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The Letters (2021)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of the Cervical Check scandal that rocks Ireland "THE LETTERS" tells the story of three women from different walks of life who have weeks to live due to the false results of their cervical cancer checks.
Style:
medical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, bleak, emotional, sad, poignant, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
cancer, women's issues, women, terminal illness, illness, social problems, scandal, social issues, grief, social injustice, mortality, family tragedy, investigation, hospital, resilience, social commentary, legal battle, media coverage, activism, biopic, confrontation, terminal cancer
Time:
contemporary
Place:
ireland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, captivating, psychological and realistic films with plots about intimate, grief, mortality, illness, terminal illness, loss and resilience mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Letters: Die Tomorrow (2017), The Littlest Victims (1989), Backpack (2021), Society's Child (2002), She Lives! (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Die Tomorrow entails six short segments about the impermanence of life, all inspired by deaths reported in Thai daily newspapers.
Style:
anthology, realistic, sad, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
death, newspaper, mortality, social problems, near death experience, life, ordinary people, slice of life, realism, intimate, social realism, urban ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tim Matheson play a doctor that treats children with AIDS. He tries to convince his colleagues that the children got the disease from their parents. Based on a true story.
Style:
compassionate, medical drama, emotional, bleak, inspirational ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Story:
Based on a true story, Backpackers follows the lives of a couple with terminal cancer as they spend the last few months of their lives fulfilling their adventurous dreams.
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, thrilling, romantic, psychological ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, couples, love, mortality, love interest, in love, love and romance, love affair, couple relations, life is a bitch, fall in love ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Nikki is a precocious child suffering from Rett Syndrome. Unwilling to help her the doctors, instead, want to write her off as a mentally handicapped person.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, medical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fighting illness, precocious child, doctor, disability, lifestyle, social problems, life is a bitch, social misfits, terminal illness, illness, life philosophy, child ...
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
Style:
emotional, poignant, romantic drama, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, illness, hopes, love story, relationships, mortality, young couple, youth, loss, desperation, resilience ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
EDEN deals with what could possible be a future for most people caught up in the current economic climate in Ireland and how we have taken a bite of the financial apple and borrowed beyond our means. We follow Adam who has been left unemployed and ...
Style:
melancholic, independent film, bleak, existential, grim
Plot:
homelessness, street life, realism, social commentary, unemployment, poverty, empathy, character study, working class, survival, desperation, urban decay ...
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73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Battling terminal cancer, a woman writes a one of a kind notebook about life, death and love for her son to remember her by. Based on a true story.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, suspense, compassionate, touching ...
Plot:
cancer, mother son relationship, terminal illness, female protagonist, love, mother love, fighting illness, family problems, family relations, hospital, family crisis, parent child relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hello Beautiful is a powerful and emotionally charged film that delves into the harrowing yet transformative journey of Willow, a successful model whose life is shattered by a devastating breast cancer diagnosis. Based on Christine Handy's ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, heartfelt, medical drama, tear jerker ...
Plot:
transformation, cancer, female protagonist, resilience, breast cancer, biopic, empowerment, identity, self discovery, survival, women, personal growth ...
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71%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
Ariyanchi is married to Ranasigam, who works in Dubai, and the couple has a little daughter. On the day of their daughter's ear piercing ceremony, a shocking news reaches the family.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, poignant, realistic ...
Plot:
poverty, social justice, social commentary, village life, politics, farm, countryside, empathy, class conflict, industrialization, activism, corruption ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Felicia Impastato, mother of the brave Peppino Impastato, tries to keep the memory of his son alive after his murder.
Style:
captivating, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
memory, mafia, loss of child, female protagonist, mother and son, life is a bitch, bereavement, courage, moving, organized crime, loss, grief ...
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already ...
Style:
emotional, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
illness, family problems, social problems, money problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, fighting illness, needing money, life is a bitch, realism, resilience, sacrifice ...
Place:
africa, somalia
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Mortality and death seen through the eyes of a lonely student who has an morbid and albeit naive fascination with death. His teacher, Koichi is also grappling with the issue of mortality as he deals with the impending death of his ailing father, who ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, existential, bleak ...
Plot:
death, mourning, terminal illness, father son relationship, mortality, grief, family relations, illness, teacher, father and son, loss of father, school teacher ...
Similarity:
60%
396
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
A glimpse into the lives of an ensemble of characters leading up to the moment the world changed forever - 8:46 a.m. Tuesday September 11, 2001.
Style:
emotional, poignant, bleak, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
terrorism, compassion, loss, humanity, 9/11, tribute, empathy, memories, terrorist attack, changing lives, terrorist bombing, social problems ...
Time:
september 11 2001
Place:
new york
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This is a heart-wrenching story about a happy-go-lucky 17 year-old boy with a passion for life and love. Under his free spirit are problems that he must deal with. His mother died, his alcoholic father is unapproachable, and ...the biggest problem ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, poignant, reflective, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father son relationship, cancer, family drama, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, friendship, mortality, adolescence, bittersweet, tragedy, grief, coming of age ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
investigation, genetics, trauma, human rights, memory, social problems, genetically altered, genetic experiment, intrigue, society, science, secret ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
post world war one
Place:
manchester
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
seoul
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Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Philippines, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Four courageous women are faced with the harsh realities of poverty, prejudice, and corruption.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A son in denial of a serious illness. A mother facing the unbearable. And between them a doctor fighting to do his job and bring them to acceptance. The three of them have one year and four seasons to come together and understand what it means to ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Amidst rising anti-Semitism in Billings, Montana, Rae, a 22 year-old descendant of Holocaust survivors uncovers the truth about a childhood accident.
Style:
realistic, psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Similarity:
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215
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Story:
Sasaki Ryohei (Yamada Ryosuke), the second son of the Sasaki family, is a high school student who lives in Shimane. He has just been chosen to be the vice captain of the youth soccer club. Setting his sights on participating in the prefectural ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his now married pupil is afflicted with terminal cancer. Full of regrets of how he once treated the ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
baseball, terminal illness, cancer, japanese man, redemption, mortality, bittersweet, fighting illness, guilty conscience, athlete's life, athlete and trainer, problem ...
Similarity:
42%
406
Genre: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Story:
The film follows Dr. Manorani Saravanamuttu's relentless pursuit of justice after the tragic abduction and murder of her son, Richard de Zoysa, a journalist, writer, and human rights activist, in 1990.
Style:
emotional, bleak, tense, historical drama, political thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
human rights, family tragedy, political violence, biopic, courage, abduction, activism, assassination, journalism, investigation, trauma, social justice ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Summer of 1976. Bea is 16 years old and she collaborates with a group of women to make visible the feminist cause and achieve the approval of the right to abortion. The rebellion she feels in the blood will mix with an unexpected feeling that will ...
Style:
psychological, serious, social, exciting, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lesbian, women's rights, women, coming of age, abortion rights, feminism, social problems, fighting the system, social injustice, fight for justice, fight, civil rights ...
Time:
70s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Inspired by the Puranic story of Abhimanyu and his mother Subhadra, the film portrays the relationship of the protagonist with her baby, before and after it is born.
Style:
psychological, emotional, thrilling, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
motherhood, pregnancy, relationships, birth, parenthood, female protagonist, grief, mother love, mother child relationship, parent child relationship, love affair, woman ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Based on a true story about an extraordinary woman, who after a traumatizing rape, refuses to remain a victim. Wendy Crewson stars as Jane Doe (as she must legally be called), a woman who discovers she was the fifth victim of a serial rapist ...
Style:
realistic, thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial rapist, female protagonist, rape victim, rape, rapist, fight for justice, social injustice, attempted rape, fighting the system, life is a bitch, social problems, injustice ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Chakram (Prabhas) is a foreign returnee and has a dream of building a hospital at Pulivendula. He is in love with his colleague, Lakshmi (Asin Thottumkal) who studied with him abroad. But leaves her half-way through after he realizes that he was ...
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, thrilling, psychological, medical drama ...
Plot:
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Place:
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