Most Similar Movies to Angela's Ashes (1999)
If you are looking for movies like Angela's Ashes (1999), you might like movies tagged with keyword : poverty, ireland, memoir, family, coming of age, alcoholism, illness, death, mother, father, childhood, struggle, hope, immigration, american dream, catholicism, unemployment, survival, grief, autobiographical .
The Glass Castle (2017), In America (2002), A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015), Scarred Hearts (2016), The Book Thief (2013), My Family/Mi Familia (1995), Golden Door (2006) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
The Glass Castle (2017)
A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.
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In America (2002)
A family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
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A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015)
The story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.
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Scarred Hearts (2016)
Emanuel is committed to a sanatorium for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.
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The Book Thief (2013)
While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.
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My Family/Mi Familia (1995)
A man makes his way from Mexico to L.A. in the 1920s, gets married and raises a big family there. The movie follows the children until they, too, get married and have children in the 1960s.
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Golden Door (2006)
An Italian (Vincenzo Amato) and his two sons leave their rural home in Sicily and begin an exciting journey toward a better life in the United States.
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The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan (2004)
In 2001, the Taliban government of Afghanistan destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the world's tallest stone sculptures. By the summer of 2002, after the fall of the Taliban, more than 250 Afghans, most of them Hazara refugees, were living in caves beside the rubble. This film, organized chronologically over four seasons, follows a refugee family living there, including...Read all
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Blizzard of Souls (2019)
A brave 16-year-old dreams of becoming a hero while fighting for Latvia during World War I.
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Becoming Astrid (2018)
Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.
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Boy of the Streets (1937)
Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.
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In America (2002)
A handsome actor (Paddy Considine), his wife (Samantha Morton) and their two daughters emigrate from Ireland and search for success in New York.
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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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Finding Neverland (2004)
The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
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Europa Europa (1990)
A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.
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King of the Hill (1993)
A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down motel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.
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A Better Life (2011)
A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while trying to give his son the opportunities he never had.
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The Water Diviner (2014)
An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons.
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