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Annie's Coming Out (1984)
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Annie's Coming Out (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It tells the story of a young female social worker who begins work at a hospital for retarded children, and discovers that some of the psychological problems attributed to these children are incorrectly diagnosed. Proving this to be the case is difficult, however, as it is generally accepted that as those who are 'profoundly retarded' cannot communicate, therefore they cannot think. In the case of Annie O'Farrell (Tina Arhondis), finding a way for her to 'talk', other than speaking or writing, finally shows that she is not only able to think, but is highly intelligent. The battle against the hospital to acknowledge this in a legal sense goes to court, as the psychiatrists try to hide their misdiagnosis.
Style: independent film, learning
Plot: disability, dog, lawyer, storm, court, doctor, boy, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, happy ending, mother daughter relationship, rain, city, girl, swimming pool, brother sister relationship, telephone call, night, assassination attempt, letter, female protagonist, supermarket, young couple, death of child, cigarette smoking ...
Place: australia, melbourne
Keyword: visit, melbourne australia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and touching films with plots about apology, opening a door, cigarette smoking, telephone call, telephone, man with glasses and night mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Annie's Coming Out: Stacy's Knights (1983), The Children Nobody Wanted (1981), Heatwave (1982), Brilliant Lies (1996), Fast Talking (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Stacy's Knights (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyone has a talent, and dreams do come true. Stacy Lancaster has an incredible knack for Blackjack. Once she joins up with daring Will Bonner the two young gamblers are on a non-stop roll. Soon the casino wants to even the odds. How long can ...
Style: independent film, thinking
Plot: gambling, casino, bare chested male, black man, recruit, tragedy, night, dead man, threat, happy ending, winning, black american ...
Time: year 1983
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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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100%
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Heatwave (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman attempts to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up for fraud and other criminal activity.
Style: neo noir, retro, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: heat wave, christmas, redheaded woman, injustice, against the odds, fighting the system, rivalry, society, state affairs, rebellion, father daughter relationship, party ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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55%
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Brilliant Lies (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: sexual harassment, family relations, sexual abuse, feminism, couples, courtroom, power relations, siblings relations, sexual relations, courtroom drama, workplace situations, false accusation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: melbourne, australia
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52%
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Fast Talking (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A bright young teenager from a broken home uses his quick wits and glib tongue to get out of trouble - but they also get him into it.
Style: independent film, detective
Plot: motorcycle, con artists, teenage boy, school expulsion, troubled teen, stealing a car, running from police, ex convict, corporal punishment, teacher student relationship, school principal, drug dealing ...
Place: australia
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52%
The Fourth Wish (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Style: crying, independent film, juvenile
Plot: photograph, family abandonment, husband wife relationship, separation, bare chested male, young boy, tram, care, queen elizabeth ii, blue collar, sadness, only child ...
Place: south australia, australia, adelaide south australia
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51%
Wedding in White (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone ...
Style: independent film, crying
Plot: teenage pregnancy, world war two, dysfunctional family, rape, parent child relationship, daughter, father, redhead girl, older man younger woman romance, priest, staircase, store ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, post world war two
Place: canada
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50%
Unfinished Business (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life boring and directionless. Meant to be a sequel to Don Owen's acclaimed 1964 film "Nobody Waved Good-bye", "Unfinished Business" ...
Style: independent film
Plot: homeless shelter, environmental, cycling, night, basketball, old woman, teddy bear, environmental activism, mirror, policewoman, swing, black boy ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The FJ Holden (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Suburban Australia in the late 70s. It was the era of the drive-in movie, the Chico Roll girl and the beloved FJ Holden. Boasting drunken fist fights, back seat sex, illegal drag racing, a classic Oz rock soundtrack (featuring Ol'55, Skyhooks ...
Style: road movie, independent film
Plot: carsploitation, car, teenage girl, bare butt, teensploitation, television reporter, gas station, italian man, sex in car, security guard, police sergeant, tv reporter ...
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 18 year-old Peter lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and rebels constantly against their imposed middle-class goals and conventions and the materialist values they represent. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, juvenile delinquent, teenager, rebel, probation officer, breaking the law, pregnant girl, boat ride, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, job interview, lie ...
Place: canada
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50%
Lies My Father Told Me (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Jewish boy grows up in 1920s Montreal with a grandfather who tells stories and a father who won't work.
Style: independent film
Plot: judaism, boy, youth, renaissance, jewish culture, fishing, nostalgia, working class, tragic event, antique shop, bigger dreams, invention ...
Time: year 1975, 1920s
Place: eastern europe, middle east, montreal, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Abandoned by his father after his mother dies, young PS lives in suburban Sydney with his aunt Lila and her husband George. While they lead a modest existence, PS is happy with them. However, his contentment is derailed when Lila's wealthy ...
Style: anamorphic, emotional, touching, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, unrequited love, orphan, dysfunctional family, custody, life is a bitch, parents and children, bad father, adoption, redheaded woman, single parent ...
Time: year 1983, 1930s, 1920s
Place: australia, new south wales, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Human Voice (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.
Plot: lost soul, female protagonist, dog, telephone call, cigarette smoking, letter, mirror, telephone, bathroom, nightgown, crying woman
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Ticket to Heaven (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: sleep deprivation, religious cult, religion, religions or cults, sect, atheism, hidden treasure, brainwashing, mind control, society, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: toronto ontario canada, california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Hotel Sorrento (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Meg, Pippa, and Hillary are sisters who grew up in Sorrento, a small seaside town in Australia. Meg, who has lived in England for 10 years has just written a criticially acclaimed novel which she claims is entirely fictional. The book causes a stir ...
Style: realistic, serious, talky, touching, sincere ...
Plot: beach, sibling relationship, couples, writers, seaside town, family reunited, love triangle, family secret, drowning, youth, elderly, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia, london, england, usa, new york ...
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Squizzy Taylor (1982)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor.
Style: crying, period piece, independent film
Plot: death of killer, breaking the law, death of protagonist, short man, urban setting, man with glasses, blond, crime victim, accountant, world war one veteran, unhappy ending, mirror ...
Time: year 1982, 1910s, 1920s
Place: melbourne, australia
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have ...
Style: touching, psychological, realistic, sentimental, talky ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: redemption, coming of age, teacher, dysfunctional family, single father, family problems, parents and children, family life, life is a bitch, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, family relations ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: connecticut
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Captain Johnno (1988)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: "Captain Johnno" is a deaf boy who befriends an Italian fisherman in this Australian made-for-TV family film.
Style: children's story
Plot: coming of age, youth, deaf, young boy, physical disability, town, deaf child, man with glasses, teaching, priest, disability, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1950s, year 1953
Place: south australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: fashion, model, photographer, fashion industry, fashion model, mental illness, photograph, modeling, photography, drug addiction, character study, sex crime ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, jamaica, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
We of the Never Never (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Based on the well-loved Australian classic by Mrs. Aeneas Gunn, this is the remarkable true story of Jeannie Gunn, a woman who fought to overcome sexual and racial prejudice amid the harsh beauties of the outback. Leaving her Melbourne existence for ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot: australian aboriginal, aborigine, countryside, strong female lead, sexism, bride and groom, australian outback, killing an animal, feminist, animal cruelty, racism, strong female presence ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 1900s
Place: australia, melbourne
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46%
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Lonely Hearts (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, crying, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: age-gap relationship, dating, looking for love, adult virgin, love affair, computers and web, family relations, couples, unfulfillment, lifestyle, hopes, human nature ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: australia, melbourne
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46%
Seize the Day (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but ...
Style: depressing, independent film, realistic, bleak, semi serious ...
Plot: unemployment, hotel, marketing, startup, family relations, stock market, salesman, job seeking, stock exchange, literary, single parent, going straight ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, year 1956
Place: new york, usa
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46%
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Fran (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Fran, a single mother, is selflessly devoted to her children. But something is lacking in her life, and that something is the love of a man her own age. Her efforts to juggle a love life with her home life are largely unsuccessful.
Style: independent film
Plot: girl, single mother, mother daughter relationship, child molestation, brunette
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Julia (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Style: factual, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, political ...
Plot: world war two, writers, friendship, politics, childhood, nazi, fascism, culture clash, fighting the system, adaptation, character study, playwright ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1977, year 1934, pre world war two
Place: germany, europe, vienna, london, oxford university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
A Cry in the Dark (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain: During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia, she claims she witnessed a dingo taking her baby daughter, Azaria, from the family tent. Azaria's body is never found. After investigations ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, tense, emotional, suspense ...
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, trial, prejudice, legal, court, investigation, injustice, false accusation, australian outback, murder, lawyer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place: australia, sydney australia
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45%
Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An 11 year old girl accuses her father of incest.
Style: historical drama, independent film, crying
Plot: child abuse, boy, anal rape, father daughter incest, incest, father daughter relationship, repressed memory, accusation, trial, court, liar, father ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Efficiency Expert (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: business, family relations, downsizing, factory, fish out of water, culture clash, family business, big business, factory worker, office work, intrigue, guard dog ...
Time: 60s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: australia, melbourne
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45%
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Tim (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to ...
Style: romantic, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, redheaded woman, family relations, unrequited love, autism, women, sibling relationship, age-gap relationship, psychopath, mental disorder, tenderness, social relations ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Hitting Home (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: obsession, hit and run, redheaded woman, revenge, vengeance, life is a bitch, rivalry, young boy, law firm, train station, urban setting, breaking the law ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, new york, montreal
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44%
Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman spends time with her developmental disabled sister after the death of their father.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious
Plot: mentally challenged, disability, lifestyle, family relations, couples, dysfunctional family, family life, misfit, love and romance, family problems, siblings relations, bus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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