Movies like The Governess

20 movies like The Governess, ordered by similarity : Papillon(2017), Woodpeckers(2017), The Escape(2017), The Second Mother(2015), The Old Man & the Gun(2018), A Patch of Blue(1965), Never Steady, Never Still(2017), Sky Without Stars(1955), Happiness and Tears(2001), Before Midnight(2013), Irina Palm(2007), Room(2015) ...

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The Governess

When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family ... See full summary »

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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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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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The Escape

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

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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 Old Man & the Gun

Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.

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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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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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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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Happiness and Tears

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Before Midnight

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.

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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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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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The Joy Luck Club

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

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The Desperate Hours

Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.

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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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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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Firelight

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven ... See full summary »

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Zakhm

Amidst religious riots, a son deals with his mother's life-threatening injuries, and her last request.

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Respiro

On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.

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