Movies Like Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
If you liked Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu (2018), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Tsuyoshi Yanagawa, 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Tokyo Family (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaAn elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.
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A Bramble House Christmas (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also tv movie and dramaWhile settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim…
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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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Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and tv moviePolice Chief Jesse Stone now presides over the quiet, seaside village of Paradise, Massachusetts. When the facts don't add up in a brutal Boston-area murder case, Jesse opens an investigation filled with surprises…
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The Wings of the Kirin (2012)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and tv movieA man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls unconscious while he is attempting to run away. Yashima's lover Kaori comes…
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The Outsider (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaA former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.
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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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Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaA yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
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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.