Movies like The Miracle Worker

20 movies like The Miracle Worker, ordered by similarity : The Breadwinner(2017), Temple Grandin(2010), I Can Only Imagine(2018), Breakthrough(2019), After the Storm(2016), Neerja(2016), Boy Erased(2018), On the Basis of Sex(2018), Hoop Dreams(1994), Beautiful Boy(2018), Little Sister(2015), Secret Superstar(2017) ...

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The Miracle Worker

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

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The Breadwinner

In 2001, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.

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Temple Grandin

The scientist (Claire Danes) becomes an advocate for autistics and the humane treatment of livestock.

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I Can Only Imagine

The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe's beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness.

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Breakthrough

When her 14-year-old son drowns in a lake, a faithful mother prays for him to come back from the brink of death and be healed.

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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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Neerja

Neerja is the story of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.

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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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On the Basis of Sex

The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.

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Hoop Dreams

A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

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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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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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Secret Superstar

A talented teenage singer-songwriter living amid domestic abuse becomes a YouTube sensation after a video in which she hides her identity goes viral.

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Like Father, Like Son

Ryota is a successful workaholic businessman. When he learns that his biological son was switched with another boy after birth, he faces the difficult decision to choose his true son or the boy he and his wife have raised as their own.

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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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Children of Heaven

Two fearful children (Amir Farrokh Hashemian, Bahare Seddiqi) look for a pair of missing shoes, then try to get another pair before their parents discover the loss.

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Shine

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

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The Fighter

Based on the story of Micky Ward, a fledgling boxer who tries to escape the shadow of his more famous but troubled older boxing brother and get his own shot at greatness.

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Walk the Line

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins.

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The Best Intentions

In 1909, poor theology student Henrik falls in love with Anna, the intelligent daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After marrying Henrik becomes a priest in northern Sweden. Urbane Anna hates living in the county, growing restless.

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Nowhere Boy

A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.

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