Most Similar Movies to Places in the Heart (1984)
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When Zachary Beaver Came to Town (2003), Steel Magnolias (1989), The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (2007), Moonlight and Valentino (1995), The Intouchables (2011), Sounder (1972), Abandoned (2001) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
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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Steel Magnolias (1989)
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship, and welcome her into the fold.
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The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (2007)
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it. The commission takes their relationship to unexpected places as the young client makes greater and more difficult demands of the woodcar...Read all
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Moonlight and Valentino (1995)
A young widow still grieving over the death of her husband finds herself being comforted by a local housepainter.
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The Intouchables (2011)
After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
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Sounder (1972)
The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
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Abandoned (2001)
Aron Soprani (Tamas Meszaros) is a young boy abandoned by his father and given up to a state-run orphanage. His new home is run by cruel, abusive people, and young Aron finds little solace. Slowly forging relationships with the few allies he can find, including another boy, Attila (Szabolcs Csizmadia), and two orphanage workers, Aron and his circle rely on each other to survive the brutal conditions, both of the orphanage and their country, Hungary, ravaged by the spread of communism.
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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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Global Player: Wo wir sind isch vorne (2013)
A family, middle-class and entrepreneurial, in times of globalization.
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Summer Night (2019)
A coming-of-age story about the complexities of young romantic relationships.
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The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)
The lives of two dissimilar girls turned out in different ways.
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Harry and Tonto (1974)
When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.
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The Long Walk Home (1990)
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
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Moonlight Mile (2002)
As he copes with the death of his fiancée, a young man befriends her parents and must figure out what he wants out of life.
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Water (2005)
Just as Mahatma Gandhi's tenets begin to sweep through India, an 8-year-old (Sarala) must go to live in an ashram with other Hindu widows.
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Walking Across Egypt (1999)
An elderly Southern widow, Mattie Rigsbee (Ellen Burstyn), begrudgingly starts to acknowledge that she can't live on her own. When Mattie becomes friends with the town dogcatcher, Lamar Benfield (Mark Hamill), she is also introduced to his orphaned nephew, Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas). Although Wesley has been in trouble with the law and incarcerated for auto theft, Mattie sees potential in the boy and tries to point him in the right direction by allowing him to live with her.
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Mondays in the Sun (2002)
Fired from a Spanish shipyard, three men (Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar, José Ángel Egido) spend their days wandering aimlessly and carousing in a bar.
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When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
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