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Vernie (2004)
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Vernie (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Drama - Sean, a young thirty-something coffee shop owner, is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He desperately wants to have a baby before he dies, and asks his best friend Kristy to bear his child. - John Riedlinger, Amy Colon, Patrick Coyle
Style: touching, sentimental, uplifting, emotional, serious, realistic, crying
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, family relations, pregnancy, best friend, terminal illness, tragic hero, youth, life is a bitch, couples, family problems, hopes, society, babies and infants, bittersweet, dealing with death, father son relationship, male female relationship, promise, dying, cancer, commitment, friends, store, cafe, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about family relations, death, couples, unfulfillment, husband wife relationship, kiss and love and romance mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Vernie: Christmas in August (1998), The Maids of Wilko (1979), The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999), Julie Walking Home (2002), The Greatest (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Christmas in August (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a quiet corner of Seoul, Jung-won runs a small photo studio. A humble shack passed down from his widower father, the studio is a space where Jung-won goes about his daily routine of dealing with fussy customers, enlarging photos of class ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: maid, fall in love, friendship, single parent, tragic hero, love affair, tragic love, teenage love, destiny, family relations, youth, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: korea, south korea
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100%
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: hotel, boarding house, spinster, female nudity, desperation, loneliness, piano, mental disorder, psychopath, aging, betrayal, bittersweet ...
Time: 1950s, year 1987, 50s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, america, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Maids of Wilko (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with ...
Style: existential, contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, uncle nephew relationship, female nudity, renaissance, first love, love letter, death, birthday, jealousy, childhood friend, friendship, farm ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: patient, twins, memory, terminal illness, hospital, bittersweet, friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, love and romance, coming of age, hopes ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Julie Walking Home (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: cheating wife, true love, cancer, infidelity, hopes, betrayal, family relations, human nature, danger, survival, dishonesty, couples ...
Place: poland, nova scotia, holland, europe, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Greatest (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out ...
Style: touching, captivating, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, teenage mother, childhood sweetheart, family relations, loss of son, loss of child, crumbling marriage, youth, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life ...
Time: year 2009, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
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22%
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One More Kiss (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Scottish Borders to look for Sam, her childhood sweetheart and the only man she ever loved. Sam Murray ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cancer, chef, cancer patient, girl, terminal illness, love triangle, ex-lover, love, couples, family relations, family problems, last wish ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.0
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Close to Leo (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+, his family quickly rallys around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, youth, hiv, gays and lesbians, friendship, brother brother relationship, lgbt, coming of age, tragic hero, life is a bitch, family problems, family life ...
Place: paris france, france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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New Life (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Benjamin Morton's life changed forever the day he met the little girl next door. Ava was and always would be the girl of his dreams. From the innocence of a childhood friendship, through adolescent attraction, their love strengthens and grows. ...
Style: romantic, rough, sincere, touching, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friends in love, cancer, car accident, childhood friend, relationships, french girl, romantic relationship, childhood love, couples, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, tragic event ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The River (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's ...
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, couple relations, love and romance, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, couples, human nature, unfulfillment, hopes, introspection, gays and lesbians ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Good Mother (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: courtroom drama, divorce, women, children, lawyer, love, friendship, sex, father daughter relationship, piano, sculptor, sex crime ...
Time: 80s
Place: connecticut, maine, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Fathers and Sons (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: single parent, infidelity, family relations, dysfunctional family, couples, life is a bitch, estrangement, family problems, love and romance, elderly, gender, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san diego california, miami, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 939
Magnifico (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 122 min.
Story: With a daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy and a son who's lost his much-needed scholarship, an impoverished married couple begins to abandon their faith and courage in the face of such misfortune. But when a gifted young boy called ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, hopes, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, prodigy, single parent, dealing with death, society, youth, disability, rich and poor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines, manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Life in a Year (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, clever ...
Plot: terminal illness, teenager, cancer, couple relations, romantic friendship, romantic relationship, life, promise, adolescence, dream, dying, loneliness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Twilight of the Golds (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Suzanne Stein has a genetic analysis done on her unborn child, she discovers that although she has a healthy baby, the child will most likely be born gay, like her brother, David. She must decide whether to keep the child, or to have an ...
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, talky, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, lgbtq, glbt, baby, genetics, acceptance, abortion, pregnancy, family relations, gay son, gay brother, unrequited love ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
My Life Without Me (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Pedro Almodovar production in which a fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies with out telling her family of her illness.
Style: sad, touching, contemplative, philosophical, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, secret love, illness, love and romance, dealing with death, death, parents and children, infidelity, hospital, relationships, love story ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Crooked Hearts (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The father of a family has a an affair. This affects every member of the family.
Style: contemplative, serious, realistic, talky, sentimental ...
Plot: voyeur, dysfunctional family, infidelity, shakespeare, affair, family relations, pregnancy, adultery, extramarital affair, bare breasts, family secret, nudity ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, virginia, los angeles, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.3
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Loverboy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
Style: psychological, sentimental, serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot: obsession, mental illness, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, parents and children, life is a bitch, single parent, family problems, family relations, teenage life, babies and infants, possessiveness ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's Literary lions, but illness and ten years of writers block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for ...
Style: realistic, touching, talky, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: older man younger woman relationship, writers, aging, writer's life, friendship, starting over, character study, love and romance, couples, graduation, masseuse, hopes ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Only Thrill (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfaithfulness, widow, small town, hospital, bittersweet, family problems, social relations, couples, family relations, single parent, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 80s, year 1997, 60s, 90s, 70s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Choice (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, sweet, scenic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: love, couples, true love, fall in love, love and romance, couple relations, happy ending, destiny, hospital, moral dilemma, life & death, love story ...
Time: year 1988, year 1946, year 1989, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Changing Hearts (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on Daniel Wright's award-winning play "Colored Eggs", is a drama/comedy about life, loss and love among an eccentric group of characters whose lives intersect under less than ideal circumstances.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: friendship, love, looking for love, couple relations, terminal illness, dealing with death, best friend, hopes, hospital, cancer, girl, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Agnes Browne (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Agnes Browne's husband died, she discovered something amazing... Herself.
Style: emotional, sentimental, humorous, uplifting, melancholic ...
Plot: poverty, working class, children, terminal illness, friendship, death, justice, family drama, happy ending, single father, best friend, childhood ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 60s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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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 ⇓
19%
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Evening (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid ...
Style: touching, sentimental, romantic, intense, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: beautiful scenery, wedding, secrets, mother, haunted by the past, power of love, writers, dying, summer, death of mother, bittersweet, death ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 50s, 1950s, 21st century
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Life on Liberty Street (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A nurse, trying to salvage her life after her husband and job are gone, winds up working in a halfway house full of mildly brain-damaged patients and receives help from those she helps.
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot: human spirit, starting over, hopes, love and romance, doctors and patients, rehabilitation, disability, family relations, defiant, bittersweet, mentally challenged, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 ⇓
18%
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Table for Five (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: J.P. Tannen (Jon Voight) wants a second chance to be a father to his children ... but someone else has taken his place. Determined not to just be a friendly 'uncle' in their lives, he gets permission from his ex-wife Kathleen (Millie ...
Style: independent film, uplifting, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: cruise ship, cruise, coming of age, ship, family relations, divorce, youth, family vacation, single parent, human nature, unfulfillment, family problems ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: mediterranean sea, italy, tunisia, cairo egypt, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.1
 721
Crutch (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gay, dysfunctional family, family relations, rehabilitation, suburbs, kids in trouble, dangerous attraction, lifestyle, social decay, teenage life, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Once in a Lifetime (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her scripts, but her heart remains with her son Andrew, under the care of Headmaster Matthew Dane at an eastern ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot: coming of age, deaf, love, boarding school, starting over, family problems, family relations, couples, pregnancy, parents and children, hospital, boarding school life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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