Movies like Bigger Than Life

20 movies like Bigger Than Life, ordered by similarity : Beautiful Boy(2018), Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), The Chase(1966), Woodpeckers(2017), In a Better World(2010), The Browning Version(1994), The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter(1968), South Central(1992), Lady Bird(2017), Diane(2018), Half Nelson(2006), World's Greatest Dad(2009) ...

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Bigger Than Life

A seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.

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Beautiful Boy

Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.

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Song for a Raggy Boy

The true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.

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The Chase

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

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Woodpeckers

Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.

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In a Better World

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

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The Browning Version

On the verge of forced resignation, a strict old-fashioned teacher rethinks his life.

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

John, a deaf and mute man, rents a bedroom in a small town to be closer to his friend, Spiros, who is also deaf. John attempts to strike up a friendship with Mick, the teenage daughter of his disabled landlord, and meets the town drunk.

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South Central

A former gangster fresh out of prison wants to change his life for the better and must save his 10 year old son who has already chosen a gang life.

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Lady Bird

In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.

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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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Half Nelson

An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.

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World's Greatest Dad

When his son's body is found in a humiliating accident, a lonely high school teacher inadvertently attracts an overwhelming amount of community and media attention after covering up the truth with a phony suicide note.

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Papillon

Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.

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Scarred Hearts

Emanuel is committed to a sanatorium for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.

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The Escape

An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.

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The Upside

A wealthy quadriplegic hires a struggling parolee to be his caretaker in his upscale New York penthouse. Despite coming from two different worlds, an unlikely friendship starts to blossom as both men rediscover the joy of living life to the fullest.

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Death of a Salesman

An over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family.

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Good Morning, Miss Dove

After her admission to the hospital, town-famous stern teacher Miss Dove nostalgically reminisces about her youth and about the pupils she taught over the years.

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Having You

Jack has finally managed to propose to his girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.

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Persepolis

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

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