Most Similar Movies to Short Term 12 (2013)
If you are looking for movies like Short Term 12 (2013), you might like movies with tags : young woman, team leader, teenager, emotional, home, past, heroes, crisis, behavior, growing up.
Radio Flyer (1992), Palindromes (2004), Mysterious Skin (2004), Live Flesh (1997), Magnolia (1999), The Color Purple (1985), Detachment (2011) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Radio Flyer (1992)
A father recounts a dark period of his childhood when he and his little brother lived in the suburbs.
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Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
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Mysterious Skin (2004)
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Live Flesh (1997)
After leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she's married to the former cop -now basketball player- who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor's gun...
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Magnolia (1999)
An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
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The Color Purple (1985)
A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.
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Detachment (2011)
A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.
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Desert Flower (2009)
Waris Dirie, born 1965 in Somalia, flees at 13 when sold as 4th wife. She's maid at the Somalian embassy in London, then McDonald's, where she's discovered and becomes int'l top model. 1997, she speaks up against female genital mutilation.
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Precious (2009)
In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
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13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives alone in a high-class Quebec small town, but unknown to the neighbors, she is leading a secret and dangerous life.
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Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
In this sequel to The Blue Lagoon (1980), two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become suntanned teenagers in love.
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Harold and Maude (1971)
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
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Rushmore (1998)
The extracurricular king of Rushmore Preparatory School is put on academic probation.
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Sleepers (1996)
After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, they get their chance for revenge.
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Tyrannosaur (2011)
Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker.
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The Blind Side (2009)
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
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Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
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Dolores Claiborne (1995)
A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid.
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
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This Boy's Life (1993)
The story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff.
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