Movies Like Conversation avec Valérie Plante, mairesse de Montréal
If you liked Conversation avec Valérie Plante, mairesse de Montréal (2018), a movie, 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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Come As You Are (2020)
★ 6.6/10Three young men with disabilities embark on a road trip to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs to lose their virginity and embrace their independence.
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Rolling to You (2018)
★ 6.5/10Jocelyn is a selfish and misogynist businessman. He tries to seduce a young pretty woman by pretending to be handicapped, till the day he meets her sister, who is also in a wheelchair.
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Marie's Story (2014)
★ 7.5/10Marie Heurtin is born both blind and deaf. Sister Marguerette wins her trust and teaches her how to express herself.
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Laurence Anyways (2012)
★ 7.6/10The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.
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Taking Lives (2004)
★ 6.4/10Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again…
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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
★ 7.5/10No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age…
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The Nature of Love (2023)
★ 7/10Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must renovate their country house. When Sophia meets Sylvain for the first…
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The Man from Toronto (2022)
★ 6.4/10A case of mistaken identity forces a bumbling entrepreneur to team up with a notorious assassin known as The Man from Toronto in hopes of staying alive.
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La Vie en Rose (2007)
★ 7.4/10From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her…
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Maudie (2016)
★ 7.8/10Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
★ 6.9/10A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action…
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Murderball (2005)
★ 7.1/10Quadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
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Passion Fish (1992)
★ 7/10After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
★ 8.1/10Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995…
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Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
★ 7.2/10During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teacher for the classroom of…
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Out of My Mind (2024)
★ 7.7/10Melody Brooks, a sixth grader with cerebral palsy, has a quick wit and a sharp mind, but because she is non-verbal and uses a wheelchair, she is not given the same opportunities as her classmates. When a young educator…
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Café de Flore (2011)
★ 6.9/10Jacqueline is a young mother living in 1960s Paris with her disabled son Laurent. Abandoned by her husband, Jacqueline sacrifices everything to care for her son and vows to give Laurent a “normal” life full of…
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Scaramouche (1952)
★ 7/10In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
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The Upside (2019)
★ 7.1/10Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with his ex and his…
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Monster (2005)
★ 6.7/10A mother battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the closet, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.