Movies like The Specials

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The Specials (2019)
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The Specials (2019)
Original name: Hors Normes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
Story: For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.
Style: sincere, social, sentimental, touching, disturbing, inspirational, poignant, profound
Plot: autism, social services, autist, hospital, social worker, rescue, society, lifestyle, life philosophy, hopes, friendship, life is a bitch, mentor, stereotypes, teenager, illness, disorder, mental institution, runaway, parent child relationship, compassion, empathy, special needs, social work, autism spectrum disorder ...
Time: 2010s, contemporary
Place: paris france, france
Keyword: jewish, metro

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out sincere, realistic, touching and humorous films with plots about friendship, society, family relations, hopes, friends, life philosophy and parents and children mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like The Specials: The Intouchables (2011), Samba (2014), Hippocrates (2014), The Freshmen (2018), Le Brio (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Intouchables (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
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Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Samba (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
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Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, africa
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Hippocrates (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but ...
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Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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The Freshmen (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
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Le Brio (2017)
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: Neïla Salah grew up in Créteil, a tower block suburb on the outskirts of Paris, and dreams of becoming a lawyer. She has been accepted into a major university in Paris and on her first day there she is confronted by Pierre Mazard, a professor ...
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Duration: 102 min.
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Duration: 90 min.
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100%
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The Dream Kids (2013)
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Duration: 86 min.
Story: JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
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No Filter (2019)
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The Best Is Yet to Come (2019)
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Plot: life turned upside down, life is a bitch, fighting the system, injustice, society, wrongfully committed, satire, loss of job, husband wife relationship, taxi driver, disorder, mental institution ...
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