Movies Like The Less Than Perfect Daughter
If you liked The Less Than Perfect Daughter (1991), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Gilbert Moses, 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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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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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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The Truth About Emanuel (2013)
★ 6/10Also dramaA 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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Love You to Death (2019)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and tv movieInspired by a true story, this film tells the shocking tale of a mother and daughter who are nothing like they seem, their tumultuous relationship ending in a brutal murder.
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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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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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Heaven (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and tv movieHeaven Leigh Casteel, gifted and intelligent, is the eldest of five dirt-poor children struggling to survive in a mountain shack. As she endures neglect and abuse, Heaven discovers a dark secret that changes everything…
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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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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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Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and tv movieBased on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
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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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The Good Neighbor (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaA nightmarish evening unfolds for neighbors David and Robert when they accidentally hit a woman on her bike and flee the scene. While David is increasingly plagued by feelings of guilt, Robert shows no remorse and…
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Magpie (2024)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaA couple's lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star.
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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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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.
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The Enforcer (2022)
★ 7/10Also dramaA noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to…
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Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and tv movieA dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young…
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...First Do No Harm (1997)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movieWhen Lori Reimuller learns that her young son Robbie has epilepsy, she first trusts the judgment of the hospital staff in how best to bring it under control. As Robbie's health slides radically downhill, however, she…
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A Sister's Secret (2018)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and tv movieTwin sisters secretly swap places on their thirtieth birthday. The harmless prank becomes a nightmare when one of them is murdered.