Movies Similar to the Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
Movies similar to The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019).
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Come Sunday (2018)
Starring:
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Gerard Catus, Allie McCulloch, LaKeith Stanfield
Duration: 1h 46mins
Genres:
Biography, Drama
Come Sunday is a 2018 American drama film based on the excommunication of Carlton Pearson, directed by Joshua Marston from a screenplay by Marcus Hinchey.
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Red Dust (2004)
Starring:
Jamie Bartlett, Hilary Swank, Ian Roberts, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Duration: 1h 50mins
Genres:
Drama
Sarah Barcant (Hilary Swank), a white lawyer in New York City who grew up in South Africa, returns to her childhood home to represent Alex Mpondo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a Black South African politician who was tortured during apartheid.
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Blinded by the Light (2019)
Starring:
Billy Barratt, Ronak Singh Chadha Berges, Viveik Kalra, Lee Barnett
Duration: 1h 58mins
Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Music
Blinded by the Light (also known as Music of My Life) is a 2019 British comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha.
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12 Years a Slave (2013)
Starring:
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt
Duration: 2h 14mins
Genres:
Biography, Drama, History
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical period-drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.
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The Lion King (2019)
Starring:
Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Duration: 1h 58mins
Genres:
Adventure, Animation, Drama
The Lion King is a 2019 American musical drama film directed and produced by Jon Favreau, written by Jeff Nathanson, and produced by Walt Disney Pictures.
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An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Starring:
Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Georgina Cates, Alun Armstrong
Duration: 1h 52mins
Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the film's prologue, a hotelier ushers a child into a bomb shelter during the Liverpool Blitz.
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Starring:
Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin, Eliazar Jimenez
Duration: 1h 41mins
Genres:
Drama
17-year-old Autumn Callahan suspects she is pregnant and goes to a crisis pregnancy center.
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Z for Zachariah (2015)
Starring:
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pine, Margot Robbie
Duration: 1h 38mins
Genres:
Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Nuclear-apocalypse survivor Ann Burden lives out an agrarian life on her family's valley farmstead, sheltered from radioactive contaminants by rocky hillsides, favorable weather patterns, and an abundant ground-fed water supply.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Starring:
Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell
Duration: 1h 52mins
Genres:
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Teenager Kevin Khatchadourian is in prison after committing a mass murder at his high school.
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Stronger (2017)
Starring:
Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson, Richard Lane Jr.
Duration: 1h 59mins
Genres:
Biography, Drama
Jeff Bauman is a well-intentioned but underachieving Boston native who works at the deli counter of a Costco and lives in a small two-bedroom apartment with his alcoholic mother Patty.
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Sorry We Missed You (2019)
Starring:
Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor
Duration: 1h 41mins
Genres:
Drama
Ricky (Kris Hitchen) and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash.
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I Am Mother (2019)
Starring:
Rose Byrne, Maddie Lenton, Luke Hawker, Summer Lenton
Duration: 1h 53mins
Genres:
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After an extinction event, an automated bunker that is designed to repopulate humanity activates.
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An Education (2009)
Starring:
Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams
Duration: 1h 40mins
Genres:
Drama
In 1961 London, Jenny Mellor is a bright and beautiful 16-year-old schoolgirl who wishes to attend Oxford University.
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Fish Tank (2009)
Starring:
Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender, Kierston Wareing, Rebecca Griffiths
Duration: 2h 3mins
Genres:
Drama
Mia Williams is a volatile and socially isolated 15-year-old.
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I, Daniel Blake (2016)
Starring:
Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy, Briana Shann
Duration: 1h 40mins
Genres:
Drama
Widower Daniel Blake, a 59-year-old joiner from Newcastle, has had a heart attack.
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Mary Magdalene (2018)
Starring:
Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tahar Rahim
Duration: 2h 0mins
Genres:
Biography, Drama
In the year AD 30 when Judea was under the control of the Roman Empire, a woman named Mary from the small town of Magdala begins to follow Jesus of Nazareth.
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In the Tall Grass (2019)
Starring:
Laysla De Oliveira, Avery Whitted, Patrick Wilson, Will Buie Jr.
Duration: 1h 41mins
Genres:
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Siblings Becky, 6 months pregnant, and Cal DeMuth travel to San Diego. They hear a young boy, Tobin, calling for help from a field of tall grass.
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Carry on Abroad (1972)
Starring:
Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims
Duration: 1h 28mins
Genres:
Comedy
The film opens with pub landlord and frequent holidaymaker Vic Flange (Sid James) openly flirting with the sassy saucepot widow Sadie Tompkins (Barbara Windsor) as his battleaxe wife, Cora (Joan Sims), looks on with disdain.
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Testament of Youth (2014)
Starring:
Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Dominic West
Duration: 2h 9mins
Genres:
Biography, Drama, History
In 1914, Vera Brittain wants to escape her traditional family in Buxton by attending Oxford University with her younger brother Edward and his friends at Uppingham School, Roland Leighton and Victor Richardson.
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Jane Eyre (2011)
Starring:
Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Su Elliot
Duration: 2h 0mins
Genres:
Drama, Romance
A tearful Jane Eyre runs away from Thornfield Hall, finding herself alone on the moors. She collapses at the doorstep of Moor House, home of St.
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