Top 20 movies like Strings
Top 20 Movies like Strings
- 1. Dog
- 2. Whale Rider
- 3. The Story of the Weeping Camel
- 4. The Miracle Worker
- 5. Frida
- 6. Tsuyako
- 7. A Handful of Pennies
- 8. Transgress
- 9. Emily
- 10. Annaluise & Anton
- 11. Shrek
- 12. Sleepless in Seattle
- 13. Dry Cleaning
- 14. The Boss from the West
- 15. Rosenstrasse
- 16. The Return of the Prodigal Son
- 17. She's No Angel
- 18. A Dad for Christmas
- 19. Ticket to Rome
- 20. To Take A Wife
1. Dog
A teenage girl gets ready to go out to meet her boyfriend, despite her mother's loud verbal disapproval of her clothes. She goes out to a deserted area with him and he begins to touch her up and have sex with her, however a dog reveals the true nature of her boyfriend.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
2. Whale Rider
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
3. The Story of the Weeping Camel (Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel)
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind.
It has an average vote of 7.137 on TMDB.
4. The Miracle Worker
Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller out of solitude and helps integrate her into the world.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
5. Frida
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
It has an average vote of 7.417 on TMDB.
6. Tsuyako (Tsuyako)
In postwar Japan, Tsuyako, a factory worker and mother, must decide between duty and love, her family and her freedom.
It has an average vote of 2.5 on TMDB.
7. A Handful of Pennies
A Handful of Pennies is a short film about a disturbed man who simply wants some answers. Lyle and Arnold are having a discussion. Lyle has a question, Arnold has an answer.
It has an average vote of 3.5 on TMDB.
8. Transgress
Driving home one night in London, a woman hits a man who shouldn't be there.
9. Emily
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
It has an average vote of 6.98 on TMDB.
10. Annaluise & Anton (Pünktchen und Anton)
Luise, called Pünktchen, and Anton are closest of friends. Being the daughter of a wealthy surgeon, young Pünktchen lives in a great house. Her mother, who always travels through the world more for public relation reasons than for the social tasks she pretends to fulfill, is never available to her as a mother. Anton, son of a single and sick mother in financial trouble, does his best to help her out of it by working late. Pünktchen decides to help her only friend and starts singing in public places. Trouble arises when Anton can't resist stealing a golden lighter and Pünktchen's secret life is discovered by her parents. Two troubled families finally can see the need for actions to be taken.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
11. Shrek
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.
It has an average vote of 7.745 on TMDB.
12. Sleepless in Seattle
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness soon leads to a meeting with a young female journalist, who has flown to Seattle to write a story about the boy and his father.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
13. Dry Cleaning (Nettoyage à sec)
A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.
It has an average vote of 5.417 on TMDB.
14. The Boss from the West
(Der Boss aus dem Westen)
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
15. Rosenstrasse (Rosenstraße)
When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
16. The Return of the Prodigal Son (Il ritorno del figlio prodigo - Umiliati)
In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They intend to restore the city from the rubble and re-start life, in imitation of the women of Messina who rebuilt their city, destroyed as it was by an earthquake. Oscillating between respect and suspicion, co-existence between group members is tense. Things become complicated when an envoy from the government arrives to say that nothing there belongs to them. The film is a free adaptation of fragments of the novella ‘The Women of Messina’, by Sicilian writer Elio Vittorini.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
17. She's No Angel
A drama and thriller story of a young woman who has suffered great abuse as a girl and who finds happiness when in a car accident, by mistake, she finds refuge in a false personality. She allows a pair of grieving parents to believe she is their late son's wife. But happiness is not so easy, since the past always comes out and Catherine will have to act to protect the family who has given so much affection.
It has an average vote of 4.6 on TMDB.
18. A Dad for Christmas
Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
19. Ticket to Rome (Ticket nach Rom)
(Ticket nach Rom)
It has an average vote of 1 on TMDB.
20. To Take A Wife (ולקחת לך אישה)
The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free.
It has an average vote of 5.6 on TMDB.