Movies like Black 2005
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Black (2005)
37K
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Black is an adaptation of Helen Keller's autobiography. Black revolves around a blind and deaf girl, and her relationship with her teacher who himself later develops Alzheimer's disease.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sincere, uplifting, emotional, serious, entertaining, crying, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
communication problem, blindness, mute or deaf, disability, alzheimer's disease, teacher student relationship, teacher, deaf, sign language, graduation, age difference, hopes, teachers and students, snow, water, rain, ambition, tutor, deaf child, deafness, blind woman, voice over narration, deaf girl, struggle, human spirit ...
Time:
year 2005, y2k
Place:
middle east, india
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, touching, realistic and emotional films with plots about hopes, family relations, misfit, disability, youth, parents and children and teacher mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Black: Fifteen and Pregnant (1998), Front of the Class (2008), The Miracle Worker (1962), Pay It Forward (2000), The Request (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, parent child relationship, husband wife relationship, family problems, pregnant teenager, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, high school, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
"Front of the Class" is based on the true story of Brad Cohen -- played in the movie by Jimmy Wolk -- who, "after being challenged by Tourette's syndrome from a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher
Style:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
teacher, tourette's syndrome, dedicated educator, social misfits, teachers and students, school, disability, life philosophy, honest, friendship, father son relationship, understanding ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa, atlanta georgia, england
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old ...
Style:
inspirational, period piece, emotional, black and white, touching ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
blindness, blind character, teacher, deafness, disability, mute or deaf, tutor, human spirit, deaf, mentor, children, childhood ...
Time:
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Place:
alabama, southern usa, persia, usa, boston ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, childhood, single parent, life philosophy, death, boy, good deed, disfigurement, addiction, abusive husband, childhood trauma, teacher student relationship ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Ethan, a magician rendered paralyzed in an accident, sets off a furor when he makes a petition to the court to end his own life.
Style:
thought provoking, touching, contemplative, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
quadriplegic, disability, human spirit, legal action, life is a bitch, love affair, love, protest, legal, media, lawyer, magic ...
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At 2 Ela lost her ability of seeing and hearing because of a severe illness. And then she became a total disappointment of her family due to her untamed behaviors. But everything changed after an unorthodox teacher stepped into their lives to ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, sincere, captivating, educational ...
Plot:
mute or deaf, deaf child, deaf mute, teachers and students, against the odds, parents and children, family relations, dedicated educator, social misfits, human spirit, hopes, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan (Alison Elliott) leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller (Hallie Kate Eisenberg) out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
mute or deaf, disability, teachers and students, education, blindness and impaired vision, teacher, dedicated educator, human spirit, lifestyle, teacher student relationship, deaf, blind character ...
Time:
90s, victorian era, 19th century
Place:
boston
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marie Heurtin is born both blind and deaf. Sister Marguerette wins her trust and teaches her how to express herself.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, emotional, sad ...
Plot:
nun, dedicated educator, mute or deaf, hopes, deaf mute, deaf child, mute, blind character, female protagonist, deaf, family relations, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, ancient times, 1900s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. Sealed ...
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
teacher, deaf, school teacher, blind girl, deafness, teacher student relationship, high school teacher, mentor protege relationship, sign language, education, deaf mute, deaf girl ...
Time:
70s, 19th century
Place:
boston
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple whose son had been diagnosed as mentally retarded, and was institutionalized, are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is in fact deaf.
Style:
thought provoking, independent film, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
sign language, deaf, coming of age, deafness, hearing, youth, family relations, spouse leaving, family problems, disability, hopes, mute or deaf ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ohio, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Once known for his intellectual prowess, a retired professor (Anupam Kher) begins experiencing memory gaps and periods of forgetfulness. But while he tries to laugh it off, it soon becomes clear that the symptoms are a sign of a more serious ...
Style:
uplifting, psychological, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
assassination, alzheimer's disease, college, parents and children, mental illness, memory loss, family relations, family problems, politics, society, elderly, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs. Will her ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sign language, deaf, deafness, teacher, disability, mute or deaf, couple relations, couples, communication problem, opposites attract, love and romance, women ...
Time:
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Place:
new england, maine, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Portugal, France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A blind teacher breaks the rules to help a female student rediscover the pleasures of life.
Style:
touching, captivating, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
blindness, blind character, disability, hopes, teachers and students, human spirit, power relations, teaching the ways of the world, misfit, student, rebellion, blind man ...
Time:
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Place:
portugal, poland, eastern europe, europe, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
25%
110K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
120K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
depressing, emotional, inspirational, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
rape, dysfunctional family, coming of age, poverty, teacher, sexual abuse, illiteracy, african american, domestic violence, aids, child abuse, parents and children ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
disability, family problems, family relations, parents and children, hopes, single parent, human spirit, life is a bitch, introspection, small town, family in crisis, social decay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa, cape town south africa
Similarity:
24%
150K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, sad, depressing, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, memory loss, illness, supportive spouse, mother daughter relationship, columbia university, family bonds, terminal illness, family drama, relationships, psychology, memory lapse ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
24%
161K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, sad, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip. The film is ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
hopes, children, adoption, youth, dysfunctional family, family relations, parents and children, girl, orphan, abandoned by father, family problems, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2009, 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
korea, south korea, seoul, asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of a beloved teacher for the blind who discovers she herself is losing her eyesight.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
blindness, cancer, love and romance, hopes, renewed love, life is a bitch, lovers reunited, disability, blind character, blind man, power relations, down on your luck ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment building that is falling apart who becomes the unwilling guardian to a young girl with a bit of an attitude. The film is an updated and Americanized ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious, feel good ...
Plot:
redemption, friendship, introspection, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, human nature, family life, custody, addiction, hopes, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The true story of a single mom who overcomes many of life's obstacles.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
high school, family problems, child illness, against the odds, terminal illness, human spirit, family relations, disability, family in crisis, school, parents and children, relationship vs career ...
Similarity:
23%
384
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The poignant yet humor filled story about a single mother of a teenager severely impacted by autism, forced to reckon with her daughter's future. As her child becomes an adult, what used to work, no longer does. What will sustain her daughter, ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
autism, nursing, moral dilemma, parents and children, society, social misfits, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, youth, single parent, family problems, child illness ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman named Esmeralda and her family move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico. The transition is difficult due to the many challenges she and her family face.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, hispanic
Plot:
immigrant, lifestyle, human spirit, rise to the top, family life, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, hopes, youth, single parent, teachers and students ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york, puerto rico, usa, latin america, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, touching, educational ...
Plot:
boy, disability, hopes, blind character, coming of age, against the odds, friendship, follow your dream, rebellion, fighting the system, society, rebelliousness ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Two determined mothers, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
teacher, fighting the system, school, human spirit, hopes, teachers and students, parents and children, youth, society, changing lives, social relations, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
22%
50K
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn't even know existed. ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, sentimental, inspirational ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, friendship, family reunited, parents and children, homecoming, family problems, step siblings, family relations, estrangement, youth, journey ...
Time:
year 2010, y2k, 21st century
Place:
middle east, india, asia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, deep ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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22%
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