Movies Like Only Make Believe
If you liked Only Make Believe (1973), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Robert Knights, 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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Girl in the Box (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movieThe true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
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Cheaters (2000)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movieIn the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
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Mansfield Park (2007)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and tv movieFanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford
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TalhotBlond (2012)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movieThomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
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Normal (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movieA Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
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Scum (1977)
★ 7.2/10Also tv movie and dramaCarlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of…
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Hello (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movieAn emotionally unavailable flight attendant meets a potential love interest and later finds out that her "perfect guy" has ulterior motives. As the clock ticks down on New Year's Eve, she must fight to keep her…
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My Dinner with Hervé (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movieAn unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
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The Experiment (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also drama20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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The Christmas Shoes (2002)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movieTwo separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second…
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Rogue Agent (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also dramaConman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
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I Am Elizabeth Smart (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movieThe story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.
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Seeds of Yesterday (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also tv movie and dramaThe Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.
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Beast (2026)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaMMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal…
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movieAn African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
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Hello Sister, Goodbye Life (2006)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and tv movieA college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.
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The Girl (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and tv movieDirector Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One…
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Burton and Taylor (2013)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and tv movieLegendary acting duo and married couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play "Private Lives."
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How Sarah Got Her Wings (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and tv movieGood Samaritan Sarah Fitzpatrick has a fatal accident just before Christmas, and finds herself in the lobby before the gates of Heaven. Certain that she will be let in, she is shocked to find that her name is not on…
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Iron Jawed Angels (2004)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movieDefiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.