Movies Like Penicillin
If you liked Penicillin (2009), a movie directed by Mike Viebrock, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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My Mom Jayne (2025)
★ 8/10Through deeply personal interviews with her siblings and an examination of the photographs, letters, and belongings left behind, Mariska assembles a new portrait of her mother Jayne Mansfield, an extraordinary and…
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Awakenings (1990)
★ 7.8/10Dr. 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 controversial treatment. His awakening, filled…
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Holy Lands (2019)
★ 6.1/10When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife…
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The Doctor (1991)
★ 6.5/10Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective…
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Billy Madison (1995)
★ 6.2/10Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire, but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2…
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Skincare (2024)
★ 5.9/10Famed aesthetician Hope Goldman is about to take her career to the next level by launching her very own skin care line. However, she soon faces a new challenge when a rival opens a boutique directly across from her…
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Strange Weather (2016)
★ 5.9/10Years 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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Shadow Dancer (2012)
★ 6/10In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
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The Family Man (2000)
★ 6.8/10Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he…
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Radium Girls (2020)
★ 6.6/10Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
★ 7.1/10A 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 both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…
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3 Men and a Little Lady (1990)
★ 5.8/10Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most…
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Definitely, Maybe (2008)
★ 6.9/10When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
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Light of My Life (2019)
★ 6.5/10Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
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Lady Bird (2017)
★ 7.2/10Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to…
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Kokowääh (2011)
★ 6.2/10Henry is a playboy who has no idea that he is the father of a beautiful, cute girl out of a One-night-Stand. Her mother left the daughter in front of Henry door after her husband realized after 8 years of marriage that…
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Ararat (2002)
★ 6.1/10Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
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The Braid (2023)
★ 7.4/10India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family…
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The Long Voyage Home (1940)
★ 6.6/10The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.