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Lighting Up the Stars (2022)
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Original name: 人生大事
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Having been released after serving his sentence, a funeral director accidentally crosses paths with a girl which brings about an unexpected change in his attitude towards life.
Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, dramatic, thrilling, poignant, uplifting, melancholic, realistic, comedy drama
Plot:
relationships, friendship, girl, death, changing lives, personal growth, healing, second chance, redemption, lifestyle change, funeral director, adult child friendship, empathy, orphan, funeral, ex convict, mortician, forgiveness, grief, family drama, mourning, slice of life, bittersweet, hopes, heartwarming ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
china
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Most similar movies to Lighting Up the Stars
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, captivating, psychological and thrilling films with plots about slice of life, bittersweet, intimate, redemption, personal growth, relationships and changing lives mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Lighting Up the Stars: Hudson (2019), Vinodhaya Sitham (2021), Walking Distance (2015), Cracked Eggs and Noodles (2005), Vinodayathra (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A man embarks on a trip with his estranged cousin Hudson to spread his late mother's ashes. They meet an unusual woman along the way and their simple road trip turns into a dysfunctional adventure.
Style:
road movie, psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
grief, road trip, changing lives, lifestyle change, journey, satire, second chance, recluse, friendship, empathy, bittersweet, intimate ...
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A 50-something man, who dies following an accident, gets a chance to fulfil his wishes when Time lets him have 90 more days to live.
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semi serious, captivating, psychological, thrilling, life affirming ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Until, one day – Harold learns ...
Style:
contemplative, reflective, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
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Place:
england
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Fede is an overweight man, who finds it difficult to move around his own house. One day he finds in photography a way to change his life forever.
Style:
feel good, satirical, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
friendship, obesity, photography, changing lives, relationships, satire, photographer, lifestyle change, photograph, obese, friends, isolation ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An advocate of sex, but not of marriage, bachelor Daegyu (played by singer-turned-actor Im Changjeon), 26, produces bootleg music albums for a living. One day, he comes across a plucky, nine-year-old boy named Jeon Ingwon (played by Lee Inseong) who ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
father son relationship, road trip, boy, parent child relationship, parenthood, family drama, changing lives, relationships, family relations, lifestyle change, fatherhood, paternity revealed ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
It is the story of a good natured but irresponsible young man, Vinod who comes to a hilly village live with his elder sister Vimala and brother in law, Shaji. Shaji is an engineer and Vinod wants to learn life from him, but end up creating problems ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, thrilling, realistic, feel good ...
Plot:
family drama, personal growth, coming of age, lifestyle, relationships, lifestyle change, changing lives, satire, sibling relationship, life lesson, village life, slice of life ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
india
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The friendship of cancer survivors Ben and Mark is tested when a piece of news forces each character to change their perspective. Old wounds are opened as they discover their true selves.
Style:
satirical, comedy drama, disturbing, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, changing lives, love, coping, fighting illness, satire, friends, love interest, travel, lifestyle change, personal growth, male bonding ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An actor past his prime gives drama lessons to prisoners in an attempt to stage "Waiting for Godot."
Style:
satirical, semi serious, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
theater, prison, prisoner, teacher, actor, satire, lifestyle, relationships, compassion, redemption, second chance, character study ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Krystal Parker's life fell apart when she discovered she couldn't have children. Everything she knew was gone, - but Letting Go Is Just The Beginning.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional, heartfelt ...
Plot:
infertility, motherhood, female protagonist, relationships, second chance, women, life, self discovery, loss, small town, healing, personal growth ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After the death of their father, three siblings return to the family home where they grew up. They intend to sell it and follow their very different paths. But as memories surface in every corner, a fear of getting rid of the past and an impulse to ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, psychological, semi serious, thrilling ...
Plot:
family reunited, siblings, memories, family drama, mourning, family home, grief, family relations, lifestyle, relationships, domestic drama, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When a mysterious visitor appears, the life of Yong Cheng, owner of a store that stocks aphrodisiac products, changes dramatically. He becomes the exclusive selling agent of a cheap Indian generic drug against Chronic Granulocytic Leukemia in China. ...
Style:
thought provoking, emotional, captivating, semi serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
businessman, drug, social commentary, leukemia, injustice, money, entrepreneur, changing lives, rags to riches, lifestyle change, business venture, ambition ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Clara and Diego, under the guidance of the psychiatrist of a day rehabilitation center for disturbed people who attend, decide to transform the treatment center into a restaurant, involving all their other companions.
Style:
satirical, captivating, thrilling, compassionate, realistic ...
Plot:
friend, mental health, rehabilitation, rehabilitation center, therapy, psychiatrist, satire, relationships, healing, friendship, personal growth, community ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Chen Mo, a bar owner, listens to his customers' heartbreaks and helps them navigate their lives during their hard times while dealing with his own tragedy.
Style:
emotional, thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
loss of loved one, trauma, grief, assistant, confronting the past, lifestyle, troubled past, loneliness, memory, healing, bittersweet, bar owner ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When cancer-stricken alcoholic actor discovers he's only got 3 months to live, he decides to change his life and reconcile with his estranged daughter.
Style:
emotional, sincere, captivating, life affirming, reflective ...
Plot:
cancer, reconciliation, terminal illness, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, father daughter reunion, father daughter conflict, alcoholic, alcoholism, redemption, mortality, family drama ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A recently widowed woman believes her husband has returned to her as a dog. Her son and her village think she is just still grieving for him but then the dog starts to train the under 12 hurling team, just as her husband used to!
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, uplifting, emotional ...
Plot:
dog, family relations, grief, human dog relationship, relationships, owner dog relationship, widow, grieving widower, pet dog, animal human communication, husband wife relationship, animal ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Chronicles the life of Curtis Clemins, who is torn between the love of his life and accomplishing his dream. When hitting rock bottom during the Sundance Film Festival, Clemins' calls upon his old college chum, Kevin Prouse, giving the now ...
Style:
independent film, psychological, captivating, thrilling, satirical ...
Plot:
problem, dream, filmmaker, satire, character study, midlife crisis, personal growth, struggling artist, alcoholism, divorce, friendship, mature ...
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49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Renn Wheeland returns home to Cleveland for his mother's funeral. Once there, he forges new relationships while healing old ones, before confronting his problems and trying to face his grief.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, independent film, dark comedy
Plot:
grief, family drama, family relations, healing, reconciliation, mourning, mother son relationship, bereavement, memory, funeral, personal growth, bittersweet ...
Place:
cleveland ohio
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dylan Derringer, a lonely dentist in Florida, is confronted by a figure from the past bringing news that sends him on an eventful and ultimately life-altering journey of discovery.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, poignant, emotional ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
44%
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, satirical, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
friendship, alcoholic, suicidal, suicidal tendency, alcoholism, loneliness, drunkenness, suicide, character study, substance abuse, self destructing, friends ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Grace, a teenage girl dying of cancer crashes a funeral home to find out what will happen to her after she dies but ends up teaching the awkward funeral director, Bill Jankowski how to celebrate life.
Style:
thrilling, emotional, independent film, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
funeral home, illness, funeral, mortality, terminal illness, male female relationship, teenage life, relationships, fighting illness, couple relations, teenage protagonist, teenage girl ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A coming of age story of a 24-year-old vagabond who is forced to work at a posh building in Mumbai as a Lift Boy when his bread-winning father falls ill.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, satirical, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, satire, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups, changing lives, lifestyle change, self discovery, life lesson, young adult, urban, personal growth, intimate ...
Place:
mumbai india, india
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A partially mute man dreams of performing on stage in dramas but often keeps falling in trouble with the villagers due to his eccentric ways. By contrast, his son is a responsible man who dreams of climbing up the ladder and making something of his ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, love and romance, relationships, family relations, changing lives, in love, lifestyle change, couple relations, love affair, male female relationship, love interest ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After falling off the roof at a New Year's Eve house party, Owen decides that it's time to make some wholesale changes in his life. Over the next year, he quits drinking, re-enters his estranged son's life, reignites old friendships, ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, captivating, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
christmas, personal growth, redemption, second chance, father son relationship, relationships, changing lives, romantic relationship, lifestyle change, love story, family relations, male female relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When he discovers his guardian is dying, an autistic twenty-something travels across country to bring back a deluded, has-been country singer, believing that a personal performance will inspire his guardian to live.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, satirical, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
autism, road trip, empathy, satire, autist, problem, autism spectrum disorder, family problems, compassion, character study, hopes, determination ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
During a dysfunctional family's chaotic pilgrimage to a spiritual shrine, their elderly patriarch goes missing.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, comedy drama, road movie ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pilgrimage, family conflict, family drama, changing lives, life is a bitch, relationship problems, relationships, travel, journey, problem, family relations ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Sheela Chacko's leads a regular life as a mother, wife and a college lecturer. All this turns around when she learns about a serious affliction facing her. The comedy-drama carries on about how her insecure husband and her three children react ...
Style:
comedy drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
relationships, parent child relationship, family relations, cancer, marriage, family drama, motherhood, fighting illness, family life, illness, breast cancer, middle class ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Mr. Unni Mukundan who is very passionate about his first movie, coincidentally meets Mr. David Paul, a famous movie director. At the same time, the life experiences of Amal, who relocates himself to Cochin from Thalaserry, makes him undergo a total ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, thrilling, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, movie business, director, lifestyle change, satire, lifestyle, couple relations, changing lives, couples, self discovery, friendship, personal growth ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ellie is a 27-year old whose life is far from where she imagined it to be. Filled with annoying friends, a self-involved boyfriend, and a career that she can’t bring herself to pursue, Ellie feels detached from her life. When she learns that her ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, friendship, death of father, alcoholic father, family drama, self discovery, road trip, changing lives, travel, father daughter estrangement, lifestyle, personal growth ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After a court order sends him to work at a hospice, an ex-criminal strikes up a friendship with a compassionate priest who changes his life.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, inspirational, emotional ...
Plot:
second chance, chance, empathy, humanity, redemption, transformation, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, relationship problems, forgiveness, life changing ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, emotional, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
guilt, family relations, father son relationship, miscarriage, children, family drama, guilty conscience, life, relationships, mourning, coming of age, grief ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
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