Films like 20th Century Women
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist l...
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The Florida Project
Film · 2017 · also dramaThe story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the...
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Fish Tank
Film · 2009 · also dramaFifteen-year-old Mia is in a constant state of war with her family and the world around her. When she meets her party-girl mother’s charming new boyfriend Connor, she is...
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Over the Edge
Film · 1979 · also dramaA group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.
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American Pastoral
Film · 2016 · also dramaSet in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.
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Nocturnal Animals
Film · 2016 · also dramaSusan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the...
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A Thousand and One
Film · 2023 · also dramaStruggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care a...
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Bastard Out of Carolina
Film · 1996 · also dramaA poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow bot...
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Luckiest Girl Alive
Film · 2022 · also dramaA successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
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Strange Weather
Film · 2016 · also dramaYears after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Film · 2013 · also dramaComing of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
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