Movies like Born Into Brothels

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) ...

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Born Into Brothels

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.

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Lady Bird

In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.

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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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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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Night School

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.

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Waiting for Superman

An examination of the current state of education in America today.

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A Small Act

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.

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Capturing the Friedmans

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.

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Inside Out

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.

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Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.

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Aparajito

Following his father's death, a boy leaves home to study in Calcutta, while his mother must face a life alone.

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Chain Camera

Chain Camera is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Kirby Dick about the lives of Los Angeles high school students.

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Fish Tank

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

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Poorna

An Adivasi 13-year-old from Telangana becomes the youngest girl in history to climb Mount Everest.

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Undefeated

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.

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Kisses

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.

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Tarnation

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.

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Bill Cunningham New York

A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.

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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Die-hard gamers compete to break world records on classic arcade games.

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Diego Maradona

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.

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Song for a Raggy Boy

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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