Movies Like Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story
If you liked Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story (1994), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Michael Dinner, 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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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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Embattled (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaThe eldest son of a ruthlessly tough MMA champion must fight his way out of the abusive cycle his father has continued.
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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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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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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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Girl Fight (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and tv movieInspired by a true story, Girl Fight recounts the harrowing story of a 16-year-old, stellar high school student whose life spirals downward when her former friends conspire to upload onto the Internet a shocking video…
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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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...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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Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movieA showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn back to Boston to face the past. Each…
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Inherit the Wind (1999)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movieTwo great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
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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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Return to Zero (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and tv movieBased on the true story of a successful couple, Maggie and Aaron who are preparing for the arrival of their first child.
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The Parts You Lose (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaAn unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
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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 Perfect Cheerleader (2019)
★ 7/10Also drama and tv movieWhen college freshman Cassie earns a spot on the cheerleading squad, she is overjoyed about the new friendships, status, and access to social events that come along with being on the team. When she meets Terry, the…
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Daddy Longlegs (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaAfter months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment…
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Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and tv movie"Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors" is based on the inspiring true story of living legend Dolly Parton's remarkable upbringing. This once-in-a-lifetime movie special takes place inside the tight-knit Parton family as…
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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.