Films like Dancing at Lughnasa

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1. 1

   The Whales of August

   Film · 1987 · also drama

   Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

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   Small Things Like These

   Film · 2024 · also drama

   In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forci...

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   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

   Film · 1945 · also drama

   In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little t...

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   The Straight Story

   Film · 1999 · also drama

   Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle...

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   Fatima

   Film · 2020 · also drama

   In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only...

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   Paris, Texas

   Film · 1984 · also drama

   A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and...

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   Jimmy's Hall

   Film · 2014 · also drama

   In Depression-era Ireland, Jimmy Gralton returns home after a decade's exile in America. Witnessing the levels of poverty and oppression, his inner activist reawakens and...

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   Marvin's Room

   Film · 1996 · also drama

   A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

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   Anne of Green Gables

   Film · 1985 · also drama

   Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept...

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    The Life of Chuck

    Film · 2025 · also drama

    In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.

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