Movies like Our House 2006

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Our House (2006)
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Our House (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A lonely socialite (Roberts) opens up her mansion to homeless people after a young woman (Reyes) saves her life.
Style: powerful
Plot: homeless, poverty, wealth, theft, smuggling, kindness, drug trade, jail, medical examination, homelessness, suicide attempt, chore, drinking, drinking alcohol, handcuffs, falling

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Most similar movies to Our House

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and captivating films with plots about poverty, homeless, homelessness, life is a bitch, family relations, society and theft mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Our House: Blessings (2003), The Price of Love (1995), Accidental Friendship (2008), My Little Girl (1986), The Street Where We Live (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Blessings (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Released from jail after a term basically served instead of friends he refused to rat out, Charles 'Skip' Cuddy is grateful his gentleman instinct gets him a job with living quarters as handyman on a semi-destitute estate Blessings. ...
Plot: loyalty, punishment, abandoned baby, memory, theft, handyman, adoption, jail, ex convict, chore, chores, smuggling ...
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95%
The Price of Love (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 16 year old Bret lives with his indifferent father and a stepmother who abhors him. After yet another fight he leaves home. He meets two guys and a girl who are drifting around. He feels attracted to Roxanne and they decide to continue together to ...
Plot: poverty, homeless, runaway, male prostitute, bare chested male, teenage runaway, gay for pay, homeless teenager, gay interest, street kid, street life, male prostitution ...
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81%
Accidental Friendship (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Homeless woman Yvonne Caldwell is a woman with good reason to be bitter: she has lost everything except her two beloved dogs, Bebe and Man-Man. With her one friend, Wes, Caldwell lives the daily struggle of being homeless in Los Angeles until a ...
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: homeless, homelessness, friendship, police officer, dog, homeless woman, human animal relationship, life is a bitch, kindness, poverty, animal, black woman ...
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73%
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My Little Girl (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and tries to help them, but only gets herself into trouble with her parents and supervisor.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, homeless, poverty, white supremacy, racism, skepticism, teenage girl, 18 year old, rehabilitation center, homeless teenager, laundry, naivete ...
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71%
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The Street Where We Live (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: "I'm just two paychecks away from being on the street." In the aftermath of the nation's financial crisis, Mary, a single mom with two kids, finds herself faced with that exact situation when the factory where she works closes ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: poverty, working class, social problems, financial crisis, life is a bitch, mother son relationship, fired from the job, crisis, family in crisis, financial problem, family relations, money problems ...
Place: midwest, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 588
Born Equal (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.
Plot: love, jealousy, poverty, homeless, social worker, benefactor, single mother, homelessness, social injustice, beggar, pregnant woman, refugee ...
Time: future
Place: london
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60%
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Sugar (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A 20-year-old homeless girl is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome on the streets of Hollywood and Venice beach.
Style: realistic, serious
Audience: teen drama
Plot: homeless, haunted by the past, youth, society, juvenile delinquency, survival, orphan, street life, life is a bitch, trouble, criminality, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, italy, texas, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Sitting in Limbo (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The National Film Board of Canada was one of the guiding forces behind Sitting in Limbo. Fabian Gibbs plays a black Montreal college student forced to leave school when his girlfriend Pat Dillon becomes pregnant. Gibbs resents this interruption in ...
Style: independent film
Plot: poverty, teenage pregnancy, homeless, teenager, canuxploitation, black, racism, juvenile delinquent
Place: montreal, canada
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55%
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Kid-Thing (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: On the outskirts of Austin, 10-year-old Annie tears around on her BMX bike, hurls dough at cars, and smashes things up with her baseball bat. Her father, a goat-farmer-cum-demolition-derby driver, does little parenting. Annie has no friends her age, ...
Style: mumblecore
Plot: lonely, coming of age, childhood, homeless, poverty, girl, bike, prank, forest, shoplifting, soccer, boredom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
A Mother's Prayer (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies.
Plot: aids, hiv, homeless, poverty, hiv positive, orphan, youth, medical, psychiatry, nurse, adoption, needle ...
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53%
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Yuniol (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 97 min.
Story: "Yuniol" Perez and Alberto "Junior" Rios come from opposite sides of the tracks in the Dominican Republic. Aloof and detached, Alberto comes from a wealthy family. Driven and focused, Juan is reared by a devoted mother whose ...
Plot: engagement, government, dance, poverty, adolescence, fight, jail, hospital, love, wealth, violence, corruption ...
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49%
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Mai Ratima (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Actor Yoo Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable thirtysomething man and Mai-Ratima, a 22-year-old Thai girl who accepts a mail order marriage in order to realize her ...
Style: erotic
Plot: attempted rape, sick mother, theft, homelessness, illegal immigration, sexual harassment, poverty, prostitution, immigration, harassment, mentally challenged person, refugee ...
Place: east asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Promises (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Self made millionaire Rolando Dominguez (Carlos Guerrero) could not resist the tempting pleasures that came with his success and now finds himself homeless, demented, and tormented by flashbacks of his regretful mistakes and broken promises to his ...
Style: psychological, captivating, touching, independent film
Plot: millionaire, promise, parent child relationship, riches to rags, father son relationship, family relations, money, wealth, crazy, post traumatic stress disorder, rich, missing child ...
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48%
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Stone Pillow (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to offer the down-and-out clients she serves at the homeless shelter. Soon, however, Carrie realizes ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot: homeless shelter, homeless, homelessness, poverty, social worker, woman in danger, hobo, survival, friendship, youth, society, hopes ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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46%
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The Public (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: life is a bitch, psychopath, violence, librarian, life & death, hospital, brutality, society, danger, homeless, homelessness, library ...
Place: cincinnati ohio, ohio
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45%
Escaping My Stalker (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: A street kid, Taylor, has been adopted by Sandy (Alexandra Paul) & Larry. They run a shelter for people in need, and rescued Taylor from the street, and a life of crime. Unfortunately, Taylor's past may be catching up with her. She's ...
Style: suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, mysterious
Plot: homeless teenager, foster child, uncover truth, foster home, family relations, adoption, evidence, secret, puzzle, haunted by the past, guilt, danger ...
Place: los angeles
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43%
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Shelter (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, depressing, rough ...
Plot: homelessness, emaciation, homeless, black man white woman sex, black man white woman relationship, female nudity, junkie, drug, older woman younger man relationship, love and romance, sexual favor, couples ...
Place: manhattan new york city, usa
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43%
There Was a Little Boy (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Julie and Gregg are about to become parents again, but they feel conflicted since their first child was kidnapped and never seen again. But the couple soon faces an even bigger shock. Julie's new bad-boy (really bad-boy) student may actually be ...
Audience: kids
Plot: teacher student relationship, baby boy, poverty, homeless, stealing, english teacher, baby, teacher, priest, teenager, kidnapping, abduction ...
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43%
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Nola and the Clones (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A homeless Irish girl encounters a series of men who appear strikingly similar to each other
Plot: homelessness, homeless, mother daughter relationship, prostitute
Place: ireland
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43%
Somersault in a Coffin (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Mahsun Supertitiz is an unemployed homeless man who steals cars at night so that he can sleep in a heated place during the winter. Mahsun lives in Rumelihisar, an old section of Istanbul, and makes ends meet by getting the local fishermen to help ...
Style: art house, semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous ...
Plot: homeless, turk, hobo, tramp, lonely, philosophy, bird, existentialism, hunger, heroin, unemployed, urban ghetto ...
Time: 90s
Place: balkan, istanbul turkey, turkey
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43%
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Between Us (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Abruptly abandoned by her husband in a country completely foreign to her, Colombian native Mariana (Paola Mendoza) struggles to take care of herself and her two young children on the unforgiving streets of New York City. Sebastian Villada, Laura ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious
Plot: poverty, immigrant, family relations, starting over, human spirit, urban setting, family problems, life is a bitch, american dream, single parent, hopes, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, new york, colombia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Original Intent (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Matthew Cameron (Jay Richardson) is a lawyer undergoing a midlife crisis despite having a seemingly perfect life with his wife, advertising executive Jessica (Candy Clark), and his young son. When he champions a homeless shelter facing eviction, his ...
Style: independent film, captivating, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: couples, family relations, power relations, injustice, family life, courtroom drama, heroic mission, against the odds, midlife crisis, life is a bitch, ambition, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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40%
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Evergreen (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young girl seduced by a boy's affluent seemingly idyllic family and goes to extremes to gain acceptance.
Style: crying
Audience: teens
Plot: poverty, homeless, teenage girl, coming of age, loss of virginity, painful sex, rain, class differences, makeover, teenage boy, single mother, orgasm ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The American Clock (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This film is based on Arthur Miller's recollection of the events of the 1930's Depression. In the film, John Rubinstein, Mary McDonnell, and Loren Dean are all members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when ...
Plot: gambling, bike, breaking the fourth wall, riches to rags, bicycle, great depression, wealth, prostitute, father son relationship, card playing, suicide, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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37%
The Great & The Small (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Twenty-six year old Scott is living on the streets and trying to find his way back into society while on probation for petty crimes. He attempts to navigate his relationship with his two bit criminal of a boss and an enigmatic detective, while at ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, independent film, detective
Plot: homeless, probation, ex girlfriend, unemployed, parole officer, ex convict, organized crime, criminal, bandit, social problems, single mother, homelessness ...
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34%
Scattered Dreams (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: It is about a loving couple which trying to make a living in 1951 Florida. When they are arrested, for a crime they didn't commit. The pair are given long jail terms and ripped from their children, so they begin a stunning fight for justice ...
Plot: abuse of power, cruelty, white supremacist, abandoned by husband, outsider, teenage daughter, lawyer, jail, police corruption, attempted rape, court hearing, trumpet player ...
Time: 1950s, year 1951, 20th century
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33%
Cardboard Boxer (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A homeless man is recruited by a bunch of rich kids to fight other impoverished people.
Style: disturbing, rough, suspenseful, tense, bleak ...
Plot: african american, homeless, streetfighting, fight, death of friend, war veteran, little girl, exploitation, dog, homelessness, prostitute, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Glue Sniffer (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the ...
Plot: juvenile delinquent, homelessness, child in peril, survival, poverty, children, misery, street life, street kid, desperation, brutality, police brutality ...
Place: venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
All Together Now (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An optimistic, talented teen clings to a huge secret: she's homeless and living on a school bus. When tragedy strikes, can she learn to accept a helping hand?
Style: captivating, thought provoking, touching, psychological, uplifting ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, homeless, poverty, school, mother daughter relationship, death of mother, parents and children, dream, best friend, friends, social relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
No Place Like Home (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Pittsburgh apartment superintendent loses his job and home when the apartment building where he lives and works at is suddenly destroyed by fire. Daniel and his family moves in with his brother but that doesn't last for long due to the two ...
Style: inspirational, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: homeless shelter, coming of age, poverty, homelessness, unemployment, homeless, youth, family relations, homeless woman, homeless man, daughter, children ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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