20 movies like Born Into Brothels, ordered by similarity : Lady Bird(2017), Hoop Dreams(1994), Children of Heaven(1997), Night School(2016), Waiting for Superman(2010), A Small Act(2010), Capturing the Friedmans(2003), Inside Out(2015), Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams(2006), Aparajito(1956), Chain Camera(2001), Fish Tank(2009) ...
7.2/10
Documentary, Biography
USA
2004
85 Minutes
Zana Briski Avijit Halder Shanti Das
photographer prostitute young boy young girl mother teacher emotional gritty brothel calcutta, india school street mother/child relationship poverty photography ambition growing up underdog 2000s
Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
7.4/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
94 Minutes
Saoirse Ronan Laurie Metcalf Timothée Chalamet Lucas Hedges Tracy Letts Odeya Rush Jake McDorman Beanie Feldstein Lois Smith Stephen McKinley Henderson Jordan Rodrigues
mother daughter teenager high-school student best friend teacher father moving uplifting playful california high school catholic school sacramento, calif. family home university united states prom mother/daughter relationship coming of age
In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
8.3/10
Documentary, Drama
USA
1994
174 Minutes
William Gates Arthur Agee Sheila Agee Isiah Thomas Bill Gleason
basketball player teenager mother father coach teacher uplifting powerful gutsy emotional chicago westchester, ill. basketball court family home basketball ambition high school racism class distinctions growing up
A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
Drama
1997
88 Minutes
Reza Naji Amir Farrokh Hashemian Bahare Seddiqi Fereshte Sarabandi Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi Kamal Mir Karimi Behzad Rafiee Dariush Mokhtari Moahammad-Hasan Hosseinian Masume Dair Kambiz Peykarnegar
young boy young girl father mother schoolgirl teacher emotional touching tehran, iran school market street family home poverty education family growing up quest 1990s
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.
6.7/10
Documentary
USA
2016
85 Minutes
high school teacher high-school student family member co-worker friend parent fascinating emotional intense indianapolis school classroom house apartment store school second chance work poverty stress
A documentary about three students determined to graduate from their high school in Indianapolis, despite the fact that the institution has one of the lowest graduation rates in the country.
7.5/10
Documentary
USA
2010
102 Minutes
Charles Adam Jonathan Alter Robert Balfanz Harriet Ball Steve Barr Ms. Celeste Bell
schoolboy schoolgirl teacher administrator billionaire solemn passionate new york city school school education inner-city life childhood teaching failure underdog fall 2000s
An examination of the current state of education in America today.
7.4/10
Documentary
USA
2010
88 Minutes
schoolteacher young boy mother lawyer father benefactor emotional engaging profound uplifting kenya village harvard university sweden house poverty education generosity united nations human rights
A young Kenyan's life changes drastically when his education is sponsored by a Swedish stranger. Years later, he founds his own scholarship program to replicate the kindness he once received.
7.7/10
Documentary, Biography
USA
2003
107 Minutes
David Friedman Jesse Friedman
father son brother mother victim police officer creepy emotional family home great neck, n.y. suburbia prison child molestation family wretched excess fall mystery 2000s
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
8.1/10
Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy
USA
2015
95 Minutes
young girl mother father imaginary friend teacher friend amusing charming emotional san francisco house imaginary world school dining room street emotion moving change adaptation hockey
After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.
7.2/10
Drama
Bosnia and Herzegovina|Croatia|Austria|Germany
2006
107 Minutes
Mirjana Karanovic Luna Zimic Mijovic Leon Lucev Kenan Catic Jasna Beri Dejan Acimovic Bogdan Diklic Emir Hadzihafizbegovic Ermin Bravo Semka Sokolovic
mother daughter widow love interest bouncer teen boy emotional intense sarajevo, bosnia-herzegovina family home school nightclub street mother/daughter relationship war poverty first love teen angst growing up transformation
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
8.4/10
Drama
India
1956
105 Minutes
Pinaki Sengupta Kanu Bandyopadhyay Karuna Bannerjee Ramani Sengupta Charuprakash Ghosh Smaran Ghosal Santi Gupta Ranibala Sudipta Roy Ajay Mitra Subodh Ganguli
young boy mother father widow sad moving india calcutta, india village mother/child relationship family death school loneliness loss growing up discovery 1950s
Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.
6.2/10
Documentary
USA
2001
89 Minutes
teenager teacher mother father girlfriend boyfriend creative high school family home los angeles street suburbia education aimless youth alcohol suicide sex activism growing up 2000s
Chain Camera is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about the lives of Los Angeles high school students.
7.3/10
Drama
Netherlands|UK
2009
124 Minutes
Michael Fassbender Katie Jarvis Kierston Wareing Harry Treadaway Charlotte Collins Jason Maza Chelsea Chase Jack Gordon Sarah Counsell Brooke Hobby Rebecca Griffiths
teen girl mother sister boyfriend bleak gritty emotional apartment abandoned building essex, england school party mother/daughter relationship neglect poverty dance rebellion relationships discovery rivalry
Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
7.8/10
Biography
India
2017
100 Minutes
Rahul Bose Dhritiman Chatterjee Arif Zakaria John Kottoly Heeba Shah Aditi Inamdar Keshav Deepak Gyanendra Tripathi Manoj Kumar Ramesh Birajdar
young girl rock climber friend inspiring emotional melodramatic rousing moving intense india mountain mount everest talent training mountain climbing trust ambition adventure discovery underdog
An Adivasi 13-year-old from Telangana becomes the youngest girl in history to climb Mount Everest.
7.7/10
Documentary
USA
2011
113 Minutes
T.J. Martin Bill Courtney
football coach football player high-school student inspiring intense heartwarming memphis, tenn. high school football field lumberyard football high school mentorship sports underdog growing up 2000s
Chronicles three underprivileged students from inner-city Memphis and their volunteer coach who tries to help them beat the odds on and off the field.
7.3/10
Drama
Ireland|Sweden
2008
76 Minutes
Kelly O'Neill Shane Curry Paul Roe Neili Conroy David Bendito Elizabeth Fuh Willie Higgins Sean McDonagh Stephen Rea
boy girl abusive father mother older brother prostitute bleak emotional disheartening dublin street housing project dysfunctional family child abuse friendship homelessness running away quest growing up 2000s
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
7.1/10
Documentary
USA
2003
87 Minutes
filmmaker mother grandmother grandfather boyfriend gay man creative quirky family home houston new york city family dysfunction mother/son relationship mental illness homosexuality abusive relationship growing up transformation 2000s
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture of snapshots, Super-8 film, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, and more - culled from nineteen years of his life.
7.9/10
Documentary, Biography, Drama, History
USA
2010
84 Minutes
Bill Cunningham Editta Sherman Patrick McDonald Carmen Dell'Orefice Anna Wintour Iris Apfel
photographer colleague friend editor brash cheery confident creative new york city newsroom street runway fashion clothing industry journalism bill cunningham photography career discovery rise
A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.
8.1/10
Documentary, Biography
USA
2007
79 Minutes
Steve Wiebe Mark Alpiger Walter Day Steve Sanders Robert Mruczek Todd Rogers
gamer teacher wife friend rival quirky amusing ottumwa, iowa hollywood, fla. redmond, wash. laconia, n.h. video games obsession competition quest rivalry underdog 2000s
Die-hard gamers compete to break world records on classic arcade games.
7.7/10
Biography, Documentary
UK
2019
120 Minutes
Diego Armando Maradona
football player illegitimate son documentarian family emotional fascinating hedonistic striking confident buenos aires, argentina naples, italy barcelona, spain redemption football life story addiction fall growing up wretched excess underdog
Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the career of celebrated football player Diego Maradona, who played for S.S.C. Napoli in the 1980s.
7.6/10
Drama
Ireland|UK|Denmark|Spain
2003
98 Minutes
Aidan Quinn Iain Glen Marc Warren Dudley Sutton Alan Devlin Stuart Graham John Travers Chris Newman
school principal schoolboy schoolteacher prefect irishman teacher friend rival bully intense sad emotional endearing ireland school teaching school abuse sadism courage
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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