Movies like Secrets & Lies
Secrets & Lies (1996) is a drama movie directed by Mike Leigh. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Philomena (2013)
★ 7.3 · 1,759 votes · Drama
A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
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2. The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
★ 6.6 · 556 votes · Drama, Mystery
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
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3. Lion (2016)
★ 8.0 · 7,100 votes · Drama
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
★ 7.0 · 16,470 votes · Adventure, Comedy, Family
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
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5. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
★ 8.2 · 14,215 votes · Sci-Fi, Crime
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
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6. About Time (2013)
★ 7.9 · 9,578 votes · Drama, Romance, Fantasy
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
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7. Finding Neverland (2004)
★ 7.3 · 3,831 votes · Drama, Fantasy
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.
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8. The Hours (2002)
★ 7.2 · 1,922 votes · Drama
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
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9. Mr. Church (2016)
★ 7.4 · 554 votes · Drama
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
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10. Oliver Twist (2005)
★ 6.8 · 1,268 votes · Crime, Drama, Family
An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.
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11. Short Term 12 (2013)
★ 7.7 · 1,465 votes · Drama
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
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12. The Old Oak (2023)
★ 7.2 · 444 votes · Drama
A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.
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