Most Similar Movies to Places in the Heart (1984)
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Sounder (1972), John and the Missus (1987), Seven Women (1966), The Land Girls (1998), When Calls the Heart (2013), Run the Wild Fields (2000), Mudbound (2017) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
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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John and the Missus (1987)
A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.
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Seven Women (1966)
In 1935 China, a group of American missionaries must tolerate the obsessive, self-righteous leader of the mission, Agatha Andrews (Margaret Leighton). However, when the forthright Dr. D.R. Cartwright (Anne Bancroft) joins the mission, she is not afraid to come into direct conflict with the humorless Andrews, which earns her the respect of the other missionaries. Apart from the mounting tension within, the group must put aside their differences when Mongolian bandits attack.
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The Land Girls (1998)
While British men are fighting World War II, three female volunteers (Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel) labor on an elderly man's farm.
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When Calls the Heart (2013)
Accustomed to 19th-century high society, a young teacher must adjust to a new life in a Western frontier town.
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Run the Wild Fields (2000)
Ruby Miller (Joanne Whalley) has put her life on hold. Her husband, after leaving to fight in World War II, has been missing in action for years. Ruby tends their North Carolina farm and rears their daughter, Pug (Alexa Vega), but cannot bring herself to think about the future. One day a drifter named Tom Walker (Sean Patrick Flanery) arrives in town. Ruby hires him to do some odd jobs around the farm, but he gradually assumes a much more vital role for her and her daughter.
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Mudbound (2017)
Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.
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A Town Like Alice (1956)
A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.
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Breathe (2017)
The inspiring true love story of Robin and Diana Cavendish, an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease. Their heartwarming celebration of human possibility marks the directorial debut of Andy Serkis.
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Monsieur Batignole (2002)
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein...Read all
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Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
A South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)
Fictional chronicle of Squanto's life prior to and including the arrival of the "Mayflower" in 1620.
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Nothing But a Man (1964)
A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
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The Emigrants (1971)
Småland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.
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Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
When his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.
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In This Corner of the World (2016)
Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.
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Daens (1992)
In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Cat...Read all
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Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
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