Films like Detachment
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sent...
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Radio Flyer
Film · 1992 · also dramaA father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brot...
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The Book of Henry
Film · 2017 · also dramaSusan, a single mother of two, works as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotiona...
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The Parts You Lose
Film · 2019 · also dramaAn unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
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A Child Is Waiting
Film · 1963 · also dramaDr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, join...
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Film · 2013 · also dramaA psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
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Second Best
Film · 1994 · also dramaThe difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
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The Man Without a Face
Film · 1993 · also dramaJustin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy wa...
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Boyhood
Film · 2014 · also dramaThe film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at a...
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The Browning Version
Film · 1994 · also dramaAndrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire fo...
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Dog Pound
Film · 2010 · also dramaThree juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
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