Top 20 movies like Where the Spirit Lives

Where the Spirit Lives

In 1937, a young First Nations girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.

Where the Spirit Lives is of 1 hour(s) and 36 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Atlantis Films, CBC, Amazing Spirit Productions Ltd.. It was released on 1990-06-06. It has the tagline: A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit... It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

Genres: Drama

1. Short Working Day (Krótki dzień pracy)

Short Working Day

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party.

It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.

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2. Mifune (Mifunes sidste sang)

Mifune

Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law´s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For one thing he has to deal with his loveable, backward brother, who is now all alone; for another, he meets a stunning woman who comes to the farm as a housekeeper, in disguise of her real profession as a call-girl.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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3. Bad Education (La mala educación)

Bad Education

Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are followed through the next few decades, their reunion marking life and death.

It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.

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4. Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)

Wings of Desire

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to take human form.

It has an average vote of 7.765 on TMDB.

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5. Nanook of the North

Nanook of the North

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

It has an average vote of 7.106 on TMDB.

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6. Dances with Wolves

Dances with Wolves

Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

It has an average vote of 7.852 on TMDB.

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7. Snow Cake

Snow Cake

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

It has an average vote of 7.148 on TMDB.

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8. Trail of the Falcon (Spur des Falken)

Trail of the Falcon

In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, sacred land of the Lakota people. Gold diggers, profiteers and adventurers flock to the region. Among them is the hard-hearted land speculator Bludgeon, who tries to expel the Lakota using brutal methods. Lakota warriors retaliate, and soon the gold diggers' town becomes a battlefield.

It has an average vote of 4.2 on TMDB.

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9. The Last Tunnel (Le Dernier Tunnel)

The Last Tunnel

A recently released prisoner reunites his criminal colleagues to pull off one last heist.

It has an average vote of 5.385 on TMDB.

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10. Girls in Uniform (Mädchen in Uniform)

Girls in Uniform

In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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11. White Wolves (Weisse Wölfe)

White Wolves

Farsighted Falcon, chief of the Lakota, seeks refuge in the Black Hills with his wife Blue Hair and two warriors, sole survivors of their tribe. When they are attacked by the outlaw Bashan, Falcon strikes out for the town of Tanglewood to take on Bashan's boss, mining magnate Harrington.

It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.

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12. The Chorus (Les Choristes)

The Chorus

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.

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13. The Moonhunter (14 ตุลา สงครามประชาชน)

The Moonhunter

14th October 1973 event, the power of freedom was happened by a group of country. From Thammasat University through the line of soul to meet the death under the sheet of tricolor flag in the amidst of gun’s soot and friend’s cry.

It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

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14. Houston: The Legend of Texas

Houston: The Legend of Texas

Sam Elliot stars as Sam Houston, the visionary who nearly single-handedly forged the state of Texas into a powerful entity in its own right. Refusing to forget the Alamo , Houston led the military in Texas' rebellion against Mexico. G.D. Spradlin co-stars as President Andrew Jackson, with Michael Beck appearing as Jim Bowie, James Stephens as Stephen Austin, and Richard Yniguez as Mexican General Santa Anna. Lensed on location in the Lone Star state, this sweeping made-for-TV film originally occupied three hours' screen time on November 22, 1986. Its title at that time was Houston: The Legend of Texas. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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15. The White Dawn

The White Dawn

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.

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16. The Unforgiven

The Unforgiven

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.

It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.

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17. Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas

Heartless Disappearance Into Labrador Seas

When a marriage is threatened by a long excursion for work, domestic trouble is buffeted by family and friends.

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18. Give Me Liberty

Give Me Liberty

Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.

It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.

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19. Maverick

Maverick

Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvellous southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.

It has an average vote of 6.874 on TMDB.

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20. The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.

It has an average vote of 7.386 on TMDB.

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