Most Similar Movies to Down in the Delta (1998)
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Miss Juneteenth (2020), Meet the Browns (2008), Soul Boy (2010), Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), Sherrybaby (2006), Walking Across Egypt (1999), Central Station (1998) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Miss Juneteenth (2020)
A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.
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Meet the Browns (2008)
A single mom takes her family to Georgia for the funeral of her father -- a man she never met. There, her clan is introduced to the crass, fun-loving Brown family.
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Soul Boy (2010)
A Kenyan boy goes on a strange journey to return his father's soul.
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
An illegitimate child (Jena Malone) endures increasingly sadistic beatings from her mother's (Jennifer Jason Leigh) second husband (Ron Eldard) in the '50s South.
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Sherrybaby (2006)
Sherry tries to integrate again into society and become a good mother.
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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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Central Station (1998)
An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.
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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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A Home of Our Own (1993)
Widow Frances Lacey is being sexually harassed by her boss while she tries to provide for her brood of six children. Also, her oldest son, Shayne, is constantly in trouble. When she's fired from her job, she decides to abandon Los Angeles.
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Crooklyn (1994)
Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.
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A Good Baby (1999)
A young loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby's parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots.
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Junebug (2005)
A dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern home.
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God Bless the Child (1988)
Unemployed, abandoned by her husband and kicked out of her apartment after not being able to pay her rent, newly single mother Theresa Johnson (Mare Winningham) finds herself homeless and raising her daughter, Hillary (Grace Johnston), on the streets. Discouraged by consistently overcrowded shelters and shocking violence, Johnson appeals to social worker Calvin Reed (Dorian Harewood). With Reed's help, Johnson struggles to ensure a decent quality of life for the daughter she loves so much.
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Cowgirls 'n Angels (2012)
A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
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A Bump Along The Way (2019)
A boozy 44-year-old single mother becomes pregnant from a one-night-stand, much to the shame of her buttoned-up teen daughter.
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Urban Hymn (2015)
A social worker helps a young female offender who has a remarkable voice recognize her potential.
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Scarborough (2018)
Two couples - each comprising a teacher and a student - spend a life-changing weekend at the seaside resort town of Scarborough.
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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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