured on America's Most Wanted.
Plot: serial killer, gay, murder, con artists, true crime, insurance fraud, male homosexuality, insurance, scam, bisexual, homosexual
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
When Nietzsche Wept (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
Style: psychological, serious, talky, realistic, touching ...
Plot: psychoanalysis, philosopher, doctors and patients, prodigy, introspection, obsession, losing-it hero, downfall, intern, philosophy, writers, psychotherapy ...
Time: 19th century
Place: austria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Killing of Randy Webster (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young man is shot and killed in an altercation with Houston police. His father doesn't believe the police version of the incident and starts digging around on his own.
Plot: car theft, police corruption, planting evidence, loss of son, father son relationship, flashback, police chase
Place: houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Miracle of Kathy Miller (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: With the support of her parents (Sharon Gless & Frank Converse), an Arizona adolescent (Helen Hunt) overcomes severe injuries to run in a 10K race.
Plot: running, perseverance, finding yourself, believe in yourself, waking up from a coma, car accident, teenage girl, teenager, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, accident ...
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Nightingales (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Five pretty nurse students and their boss Leonore are the focus of this TV series. They are all living together in a villa called "Nightingale House" located in Los Angeles. Leonore has a complicated private relation to one of the ...
Style: tv series pilot
Plot: blonde, physician, nurse
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Conviction of Kitty Dodds (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.
Plot: prison, marital abuse, prison escape, murder, women's prison, child abuse, alcoholism
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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My Son Johnny (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Anthony Cortino lives with his mother in a quiet suburb. His father is dead, and his violent criminal brother is a long way off, in the city, and if Anthony has his way, that's where he will stay. However, Johnny runs into trouble with the ...
Plot: bullying, childhood memory, forest, fratricide, trial, kitten, brother, violence, arrow, knife, saxophone
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Cab to Canada (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An elderly woman (Maureen O'Hara) and a young cabby (Jason Beghe) seek life's meaning as they drive from California to Canada.
Style: road movie
Plot: taxi, driver, single mother, boy, road trip, friendship, male female relationship, old woman, old age, taxi driver, on the road, father figure ...
Place: vancouver, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Forgotten Sins (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A county sheriff is accused by his daughter of having abused her. Her accusation gets more and more elaborate, involving satanic rituals. As nearly everyone around him seems to believe he's guilty, he starts breaking up and questioning his own ...
Plot: religion, police interrogation, false memory
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Tenth Level (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor ...
Style: thought provoking, independent film
Plot: real life, experiment, obedience, university, college professor, scientific experiment, psychology
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Children Nobody Wanted (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.
Style: political
Plot: ranch, hardship, homelessness, orphan, adoption, house, family home, children, bachelor, foster parent, large family, foster home ...
Time: year 1959, 1950s, 60s
Place: missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Secret Name (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at Madame de Lengwil's house, to ...
Plot: medical, fake identity, world war one, false identity, prostitution, disfigured, german soldier, impersonation, police commissioner, locket, church, presumed dead ...
Time: year 1914
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Red Dirt Rising (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this film shares with us a decade in the lives of Jimmie Lewallen and his wife Carrie as they experience the joys of love and marriage alongside the tragedies of war and poverty (1939-1949).
Plot: classic car, auto racing, world war two, nascar, racing, car racing, moonshine
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Booger Red (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Booger Red is a hybrid documentary/narrative about a veteran reporter who searches for the truth behind the largest purported child sex ring in Texas history. On his journey through the bowels of East Texas, he's forced to confront his own ...
Plot: found footage, investigative journalism, brother in law sister in law relationship, swinger
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Friend's Betrayal (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two childhood friends grow up. One has a family and the other has a career. One relationship may make or break a family. Paul, the teenage son, must decide what he wants for his future. While family would like to make that decision for him. Watch as ...
Style: sexy
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, woman seduces a man, age-gap relationship, young love, teenage girl, car accident, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage boy, teenager, birthday party, high school ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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