Most Similar Movies to The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
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Never Love a Stranger (1958), Jassy (1948), A Cry From the Streets (1959), Ann Vickers (1933), They Were So Young (1955), Family Life (1971), Room at the Top (1959) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Never Love a Stranger (1958)
Following the life of an orphan and the events that change his life and lead him into a life of crime.
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Jassy (1948)
In 17th. century England, Jassy is believed a witch because she has sometimes visions of approaching disasters. When Barney Hatton, an impoverished gentry whose gambling father has lost the family home, helps her anyway she will not forget and will try to help him have his property back - at any price?
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A Cry From the Streets (1959)
A welfare worker becomes emotionally involved with her charges, a group of adorable, homeless orphans. Music by Larry Adler. (1959; B&W)
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Ann Vickers (1933)
A prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock.
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They Were So Young (1955)
A model agency in Rio de Janeiro is actually a front for a white-slavery ring that kidnaps European women and sells them on the South American sex market.
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Family Life (1971)
It is shattered over a daughter's forced abortion. As the daughter rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian norms, typical of the time, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreated.
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Room at the Top (1959)
An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
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Three on a Match (1932)
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
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Edge of the City (1957)
The growing friendship of two NYC longshoremen is threatened by a notably repellent punk.
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That Brennan Girl (1946)
The film begins on Mother's Day, 1938 when 14-year-old Ziggy Brennan (Mona Freeman) buys a gardenia for her mother. Ziggy's youthful exuberance disappears when she enters their apartment and finds her mother, Natalie (June Duprez), drinking with a strange man. Natalie introduces Ziggy as her "sister" and quietly cautions Ziggy against calling her "mother." Later, disp...Read all
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None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
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The Price of Silence (1959)
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
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The Good Bad Girl (1931)
Marcia Cameron (Mae Clark), a gangster's moll, quits her racketeering boyfriend Dapper Dan Tyler (Robert Ellis) for a respectable rich man, Bob Henderson (Jmaes Hall), but after giving birth to a child), then finds her shady background a liability. Bob is so embarrassed by her former associations that he sues for a divorce. But Dapper Dan is gunned down by a detective...Read all
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Mauvaise Graine (1934)
A young man-about-Paris, cut off from his father's money, falls in with a picaresque gang of car thieves.
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Child in the House (1956)
Young Elizabeth is left with her relatives, a married couple, while her mother is in hospital. The friendly husband likes her, but the wife hates kids. Her father, an often absent crook on the lam, visits her in secret one day.
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Honeytrap (2014)
Layla, a 15-year-old living in Brixton, becomes involved with a gang and must set up a boy to be killed.
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Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001)
Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher (Sandrine Kiberlain) enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot (Nicole Garcia) arranges to kidnap another child, Jose (Alexis Chatrian), to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole (Mathilde Seigner) is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend, Francois (Luck Mervil), and some of his cohorts.
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Kitten With a Whip (1964)
A rising political star faces scandal and blackmail when the young woman he tries to help turns out to be a juvenile delinquent.
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