Most Similar Movies to Santa Mesa (2008)
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Manito (2002), The Kid with a Bike (2011), Katie Says Goodbye (2016), Zozo (2005), In America (2002), The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013), Soul Boy (2010) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Manito (2002)
Fifteen years ago, their Washington Heights neighborhood was dubbed the crack-cocaine capital of the world, but today it is transforming into one of the most vibrant, Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. While the drug dealers continue to disappear, their violent legacy still casts a shadow over the neighborhood and its residents. Junior, an ex-convict s...Read all
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The Kid with a Bike (2011)
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hair-dresser agrees to foster him on week-ends.
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Katie Says Goodbye (2016)
A kindhearted waitress finds herself in grave danger after she falls in love with an ex-convict.
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Zozo (2005)
A Lebanese boy gets separated from his family during the civil war and ends up in Sweden.
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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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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013)
The sons (Skylan Brooks, Ethan Dizon) of two drug-addled hookers must fend for themselves after one's mother goes missing and the other (Jennifer Hudson) is arrested.
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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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Babai (2015)
Ten-year-old Nori (Val Maloku) and his father Gezim (Astrit Kabashi) roam the streets of Kosovo selling cigarettes and barely earning a living. Only a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gezim is lured west to Germany, leaving his son behind in search of a new life. Feeling deserted and desperate to claim some sense of stability, Nori embarks on a dangerous j...Read all
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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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Three Quarter Moon (2011)
6-year old Hayat turns up in Hartmut's taxi without a word of German. All attempts to get rid of her fail. So he resigns himself to helping her find her mother. But is he helping her or she helping him? Slowly Hayat changes his outlook on life.
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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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Lean on Pete (2017)
A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.
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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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The Juggler (1953)
In 1949, former concentration camp inmate and Berlin native Hans Muller, immigrates to Israel where, due to psychological problems, he can't adjust to peacetime life.
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Never Steady, Never Still (2017)
A mother struggles to take control of her life in the face of advanced Parkinson's disease, while her son battles his sexual and emotional identity amongst the violence of Alberta's oil field work camps.
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Rosie (2018)
A woman, her husband and their four children find themselves homeless after their landlord sells their house. Over the next 36 hours, the couple desperately search for a place to live while trying to shield the kids from the reality of the situation.
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Remember Me (2019)
The Sultana was a river boat that exploded in 1865 killing many passengers, mostly Union Soldiers.
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All Creatures Here Below (2018)
A desperate young couple on the run seek refuge in Kansas City.
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