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Her Way (2021)
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Original name: Une femme du monde
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marie, an independent and militant woman, has never needed anyone's help, including when it comes to raise her son. When the latter is expelled from his certificate of professional competence training class, Marie cannot accept it. Dreaming of a brighter future for him, she decides to enroll him in one of the best cooking schools in France.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional, realistic, dramatic, tense
Plot:
prostitution, mother son relationship, prostitute, prostitute mother, female protagonist, single mother, motherhood, family drama, family relations, life is a bitch, social problems, financial problem, money problems, blind ambition, poverty, independence, working class, determination, resilience, social realism, intimate, feminism, desperation, ambition, urban ...
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Most similar movies to Her Way
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, emotional and realistic films with plots about poverty, social problems, life is a bitch, female protagonist, family problems, social realism and intimate mostly in Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like Her Way: A Szerencse lányai (1999), Co-ed Call Girl (1996), Learn by Heart (2015), Scrap (2022), Tess (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.
Style:
emotional, realistic, intense, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot:
prostitution, female protagonist, sacrifice, survival, poverty, mother and daughter, motherhood, social realism, branding iron, moral dilemma, class struggle, resilience ...
Time:
90s
Place:
moscow russia, warsaw poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Thanks to a roommate's practical joke, bookish college student Joanna Halbert finds herself signed up with a Malibu-based escort service which promises her big money and an easy ride. Instead, she becomes entangled in a web of corruption, ...
Style:
period piece, detective
Plot:
escort, college student, prostitution, female protagonist, sexploitation, exploitation, loss of innocence, manipulation, prostitute, call girl, secret life, double life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
malibu california, california
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The film follows children growing up in the projects, where they juggle the pressures of school and street life.
Style:
captivating, realistic, emotional, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
teenager, drug dealing, teenage life, life is a bitch, grownups, youth, poverty, coming of age, criminal, drug dealer, saving a life, fighting the system ...
Time:
2010s
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32%
729
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After getting laid off, young single-mom Beth finds herself living in her car and struggles to hide her homelessness from her estranged brother Ben.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
homelessness, single mother, female protagonist, poverty, social problems, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, family relations, relationship problems, poor family, family problems, social issues ...
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326
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When sex worker Tess falls pregnant, she has to fight to keep her past from swallowing her whole.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
pregnancy, afrikaans, female protagonist, sex worker, prostitute, motherhood, sex work, unwanted pregnancy, troubled past, changing lives, prostitution, unplanned pregnancy ...
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already ...
Style:
emotional, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
illness, family problems, social problems, money problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, fighting illness, needing money, life is a bitch, realism, resilience, sacrifice ...
Place:
africa, somalia
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27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.
Style:
dramatic, emotional, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
workplace, working class, feminism, factory, solidarity, women, ethical dilemma, female protagonist, social problems, coworker, factory owner, employment ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, sexy
Plot:
brothel, prostitution, prostitute, dysfunctional family, family problems, mother daughter relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, single mother, family secret, family relations, single parent, social problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of empty stores and ramshackle bars where dreams end up fading, have been preparing their escape all their lives.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
poverty, moral dilemma, escape, social realism, social problems, money problems, women, female protagonist, poor, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, choice ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Karine, a housekeeper of 34, is the full-time mother of 17 year-old Ziggy. When the company that employed her is taken over, subject to the laws of capitalism, Karine will have to choose between being true to herself, or lie to protect herself and ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, tense
Plot:
moral dilemma, motherhood, female protagonist, parent child relationship, empathy, social realism, domestic drama, moral ambiguity, single mother, capitalism, housekeeper, working class ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Romania, France, Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a worker is severely injured in their family business, Kadir is forced into making a moral decision, which will have an impact on his dreams, his family, and the life of injured worker’s wife
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, family relations, family drama, family business, family problems, male female relationship, eccentric family, life is a bitch, relationships, job, love affair, social problems ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Bright Alex grows up in Michigan proud of his mother, Romanian immigrant Ileana, who became a professor, vowing to make her dream come true by graduating from Harvard. But when mother becomes manic-depressive and repeatedly dumps her medication, ...
Style:
dramatic, disturbing, clever, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
foster home, adoption, manic depression, boy, mental illness, mother son relationship, coming of age, family drama, family relations, son, sick mother, family problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three generations of New Orleans prostitute fight the FBI and each other. Based on a true story.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
prostitution, three generations, prostitute, fbi, women, street prostitution, female protagonist, generation, social issues, social problems, relationships, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Kelly's newborn baby is stolen from the hospital where she works, she teams up with Gloria, also a victim of baby abduction, to get her child back from a black market adoption ring.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
kidnapping, motherhood, protective mother, female protagonist, child abduction, problem, life is a bitch, abduction, rescue mission, danger, hospital, justice ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, serious, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, coming of age, immigrant, single mother, brother brother relationship, immigration, identity, family drama, brothers, family relations, mother and son, mother ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, africa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Half documentary, half docu-drama about a German karate champion, who used to be a successful pimp...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, tragic
Plot:
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Australia, Philippines, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Four courageous women are faced with the harsh realities of poverty, prejudice, and corruption.
Style:
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Plot:
poverty, murder investigation, prostitution, investigation, women, human trafficking, exploitation, social problems, street prostitution, female protagonist, crime investigation, prostitute ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand, Nigeria
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Story:
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Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
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Place:
new zealand
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
poverty, working class, social problems, family in crisis, financial crisis, family relations, mother son relationship, life is a bitch, fired from the job, financial problem, crisis, money problems ...
Place:
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, period piece
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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908
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family drama, affair, husband wife relationship, lifestyle change, problem, relationship problems, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, changing lives, social problems ...
Time:
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Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Nigeria
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, heartfelt, realistic ...
Plot:
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Country: Indonesia
Story:
A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
violence, female friendship, life is a bitch, teenage life, teenager, teenage girl, family problems, money problems, juvenile delinquency, social problems, society, teenage protagonist ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
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465
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Malu — a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum — tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious ...
Style:
emotional, thrilling, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, character study, motherhood, family drama, poverty, family problems, family relations, social problems, relationship problems, kids and family, problem ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
india
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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