Most Similar Movies to The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
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A Taste of Honey (1961), Poor Cow (1967), Up the Junction (1968), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), A Kind of Loving (1962), Toni (1935), The Living and the Dead (2006) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
A Taste of Honey (1961)
A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
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Poor Cow (1967)
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices, she has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. One day, her son goes missing and she briefly comes to grips with what is most important to her.
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Up the Junction (1968)
Addresses some of the major 60s social issues - a bored rich London-girl from Chelsea decides to go "slumming" in depressed Battersea, getting a flat and starts factory-work and makes friends... of which one has to get an illegal abortion.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.
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A Kind of Loving (1962)
After his girlfriend's pregnancy forces him to marry her, a young man must adjust to his new life and contend with his domineering mother-in-law.
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Toni (1935)
Italian laborer Toni (Charles Blavette), loved by Marie (Jenny Helia), falls tragically for Spanish Josepha (Celia Montalvan) near Marseille.
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The Living and the Dead (2006)
A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for...Read all
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Kes (1969)
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
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Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.
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This Sporting Life (1963)
Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.
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The Painted Veil (2006)
A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
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The L-Shaped Room (1963)
A single, pregnant woman moves into a London boarding house where she meets a group of fellow misfits.
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Raining Stones (1993)
This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic...Read all
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Ruby in Paradise (1993)
A young woman struggles for independence and identity in a small Florida tourist town.
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Alambrista (1978)
Struggling to support his family in Mexico, Roberto (Domingo Ambriz), a young Mexican man, illegally crosses the border to the United States in search of work. Exploited by his American employers, Roberto labors in harsh conditions for insufficient wages and fails to make enough money for his family. Continually on the lookout for immigration raids, Roberto has to maintain a constant vigilance as he travels from town to town, searching for employment.
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Insiang (1976)
After a teenager is raped by her mother's boyfriend, she sets out to exact revenge on anyone who has hurt her.
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The Holy Innocents (1984)
Members (Alfredo Landa, Francisco Rabal, Terele Pavez) of a poor family obey the whims of the aristocrats they work for in rural 1960s Spain.
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Life at the Top (1965)
In this sequel to Room at the Top (1959), Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey) thinks he has really made it by marrying the boss's daughter in his northern mill town. But he finds he is being sidelined at work and his private life manipulated by his father-in-law.
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