Movies Like Belladonna
If you liked Belladonna (1989), a movie directed by Beth B, 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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Lucky Them (2013)
★ 6/10More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what…
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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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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
★ 7/10A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
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The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
★ 6.4/10In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
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The Girl in the Book (2015)
★ 5.8/10The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
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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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In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)
★ 7.2/10In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. Henry Darger was so reclusive that when he died his neighbors were surprised to find a 15,145-page manuscript along…
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The Safety of Objects (2002)
★ 6.5/10In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband…
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Love & Sex (2000)
★ 6.2/10When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back…
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Heart of a Dog (2015)
★ 6.5/10Musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother and her beloved dog.
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Love, Marilyn (2013)
★ 6.5/10Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed more material, each of the actresses…
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I Believe in Unicorns (2015)
★ 6.7/10Feeling 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 Trouble with Angels (1966)
★ 6.7/10Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and…
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Hounddog (2008)
★ 6.5/10A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
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A Dry White Season (1989)
★ 6.7/10During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
★ 6.8/10Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
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Petals on the Wind (2014)
★ 6.6/10This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.
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I Am Ali (2014)
★ 6.7/10Unprecedented access to Muhammad Ali's personal archive of "audio journals" as well as interviews and testimonials from his inner circle of family and friends are used to tell the legend's life story.
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The Truth About Emanuel (2013)
★ 6/10A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
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The Souvenir: Part II (2021)
★ 6.4/10In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately…