Movies like White Oleander (movies similar to White Oleander)

[thinkalot]

White Oleander is a great movie. And, if you enjoyed the movie, you are sure gonna love these. Lets make a list of movies that are similar or suited for same audience.

[FrankKag]

I Am Sam 2001

Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up Sams limitations start to become a problem and the ...

I Am Sam features inspirational, touching, emotional, tear jerker and sad style.

[Michaelderne 1]

Speak 2004

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat and her parents too busy to notice her troubles she folds into herself trying to ...

Speak features touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film and sincere style.

[JanPaP]

The Secret Life of Bees 2008

Set in South Carolina in 1964 this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father Lily flees with Rosaleen her caregiver and only ...

The Secret Life of Bees features sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional and sweet style.

[bernice]

Anywhere But Here 1999

In this adaptation of the Mona Simpson novel single mother Adele August is bad with money and even worse when it comes to making decisions. Her straight-laced daughter Ann is a successful high school student with Ivy League aspirations. When ...

Anywhere But Here features touching, realistic, semi serious, sentimental and humorous style.

[eli]

What Maisie Knew 2012

Based on the Henry James novella the story frames on 7-year-old Maisie caught in a custody battle between her mother a rock and roll icon and her father. What Maisie Knew is an evocative portrayal of the chaos of adult life seen entirely ...

What Maisie Knew features touching, sad, talky, atmospheric and captivating style.

[russell]

Palo Alto 2013

Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust boredom and self-destruction shy sensitive April torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy Emily who offers sexual favors to ...

Palo Alto features melancholic, atmospheric, serious, teen and realistic style.

[phyllis]

12 and Holding 2005

Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.

12 and Holding features touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking and sad style.

[kenzi]

Eves Bayou 1997

The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz he has a weakness for attractive women patients. One day Louis is flirting with married and sexy Metty Mereaux not ...

Eves Bayou features cult classic, independent film, southern gothic, gothic and spooky style.

[harry]

Towelhead 2007

A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.

Towelhead features disturbing, sensual, melancholic, controversial and compassionate style.

[veronica]

The Woodsman 2004

A paedophile returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.

The Woodsman features disturbing, independent film, psychological, emotional and harsh style.

[Jimmyned]

Songs My Brothers Taught Me 2015

This complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.

Songs My Brothers Taught Me features serious, realistic, touching, emotional and thought provoking style.

[charlie]

Blue Car 2002

Gifted 18-year-old Meg has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her hardworking mother. Left to care for her emotionally disturbed younger sister her world begins to unravel. She finds an outlet in writing poetry and support from her ...

Blue Car features emotional, disturbing, depressing, poignant and heartbreaking style.

[moviebuff]

Canvas 2006

A womans schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.

Canvas features touching, serious, realistic, sincere and melancholic style.

[xpyneuusp]

Crime Punishment in Suburbia 2000

This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevskys quotCrime and Punishmentquot. Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfathers hands and she decides to ...

Crime Punishment in Suburbia features disturbing, serious, psychological, clever and teen style.

[pavelnob]

Where Is Kyra? 2017

Pushed to the brink after losing her job a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.

Where Is Kyra? features captivating, suspense, bleak, disturbing and rough style.

[ahmedsfriend]

North Country 2005

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

North Country features dramatic, emotional, sincere, factual and disturbing style.

[afycumi]

Margaret 2011

A young woman witnesses a bus accident and is caught up in the aftermath where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many peoples lives.

Margaret features psychological, emotional, melancholic, bleak and intellectual style.