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Film · 10 connectionsA deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
Directed byAlison Eastwood
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2003 · 138 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery · Thriller
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
Strong story similarity
2010 · 129 min · Drama · Fantasy
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
Strong story similarity
2000 · 90 min · Drama
During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a member of the group dies. Narrated by one of the children, the film follows the kids as they struggle to balance their own ambitions and relationships against a tragic lie.
Strong story similarity
1993 · 138 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Similar atmosphere
2005 · 112 min · Drama
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.
Strong story similarity
2015 · 128 min · Drama · Romance
The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.
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2014 · 92 min · Drama
Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.
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2011 · 127 min · Drama
Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.
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2014 · 90 min · Drama
A modern day train hopper fighting to be a successful musician and a single mom battling to maintain custody of her daughter defy their circumstances by coming together in a relationship that may change each other's lives forever.
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2010 · 106 min · Drama
A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
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