Movies like Better Off Dead.

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Better Off Dead. (1993)
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Better Off Dead. (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A lawyer fights a losing battle against the courts to overturn the death sentence for a convicted female robber/murderer despite demands from the woman that her death sentence be carried out.
Plot: death row, gas chamber, lawyer, women's prison, violence, pregnancy, death, murder, female friendship, justice, childbirth, baby, mother daughter relationship, death sentence, robbery, birth, shooting, pregnant woman, female prisoner, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, execution, baby girl, imprisonment, female bonding, expectant father ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and emotional films with plots about pregnancy, pregnant woman, childbirth, birth, expectant father, baby and baby born mostly in Drama, Biography and Thriller genres. Some movies like Better Off Dead.: A Brand New Life (1973), Having Babies II (1977), Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971), Having Babies III (1978), In Search Of America (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Brand New Life (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.
Plot: baby, birth, childbirth, pregnant woman, newborn, baby born, pregnancy, pregnant wife, expectant father, parenthood, opera house
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95%
Having Babies II (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
Plot: baby, adoption, birth, woman in labor, pregnancy, hospital, father son relationship, pregnant woman, newborn baby, pregnant wife, childbirth, expectant father ...
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72%
Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: It's 1956 in the beach town of Trilby. After asking the questions pertaining to the situation, sixteen year old working class Robert Joseph Jones - who prefers to be called Bo Jo - asks his same aged girlfriend, upper middle class Julie Greher, ...
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnancy and birth, pregnant teenager, teenage mother, husband wife relationship, wedding, baby, pregnant woman, kindergarten, childbirth, birth, baby born ...
Time: 1950s
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68%
Having Babies III (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dr. Julie Farr presides over three impending births and cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients.
Plot: hospital, childbirth, pregnancy, expectant father, maternity ward, pregnant wife, newborn baby, birth, pregnant woman, gynecologist
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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In Search Of America (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but there sure are plenty of loose plot ends. Carl Betz and Vera Miles play the parents of shaggy-haired college dropout Jeff ...
Plot: hippie, finding yourself, bus trip, family relations, bus, road trip, father son relationship, dropout, rock concert, pregnant wife, expectant father, baby born ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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I Want to Live (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: prison, courtroom drama, death penalty, biopic, fighting the system, legal, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, fugitives, confined, death row ...
Time: 50s, 20th century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.0
 1K
3000 Nights (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
Plot: motherhood, arab, woman, letter, childbirth, teacher, baby, blood, lawyer, photograph, women's prison, prison ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: palestine, lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.4
 345
Callie & Son (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Callie was a teenage mother in trouble. Fresh out of the delivery room, her son was taken from her and sold on the black-market. Vowing to find him some day, this is her story.
Style: eighties
Plot: love, lawyer, execution, wrongful conviction, husband wife relationship, jealousy, hospital, murder, adoption, politician, prison, revenge ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Law and the Fist (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up ...
Plot: shooting, post war, ghost town, murder, death, violence, drinking, train, world war two, death by gunshot, gun
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
36%
Lighter Fluid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
Style: experimental
Plot: suicide, abandoned house, murder, skateboard, surrealism, pregnancy, death
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.6
 21
Transit (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: After a graffiti artist loses his brother and fellow partner-in-crime to the hands of a vigilante killer he vows to give up graffiti forever. That lasts until he hooks up with his best friend, a tag-banger out to make a name for himself.
Style: independent film, hispanic
Plot: murder, gangster, death, violence, graffiti, death of protagonist
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.2
 167
The Baby (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Joseph learns that his son and his companion have just perished in an accident. They were expecting a child via a surrogate mother in Belgium. What will become of their future baby? Is Joseph the legitimate grandfather? Carried by the promise of ...
Plot: cemetery, death of son, sea, lawyer, looking for someone, cat, grave, cycling, son, loss of son, cigarette smoking, childbirth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.5
 2K
The Group (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Sidney Lumet's adaptation of the acclaimed Mary McCarthy novel. It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film ...
Style: realistic, emotional, thought provoking, semi serious, sexual ...
Plot: female friendship, ambition, social realism, family relations, friendship, college, graduation, self discovery, best friend, society, gender, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1930s, year 1966
Place: new york, europe, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Too Good to Be True (1988)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A self-entitled woman is determined to keep her new man to herself at all costs.
Plot: sister, murder, sociopath, female sociopath, pregnant woman, pregnancy, pregnant wife, miscarriage, expectant father, female killer, death, female psychopath ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 2.8
 706
Hunting of Man (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A universal story with Latino characters told in an unconventional way (like Forrest Gump and Amadeus) about a man who's trying to keep his hot-headed younger brother from carrying out revenge.
Style: crime drama, independent film, realistic, serious, detective ...
Plot: family relations, vengeance, dangerous animal, siblings relations, family life, gang, flashback, police, murder, death, violence, gun
Time: future
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.7
 187
The Execution (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The members of a San Diego Wednesday night womens' mah jongg club are five survivors of a Nazi concentration camp. They recognize the owner of a local restaurant, Walter Grossman, as a doctor from the camp who performed experiments on them as ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: rape, homicide, doctor, secret, world war two, revenge, murder, lawyer, torture, rape and revenge, execution, concentration camp ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Sharing the Secret (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenage girl who feels she must always seem happy for her parents and friends secretly binges and purges.
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, serious, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: eating disorder, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, mental illness, teenage daughter, bulimia, family relations, family life, parent child relationship, starvation, obsession, physical appearance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Thank You All Very Much (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Rosamund Stacey (Sandy Dennis), a young 'bookish' girl in London society, spends her days studying for a doctorate in the British Museum and her nights avoiding the sexual attention of the men in her life. But one day, all that changes. ...
Plot: childbirth, pregnancy, pregnant woman, maternity ward, oral sex, single mother, expectant father, birth, coat, young
Time: year 1969
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Gift of Life (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young woman is faced with local disapproval and strain on her marriage when she agrees to serve as a surrogate mother.
Plot: surrogate mother, pregnant woman, pregnancy and birth, waitress, small town, marriage, baby born, pregnancy, birth, childbirth
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.7
 880
Sofia (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Qatar, Belgium, Morocco
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital gives her 24 hours to provide the father's papers before informing the ...
Plot: girl, arab, birth, pregnant woman, cousin cousin relationship, 20 year old, telephone call, female protagonist, baby, newborn, hospital, interrogation ...
Place: morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot: marriage of convenience, arranged marriage, world war two, love and romance, pregnancy, soldier, society, unhappy marriage, hopes, fall in love, life is a bitch, pretend relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1940s, year 1944
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 820
Earth Mama (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: With two children in foster care, Gia, a pregnant single mother pitted against the system, fights to reclaim her family. In her close-knit Bay Area community, she works to make a life for herself and her kids
Style: sincere, serious, captivating, dramatic, crying ...
Plot: single mother, foster home, pregnancy, pregnant woman, single parent, motherhood, pregnancy and birth, pregnant girlfriend, kids and family, family life, family relations, adoption ...
Time: 2020s
Place: northern california, oakland california, bay area, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Hoodlum Priest (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the life of Fr. Charles Clark, a minister to street gangs.
Style: neo noir, independent film
Plot: gas chamber, clergy, catholic, christian, catholic priest, jesuit, church, minister, execution, bare chested male, hooligan, death row ...
Time: year 1961
Place: missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Baby Snatcher (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman is delighted to have given birth to a baby girl but her life is turned into a nightmare when she goes missing. The police mount a frantic search but to the woman's horror she finds out that it's herself who is the main suspect.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: love, wife, pregnancy, kidnapping, faked pregnancy, family problems, family relations, couples, death in the family, adoption, danger, dealing with death ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.6
 40
Nagima (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ugly, illiterate and an uncommunicative “graduate” of the city orphanage, Nagima is a young woman whose life offers little potential for success or even happiness. Nagima rents a tiny room on the outskirts of the city of Almaty with her fellow ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: pregnancy, life is a bitch, looking for love, best friend, love and romance, social misfits, society, physical appearance, friendship, death in childbirth, death, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kazakhstan
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
L.A. Law: The Movie (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie-Brackman. In the eight years since the series ended, the founding senior partner, Leland McKenzie, has retired and left Douglas ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, psychological
Plot: lawyer, law firm, courtroom, death row, legal, poor, nypd, law, reunion
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.8
 12K
My Life (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob's life is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live -- not even enough time ...
Style: sad, emotional, touching, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, death, reconciliation, family drama, childbirth, pregnancy, self discovery, couple relations, family life, expectant father, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and ...
Style: talky, serious, realistic, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: rape, sister sister relationship, pregnancy, mental illness, family problems, couples, family relations, haunted by the past, down on your luck, siblings relations, infidelity, human nature ...
Time: 50s
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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