Movies like 55 Steps

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55 Steps (2017)
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55 Steps (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.
Style: psychological, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sentimental, inspirational, spiritual, deep ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: mental patient, lawyer, female lawyer, female protagonist, mental health, friendship, female friendship, opposites attract, psychology, life is a bitch, escapades, society, danger, dishonesty, violence, brutality, rivalry, hopes, mental disorder, mental illness, women, legal, judgment, unlikely friendships, legal battle ...
Time: year 1985, year 1991, contemporary
Place: san francisco
Keyword: jewish, keys

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and inspirational films with plots about biopic, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, cigarette smoking, father son relationship and flashback mostly in Biography, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like 55 Steps: On the Basis of Sex (2018), Conviction (2010), Freedom Writers (2007), The Glass Castle (2017), Burton and Taylor (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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On the Basis of Sex (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, China, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of gender discrimination.
Style: clever, inspirational, captivating, political, retro ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: courtroom, women's rights, supreme court, human rights, lawyer, female lawyer, marriage, equality, husband wife relationship, teacher, misogyny, feminism ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 70s, 20th century, year 1963 ...
Place: usa, denver colorado, new york
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Conviction (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is ...
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: lawyer, legal, courtroom drama, trial, fighting the system, prison, injustice, false accusation, court, strong female character, freedom, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1995, year 1992, year 2001 ...
Place: massachusetts, rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Freedom Writers (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, sentimental, rough ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, teacher, dedicated educator, teachers and students, racism, lifestyle change, teenage life, urban ghetto life, mentor, teenager, strong female lead, idealism ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, year 1993, year 1994, year 1999 ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa, long beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Glass Castle (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A young girl is raised in a dysfunctional family constantly on the run from the FBI. Living in poverty, she comes of age guided by her drunkard, ingenious father who distracts her with magical stories to keep her mind off the family's dire ...
Style: sentimental, sad, emotional, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, painting, funeral, restaurant, hospital, alcoholic, pride, family conflict, biopic, writers, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2017, year 1989, year 1964
Place: nebraska, new york, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, west virginia ...
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Burton and Taylor (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: TV drama based on Richard Burton's diaries, about his last performance in 1983 with ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor. They meet after several years and he agrees to her suggestion that they star in a stage revival on Broadway of Noel Coward's ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, stylized, historical drama ...
Plot: actor's life, artists and showbiz, couple relations, couples, celebrity culture, hollywood, biopic, love, art, love affair, showbiz, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: usa, los angeles, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Same Kind of Different as Me (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.
Style: touching, inspirational, sincere, captivating, spiritual ...
Plot: friendship, marriage, ku klux klan, christian, homeless, forgiveness, family relations, homelessness, black, faith, love story, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: year 2017
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Stronger (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: physical therapy, rehabilitation, hospital, terrorist bombing, disability, conspiracy, terrorism, friendship, saving a life, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship, investigation ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, year 2016, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Chattahoochee (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
Style: disturbing, serious, sincere, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: courtroom drama, mental institution, social decay, injustice, life is a bitch, male pubic hair, male nudity, hospital, price of justice, prodigy, fighting the system, rebellion ...
Time: year 1989, 50s, 1950s, year 1952, year 1955 ...
Place: florida, usa, miami, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Skin (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: racism, interracial relations, self discovery, human spirit, forbidden love, eccentric family, family problems, couples, society, love and romance, social misfits, hopes ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 60s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The King's Speech (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit ...
Style: inspirational, period piece, sincere, uplifting, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: british royal family, british history, world war two, stuttering, royal family, disability, queen, politics, unlikely friendships, british monarchy, king of england, historical character ...
Time: 1930s, year 2010, 2010s, pre world war two, 50s ...
Place: england, britain, london, united kingdom, scotland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Awakenings (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, ...
Style: inspirational, motivational, sentimental, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, hospital, illness, doctors and patients, medical, psychiatry, fighting illness, hopes, medicine, disability, patient ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 1930s, 60s, year 1969
Place: america, new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Flash of Genius (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In this David vs. Goliath drama based on a true story, college professor Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) goes up against the giants of the auto industry when they fail to give him credit for inventing intermittent windshield wipers. Kearns doggedly ...
Style: inspirational, thought provoking, sentimental, sincere, serious ...
Plot: underdog, inventor, business, entrepreneur, lawsuit, legal, entrepreneurship, courtroom, lawyer, inventions and discoveries, betrayal, corruption ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 80s, 70s, 60s
Place: michigan, usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 79K
My Left Foot (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style: touching, inspirational, sincere, unusual plot structure, dramatic ...
Plot: disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, handicapped, paralysis, medical, painter, art, poet ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: ireland, england, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan, a midwestern housewife who managed to rescue her family from debt by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies.
Style: inspirational, sentimental, touching, semi serious, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: advertising, optimism, underdog, prize, creativity, courage, eviction, small town, contests and competitions, ambition, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s, year 2005
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Case for Christ (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.
Style: christian film, biblical, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: christianity, christian, atheist, investigation, journalist, religion, faith, reporter, court case, trial, religious, interview ...
Time: year 2017, year 1980, year 1987
Place: indiana, jerusalem, california, wisconsin, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Aviator (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe ...
Style: realistic, epic, stylized, period piece, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: success, mental illness, aviation, biopic, filmmaking, entrepreneur, corruption, test pilot, entrepreneurship, businessman, character study, obsessive compulsive disorder ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 1920s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: los angeles, california, new york, connecticut, usa ...
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20%
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The Sea Inside (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman ...
Style: sad, thought provoking, emotional, philosophical, touching ...
Plot: disability, euthanasia, biopic, human spirit, death, existentialism, suicide, handicapped, lawyer, depression, character study, life & death ...
Time: year 2004, y2k, 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place: spain, barcelona, europe, galicia, catalonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Quiet Passion (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Belgium, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.
Style: historical drama, costume drama, romantic drama, period drama, queer cinema
Audience: chick flick
Plot: poet, writers, women, art, female writer, loneliness, publisher, sapphic, literary, art history, gadget, philosophy ...
Time: victorian era, 1860s, 1870s, 1840s, 19th century ...
Place: massachusetts, boston, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Beautiful Boy (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son Nic, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Style: disturbing, rough, captivating, sentimental, sad ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, teenage boy, father son relationship, methamphetamine, teenager, boy, divorce, coming of age, stepmother stepson relationship, drug ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Frankie & Alice (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: split personality, mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, racism, dancer, illness, doctors and patients, haunted by the past, identity crisis, power relations, multiple personality disorder, go go dancer ...
Time: 20th century, year 2010, 70s, 1950s, year 1957
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Best of Enemies (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story of the real-life unlikely relationship between an outspoken civil rights activist and a local Ku Klux Klan leader in 1971 North Carolina.
Style: rough, sincere, disturbing, thought provoking, period piece ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: interracial friendship, civil rights, human spirit, human rights, racism, black, tiredness, name calling, african american, danger, court, interracial relations ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, year 2005, year 2016
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his ...
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, depressing, psychological ...
Plot: disability, hospital, human spirit, nurse, paralysis, courage, coma, patient, life turned upside down, writers, bittersweet, mute or deaf ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, year 2007, y2k
Place: france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Janet Frame grows up in a poor family. She is different than the other kids. She is considered abnormal and locked away in a mental institution for eight years. Everything changes when she starts writing books.
Style: psychological, touching, spiritual, neurotic, erotic ...
Plot: mental illness, writers, depression, biopic, schizophrenia, art, women, children, female writer, making love, feminist, woman ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place: new zealand, paris france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Princess (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happier than the rest of us?
Style: psychological, captivating, realistic, tense
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, schizophrenia, treatment, depression, patient, doctor, nurse, childhood trauma, delusion, mental health, suicide attempt ...
Time: 1940s, 80s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Tesla (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.
Style: serious, factual, stylized, inspirational, freeze frame ...
Plot: inventor, scientific experiment, invention, inventions and discoveries, electrician, rivalry, electricity, progress, genius, scientist, storytelling, science ...
Time: 19th century, 2020s, future, year 1943
Place: chicago, pittsburgh, colorado, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Factory Girl (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a ...
Style: factual, sentimental, melancholic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: art, artist, fashion, biopic, addiction, drug addiction, painter, bare butt, drug, mentor, rise and fall, love ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 70s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, usa, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The White Crow (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, Serbia
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and ...
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing, retro ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: ballet, cold war, dancer, dancing, gay, politics, desertion, kgb, painting, biopic, nudity, lgbt ...
Time: 50s, year 2019, year 1961, 1950s, year 1938
Place: paris france, soviet union, moscow russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 14K
Amelia (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Style: factual, serious, stylized, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: airplane, female pilot, biopic, flying, adventurer, aviation, ambition, depression, unlikely friendships, self fulfillment, follow your dream, lifestyle ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 2009, 1920s, year 1931 ...
Place: usa, chicago, long beach california, paris france, hawaii ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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