Movies like A Little Prayer

A feature-film shortlist from the cached Film Atlas engine. The interactive map may include more titles or newer results. These are similarity matches, not a guarantee of age suitability.

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   May December

   Strong story similarity

   2023 · 117 min · Drama

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   Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Florida Project

   Strong story similarity

   2017 · 112 min · Drama

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   The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Thing with Feathers

   Strong story similarity

   2025 · 99 min · Drama

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   Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Son

   Strong story similarity

   2022 · 123 min · Drama

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   A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Only Living Boy in New York

   Strong story similarity

   2017 · 89 min · Drama

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   When a young man learns that his overbearing father is having an affair, he tries to stop it, only to be seduced by the older woman as well.

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   • strong story and style similarity
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   Marriage Story

   Strong story similarity

   2019 · 137 min · Drama

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   A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Palm Trees and Power Lines

   Strong story similarity

   2023 · 110 min · Drama

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   A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Face 2 Face

   Strong story similarity

   2017 · 88 min · Drama

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   Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Magpie

   Strong story similarity

   2024 · 90 min · Drama · Thriller

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   A couple's lives are thrown into disarray when their daughter is cast opposite a controversial major star.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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    A Thousand and One

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 116 min · Crime · Drama

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    Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

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    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • a closely matched era

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