Movies like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

20 movies like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, ordered by similarity : Breathe(2017), Scarred Hearts(2016), I'm Going Home(2001), Ordinary Love(2019), Shine(1996), Late August, Early September(1998), The Fault in Our Stars(2014), The Theory of Everything(2014), A Street Cat Named Bob(2016), Carve Her Name With Pride(1958), Beautiful Boy(2018), We Were Here(2011) ...

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.

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Breathe

The inspiring true love story of Robin (Andrew Garfield) and Diana Cavendish (Claire Foy), an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis.

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Scarred Hearts

Emanuel is committed to a sanatorium for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.

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I'm Going Home

The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.

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Ordinary Love

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

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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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Late August, Early September

A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in ... See full summary »

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The Fault in Our Stars

Two teenage cancer patients begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive author in Amsterdam.

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The Theory of Everything

A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.

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A Street Cat Named Bob

Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.

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Carve Her Name With Pride

During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.

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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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We Were Here

A deep and reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of this unimaginable crisis.

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Coco Before Chanel

The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.

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Becoming Astrid

Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.

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Control

A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.

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Boys Don't Cry

A young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.

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Professor Marston & the Wonder Women

The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.

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Into the Wild

After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life.

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Freeheld

New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

A romance sparks between a young actor and a Hollywood leading lady.

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