Most Similar Movies to Kes (1969)
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A Taste of Honey (1961), The Dreamlife of Angels (1998), Raining Stones (1993), Poor Cow (1967), Salaam Bombay! (1988), I, Daniel Blake (2016), Ray & Liz (2018) ... 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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The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
The lives of two dissimilar girls turned out in different ways.
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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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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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Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Heartrending story of life in the back alleys and gutters of India, where young Krishna must struggle to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes. In HD.
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I, Daniel Blake (2016)
After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.
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Ray & Liz (2018)
Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz.
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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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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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Rosetta (1999)
Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
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DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2006)
Jorge (Quim Gutiérrez) is trying to better his life, and the first step, he believes, is to land a different job. Jorge, who spends his days working as a janitor and his nights watching his ailing father (Héctor Colomé), longs for more. Also facing crossroads in their lives are Jorge's ex-con brother, Antonio (Antonio de la Torre), who is in a relationship with a woman still in prison, and Jorge's best friend (Raúl Arévalo), who is confronting the possibility that he may be gay.
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The Stars Look Down (1939)
Davey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny (Margaret Lockwood) who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree. Davey finds he is ill-at-ease in his role, the more so when he r...Read all
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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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Steel City (2006)
While in jail awaiting trial, a man (John Heard) tries to reconnect with his emotionally damaged son (Thomas Guiry).
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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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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
A juvenile offender at a tough reform school impresses its Governor with his running ability and is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.
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Ratcatcher (1999)
An naïve young lad navigates the dirty squalid streets of 1973 Glasgow, and the poor youth around him.
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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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