Movies and TV shows like Once and Again

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Once and Again (1999)
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Once and Again (1999)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Once and Again is an American television series that aired on ABC from September 21, 1999 to April 15, 2002. It depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the same team that created thirtysomething and produced My So-Called Life. One of the show's unique aspects was the "interview" sequences filmed in black and white and interspersed throughout each episode, where the characters would reveal their innermost thoughts and memories to the camera.
Style: sincere, realistic, light, feel good, teen, clever, serious, witty, contemplative, queer cinema
Audience: family outing, date night
Plot: single parent, couple relations, parents and children, love affair, starting over, lesbian, family relations, hopes, lgbt, coming of age, high school, first love, lgbtq, dating, blended family, architect, love and romance, singleness, fall in love, couples, bittersweet, parents separation, remarry, divorce, bisexual ...
Time: 20th century, contemporary
Place: usa, chicago

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Most similar movies to Once and Again

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, sincere and touching films and TV series with plots about family relations, love and romance, parents and children, couples, couple relations, family life and youth mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Once and Again: Wildfire (2005), The Waltons (1972), Thirtysomething (1987), South of Nowhere (2005), Degrassi Junior High (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wildfire (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Kris Furillo is given the opportunity to start a new life after serving time at a teen detention center. Her talent with horses is recognized by a volunteer and local trainer Pablo, who arranges a job for her at the Ritter's family run ranch, ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, feel good, serious ...
Plot: horse, horse ranch, starting over, lifestyle, against the odds, ambition, fall in love, friendship, society, rivalry, workplace, coach ...
Place: san francisco
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80%
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The Waltons (1972)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and ...
Style: sitcom, absurd, juvenile, realistic, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, large family, team, parents, christian, girl, family affairs, real life, coming of age, family relations, small town, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: hawaii, virginia, usa, southern usa
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75%
Thirtysomething (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in ...
Style: serious, realistic, talky, clever, sincere ...
Plot: yuppie, parenthood, parents, women, lgbt, villain, love, colleague, slice of life, family relations, advertising, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: philadelphia, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
South of Nowhere (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: South of Nowhere is an American teen drama television series created by Thomas W. Lynch. Aimed primarily at teenagers, it first aired on November 4, 2005 and was one of six original series on The N. The second half of the third and final season ...
Style: realistic, sincere, serious, humorous, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, teenage life, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian sex, struggle, youth, gays and lesbians, high school, lesbian teen, reconciliation, starting over ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Degrassi Junior High (1987)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Degrassi Junior High is a Canadian CBC Television teen drama series that was produced from 1987-1989 as part of the Degrassi series. The show followed the lives of a group of students attending the titular fictional school. Many episodes tackled ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere, touching ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: teenage love, high school life, high school, looking for love, friendship, family relations, friends, youth, teenage life, social relations, love and romance, society ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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33%
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Ella (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Years ago, a late nurse's young daughter, Ella, was discredited with stepfather Norbert by his wicked daughter Clio and send off to and exploited by her aunt 'tarantula', her only comfort being the friendship of young Jens. Once 18, ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, telenovela
Audience: girls' night
Plot: starting over, dysfunctional family, love affair, fall in love, orphan, dishonesty, rivalry, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, family problems, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Beautiful People (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Beautiful People is an American drama television series about a family that moves from New Mexico to The Big Apple to make a fresh start on their lives. The series aired on the ABC Family Network from August 8, 2005, to April 24, 2006, lasting ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: single mother, starting over, lifestyle, fish out of water, family relations, youth, parents and children, family life, teenage life, city life, parents separation, mistress ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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32%
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Puppy Love (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Seeing that the little girl's only friend is a neighbor's dog, Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She ...
Style: feel good, touching, captivating, light, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing
Plot: dog, parents and children, fall in love, family relations, single parent, pets, hopes, friendship, couples, animal, holiday, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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31%
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Author! Author! (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, intense, romantic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: writers, children, playwright, single parent, love and romance, large family, divorce, parents and children, youth, actress, single father, family relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The 'Other' Love Story (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
TV show
Story: Two Indian teenage girls fall in love in the 1990's in Bangalore when there were no cell phones or internet - a pure, intense, passionate love story against all odds.
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, first love, lesbian relationship, couple relations, lesbian love, love affair, love and romance, lesbian couple, lgbtq, fall in love, romantic relationship ...
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31%
Follow The Stars Home (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, sincere, touching, erotic ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: lifestyle, dysfunctional family, love and romance, unfulfilled love, babies and infants, family problems, family life, couples, disability, parents and children, family in crisis, single parent ...
Place: san francisco
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30%
Knots Landing (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, telenovela
Plot: women, poor, family relations, small town, couple relations, intrigue, love and romance, couples, family life, love affair, power, best friend ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Moving On (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Moving On is a British television series set in contemporary Britain consisting of standalone dramas all sharing the theme of someone going through some kind of change in their life and moving on.
Style: realistic, emotional, sincere, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: introspection, starting over, parents and children, optimism, life turned upside down, couples, family problems, couple relations, redemption, hopes, family relations
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Eight Is Enough (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: family affairs, family relations, love and romance, couple relations, single parent, remarry, couples, looking for love, parents and children, family life, teenage life, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, sacramento california
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30%
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Finn's Girl (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dr. Finn Jeffries plays a new stepmother to her deceased lover's daughter Zelly. She also took over her lover's abortion clinic that is being protested by increasingly violent "pro-lifer's". The movie covers, teenage angst, ...
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, family life, teenage life, parents and children, family relations, rebelliousness, love and romance, human spirit, youth, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Skam Spain (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The series accompanies a group of 16-year-olds on the journey of their life following their day to day in real time. Dependence on social media, how they face sex, love and ruptures, religion, the search of their identity and the need to fit in.
Style: realistic, sincere, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenage sexuality, gay, real life, feminist, sapphic, lgbt, teenager, friendship, high school, love, urban setting, adolescence ...
Place: spain, madrid
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30%
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Step by Step (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Step by Step is an American television sitcom that starred Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers as two single parents, who spontaneously get married after meeting one another during a vacation, resulting in them becoming the heads of a large blended ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, not serious, witty ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly
Plot: couples, family relations, sister sister relationship, brother brother relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, youth, couple relations, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, teenager ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, wisconsin
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Irene in Time (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A film about the complex relationships between fathers and daughters, and the potential lifelong consequences of those relationships.
Style: talky, serious, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: haunted by the past, looking for love, couples, family relations, couple relations, introspection, strong female presence, sexual content, parents and children, hopes, dating, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
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29%
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Her Story (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Two trans women in Los Angeles have given up on love, when suddenly chance encounters give them hope. Violet is drawn to Allie, a reporter who approaches her for an interview, while career-driven Paige meets James, the first man she’s considered ...
Style: psychological, sexy, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative ...
Plot: lgbt, transsexual, lesbian, relationships, dating, transgender, gay, gay romance, love, fall in love, couples, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, indiana, idaho
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29%
Venice the Series (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Venice: The Series is a web series co-produced by and starring American actress Crystal Chappell, and is inspired in part by the "Otalia" storyline on the daytime drama Guiding Light. The series has been broadcast since 2009, and is ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbianism, gender, family relations, love and romance, gays and lesbians, lifestyle, family life, parents and children, strong female presence, lesbian love, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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Hannah Free (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.
Style: sincere, sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lgbtq, forbidden love, parents and children, family relations, elderly lovers, nurse patient relationship, lgbt, love and romance, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
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29%
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Hollyoaks (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The daily soap that follows the loves, lives and misdemeanours of a group of people living in the Chester village of Hollyoaks where anything could, and frequently does, happen...
Style: soap opera, realistic, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: family relations, teenage love, college, family problems, love and romance, youth, college life, teenage life, couple relations, adolescence vs adulthood, family life, student life ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2010s, 2020s, 2000s ...
Place: england, europe
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29%
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Life Is Wild (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a dysfunctional blended family from New York who moves to a rural South African town and finds they must rely on each other more than they ever did back home.
Style: feel good, sentimental, realistic, serious, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: self discovery, fish out of water, family business, veterinarian, youth, parents and children, starting over, animal life, wilderness, family problems, teenage life, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Husband for Rent aka Husband for Hire (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Marido En Alquiler is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami and Brazilian Rede Globo. It is a remake of the Brazilian telenovela, Fina Estampa, although the working title for the ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, captivating, novela ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, social differences, infidelity, parents and children, love and romance, couples, family business, family in crisis, strong female presence
Time: 21st century
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29%
One Life to Live (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: One Life to Live is an American soap opera broadcast on television for more than 43 years on the ABC network, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via The Online Network since April 29, ...
Style: soap opera, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere ...
Plot: couple relations, love and romance, family life, parents and children, friendship, family problems, infidelity, family feud, family relations, borderline personality disorder, lesbian, women ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s, 60s ...
Place: pennsylvania
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29%
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The Fosters (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, melancholic, teen, sincere ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, adoption, teenage life, foster child, foster home, gays and lesbians, troubled teen, teenage girl, lesbian mother, family problems, family life, supportive parent ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: san diego california, usa, california
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29%
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Dawson's Creek (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama television series created by Kevin Williamson which debuted on January 20, 1998, on The WB and was produced by Sony Pictures Television. Filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina, at EUE/Screen Gems studios ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, teen, soap opera ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: couples, coming of age, teenage life, friendship, high school life, small town, love triangle, couple relations, self discovery, teenager, true love, high school ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Chasing Life (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: April is a smart aspiring journalist in her 20s who tries to balance her ambitious career with her family, which includes her widowed mom, rebellious little sister, and her grandmother. We meet April at a pivotal moment in her life: she's ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: journalist, cancer, dying, lesbian, workplace romance, coping, fighting illness, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, love and romance, female protagonist, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.
Style: teen, realistic, sentimental, serious, touching ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, teenager, couples, teenage girl, lesbian, friendship, lgbt, teacher, family relations, life is a bitch, teachers and students, teenage love ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Forbidden Apple (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Three things in life can not be hidden "love, smoke and lack of money". The social society and the events behind the business world are told.
Style: touching, captivating, sincere, realistic, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: parents and children, mansion, wealthy family, love, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, ambition, family life, friendship, love affair, family problems ...
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
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28%
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