Movies like Sling Blade

20 movies like Sling Blade, ordered by similarity : The Magic of Marciano(2000), Mum's List(2016), Mes Petites Amoureuses(1974), Ake and His World(1984), What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?(1999), We the Animals(2018), Ponette(1996), The Reflecting Skin(1990), Fatima(2015), Fast Color(2018), Badrinath Ki Dulhania(2017), The Revolt of Job(1983) ...

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Sling Blade

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

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The Magic of Marciano

A 10-year-old boy shares an intense bond with his mentally ill mother. The youth's life is turned upside down when his mother lapses into violent psychosis. A former psychiatrist takes pity... See full summary »

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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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Mes Petites Amoureuses

A study of minor events in the adolescence of a boy growing up in small towns. Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after one year of high school, has to go to live with his mother in the... See full summary »

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Ake and His World

In 1929, the film follows the six-year old son of a Swedish country doctor. Åke lives with his parents and his sister Aja in a small provincial town. His best friend is Kalle Nubb. Åke is ... See full summary »

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What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

Jake Muss' oldest son is killed in a gang fight and the younger son wants revenge, but Jake doesn't want to lose his other son to violence as well.

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We the Animals

Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah embraces an imagined world all on his own.

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Ponette

A four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.

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The Reflecting Skin

In the 1950's, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.

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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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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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Badrinath Ki Dulhania

Badrinath Bansal from Jhansi and Vaidehi Trivedi from Kota belong to small towns but have diametrically opposite opinions on everything. This leads to a clash of ideologies, despite both of them recognizing the goodness in each other.

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The Revolt of Job

An elderly Jewish couple, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.

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The Stray

Members of the Davis family are going through a hard time when a stray dog, Pluto, comes into their life and, in just a short time, saves a toddler, brings comfort to a 9-year-old boy, restores a marriage and repairs a broken father-son relationship.

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Shiloh

Marty Preston, a small-town Southern boy, must rescue a young beagle from abusive owner and recluse Judd Travers.

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Mickybo and Me

This movie tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. They share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with the consequence that they run away to Australia.

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Miss You Already

The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.

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A Room for Romeo Brass

Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell ... See full summary »

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Irina Palm

Maggie, a 60-year-old widow, desperately needs some money to pay for a medical treatment for her ill grandson, Olly. After one attempt at trying to find a job, she finds herself roaming the... See full summary »

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Marius

Cesar's (Raimu) son, Marius (Pierre Fresnay), loves Fanny (Orane Demazis) but wants to go to sea in part one of the Marseille trilogy.

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11:55

Returning to his hometown, US Marine Nelson Sanchez finds himself trapped by the violent past he had tried to escape.

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