Movies like The War Against Mrs. Hadley

20 movies like The War Against Mrs. Hadley, ordered by similarity : Fatima(2015), The Human Comedy(1943), Dean(2016), Mrs. Miniver(1942), Little Sister(2015), To Sleep With Anger(1990), Fugue(2018), Unhook the Stars(1996), Never Steady, Never Still(2017), Nine Lives(2005), Sky Without Stars(1955), Sweet Sixteen(2002) ...

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The War Against Mrs. Hadley

A Washington official courts a society matron who is trying to ignore the effects of World War II.

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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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The Human Comedy

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

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Dean

An illustrator falls in love with a woman while trying to keep his father from burning down the family home after his wife dies.

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Mrs. Miniver

A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.

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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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To Sleep With Anger

A charismatic old acquaintance drifts into town, stirring up trouble for a mild-mannered family.

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Fugue

Alicja suffers from memory loss and has rebuilt her own free-spirited way of life. Two years later, she returns to her former family to assume against her will her role as wife, mother, and daughter to people who are strangers to her.

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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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Never Steady, Never Still

A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.

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Nine Lives

Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.

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Sky Without Stars

A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.

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Sweet Sixteen

Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.

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Custody

A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.

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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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Carol

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.

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Diane

A woman fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.

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A Taste of Honey

A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.

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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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The Joy Luck Club

The life histories of four Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other.

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Looking for Eric

Eric, a football fanatic postman whose life is descending into crisis, receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona.

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