Movies like Miracles from Heaven

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   Courageous

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   2011 · 129 min · Drama

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   Law enforcement officers Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, and their partners stand up to the worst the streets have to offer with confidence and focus. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood. They know that God desires to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, but their children are beginning to drift further and further away from them. When tragedy hits home, these men are left wrestling with their hopes, their fears, their faith, and their fathering. Can a newfound urgency help these dads draw closer to God... and to their children?

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: christianity and prayer
   • substantial genre overlap

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   War Room

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   2015 · 120 min · Drama

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   The family-friendly movie explores the transformational role prayer plays in the lives of the Jordan family. Tony and Elizabeth Jordan, a middle-class couple who seemingly have it all – great jobs, a beautiful daughter, their dream home. But appearances can be deceiving. In reality, the Jordan’s marriage has become a war zone and their daughter is collateral damage. With the help of Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman, Elizabeth discovers she can start fighting for her family instead of against them. Through a newly energized faith, Elizabeth and Tony’s real enemy doesn’t have a prayer.

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   Heaven Is for Real

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   2014 · 99 min · Drama

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   After their young son, Colton, undergoes emergency surgery, small-town parents Todd and Sonja Burpo are overjoyed at the child's miraculous recovery. However, the Burpos are unprepared for what happens next... Colton says that during his surgery he went to heaven and back, and tells his parents things that he couldn't possibly know. Can Todd find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world?

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   The Shack

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   2017 · 132 min · Drama · Family

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   A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.

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   Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace

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   2020 · 87 min · Drama · Family

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   Second chances start when a hardened criminal crosses paths with a precocious little girl who is helped by an angel to change hearts during the holiday season.

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   Miles Between Us

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   2017 · 92 min · Drama · Family

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   A father and daughter who have been estranged by divorce for twelve years find themselves on a trip across the country that becomes a more complicated journey than they imagined. It's a story of pain, hope, healing, and redemption.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: christianity and faith family

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   You're Not You

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   2014 · 104 min · Drama

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   When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a life-changing bond inspiring each other to live life to fullest, while being brought together by the most challenging of circumstances.

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   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Case for Christ

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   2017 · 112 min · Drama

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   Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.

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   • strong story and style similarity
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   • a closely matched era

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   Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot

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   2024 · 130 min · Drama

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   Led by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas town of Possum Trot adopt 77 of the most difficult-to-place kids in the foster system and kickstart a movement in the process.

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   • strong story and style similarity
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    Women Talking

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    2022 · 104 min · Drama

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    A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.

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    • substantial genre overlap

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