Movies like The Cure 1995

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The Cure (1995)
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The Cure (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Eric, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Eric also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their friendship upon learning of it. Dexter and Erik start the journey to find "The Cure" they had read about in the local newspaper.
Style: sad, touching, tear jerker, inspirational, sincere, realistic, depressing, spiritual, epic, crying ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: aids, childhood, coming of age, boy, friendship, terminal illness, children, hiv, young boy, cancer, boyhood, youth, bittersweet, gay, illness, sick child, school, hospital, lgbt, medicine, myth, sadness, grief, glbt, partner ...
Time: 90s
Place: mississippi, minnesota, usa, california, new orleans, new jersey, mississippi river
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, serious and sentimental films with plots about youth, coming of age, friendship, bittersweet, friends, family relations and boy mostly in Drama, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Cure: Stand by Me (1986), The Mighty (1998), Stolen Summer (2002), War of the Buttons (1994), The Kings of Summer (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Stand by Me (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
Style: sentimental, sad, emotional, feel good, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: childhood, friendship, coming of age, stephen king, boy, children, youth, teenager, camping, on the road, summer, friends ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1986, year 1959, 20th century
Place: oregon, usa
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The Mighty (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty, the film explores a building of trust and friendship. ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, disability, friendship, boy, bully, loneliness, misfit, youth, social misfits, illness, fight, best friend ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, ohio, cincinnati ohio
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100%
Stolen Summer (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of the Lord, and not that of the Devil. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: judaism, afterlife, friendship, childhood, coming of age, youth, boy, catholicism, mentor, friendship between boys, family relations, rabbi ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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100%
War of the Buttons (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, epic, contemplative ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: childhood, coming of age, boy, friendship, children, male nudity, adolescence, rivalry, youth, teacher, school, revenge ...
Time: year 1994, 60s, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Kings of Summer (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, ...
Style: touching, feel good, sentimental, funny, emotional ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, runaway, summer, friendship, high school, lifestyle change, teenage runaway, wilderness, teenage protagonist, forest, hospital, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
Style: sentimental, touching, poignant, sad, inspirational ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: childhood, 9/11, autism, asperger's syndrome, boy, child protagonist, grief, orphan, disability, acceptance, single mother, children ...
Time: september 11 2001, 2010s, year 2011, year 2001, 2000s ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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12 and Holding (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 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.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot: teenager, coming of age, friendship, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new jersey
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100%
The Man Without a Face (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was ...
Style: touching, inspirational, sincere, realistic, melancholic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: teacher, friendship, coming of age, mentor, loneliness, injustice, teaching the ways of the world, false accusation, teaching, education, disfigurement, children ...
Time: 60s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mud (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and make a pact to help him escape from an island in the Mississippi.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, touching, realistic, southern gothic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, friendship, childhood, ex convict, first love, bittersweet, fugitives, obsession, river, love story, survival, small town ...
Time: year 2012, year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, arkansas
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100%
Death of a Superhero (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, sincere, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: youth, life is a bitch, human spirit, family problems, family in crisis, hopes, coming of age, terminal illness, teenager, dealing with death, child illness, first love ...
Place: ireland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
And Then I Go (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two teenage outsiders are demoralized daily at school, until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.
Style: suspense, unusual plot structure, thought provoking, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, bullying, teenage boy, school shooting, boy, tragedy, police, revenge, best friend, friendship between boys, school, junior high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ways to Live Forever (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: teenage life, youth, friendship between boys, leukemia, friends, child cancer, coming of age, best friend, human spirit, death, life is a bitch, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Now Is Good (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Style: sad, emotional, romantic, heartbreaking, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, dying, youth, teenage love, love and romance, fighting illness, last wish, dealing with death, virginity, depression ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: brighton, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot: small town, childhood, coming of age, single mother, childhood memory, friendship, stephen king, mysterious stranger, childhood friend, father figure, parents and children, selflessness ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: virginia, new york, usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Tiger Eyes (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After Davey's father is killed in a hold-up, she and her mother and younger brother visit relatives in New Mexico. Here Davey is befriended by a young man who helps her find the strength to carry on and conquer her fears.
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, realistic, touching
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, teenage life, death in the family, bittersweet, grieving, native, depression, life is a bitch, native american, fishing village, comic book, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, love story, youth, first love, teenage life, dealing with death, adolescence, coping, coming of age ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
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60%
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December Boys (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, sad, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: adoption, friendship, youth, teenage boy, male bonding, summer vacation, orphan, best friend, love and romance, couple relations, parents and children, orphanage ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 60s, 2000s
Place: australia, south australia, tasmania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Then Came You (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An American hypochondriac who is working as a baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.
Style: touching, sincere, inspirational, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: bucket list, friendship, love of one's life, teenager, hypochondriac, terminal illness, illness, cancer, last wish, fighting illness, wish fulfillment, escapades ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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I Am Sam (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: 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, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the ...
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, tear jerker, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lawyer, father daughter relationship, mentally challenged, disability, single father, social services, custody, custody battle, child custody, parents and children, parenthood, mental illness ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The War (1994)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching, dark comedy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: bullying, vietnam war, coming of age, childhood, father son relationship, child, friendship, boy, children, war, youth, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, 1900s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: vietnam, mississippi, usa, asia
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100%
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Our Sons (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot: aids, gay, estrangement, family relations, hospital, parents and children, family problems, friendship, gays and lesbians, small town, lgbt, gay couple ...
Time: 90s
Place: arkansas, usa, california, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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King Jack (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Growing up in a rural town filled with violent delinquents, Jack has learned to do what it takes to survive, despite having an oblivious mother and no father. After his aunt falls ill and a younger cousin comes to stay with him, the hardened ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bullying, teenage boy, friendship, small town, teenage life, brutality, violence, party, mental illness, cruelty, drinking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Under the Same Moon (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: immigrant, friendship, survival, loneliness, obsessive quest, family reunited, escapades, young boy, society, custody, family drama, immigration ...
Time: year 2007
Place: mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.9
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Pedro (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An intimate biopic of Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive Cuban-American, who was cast for the MTV reality show, The Real World: San Francisco, in 1994. Due to his experience on the Real World, Pedro became a celebrity and a sympathetic face of the AIDS ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, sincere ...
Plot: gay, aids, hiv, rising to stardom, fighting the system, human spirit, idealism, life is a bitch, society, hopes, terminal illness, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1994
Place: cuba, san francisco, miami, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
In the Gloaming (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Danny, dying of Aids, returns home for his last months. Always close to his mother, they share moments of openness that tend to shut out Danny's father and his sister.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: aids, gay, lgbt, family relations, terminal illness, hiv, bereavement, lgbtq, childhood, cancer, dying, gay son ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Pay It Forward (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, childhood, single parent, teachers and students, alcoholic, life philosophy, good deed, disfigurement, death, boy, alcoholism, addiction ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: tibet, nevada, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Bucket List (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, philosophical, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: friendship, road trip, elderly, terminal illness, unlikely friendships, journey, human spirit, philosophy, bucket list, dying, follow your dream, self discovery ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, africa, cote d'azur, tanzania, mount everest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot: boy, youth, friendship, leaving home, young heroes, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, optimism, hopes, starting over, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.2
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Arcadia (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Greta's dad Tom is moving the family cross-country in a dented station wagon, promising a California paradise to his kids. All that's missing is Mom.
Style: captivating, serious, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: road trip, coming of age, family relations, father daughter relationship, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, single father, single parent, on the road, dysfunctional family, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, missouri, oklahoma, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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