Films like The Elephant Man

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   Mask

   Film · 1985 · also drama

   A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

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   Something the Lord Made

   Film · 2004 · also drama

   A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

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   The Greatest Showman

   Film · 2017 · also drama

   The story of American showman P.T. Barnum, founder of the circus that became the famous traveling Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

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   Radium Girls

   Film · 2020 · also drama and history

   Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

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   A Woman's Face

   Film · 1941 · also drama

   A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

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   Six Minutes to Midnight

   Film · 2020 · also drama and history

   Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for...

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   Living

   Film · 2022 · also drama

   London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried...

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   Oliver Twist

   Film · 1948 · also drama

   When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fa...

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   Awakenings

   Film · 1990 · also drama

   Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the co...

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    I Swear

    Film · 2025 · also drama and history

    Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kin...

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