IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Awakenings (1990)
Awakenings runs on cathartic cry, warm hug, and bittersweet. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Miracles from Heaven
2016
Patch Adams
1998
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2009
Saint Ralph
2005
Soul on Fire
2025
This Crazy Heart
2017
The One and Only Ivan
2020
Anand
1971
The Miracle Worker
2000
100 Meters
2016
End of the Spear
2005
NYAD
2023
You're Not You
2014
Heaven Is for Real
2014
Greater
2016
Father Stu
2022
The Theory of Everything
2014
Something the Lord Made
2004
Gigi & Nate
2022
The Book of Wonders
2023
Music of the Heart
1999
Zero to Hero
2021
Letters to God
2010
Breathe
2017