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Third Star (2010)
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Third Star (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area of Barafundle Bay in West Wales. What follows is a touching and comical adventure dealing with friendship, heroism and love.
Style: humorous, emotional, contemplative, uplifting, touching, realistic, semi serious, sad, thought provoking, road movie ...
Plot: friendship, dealing with death, life is a bitch, best friend, wilderness, obsessive quest, suicide, friends, introspection, hopes, unfulfillment, free spirited, one last chance, cancer, on the road, bittersweet, nature, disease, road trip, lgbtq, mental health, cathartic, countryside, drowning, male bonding ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe, wales, england

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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 friends, friendship, unfulfillment, bittersweet, terminal illness, life is a bitch and hopes mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Third Star: Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009), Frailer (2014), Oxygen (2010), Summer (2008), Old Joy (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink ...
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, realistic
Plot: friendship, hospital, nurse, coming of age, terminal illness, child illness, boy, wrestling, youth, life is a bitch, human spirit, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Frailer (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman diagnosed with terminal lung cancer gathers her three dearest friends together to make the most of the time she has left.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: best friend, friends, friendship, strong female presence, terminal illness, siblings relations, unfulfillment, family relations, resistance
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
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26%
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Oxygen (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two young man share an incurable illness. Is their love for the women in their lives strong enough to conquer their fear of dying?
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: transplant, human spirit, friendship, terminal illness, hopes, optimism, life is a bitch, coming of age, buddies, fall in love, unfulfillment, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, germany, europe
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25%
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Summer (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, friends, disability, adolescence vs adulthood, haunted by the past, misfit, introspection, hopes, self discovery, father son relationship, coming of age, friendship between men ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Old Joy (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Two old pals reunite for a camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Style: road movie, atmospheric, lyrical, talky, realistic ...
Plot: road trip, friendship, on the road, map, partner, buddies, hopes, couple relations, human nature, self discovery, thirtysomething life, couples ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oregon, los angeles, europe, london, england ...
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23%
Tour de Force (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all looks forward to the ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating ...
Plot: friends, vacation, on the road, terminal illness, friendship, bittersweet, road trip, self discovery, thirty something, monkey, tragedy, thirtysomething life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, germany
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22%
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Last Orders (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Everyone's Going to Die (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Melanie's life in a seaside town is going nowhere until she meets Ray, back in town with a shady job to do. A moment's escape becomes a chance to save themselves, and each other.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, contemplative, atmospheric ...
Plot: homecoming, redemption, hopes, cause and meaning, unfulfillment, small town, gangster, friends, love, rivalry, society, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Be All and End All (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At fifteen Robbie has only one thing on his mind - losing his virginity. The problem is that he's in hospital with a fatal heart condition. And who has to overcome the odds and help him fulfil his final wish? His best friend Ziggy.
Style: touching, realistic, humorous, captivating, sex comedy ...
Plot: terminal illness, friendship, loss of virginity, last wish, looking for sex, teenage life, first sex, hospital, youth, unfulfillment, bittersweet, heart condition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Rails & Ties (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: orphan, train, family relations, friendship, terminal illness, family problems, father figure, grief, coming of age, parents and children, collision, suicidal ...
Time: year 2007
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Wit (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Style: depressing, sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: cancer, medical, hospital, nurse, doctor, poetry, terminal illness, chemotherapy, dying, philosophy, hopes, regret ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa
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21%
World Traveler (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After hitting the road a man encounters characters that make him realize the importance of family.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, road movie, humorous ...
Plot: midlife crisis, self discovery, obsessive quest, introspection, starting over, society, human nature, love and romance, couple relations, parents and children, family life, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa
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21%
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Downhill (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Four old school friends reunite to attempt the epic coast to coast walk, across the United Kingdom. As their journey unfolds, this comically incompatible foursome walk full tilt into their mid-life crises.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, road movie, fake documentary
Audience: boys' night
Plot: best friend, friendship, friends, buddies, disorder, self discovery, escapades, farce, midlife crisis, on the road, unfulfillment, nothing goes right ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Breaking the Rules (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two friends take their dying buddy on one last road trip.
Style: feel good, sad, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: cancer, youth, friendship, partner, best friend, friends, life is a bitch, buddies, tragic hero, unfulfillment, hopes, self discovery ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Dangerous Parking (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Noah Arkwright, a successful, hard living and indulgent independent British film director, finally decides to try and defeat the many addictions that are destroying him, his career and the people who care for him. But Mother Nature has other tests ...
Style: emotional, touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
Plot: addiction, starting over, hopes, life is a bitch, sex addict, alcoholic, filmmaking, group sex, artists and showbiz, terminal illness, verbal byplay, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Matching Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Style: sincere, uplifting, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, coming of age, hopes, dishonesty, friendship, parents and children, bittersweet, terminal illness, unfulfillment, life turned upside down, child illness, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Bunny and the Bull (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.
Style: surreal, captivating, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Plot: odd couple, friendship, isolation, friends, partner, wilderness, haunted by the past, on the road, buddies, introspection, escapades, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, poland
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20%
Is Anybody There? (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Style: touching, emotional, depressing, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, loneliness, aging, character study, retirement home, justice, adolescence, sexual harassment, reconciliation, elderly ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 2008
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Time Of My Life (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Based on a true story, 'Tot altijd' introduces us to a band of friends in the eighties, who spend their days enjoying their youth and turbulent (love) life. Years later, Thomas, a recent medicine graduate and Mario's closest friend, ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: friendship, family life, friends, buddies, terminal illness, family relations, life is a bitch, bittersweet, rivalry, fighting illness, family problems, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, ghent, belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Moon Child (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: David, a professor of dermatology, has been treating 13-year-old Romain since he was a baby. Afflicted with a rare skin condition, Romain must avoid sunlight and is condemned to live in the shade. David and Romain have become the closest of friends ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, power relations, friends, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, child illness, hospital, terminal illness, disease, teenage boy, man boy relationship, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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20%
Silence Like Glass (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: friendship, couples, friends, artists and showbiz, forbidden love, dancer's life, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, society, love and romance, hopes, working class ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Kings (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the mid 1970s a group of young men leave the Connemara Gaeltacht, bound for London and filled with ambition for a better life. After thirty years, they meet again at the funeral of their youngest friend, Jackie. The film intersperses flashbacks ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, touching, gloomy
Plot: friends, introspection, friendship, society, alcohol abuse, buddies, dealing with death, friend, drunkenness, death, migration, conquering ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland
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A Butterfly Kiss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, society, couples, introspection, suburbs, suburban life, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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20%
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Just Like the Son (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: adoption, friendship, family relations, custody, on the road, introspection, petty criminal, redemption, hopes, road trip, foster home, boy ...
Place: new york, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, sincere, christian film ...
Plot: homeless, bullying, homelessness, addiction, biopic, suicide, abuse, tragic hero, human nature, haunted by the past, suicide attempt, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: england
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20%
A Few Days of Respite (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Mohsen teaches French at the University of Tehran, and Hassan is a photographer. Mohsen and Hassan are also lovers, and in Iran they live in fear, as homosexuality is punishable by death. Tired of denying their love, Mohsen and Hassan flee Iran to ...
Style: emotional, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, small town, couples, friends, couple relations, love and romance, hopes, introspection, love affair, gender, gays and lesbians, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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20%
Stopped on Track (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.
Style: realistic, contemplative, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, hospital, family life, unfulfillment, suburbs, family problems, life is a bitch, dealing with death, family in crisis, children, wife, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
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20%
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Foreverland (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A sufferer of cystic fibrosis travels to a legendary shrine that reputedly has the power to heal his condition.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: healing power, miraculous event, hopes, self discovery, last wish, on the road, bittersweet, terminal illness, life is a bitch, road trip, church, shrine ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, canada, washington state, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Plans for Tomorrow (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Three stories intertwined which occur in a single day. The day Ines discovers she is pregnant, Antonia decides to abandon her family and Marian realizes she is going to die.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: pregnancy, friendship, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, introspection, singleness, woman in danger, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
One-Way Ticket to Mombasa (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Pete loses his consciousness while playing in a pop band. The diagnosis is harsh and the doctor cannot say for sure whether Pete will celebrate his 18th birthday. One night, encouraged by the vodka on Jusa's 18th birthday, Pete confesses his ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous ...
Plot: hospital, on the road, life is a bitch, tragic hero, child illness, unfulfillment, love and romance, young adult, illness, friendship, dream, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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