Most Similar Movies to Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
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12 Years a Slave (2013), John and the Missus (1987), I Am Slave (2010), Windhorse (1998), Leave to Remain (2013), A Regular Woman (2019), Farming (2018) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
12 Years a Slave (2013)
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
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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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I Am Slave (2010)
A thriller set in London's slave trade and centered on a woman's fight for freedom.
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Windhorse (1998)
This drama focuses on one Tibetan family in which a young woman, Dolkar (Dadon), and her brother, Dorjee (Jampa Kelsang), have made radically different choices in their lives, even though they both still reside with their parents. While Dolkar is supportive of the Chinese occupation of the country, Dorjee hates the situation and leads a depressed existence. When their cousin, a Buddhist nun, is detained and abused by Chinese authorities, Dolkar begins to question her allegiances.
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Leave to Remain (2013)
Three teenagers forced to leave their family, friends and homes behind learn to live in yet another hostile country. That country is the UK.
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A Regular Woman (2019)
A German woman of Turkish descent struggles to achieve the life she wants. Faced by opposition and threats from her family, she leaves.
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Farming (2018)
Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Instead, he becomes the feared leader of a white skinhead gang.
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Chapter & Verse (2015)
A reformed gang leader returns to Harlem and takes a job delivering meals. When he meets and bonds with an older woman, the two of them discover there is hope and joy in their surroundings.
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Once Were Warriors (1994)
A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.
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Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
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The Foster Boy (2011)
A Swiss-German rural peasant family takes Max, a crude 15-year-old boy, into a foster situation of constant bullying. Soon, a foster girl is added to the mix.
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From Nowhere (2016)
Three undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US.
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Adanggaman (2000)
In West Africa during the late 17th century, King Adanggaman leads a war against his neighboring tribes, ordering his soldiers to torch enemy villages, kill the elderly and capture the healthy tribesmen to sell to the European slave traders. When his village falls prey to one of Adanggaman's attacks, Ossei manages to escape, but his family is murdered except for his c...Read all
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Kabuli Kid (2008)
A woman in a light-blue chadri abandons her infant in the backseat of a cab in the bustling streets of post-war Kabul.
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The Unloved (2009)
Lucy is 11-years-old and lives with her father. One day, not for the first time, he beats her. The next time she returns to school, Lucy asks to see her social worker Jackie. Lucy is known to social services and has been in foster care before, but none of her foster parents have any placements available. Jackie takes her to a children's home, Crop Row, where she is left with nothing except the school uniform she is wearing.
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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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Sold (2014)
A young woman risks everything for freedom after she is sold to a brothel.
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Boesman & Lena (2000)
A South African couple (Danny Glover, Angela Bassett) try to overcome personal tragedy within their love/hate relationship.
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