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West of Here (2002)
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West of Here (2002)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Finding his only escape in music, Gil Blackwell (Josh Hamilton) decides to leave his monotonous business life in Boston when his cousin dies in a car accident. Gil ignores his father's disapproval and takes the family's antique truck for the promised land of California, but on the way a chance encounter reunites him with an old college flame, Genevieve (Fried Green Tomatoes' Mary Stuart Masterson), who joins his journey.
Style: road movie, sincere, touching, emotional, psychological, serious, realistic
Plot: truck, on the road, starting over, love and romance, midlife crisis, haunted by the past, pickup truck, father son relationship, music, renewed love, car accident, family relations, road trip, teenage love, friends, couples, love affair, drug dealing, opposites attract, environmentalism, death in the family, hopes, unfulfillment, sex, basketball ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: california, boston, usa, san francisco, montana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sincere films with plots about love and romance, singer, family relations, drink, drinking, couples and friendship mostly in Drama, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like West of Here: The Last Good Time (1994), A Slipping-Down Life (1999), Cactus (1986), Jackie & Ryan (2014), Forty Shades of Blue (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Last Good Time (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who moves in with him briefly.
Style: independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, older man younger woman sex, age-gap relationship, starting over, friends, couples, family relations, solace, aging, human nature, hopes, elderly lovers ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: persia, new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Slipping-Down Life (1999)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young woman becomes obsessed with a small-time North Carolina rock singer.
Style: touching, feel good, captivating, sincere, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: groupie, love and romance, artists and showbiz, love affair, lifestyle, rock, opposites attract, musician's life, singer, infatuation, art, obsession ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: north carolina, usa, charleston south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cactus (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: blind character, blindness, infidelity, nudity, blind man, husband wife relationship, premarital sex, sexual attraction, adultery, extramarital affair, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Jackie & Ryan (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A modern day train hopper fighting to be a successful musician and a single mom battling to maintain custody of her daughter defy their circumstances by coming together in a relationship that may change each others lives forever.
Style: atmospheric, romantic, sincere, touching, extraordinary
Plot: musician, divorce, daughter, friends, family relations, love and romance, family problems, poverty, love, travel, drifter, dancing ...
Place: utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Forty Shades of Blue (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: love affair, sex with stepmother, infidelity, love triangle, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, couples, parents and children, couple relations, fall in love ...
Place: usa, tennessee, memphis, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Four Sheets to the Wind (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After his father's untimely suicide, Cufe leaves his home in a Native American reservation in search of a more fulfilling life.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, romantic comedy ...
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, parents and children, last wish, native, american indian, indians, indigenous people, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.5
 759
Clara and Me (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Antoine has what every young single man could wish: a promising career, true and loyal friends, and an apartment of his own. However, he's a lonely man, until he meets Clara, a beautiful and exciting woman, and deeply falls in love with her. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sexy ...
Plot: couples, introspection, self discovery, fall in love, love affair, parents and children, midlife crisis, lovers reunited, orgasm, family relations, thirtysomething life, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Listen to Your Heart (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from his mother's unwavering optimism ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: mute or deaf, family relations, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, lifestyle, musician's life, couples, misfit, unfulfillment, parents and children, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Roseland (1977)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: loneliness, friendship, looking for love, elderly, couples, party, music, dance, disco, love and romance, contests and competitions, dancer's life ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Permanent Record (1988)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school, his band is trying to get a recording session. Therefore, David's suicide leaves ...
Style: cult classic, realistic, emotional, touching, retro ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, suicide, coming of age, grief, teenager, loss, friendship, runaway, death, drinking, mental illness, career ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Welcome to L.A. (1976)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The lives and romantic entanglements of a group of young adults who have achieved "overnight" success in Los Angeles.
Style: realistic, talky, psychological, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: womanizer, family relations, dishonesty, love and romance, looking for love, love triangle, love affair, sexual relations, couples, musician's life, unfulfillment, infidelity ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Personal Velocity (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.
Style: talky, intense, stylized, touching, serious ...
Plot: starting over, adolescence, family relations, hitchhiker, human nature, couple relations, love affair, parents and children, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, self discovery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Preacher's Kid (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Small-town girl Angie King leaves the church and her home to pursue a dream of singing stardom. Luckett plays Angie, the daughter of a stern but loving bishop, whose attraction to the hunky star (Tank) of a traveling gospel show takes her on the ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, touching, serious, independent film ...
Plot: parents and children, lifestyle, hopes, love and romance, destructive relationship, youth, couples, friendship, christian, religion, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Hottest State (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Style: realistic, sentimental, semi serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: musician, sexuality, love affair, youth, couple relations, fall in love, young lovers, actor's life, musician's life, lifestyle, actor, living together ...
Time: year 2006
Place: texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Jazz Singer (1980)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Neil Diamond stars as Yussel in this tale of a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music.
Style: touching, intense, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: father son relationship, music, tradition, family relations, showbiz, parents and children, follow your dream, desire for fame, religions or cults, musician's life, artists and showbiz, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: california, new york, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Sueño (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, freeze frame ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love triangle, family relations, love and romance, couples, relationship vs career, lifestyle, fall in love, single parent, musician's life, family business, unfulfilled love, father son relationship ...
Place: usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Clean (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After losing her husband to a heroin overdose, Emily Wang fights to overcome her own addictions and to be reconciled with her estranged son.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, drug overdose, prison, redemption, road trip, loneliness, life is a bitch, going straight, rock star, musician's life, custody, estranged son ...
Time: year 2004
Place: paris france, ontario canada, vancouver, canada, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.1
 13K
A Star Is Born (1976)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A Star Is Born is a 1976 rock music film telling the story of a young woman, played by Barbra Streisand who enters show business, and meets and falls in love with an established male star, played by Kris Kristofferson, only to find her career ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: music, tragic love, alcoholic, women, drug addiction, dancing, rock and roll, radio, elvis presley, fame, rock star, self discovery ...
Time: year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 272
One Week (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A soon-to-be groom learns that he may have contracted HIV. Waiting a full seven days for the test results turns out to be the most hectic week of his life.
Style: touching, serious, psychological, sincere, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: aids, love and romance, hopes, society, life is a bitch, buddies, couples, haunted by the past, terminal illness, friendship, rich and poor, race against time ...
Time: future
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Thing Called Love (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
Style: semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, country music, bittersweet, love, couples, musician's life, couple relations, friends, twentysomething life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, hopes ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: new york, tennessee, usa, connecticut, austin texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 6K
Heavy (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Victor is a cook who works in a greasy bar/restaurant owned by his mother, Dolly. It's just the two of them, a waitress named Delores, and a heavy drinking regular, Leo. But things change when Callie, a beautiful college drop-out, shows up as a ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, slang, contemplative ...
Plot: small town, food, loneliness, restaurant, workplace, self discovery, bittersweet, drinking, hospital, waitress, seduction, pizza ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Disappearing Acts (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Zora Banks is a school teacher and aspiring singer hoping to become a successful star while taking a break from heartache. Franklin Swift is a down-on-his-luck construction worker and not-quite divorced father of two hoping to start his own ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, talky, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, love affair, looking for love, family problems, opposites attract, couple relations, lovers reunited, family relations, lifestyle, love and romance, follow your dream ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.5
 266
Satin (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A washed up Vegas lounge singer, Jack Satin (Hamilton von Watts), has no money, no job, and delusional aspirations of fame. When Jack is forced to leave Vegas, he packs up his old Cadillac and hits the road for Atlantic City. But his car dies in the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: redemption, haunted by the past, jazz, small town, love and romance, social relations, hopes, down on your luck, male female relationship, fish out of water, free spirit, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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No Looking Back (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.
Style: emotional, disturbing, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: small town, working class, rock, old love, waitress, love triangle, friendship, bittersweet, family relations, couples, friends, social relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Ruby in Paradise (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Reeling from her mother's recent death, Ruby Lee Gissing relocates to Florida to start anew. After finding a job at a souvenir store, Ruby becomes friends with the shop's owner, Mildred Chambers, and slowly acclimates to her new ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, road movie, mumblecore ...
Plot: self discovery, coming of age, friendship, bittersweet, drinking, shoplifting, suburbs, girl power, feminist, women, spring break, society ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: florida, tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Brooklyn Babylon (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A charismatic rapper falls in love with a young Jewish girl despite the confines of her religious background.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, serious, crime drama ...
Plot: friendship, interracial relations, culture clash, social decay, social differences, tragic love, opposites attract, unlikely couple, street life, musician's life, racism, love affair ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.1
 10K
Duets (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come ...
Style: touching, sentimental, entertaining, humorous, road movie ...
Audience: date night
Plot: partner, road trip, family relations, love and romance, contests and competitions, ambition, musician, singing competition, on the road, father daughter relationship, singer, con men ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.8
 2K
Stateside (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, romantic drama, romantic ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, fall in love, military life, teenage life, love affair, youth, prank, basic training, coming of age, nudity, stripper ...
Time: year 2004, year 1980
Place: new york, new york state, south carolina, north carolina, naples italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.9
 73
W.C. (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Set in and around the male and female toilets of a Dublin jazz bar. A drama concerning the trials and tribulations of two lowly paid toilet attendants and the people they serve.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, multicultural, biting ...
Plot: immigrant, workplace, lifestyle, looking for love, unfulfilled love, social differences, working class, friends, social misfits, love and romance, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, czech republic, russia, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Charlotte Sometimes (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Michael, a young mechanic, is forced to choose between a daring tryst with an alluring stranger and the habitual comfort of his bittersweet obsession: his beautiful young roommate.
Style: sincere, sexy, light, captivating, romantic drama ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, friendship, love and romance, unfulfilled love, lifestyle, youth, infidelity, nightclub, aunt nephew relationship, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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