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Abducted: The Carlina White Story (2012)
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Abducted: The Carlina White Story (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A baby abducted at birth and raised by the woman who took her, eventually discovers she is a missing child, reconnects with her birth parents, and struggles with choosing between her two identities.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, sad, crime thriller
Audience: girls' night
Plot: kidnapper, missing child, kidnapping, baby, black american, family relations, parents and children, family problems, hopes, uncover truth, missing daughter, life is a bitch, self discovery, redemption, kidnapped, hostage, single mother, dna, teenage pregnancy, love, babies and infants, abused child, mother, birth mother, internet ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa
Keyword: arabic

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and suspenseful films with plots about family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, family problems, kidnapping, hopes and uncover truth mostly in Drama, Mystery and Biography genres. Some movies like Abducted: The Carlina White Story: Amber's Story (2006), Natalee Holloway (2009), The Wronged Man (2010), Stolen Child (2012), Taken Back: Finding Haley (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Amber's Story (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This is the tragic and true story of the abduction of Amber Hagerman. Her family and the community's efforts to find her and bring her kidnapper to justice prove to be a groundbreaking movement toward implementing a government-run tracking ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot: missing child, kidnapping, danger, obsession, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, injustice, family problems, family relations, child abduction, confined ...
Time: year 2002, year 1996, year 1999, year 1997, 21st century
Place: usa, texas
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Natalee Holloway (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On May 30, 2005, on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, she disappeared without a trace.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful
Plot: investigation, missing person, family relations, parents and children, serial killer, teenage girl, disappearance, prison, biopic, life is a bitch, strong female presence
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Wronged Man (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl. Eventually convinced of his innocence, ...
Style: emotional, captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: african american, false accusation, hopes, court, injustice, society, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal, justice, morality, dignity ...
Time: 21st century
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100%
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Stolen Child (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Amanda and Jason are happy marriage now, after years of frustration have finally managed to take a beautiful girl from a country in Eastern Europe through an international adoption agency. But when the doctor will perform a DNA test to small, finds ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot: adoption, kidnapping, kidnapped child, uncover truth, investigation, suspicion, couples, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, under the surface, parents and children, danger, uncover truth, family relations, life turned upside down, disorder, secret, african american, women of color, black girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana
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Taken Back: Finding Haley (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: missing child, uncover truth, parents and children, overprotective mother, child abduction, twists and turns, family problems, danger, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, nobody believes, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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3096 Days (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
Style: realistic, rough, twisted, teen, controversial ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, child abuse, rape, psychological torture, abduction, life is a bitch, basement, pedophile, violence against women, missing child, hostage, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, austria
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100%
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Child of Rage (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A priest and his wife adopt a brother and sister, but the girl has terrible outbursts of rage.
Style: bleak, emotional, disturbing, psychological, sad ...
Plot: adoption, killer child, uncover truth, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, family problems, child murderess, clergy, brother sister relationship, rage, dark secret, mental illness ...
Time: 90s
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100%
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Manhunt (2008)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the Klarsfelds, a Franco-German couple who devoted themselves to bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. Their pursuit of Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," takes them to South America, where he has found ...
Style: realistic, suspense, suspenseful, serious
Plot: nazi, false identity, torture, spy, nazi hunter, manhunt, abduction, war crime, journalist, murder, threat, investigation ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: south america, lyon, bolivia, peru, france
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100%
My Husband's Double Life (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman (Margaret Colin) discovers that her husband faked his death and assumed a new identity, while she struggled for 10 years as a single mother.
Style: suspenseful, emotional, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: faked death, uncover truth, starting over, family in crisis, life is a bitch, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, family problems, leadership, redemption, society ...
Time: 21st century
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When Andrew Came Home (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A mother searches for five years to find her kidnapped son in this fact-based drama. Unexpectedly the boy is found, but the reunion is not as she hoped. She now has to deal with five years of abuse that the boy suffered at the hands of his ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sad
Plot: kids in trouble, kidnapping, coming of age, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, parents and children, captivity, family problems, estrangement, danger, confined, hopes ...
Time: 90s
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25%
The Nightmare Nanny (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Stay-home mom Annie is reluctant to return to work, until she finds Amber, the perfect nanny for her 3-year-old daughter Jenny. But as Annie's young daughter grows closer and closer to Amber, Annie begins to feel like she's being pushed ...
Style: serious, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, tense ...
Plot: missing child, family relations, parents and children, nanny, couples, woman in danger, single parent, danger, suspicion, twists and turns, woman seduces a man, child in peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Out of the Black (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two brothers struggle to uncover the truth behind the mining accident that killed their father and bankrupted the town.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: uncover truth, life is a bitch, redemption, siblings relations, social relations, parents and children, family in crisis, family relations, countryside, down on your luck, small town, small town life ...
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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23%
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Dearest (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Drawing on remarkable true stories, Peter Chan delivers a moving drama about child abduction in China. Huang Bo stars as a father whose young son disappears in the streets of a big city. He sets out on a search across China, stopping at nothing to ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, tense
Plot: kidnapping, life turned upside down, uncover truth, family problems, parents and children, missing child, danger, couples, adoption, couple relations, family in crisis, village ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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22%
Angus Buchan's Ordinary People (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to their attendance of the 2010 Mighty Men Conference, where their lives are forever changed by God's message for them.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional, art house ...
Plot: self discovery, human spirit, family problems, hopes, society, redemption, friendship, christian, biopic, faith, religions or cults, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
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A Day Late and a Dollar Short (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When irascible matriarch Viola Price learns that her next asthma attack will likely kill her, she is determined to fix her fractured family before she leaves this world.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, uplifting ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, estrangement, family problems, aging, dysfunctional family, hopes, black, love, women, african american, elderly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
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Black and Blue (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a woman's husband beats and abuses her, she and her son join the witness protection program and move away secretly.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: domestic violence, kidnapped, hostage, abuse, abusive relationship, obsession, battered wife, abusive husband, family relations, family problems, witnessing a crime, hopes ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, usa
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21%
The End Is My Beginning (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tuscany. His intention is to share some valuable conversations about his life as a press ...
Style: touching, contemplative, realistic, talky, captivating ...
Plot: introspection, elderly, dealing with death, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, biopic, writers, poet, son ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Long Lost Son (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Fourteen years after her son and estranged husband were presumed lost at sea, Kristen believes she glimpses them in the background of a friend's recent vacation video.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: dishonesty, youth, family relations, parents and children, family problems, twists and turns, kidnapping, faked death, heartache, mother son reunion, lost at sea, estranged husband ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, caribbean, california, usa, los angeles
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.
Style: uplifting, sincere, inspirational, realistic, factual ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: medical, african american, against the odds, human spirit, neurosurgeon, medicine, surgeon, biopic, ambition, medical school, doctor, rise to the top ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 2010s, 20th century, 80s
Place: cuba, usa, detroit, west germany
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20%
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Interstate 84 (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When a body is found floating in an upstate New York river, hard-drinking cop Joe Weldon is left with few clues. After uncovering the man's identity - an enigmatic simpleton named Hap - Weldon is led to the crooked hustler who took advantage of ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, touching ...
Plot: police investigation, uncover truth, life is a bitch, introspection, murder, law enforcement, misfit, small town life, redemption, mysterious character, small town, addiction ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york
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20%
Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, independent film ...
Plot: kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, family problems, homecoming, parents and children, hopes, redemption, child abuse, teenage girl, isolation, fish out of water, starting over ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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19%
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Crisis Point (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Criminal psychologist Cameron Grainger is Detroit’s go-to hostage negotiator. Blaming herself when a crisis she’s handling goes wrong and a young man is killed, she removes herself from service. But she is called back into sudden and terrifying ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot: criminal psychologist, siblings relations, kidnapping, danger, family relations, forced into action, woman in danger, nypd, confined, strong female presence, hostage, hostage negotiator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, detroit, michigan
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Crossed Over (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the book Crossed Over: A Murder/A Memoir by Beverly Lowry, Crossed Over tells the true story of a woman, Beverly Lowry, who after the tragic hit-and-run death of her teenage son, sinks into a deep depression. Lowry and her supportive ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, thought provoking ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada, usa, texas
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19%
Stolen Children (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
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Story: Real life story of babies stolen from their mothers during the 1970s and their struggles during the following decades.
Style: emotional, serious, disturbing, touching, realistic
Plot: uncover truth, haunted by the past, kidnapping, parents and children, life is a bitch, missing child, family problems, couples, babies and infants, hospital, child kidnapping, couple relations ...
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Self Medicated (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas, 17-year-old Andrew's life is spiraling out of control. Unable to cope with the loss of his father, Andrew's descent into drugs and violence is gaining momentum, and the once promising young ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, rough, teen ...
Plot: drug abuse, self discovery, rehabilitation, downfall, kids in trouble, addiction, escape, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, society, uncontrollable ...
Time: 21st century
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Wisegal (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a captain in a Brooklyn crime family.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: criminal heroes, fall in love, dishonesty, crime family, gangster, parents and children, unlikely criminals, love affair, mind game, organized crime, italian mafia, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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19%
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London River (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Algeria
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After traveling to London to check on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 London terror attacks on the city, two strangers come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot: muslim, missing person, koran, terrorist bombing, terrorism, father, parents and children, family relations, bigotry, religious differences, investigation, uncover truth ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, europe
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19%
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Missing at 17 (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman tries to save her adopted daughter from a criminal, with help from the girl's biological mother.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: rescue, adoption, danger, parents and children, family relations, woman in danger, life turned upside down, age difference, strong female presence, estrangement, teenage life, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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19%
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Waterproof (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Single mother Tyree Battle struggles to keep her young son Thaniel away from the gang-plagued city streets that he is mixed up in. Under severe gang pressure, Thaniel accidentally shoots Jewish shopkeeper Eli Zeal in a botched robbery attempt. ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, gang, homecoming, family problems, self discovery, aging, redemption, youth, single parent, going straight, heist, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, louisiana
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