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In Safe Hands (2018)
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In Safe Hands (2018)
Original name: Pupille
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, emotional, touching, feel good
Plot: adoptive mother, newborn baby, adoption, motherhood, social services, baby, foster home, hospital, childbirth, unwanted pregnancy, society, homeless, poverty, feminist, parents, woman, divorced woman, foster child, snake, psychology, train, psychologist, pregnancy, female nudity, sex scene ...
Time: year 2017
Place: france, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and captivating films with plots about pregnancy, family relations, hospital, female nudity, pregnant woman, couples and society mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like In Safe Hands: Poetical Refugee (2000), Northeast (2005), Having Babies II (1977), Louise Wimmer (2011), The Dreamlife of Angels (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Poetical Refugee (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he ...
Style: psychological, touching, realistic, serious
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: sex addict, friendship, hospital, looking for love, family life, lifestyle, social outcast, adoption, curses spells and rituals, mentally unstable, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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Northeast (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing
Plot: adoption, human trafficking, injustice, unwanted pregnancy, moral dilemma, family relations, life is a bitch, self discovery, society, obsessive quest, social differences, babies and infants ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, france, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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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Louise Wimmer (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The middle-aged titular heroine (Masiero) of this bare-bones, Dardenne-esque debut has certainly fallen on hard times: Living between her car and a storage shed, working a part-time job as a hotel chambermaid, and trying against all odds to obtain ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: life is a bitch, starting over, human spirit, hopes, optimism, working class, cleaning lady, female protagonist, homelessness, poverty, single woman, self discovery ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In Lille, two penniless young women with few prospects become friends. Isa moves in with Marie, who's flat-sitting for a mother and child in hospital in comas following a car crash. Isa is out-going, unskilled, with hopes of moving south to ...
Style: realistic, touching, depressing, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, working class, coma, love and romance, depression, loneliness, society, youth, life is a bitch, couple relations, hopes ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: france, flanders
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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 ⇓
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Ombline (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for ...
Style: serious, touching, bleak, realistic, gloomy
Plot: newborn baby, prison, single parent, hopes, family problems, life is a bitch, babies and infants, confined, starting over, family relations, prison life, released from prison ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Belleville-Tokyo (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la laissant seule à Paris, enceinte. Bouleversée, Marie se refuse à être victime de cette ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, couple relations, breakup, friendship, couples, workplace, theater, family problems, boss and employee, love and romance, pregnant woman, family crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Holy Lola (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their difficult and transformative adventure, they must contend with obstructive authorities and the ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: adoption, family relations, interracial adoption, orphan, bribery, adoptive father, society, couple relations, babies and infants, politics, friendship, bureaucracy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: cambodia
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Transylvania (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this region of Romania but to trace her lover Milan, a musician who has made her pregnant and who left ...
Style: psychological, captivating, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: self discovery, obsessive quest, couple relations, love and romance, pregnancy, on the road, gypsy, family relations, travel, european, infidelity, couples ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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G.H.B. (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Cradle Swapping (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young couple copes with the mysterious illness of their new baby only later to discover the baby they brought home from the hospital isn't theirs. So who has their baby?
Style: captivating, sincere, disturbing, suspense, touching
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: child, newborn baby, hospital, parents and children, children, disorder, fighting illness, sick child, human nature, danger, homeless, poverty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Gimme Shelter (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.
Style: emotional, serious, psychological, rough, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: abusive mother, pregnancy, homeless, mother daughter relationship, starting over, survival, human spirit, family problems, youth, social misfits, life is a bitch, domestic violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Year in My Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, adoption, orphan, youth, family relations, foster parent, foster child, father son relationship, mother son relationship, parents and children, family life, foster home ...
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Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hip Moves (2012)
Genre: Drama
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Bad Girl (2012)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 110 min.
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Style: captivating, exciting, dramatic, thought provoking, interesting
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A Dad for Christmas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, emotional, sincere ...
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41%
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The Brigade (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
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Story: Bénédicte Meursault, a female firefighter, has just been transferred to a small fire brigade in the South of France. She is welcomed by Philippe, 45, the wise captain of the brigade. Soon after being introduced to the men, the young woman jumps ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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