Films like Blue Heron

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   I Believe in Unicorns

   Film · 2015 · also drama

   Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

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   The Secret Life of Bees

   Film · 2008 · also drama

   Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled r...

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   Riceboy Sleeps

   Film · 2023 · also drama

   In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in South...

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   Aftersun

   Film · 2022 · also drama

   Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as...

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   Janet Planet

   Film · 2024 · also drama

   In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the month...

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   Helen

   Film · 2009 · also drama

   On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by...

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   A Taste of Honey

   Film · 1961 · also drama

   While out to avoid spending time with her narcissistic and promiscuous mother, sixteen-year-old Jo has a brief affair that leaves her pregnant and abandoned. When her mot...

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   Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

   Film · 2013 · also drama

   A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

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   Safe

   Film · 1995 · also drama

   Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

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    Mr. Church

    Film · 2016 · also drama

    A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead...

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