Movies like Friendly Persuasion

20 movies like Friendly Persuasion, ordered by similarity : Mum's List(2016), Fatima(2015), Dean(2016), After the Storm(2016), Carol(2015), Boy Erased(2018), Woodpeckers(2017), Sky Without Stars(1955), The Second Mother(2015), The Confirmation(2016), A Taste of Honey(1961), A Patch of Blue(1965) ...

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Friendly Persuasion

The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.

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Mum's List

A woman dying of incurable breast cancer creates a list of memories and lessons for the husband and sons she is about to leave behind.

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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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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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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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Carol

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

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Boy Erased

The son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.

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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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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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The Second Mother

When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.

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The Confirmation

A divorced father and his eight-year-old son are about to spend a somewhat predictable weekend together, nevertheless, when a valuable toolbox gets stolen, the search for the thieves will soon turn into a true family bonding.

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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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A Patch of Blue

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.

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Two Bits

Gennaro lives with his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter. But grandpa's not ready to die, he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.

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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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Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story

Cale Crane catalyzes the rescue and rehabilitation of Sonador, a race horse with a broken leg.

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The End of Summer

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

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Devi

A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.

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Dil Hai Tumhaara

Raising her two daughters, Saritaji "Rekha" fears that history might repeat itself when both of them fall for the same guy.

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Boundaries

Laura and her son Henry are forced to drive her estranged, pot-dealing, carefree father Jack cross country after being kicked out of a nursing home.

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Room

Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

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