Movies like Love, Mary

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Love, Mary (1985)
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Love, Mary (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A teen, who is always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around when a counselor discovers she is dyslexic.
Plot: dyslexia, reform school, teenager, in love, police, student, troubled teen, belief in god, teenage girl, car accident, dormitory, counselor, nurse, belief in hell, stealing a car, graduation, eyeglasses, classroom, police car, reading aloud, girl with glasses, uniform, strait jacket, stolen car
Time: 80s, 70s, 60s, year 1966, year 1984, 1960s
Place: oregon, portland oregon
Keyword: reading

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, psychological, serious and captivating films with plots about teenager, teenage girl, high school, car accident, mother daughter relationship, family relations and troubled teen mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Love, Mary: The Children Nobody Wanted (1981), Where Are My Children? (1994), The Mystery of Her (2022), Blinded by the Light (1980), The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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95%
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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86%
The Mystery of Her (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After a near fatal car accident, a popular high school student loses her memory and gets a second chance at a more meaningful life.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: memory loss, car accident, lifestyle change, changing lives, female protagonist, teenager, memory lapse, teenage life, amnesia, teenage girl, second chance, high school ...
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Blinded by the Light (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: David Bowers is a teenager who runs away from home to join a quasi-religious cult. His sister Janet is determined to find him, but almost winds up getting brainwashed by the cult herself.
Plot: religion, teenager, parents, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, love, sacrifice, kidnapping, sect, salvation, brainwashing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Violation of Sarah McDavid (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and ...
Plot: troubled teen, rape, voice over narration, assault, bicycle, student, teacher, teenage girl, school, female protagonist, marriage proposal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Hot Rod (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drag-racer enters a local championship race. However, he runs up against the town boss, a corrupt sheriff who has already made arrangements to ensure that his own son wins the race.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: drag racing, car, auto racing, classic car, carsploitation, car race, woman driver, driving, woman, corruption, police, radio dj ...
Time: 70s
Place: california
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54%
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Takiaispallo (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Aaro Saarinen is a foreman in the paper mill. The new generation continually questions his authority in both at work and at home.
Plot: youth culture, unfaithful husband, marital problem, troubled teen, family relations, job, father son relationship, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, children, housewife, cheating ...
Time: 70s
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51%
Desperate Lives (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
Plot: drug addiction, high school, car crash, bare chested male, drug use, skateboard, hospital, propaganda, teenage boy, teenage girl, death, suicide ...
Time: 80s
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She Cried No (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A college freshman is date-raped and tries to press charges.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, crying
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: college, rape, campus, sex crime, teen social issues, abused woman, love, sexual abuse, school, womanizer, rape victim, small town ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Jim, the World's Greatest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: One of his earlier pieces, Don Coscarelli (of Phantasm Phame) has a knack for seeing the world through the eyes and heart of a young boy. He offers a Peter Pan-esque adventure to men from the boomers to present day, with each generation being ...
Style: independent film
Plot: troubled teen, teen angst, alcoholic father, abuse, brother, teenager
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Heart Beats (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Tsukasa was a middle school student, she had a crush on transfer student Hayato and even confessed her feelings to him. She was turned down by Hayato. Now, Tsukasa and Hayato are classmates in high school. Hayato treats Tsukasa as just a ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, romantic
Plot: fall in love, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love affair, teenage love, teenager, in love, couple relations, teenage protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Pack of Lies (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A couple learns that their friendly neighbours might be Russian spies.
Style: tense, talky, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: betrayal, russian spy, friendship, secret agent, best friend, friends, couples, kgb, suburbs, government agency, dishonesty, state affairs ...
Time: 80s, year 1961, 60s
Place: scotland yard, england, europe, london, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: thought provoking, uplifting, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: homeless, heroic mission, righting the wronged, power relations, campaign, injustice, state affairs, fighting the system, life is a bitch, society, politics, hopes ...
Time: 80s
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Pamela's Prayer (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min.
Story: This period piece motion picture portrays the unique and heartfelt story of Pamela Bucklin from her birth in 1969 to her wedding day in 1991. When her mother dies at birth, Pamela is raised by her father, Wayne. He makes a commitment to pray with ...
Style: christian film
Plot: christian, faith, christian faith, abusive father, high school, peer pressure, abstinence, christian family, christian teen, father daughter relationship, dating, marriage ...
Time: 60s, 90s, 80s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Jesus Revolution (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the 1970s, aimless teenager Greg Laurie searches for all the right things in all the wrong places until he meets Lonnie Frisbee, a charismatic hippie/street preacher. Together with local pastor Chuck Smith, they open the doors of a languishing ...
Style: thrilling, realistic, psychological, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot: faith, belief in god, hippie, religious faith, religion, religious fundamentalism, religious conversion, teenager, teenage life, religious, god, christianity ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1969
Place: southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Uncommon (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jesus combined diverse people and assorted stories to change the world! Now, He wants to use you! When the students of Rosewood High School lose their theater, music and dance departments due to budgets cuts, they create their own. Struggling to ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, psychological, christian film
Plot: high school student, faith, christian, bible, christian propaganda, christianity, religion, rehearsal, theatre play, teenage life, religious conversion, school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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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, nurse, disfigurement, miscarriage, plastic surgery
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Tex (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Coming-of-age adventure about two teenage brothers and their struggles to grow up, on their own, after their mother dies and their father leaves them.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, friendship, bittersweet, small town, high school, profanity, acid, name calling, family relations ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 70s
Place: oklahoma, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Return to Macon County (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
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Time: year 1975, 1950s, 50s
Place: california, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A disaster movie opening with an enormous multi-vehicle crash on a Californian highway. After the opening stunt-filled action, a flashback of the crash victims' lives prior to and leading up to the accident. The closing replays the entire ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: disaster, automobile, car chase, truck driver, cop killer, intercourse, car crash, chaos and mayhem, collision, survival, danger, escapades ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
The First Stone (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A story of the redemptive powers of Christ's love - a janitor becomes the leader of a high school youth group with an unconventional approach. He gradually gets through to the kids relying on his faith.
Style: christian film
Plot: faith, teenager, troubled teen, janitor, christianity, christian, church, hiding place, group
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Fred Won't Move Out (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Fred (Elliott Gould) lives with his Alzheimers' struggling wife, Susan in their home of over fifty years. Fred's grown up children try to convince him to move into a care home alongside Susan, however, he does not approve of this idea.
Style: captivating, exciting, sincere, serious, entertaining
Plot: teenage girl, family home, families, kids and family, family relations, family problems, family life, family drama, teenager, teenage daughter, parents, children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Little Ladies of the Night (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to clear the streets of under-age girls working in prostitution. ...
Style: dark
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, cautionary tale, innocent, life lesson, father daughter relationship, police, mother daughter relationship, innocence, friendship, teenage girl, money ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
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32%
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, sad, gloomy ...
Plot: down syndrome, disability, haunted by the past, child illness, family problems, parents and children, crumbling marriage, love and romance, obsession, hopes, hidden identity, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s, 80s, 70s
Place: kentucky, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
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Hurt (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mandy White is a cheerleader. Dan LaCoy is a football player. Jason Dobbs is a bully. Eli Barker is an artist. Asia Borg is a foster kid. What they all have in common however, is that they are hurting. Each one deals with their own personal issues ...
Plot: alcoholism, student, high school, shooting, suicide, bullying, death, depression, teenager
Place: virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Safe Harbor (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
Plot: troubled teen, social worker, juvenile delinquent, teenager, re-education, changing lives, relationships, lifestyle change, male female relationship, assistant, troubled youth, adoption ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Mickey and the Bear (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: teenage girl, father daughter relationship, addiction, teenager, incest, war veteran, family relations, father daughter incest, life is a bitch, parents and children, rural setting, adolescence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montana
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30%
The Tribes of Palos Verdes (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When the situation at her idyllic Palos Verdes home turns volatile, young Medina attempts to surf her way to happiness.
Style: suspense, sad, depressing, touching, aesthetic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: twins, surfing, adolescence, teenager, mother daughter relationship, troubled teen, loneliness, sibling relationship, stereotypes, female protagonist, teenage girl, mother ...
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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