Most Similar Movies to A Child Is Waiting (1963)
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The Miracle Worker (1962), Conrack (1974), Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), Marie's Story (2014), The Color of Friendship (2000), Music of the Heart (1999) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
The Miracle Worker (1962)
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
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Conrack (1974)
The true story of Pat Conroy, an idealistic and handsome Caucasian teacher who is an elementary school instructor for a group of poor black children in an isolated school.
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)
Set in Cincinnati at the height of the Great Depression, Kit Kittredge, a resourceful young girl, helps her mother run a boardinghouse after her father loses his job.
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
An eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.
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Marie's Story (2014)
Marie Heurtin is born both blind and deaf. Sister Marguerette wins her trust and teaches her how to express herself.
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The Color of Friendship (2000)
A black family (Carl Lumbly, Penny Johnson, Shadia Simmons) receives a white South African exchange student, raised in apartheid, into its home in 1977.
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Music of the Heart (1999)
Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
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The Getting of Wisdom (1977)
Oscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to the screen, Laura Tweedle Rambotham (Susannah Fowle).
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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (2003)
Zachary Beaver, a sideshow attraction known as the world's fattest boy, arrives in the sleepy town of Granger, Texas.
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Up the Down Staircase (1967)
A novice teacher (Sandy Dennis) finds hostile students and staff apathy at a tough New York high school.
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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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Ponette (1996)
A four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.
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Dodes 'Ka-Den (1970)
A group of impoverished misfits inhabiting a Japanese landfill have experiences that are alternately joyful and disheartening. Young, disabled Roku-chan (Yoshitaka Zushi) spends his days in a fantasy world where he is the captain of an imaginary train, while his mother, Okuni (Kin Sugai), remains in constant prayer, rarely venturing out of her shanty. A homeless man and his child lovingly envision every detail of the home they wish they had money to build, and a mute girl has a tragic encounter.
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Storm Boy (1976)
Mike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.
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Family Law (2006)
As he adjusts to being a husband and father, Ariel Perelman meditates on the ways in which he is similar -- and so very different -- from his own dad.
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Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001)
Based on the actual events of one of the most horrific cases of child abuse ever to be documented, this haunting drama tells the tale of a young girl that was locked in a room for over 12 years.
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My Little Princess (2011)
When Hanah re-emerges in the life of her pre-pubescent daughter, she comes with a strange, yet attractive proposition: she needs her own girl to pose for her in ways that would later take by surprise the Parisian art world of the 1970s.
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Madeline (1998)
Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.
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