Movies like Stella Dallas

20 movies like Stella Dallas, ordered by similarity : Fatima(2015), Unhook the Stars(1996), Okaasan(1952), L'économie du couple(2016), A Thousand Times Goodnight(2013), Lady for a Day(1933), Make Way for Tomorrow(1937), My Foolish Heart(1949), After the Storm(2016), Woman Against Woman(1938), A Majority of One(1961), Dolores Claiborne(1995) ...

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Stella Dallas

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

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Fatima

After she is injured in a fall, Fatima writes her two daughters letters in Arabic to express things she has never been able to express in French.

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Unhook the Stars

After her abusive husband leaves, Monica asks her neighbor to look after her son while she's at work. Mildred's angry daughter's just moved out, so she's happy to have JJ.

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Okaasan

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

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L'économie du couple

Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce after 15 years of marriage. Tensions rise when cash-strapped Boris must continue to live with Marie and the two children while trying to figure out how to divide the assets.

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A Thousand Times Goodnight

A war-zone photojournalist's (Juliette Binoche) dedication to her dangerous job places her at odds with her family (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny).

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Lady for a Day

A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.

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Make Way for Tomorrow

An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.

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My Foolish Heart

After being visited by an old friend, a woman recalls her true love, the man she met and lost years ago.

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After the Storm

After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.

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Woman Against Woman

Cynthia is married to Steve and is a selfish hard woman. She decides where they will live, who they will see and even gets rid of Dora, the nanny who raised Steve and is now raising their ... See full summary »

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A Majority of One

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness, and forgiveness.

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Dolores Claiborne

A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid.

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Fast Color

After years in hiding, a woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.

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Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly ordinary afternoon in her seemingly ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. Mrs. Kusters wants to add canned sausages to the stew, her ... See full summary »

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They Were Sisters

The story of three sisters who marry men of widely different character as their individual and widely-different married lives unfold. One sister (Phyllis Calvert) is happily married but ... See full summary »

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A Delicate Balance

A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter's godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide to come live with them.

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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death ... See full summary »

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Secrets & Lies

Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.

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Little Sister

After the death of their estranged father, three siblings (Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho) invite their half sister (Suzu Hirose) to live with them.

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Dora or The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents

When her mother decides to stop administering medication to her mentally challenged daughter, 18-year-old Dora awakes, as if from a deep sleep. Dora discovers her body, her sensuality and finally, sex, too.

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